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  • I personally think that even he would be hard-pushed to say the coaching team should stay, Carling said.

    England launch World Cup 2015 with Daleks and Angel of the North | Robert Kitson 2011

  • From Gmail and Flickr to Marks & Spencer and Mothercare, you would be hard-pushed to find a consumer or business in the UK that does not rely on at least one cloud-based service.

    Cloud computing | Legal implications of cloud computing 2011

  • But Grifols will be hard-pushed to squeeze as much juice from Talecris as Cerberus.

    Cerberus's Red-Blooded Returns 2010

  • I'm sure she'll tell us soon but meanwhile congratulations to William and Helen on such an excellent collaboration because I think we'd be hard-pushed to write a joint shopping list here without a bit of a conflagration, so 630 pages is no mean feat.

    Dark Hearts of Chicago 2007

  • Several moments of great pathos stick in my mind, you will be hard-pushed to read a more heart-rending account of the hopelessness of heroine addiction for a start ... unless of course you've read Some Hope by Edward St Aubyn in which case you'll be able to make evidence-based comparisons between the privileged and the down-and-out approaches.

    Self Help 2007

  • Such cynicism has always been readily apparent when it comes to releasing prisoners from the general population, but for the first trial by Military Commission to be undermined in such a manner appeared to take hypocrisy to a new level, even though a trial, had it proceeded, would have been hard-pushed to present Hicks as a terrorist.

    Andy Worthington: The Dying Days of the Guantanamo Trials 2009

  • I'm hard-pushed to think of a single memorable Springsteen riff.

    "I love Bruce for the simple reason he is, from all appearances, a social phobe and a depressive." Ann Althouse 2009

  • I work in the NHS trenches on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and by Thursday morning I'm hard-pushed to get out of bed once the tea, the toast and the post is conveyed to me.

    57 entries from March 2007 2007

  • I'm hard-pushed to think of a single memorable Springsteen riff.

    "I love Bruce for the simple reason he is, from all appearances, a social phobe and a depressive." Ann Althouse 2009

  • Several moments of great pathos stick in my mind, you will be hard-pushed to read a more heart-rending account of the hopelessness of heroine addiction for a start ... unless of course you've read Some Hope by Edward St Aubyn in which case you'll be able to make evidence-based comparisons between the privileged and the down-and-out approaches.

    Self Help 2007

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