Sentences with phrase «hard nut»

The judiciary can have some effect on cost recovery and payments made by defendants but determining how the industry shares its costs is a much harder nut to crack.

Parental engagement, despite considerable investment, is too hard a nut to crack and there are other, safer bets to improving outcomes.

Newly - qualified teachers are particularly hard nuts to crack.

This is most easily done with hard nuts or seeds, such as peanuts that are still in their shells.

Not only that there is the battle cage, an underground «flight club» style arena where you fight other hard nuts in brutal battles to see who's the best.

Some, like the competition for talent are frequently mentioned, but there is another that is less talked about and yet arguably harder nut to crack.

The armoured harvestman is too hard a nut for most predators to crack.

Some of their seeds are in the form of hard nuts, such as the acorns on oak trees, while others, like aspen and maple, make seeds that are carried on the wind.

Boesch and his wife, Hedwige, had spent two decades there watching the chimps bashing granite rocks on wooden anvils to crack hard nuts produced by a tree called Panda oleosa.

«These pathogens are really hard nuts to crack, but we found a molecule that shreds that shell and allows antibiotics to enter and be effective,» said Brown.

Pecan nuts need to soak for at least 6 - 8 hours, cashew nuts 6 hours and hard nuts like hazelnuts or almonds 8 - 12 hours.

A fresh or warm biscotti loaf will more likely crumble and break regardless of tool or technique used (think soft «bread» stands no chance against hard nuts)

Former Chelsea defender Robert Huth is a right hard nut.

Although, in retrospect, it should be seen as a hallmark of this current Spurs outfit that have become an incredibly hard nut to crack.

France devised other tactics to crack the Romanian hard nuts but the Romanian back four gave a good account of themselves.

But the adults are the real hard nuts.

Whether this is to do with the writing or direction it is hard to say but although Thornton's performance is excellent (he is fast becoming one of my favourite chameleons), his character border on the line of stubborn hard nut to naive and feeble.

Looking like a slightly fascistic cop in a dystopian world, he's actually John «Breacher» Wharton, the tattooed hard nut leader of an elite squad of Drug Enforcement bruisers who assemble to raid a cartel's safe house.

It looks like Vergara is in talks to star opposite token hard nut Jason Statham for the remake of the 1986 film HEAT, which originally starred Burt Reynolds.

In addition to BMW throwing all it knows at the chassis, just about every significant driving parameter is configurable, with a mind boggling 486 possible combinations that will take you all the way from boulevard cruiser to track - ready hard nut.

From bog standard ones that you can jump on to release gems, to flying bats, spiky hard nuts and more that magically float through the dirt, the enemy variety is just about high enough for the game we have in play.

This one has got massive flop written all over it.Not only does Panasonic's latest gaming console, the Jungle, look like something from the 1990s, the handheld gaming market is a pretty hard nut to crack, especially given the rise of mobile and tablet... Read more

Inside the Newcastle hard nut, you feel, a big softie is waiting for his moment.

While the Inter coach has done well domestically, he's found Europe a much harder nut to crack, not something that is music to the ears of Peter Kenyon.

Unlike hookbills — such as large parrots that can crack hard nuts and chew up large food items — softbills like finches need their food in small pieces to be able to eat easily.

Asus has had a marked absence from a number of smartphone markets, with the UK a particularly hard nut to crack, thanks to network dominance over the phones that people actually buy.

I'm personally at a loss as to why everyone's finding it such a hard nut to crack.

So I don't know why it's such a hard nut to crack.

But cutting its greenhouse - gas emissions is proving a harder nut to crack.

As for whether a couple of highlight clips are the core of a work like an NFL game, that's a harder nut to crack.

The Android ecosystem in China, representing the majority of local mobile game revenues, has proven to be a harder nut to crack.

Forgiveness really is a hard nut to crack as long as you STILL LOVE WHAT YOU LOST.

On one occasion he compared certain texts to «hard nuts» which resisted cracking and confessed that he had to throw these texts against the rock (Christ) so that they would yield their «delicious kernel.»

This temporal limitation is a hard nut, for the world view which provides the mythological framework of the Biblical narratives can not be corrected or translated into a modern mythology.

One would like to think that each of us, at one time, might have been, before being saved, a «hard nut to crack» — so that spreading the gospel is not simply «putting out a statement» but, indeed, providing impassioned exhortation to the unbelievers to believe on Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

kids being the hardest nuts to crack.

I'm allergic to almonds, so do you think this would work with 2/3 cup of another hard nut?

If the hard nuts at Brookfield Infrastructure Partners were ever going to be inspired to a chuckle by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission then Tuesday was the day.

The kids like seeds and nuts but prefer larger nuts or fruits to be ground so they aren't stopped cold on a large, hard nut.

He wasn't at his best last season and barely contributed against Leicester city on Friday and he not signed a new contract either, it be hard nut to crack if we sell Him, as Alexis Sanchez also want to leave, but who can come in to replace him Thomas Lemar a option but Monaco are not playing ball or mahrez We await to see what happens

As for Wenger, he is a hard nut to crack, but he's proved his devotion to the team and is not to give up on it now.

@truegunner12 In the real world, 11 men defending is a hard nut to crack at any level.

Despite looking smallish, Montari was a hard nut to crack for Liberty.

However, this Besiktas side is one hard nut to crack as we saw in the group stages.

However, the Slovenian defense could prove a hard nut to crack especially given England's own ineptitude going forward.