| Yet that rule isn't always as hard and fast as it would seem and sometimes actually demands to be broken. |
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| The programme is mainly aimed at secondary school students, but there are no hard and fast rules and a number of primaries also take part. |
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| Readers are apt to assume a hard and fast distinction between novel and romance. |
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| Still, he's reluctant to draw any hard and fast lines between musical preference and student performance. |
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| In the few days he had been in the country, he had learned some very hard and fast rules. |
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| I stepped on the clutch hard and fast, thinking Merlin might drive right over me. |
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| It was one of those hip new bars, catering to the young Muscovites who lived hard and fast. |
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| If you don't do it hard and fast enough, the wave will crest and break and you'll be left behind. |
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| The rain had fallen hard and fast and then moved out of the area quickly, leaving behind a heavy sultriness that pulled and dragged at them. |
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| In my view, no hard and fast rules can be laid down in respect of this issue. |
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| Acoustic guitars are strummed hard and fast on some songs, and are played with melodic flair on others. |
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| One of the few hard and fast rules of comedy is that puppets are always funny. |
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| If a child is bright they will learn quicker than another child but there are no hard and fast rules. |
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| The hours either side of dawn and dusk are generally the best, although this is not a hard and fast rule. |
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| His voice is heavy with sarcasm, and it strikes me like a punch, hard and fast. |
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| His arm came down hard and fast but it never connected with its intended target. |
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| The rain banged hard and fast on my head like a small toddler drumming contently on a cooking pan with a spoon. |
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| There are no guarantees or hard and fast rules, although Canada provides an interesting case study. |
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| Like all rules governing taxation, the categories are never hard and fast. |
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| That's when you lay down a hard and fast rule, and then eat your words when an exception comes along. |
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| Some Chicago hip-house-ghetto-tech here, with a spinning beat about as hard and fast as the proposed activities at the centre of vocals. |
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| There are some hard and fast rules, such as an 18-character limit, but also some more nebulous ones about vulgarity and inappropriateness. |
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| The car went into the grass hard and fast, and we ended up flipping eight times. |
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| Mr. Arnie Narcisse: I'm here to answer any hard and fast questions you guys might throw at me. |
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| The Union has always succeeded when it has set itself hard and fast objectives. |
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| However, neither of these instruments lays down hard and fast rules as to how these entities must function or gives them any concrete powers. |
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| There are no hard and fast criteria, measures or indicators that can determine when to close down a peacekeeping operation. |
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| However, there are as yet no hard and fast rules to determine threshold levels of erosion and siltation with respect to fish populations. |
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| Unfortunately there is no hard and fast rule, or formula, about how much to invest and where to invest. |
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| There are no hard and fast rules about shaping the very fine hair above the eyebrows. |
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| Although it is not the hard and fast rule for hiding the partition yet it works even for most of the file system. |
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| Like a budget, you don't have to look at your tracking and saving strategies as hard and fast rules. |
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| No hard and fast minimum age for admission to a school of nursing should be laid down. |
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| By the time we got to the end of the test drive that day, the furl warning lights were on in nearly every car and you knew you had driven long, hard and fast. |
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| Diversification can be a prickly topic, though, because there are no hard and fast rules about how many your should own to have a truly diversified portfolio. |
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| It was thought essential to strike hard and fast with maximum force in order to achieve quick, decisive victory. |
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| All the mistakes are clearly coming into the light, blame is being laid down hard and fast and there is nowhere to hide, not a spin left in the cycle. |
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| He hit the ground hard and fast, jostling every bone in his body and smacking his head against the back wall of the pod, immediately losing consciousness. |
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| I don't think there should be any hard and fast rules about this issue. |
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| As far as age limits are concerned, there are no hard and fast rules. |
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| There is no magic formula, or even a hard and fast set of rules to follow, but there are some tips that should help you have better access to music. |
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| Its aim is to open the way and demonstrate the approach to be used in the areas concerned without setting hard and fast rules concerning the details of future proceedings. |
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| Therefore there is no hard and fast border between national minorities and other minorities, and in the longer term we can assume that other minorities may be granted the status of a national minority. |
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| The Model Law does not give a hard and fast rule on this question. |
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| It is hardly possible to respond to all these questions by drawing a hard and fast frontier between what is acceptable and what must be prohibited. |
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| By the second half, the plot line came hard and fast and created a fantastic contradictory tone to that of the first. |
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| In some cases they also participate in a generally informal manner, and to no hard and fast rules, in the various committees set up in the Council and the European Commission. |
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| That is all I am able to say, but nothing is hard and fast as yet. |
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| It is nevertheless to be regretted that these consultations continue to be carried out in an ad hoc manner with no hard and fast rules, and according to procedures that vary from one Directorate-General to another. |
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| This calls for hard and fast objectives, but we are aware that these will not be attainable unless we base our proposals on genuine social dialogue, and I feel that we must also move forward in this respect. |
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| There is no hard and fast quantity we put on to it. |
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| I have no hard and fast rules as a teacher of combined grade mathematics. |
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| We need to set aside conjecture, to set aside speculation and deal with the hard and fast reality of criminal behaviour and the roots of criminal behaviour. |
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| Poultry and food processor Sadia f lies hard and fast into economic uncertainty. |
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| Think back to when the economy was booming: everyone was running so hard and fast that it was hard to get off the treadmill, let alone find time to go to a full-day training session. |
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| I cannot believe that Christ himself intended that his religion should be so inelastic, so hard and fast, so cruel as you imply. |
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| Can one discern a hard and fast line between the thoughtography of Ted Serios and old-fashioned spirit photography? |
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| Though it is not a hard and fast rule that committee chairmen must be appointed from the Executive Committee, it is desirable that each executive member be given a job to do. |
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| However, there are no hard and fast boundaries between allied rocks. |
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