Other island nesting birds, such as puffins and petrels, also were hit hard, but none as badly as the Aleutian Canada goose. |
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This character is well-suited to ganking, with skills that can immobilize and hit hard. |
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The unfortunate Washington man had hit hard times and was determined to get his hands on some loot. |
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Most armies staffed with conscripts and poorly trained and motivated officers will likewise disappear if hit hard enough. |
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You can see northern California already getting hit hard with some heavy showers and thundershowers. |
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They were hit hard by the terminal Devonian extinction event, and most marine forms died out then, only the coelacanths continuing. |
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Rural post offices will be hit hard when direct benefit payments are introduced, the postmistress in Pool-in-Wharfedale fears. |
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Miners' welfare clubs will be placed at the forefront of regenerating communities hit hard by the demise of the coal industry. |
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A business that is hit hard during a recession is not unlike a business whose building is flattened by a tornado. |
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Reuters, a leading provider of financial news, has been hit hard by last year's downturn in global financial markets. |
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The city, which depends on international trade, has been hit hard by the global economic downturn. |
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Those in the Midwest's rust belt have been hit hard by job losses, particularly in well-paying manufacturing jobs. |
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Staveley, near Chesterfield, has been hit hard by the closure of a number of major employers in the last decade. |
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I cast some sixty feet, three quick pulls then a good fish hit hard and dived for the bottom. |
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Like newspapers worldwide, French dailies have been hit hard by an advertising downturn. |
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The tiny South American republic has been hit hard by the devaluation of the peso. |
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Patients on a good income will manage, but those on less than average earnings will be hit hard. |
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Pension funds, hit hard by market volatility, could better protect returns by upping their long-term risk-free holdings. |
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Power doesn't hit hard like a turbo, it just whooshes in as the revs climb quickly. |
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Rebecca went to retrieve the ball, which I had hit hard, with tons of topspin, into her left corner. |
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Sallie Mae has been hit hard by student loan losses in the wake of the global credit crises. |
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It was hit hard enough to decapitate him, but the ref hasn't noticed and he's given a goal kick. |
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Along with simple shot gun houses and Creole cottages, century-old landmarks were hit hard. |
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All I remember is that his skills were very raw, but that he was a very, very strong man who hit hard. |
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The guardsman hit hard and lay still, and shouts of alarm and terror mixed with fresh cries of pain as arrows pelted his straggling rearguard. |
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But it is ordinary people who are going to be hit hard by this and it is going to be a long and painful process of adjustment. |
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The u. S. economy, which was at the centre of the mortgage credit and liquidity crisis, was hit hard. |
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As we saw earlier, Rockford was hit hard with a storm that caused damage across the town but what beared the brunt of the storm was the baseball and softball complex. |
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But he could be certain of one thing Monday: Dickey's knuckleball was hit hard on a steamy, breezeless night. |
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Cinema was faring well, but music, crafts and cultural tourism had been hit hard by the crisis. |
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Something hit hard, vibrating every nerve ending in my body, rattling it like the inside of a church bell. |
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Every time I see a hockey player get hit hard, I wonder if he has suffered a concussion, a bell-ringer. |
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To mark ten albums and fifteen years of career, Tiken Jah Fakoly has chosen to hit hard. |
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The first two balls were hit hard and high over long on and mid-wicket. |
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Yet, it had gambled on continued growth and, with the crop failure of 1857, was hit hard by imprudent lending practices. |
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Many of the sellers are smallish, family-owned Mittelstand firms, which would be hit hard if sanctions led to a fall in trade. |
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It is not just those who are planning their retirement who were hit hard by this decision. |
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Sectors such as construction, tourism, finance, services and real estate are also expected to be hit hard by the current crisis. |
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Women have been hit hard by the economic crisis and UNI is appealing to the G20 to tackle the issue. |
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However, tourism and related sectors were hit hard by the political turmoil towards the end of the year. |
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I know many of your communities have been hit hard by the worldwide recession. |
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Hog producers have been hit hard by disease and low prices arising from the strong Canadian dollar. |
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This small city and tourist resort was hit hard by three waves that rolled in as far as the city centre. |
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Zoltan Mester: We have been hit hard, but we are pretty much in line with European average. |
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The next stop for the ministers was the forestry operation Ramsås, which was hit hard by storm Gudrun a few years ago. |
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The Jersey Shore was hit hard, but by the beginning of the summer most of the huge sandy beaches had reopened and boardwalks had been repaired. |
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Our terrorist interference and inquisitions hit hard and oblige seemingly inflexible institutions to respond to our vision. |
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Laurentian brachiopods were hit hard, particularly those that lived in the broad and shallow seas both within and near the continent. |
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Three new varieties of midge-tolerant wheat are now available for Prairie farmers hit hard in the past by orange blossom wheat midge. |
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We also know that certain industries are being hit hard as the recession deepens. |
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Commodity currencies, like the Canadian and Australian dollar, have been hit hard in a very short time span. |
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If a wide receiver goes across the middle of the field he's gonna get hit hard regardless. |
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He hit hard, shutters splintered and cracked as he went through them. |
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Most electrical damage was caused in Clare, Cork, Kerry, Waterford, Wexford and parts of Wicklow and Kilkenny, but parts of the north-west were also hit hard. |
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Others likely to be hit hard by the sudden closing include the Port Alfred truck stop and a juice manufacturer there, and the Hamburg oyster farm. |
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As maritime oil disasters have proved, the environment is hit hard when ships carrying dangerous cargo run into trouble. |
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The same applies if you are hit hard on the head or abdomen in order to check that there is no internal bleeding. |
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As a result, several businesses related to the export sector had to adapt quickly to this new reality, and some of them were hit hard. |
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Within the context of this structural fragility the sharp increase in global oil prices has hit hard. |
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But that will be cold comfort to the millions of children who have been hit hard by these arbitrary policies, shamelessly justified in the name of school safety. |
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Its area office destroyed, three clinics destroyed and another unusable, Plunker was hit hard by the February 22 earthquake. |
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The trade sector has been hit hard by the partial or total destruction of points of sale and storage facilities, supply difficulties and slowing demand. |
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Industry and especially SMEs have been hit hard by the economic crisis and all sectors are facing the challenges of globalisation and adjusting their production processes and products to a low-carbon economy. |
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She has been an environmental activist in her community since she was barely a teenager, and is now a major local advocate for replanting trees in an area hit hard by deforestation. |
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Turf accountants were hit hard as racing enthusiasts backed a string of favourites. |
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State aid has been granted to the automotive industry, which has been hit hard by the crisis, including through the provision of credit, tax cuts and direct loans, including to cover working capital. |
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This policy has produced results, but to the detriment of the most underprivileged social groups, who have also been hit hard by Israel's growing insecurity and economic problems. |
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He calls the last two years a disaster for producers hit hard by winterkill combined with record low market conditions caused by strong competition from Argentina and China. |
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If cutter teeth have hit hard objects such as nails and stones, or have been abraded by mud or sand on the wood, have service dealer sharpen chain. |
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Many of the economic sectors that supplied the basic industries were also hit hard. |
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The EUR was hit hard not only by the EU rejection of the bailout for Eastern Europe but also by a survey showing Euro-Zone manufacturers had their worst month in 12 years! |
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Our relentless struggle has hit hard at the terrorist networks. |
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The film and foil manufacturing and drive technology sectors were also hit hard by the recession, while the food and aviation businesses performed satisfactorily. |
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The industry was hit hard with a lack of slaughter and processing facilities and no federal plant that could process animals over 30 months of age. |
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The rustbelt was hit hard by the recession because it no longer had the high-paying manufacturing jobs to keep the tax base up. |
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Police departments and emergency services units have been hit hard. |
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Especially fishermen were hit hard in the period, while farmers retained market prices through organizing regulations. |
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Kate enjoyed the postshot celebration, but after an hour of chatting and grazing the sandwich buffet, fatigue hit hard. |
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Germany's Weimar Republic was hit hard by the depression, as American loans to help rebuild the German economy now stopped. |
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Strawberry producers across the province, however, were hit hard last week when a night-long killer frost destroyed a large portion of their flowering crops. |
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Cities all around the world were hit hard, especially those dependent on heavy industry. |
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Birds at sea were hit hard during the early weeks of the spill, resulting in thousands of deaths. |
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It was quickly becoming one of the most prosperous countries in the world but was hit hard by a major financial crisis. |
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