She's a tough woman.

This is the hard truth.

Is it severe in the winter here?

Hard Turkey

Jail is a very harsh punitive measure.

We've had a very hard winter.

Austerity has failed.

Is this hardline religious indoctrination of sixth graders or what?

The Global Economy s Inevitable Hard Landing

But today s terrorist threat is not Samuel Huntington s clash of civilizations.

Of course, the hard power of command remains important.

We need hard power to deal with such cases.

Hard power grows out of a country's military and economic might.

The efforts of Kan s government are obviously hampered by a rigid and much fragmented bureaucratic infrastructure.

Hard and soft power can reinforce or undermine each other.

The cause of this state of affairs, in one word, is austerity.

It took hard military power to sever that tie.

But austerity can never be self defeating for the external adjustment.

Only hard power can deal with them.

Google is a company with values and principles.

Hard power, which relies on coercion, grows out of military and economic might.

These examples show that hard power and soft power go together.

The world as a whole needs tighter monetary and fiscal policy.

Monetary policy alone cannot resolve the consequences of inaction by regulators and supervisors amid the credit excesses of the last few years.

So a US hard landing and global slowdown is unavoidable.

The long cruel winter at last came to an end, giving place to a gentle warm spring.

In the context of weakening growth, the Stability and Growth Pact will face a severe new test.

The stark truth is that India has no choice in the matter. It cannot undermine its own democratic principles and abridge the freedom of speech of Tibetans on its soil.

Many observers argue that Russians are not having enough children because life is so harsh.

The stark truth is that India has no choice in the matter.

dry toilet is probably the gravest thing I have encountered in my life.

The stark reality is that Venezuelans continue to resort to social media and the support of others in order to obtain medication.

Moreover, an influential paper by the American economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff suggests that economic growth falls sharply when a country s public debt rises above 90 of GDP.

Although Chen s government, under pressure from the opposition Kuomintang, later restarted work on the plant, design revisions have repeatedly delayed its completion. Opposition from local residents remains stiff.

So the policy prescription for solving the crisis seems simple austerity.

Opposition from local residents remains stiff.

Bhutan s rugged geography fostered the rise of a hardy population of farmers and herdsmen, and helped to foster a strong Buddhist culture, closely connected in history with Tibet.

When market discipline comes, it is usually too late, too severe, and applied indiscriminately.

The panic was sharp and severe, requiring central banks to play their fundamental role as lenders of last resort.

Harsh realities and a lack of upward mobility might constitute a couple of the reasons that it is difficult to define the China Dream.

Do what Argentina did, or Italy. Give up the national money and create a hard link to a world class currency.

A hard link means a currency board, no less.

The roots of Greece s problems stretch far deeper than the austerity of recent years.

He is not optimistic, but the dim reality doesn't stop him from being enthusiastic about Okinawan.

Hard power works through payments and coercion (carrots and sticks) soft power works through attraction and co option.