You didn't work hard enough.

A Hard Look at a Soft Global Economy

One look at a map is enough to understand this.

If you work hard enough, you can get anywhere I was told.

The struggle to meet rising food and energy prices is hard enough.

Gradual global warming is hard enough to notice, much less get worked up about.

No one is quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe that that's true.

Yet if we take a long, hard look at what has been achieved over the past six decades and at what remains resistant to all our efforts then it is also clear that this will not be enough.

Moreover, the US should look hard at tax breaks that act like hidden spending programs.

It is not enough that those who were arrested look like this upon their release,

The Bush administration has yet to realize this, but other governments are not thinking hard enough, either.

Merkel cuts off further support for Spain, saying that hard working German taxpayers have already done enough.

Look , how they invent a lie against Allah , and enough is that as a manifest sin .

Look , how they invent a lie against Allah , and enough is that as a manifest sin .

Americans and the Tea Party should look at France a century ago, when religious bigotry hijacked constitutionalism, and then take a good hard look at themselves.

But did it ever occur to anybody how hard Americans must work to make everyone else look good?

Look what happens when Asians are foolish enough to import such a system, as in South Korea or Taiwan.

A government that makes no mistakes when promoting industry is one that makes the bigger mistake of not trying hard enough.

Yes, you don't have to look very hard at this to recognize the fact that they might be very different.

While hard landing scenarios, associated with a potential debt crisis, are also possible, the authorities have enough policy space to manage them.

Still, many people profess to believe that poverty is the result of not working hard enough, or of having too many children.

True enough. But, without economic growth, the political will to take hard measures at the national level is unlikely to be forthcoming.

I personally don't think the photograph is clear enough, and it is really hard to tell if it is wine or not.

I've been online long enough to know if I don't like the first results I get, I go look for more.

But the Team believes that it is not enough to look only at what is happening in the official banking sector.

Where there is a legacy of violence and suspicion, it is hard for people to feel secure enough to enter into long term contracts.

It is hard to imagine, for example, how to make poverty history without also generating enough decent work, educational opportunities, and healthcare for all.

These countries are generally poor and find it hard to generate enough foreign exchange to import sufficient quantities of crude oil based liquid fuels.

And so I fell in love with this, and said look, we have all this knowledge about brains. How hard can it be?

Verily , We fear from our Lord a Day , hard and distressful , that will make the faces look horrible ( from extreme dislikeness to it ) .

It is not just that Europe does not spend enough on hard power, but that what it does spend about 200 billion is spent badly.

That foundation had a hard enough time functioning when human societies had 60 members eight orders of magnitude less than our current global society s six billion.

The mere possibility of an imminent hard landing for the dollar and with it, for the US and world economy should be alarming enough to mobilize concerted action.

As a result, the reforms needed to rebalance the economy may not occur fast enough to prevent a hard landing when, by next year, an investment bust materializes.

Enough is enough.

Enough is enough.

Work hard, play hard.

We do know that some bacterial species that have earthly origin are capable of almost unimaginable extremes of temperature and other harsh changes in environment, including hard radiation strong enough and maintained long enough to crack the Pyrex vessels around the growing population of bacteria.

At the most basic level, governments must take a hard look at conscription and territorial defense forces, which eat up far too much of Europe s military budgets.

But it is true that Europeans need to take a long, hard look at themselves and at where they ll be in 40 years if current trends continue.

Republika Srpska President Cavic expressed the hope that the entity's ability to look hard at its own painful past would lead others to do so as well.

If Spain and Italy do look sound enough at the end of two years, European political leaders can allow Greece to default without fear of dangerous contagion.

France eventually regained its soul but long after a dark eclipse of its most cherished democratic values. Americans and the Tea Party should look at France a century ago, when religious bigotry hijacked constitutionalism, and then take a good hard look at themselves.

Now it's bad enough that breast density makes it hard to find a cancer, but it turns out that it's also a powerful predictor of your risk for breast cancer.

What is certain is that a rebalancing between North and South must start with an honest and hard headed look at Europe s current status in our multilateral system.