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"hard-and-fast" Definitions
  1. strongly binding; not to be set aside or violated: hard-and-fast rules.

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Facebook's hard-and-fast rule on political speech doesn't seem so hard-and-fast, considering it's already making exceptions to it.
Then there's the dark-room rumbles of Inkke's recent Rinse FM show with LuckyMe, and a Teki Latex mix so hard and fast he's called it the Hard and Fast Mix.
"There isn't really a hard and fast answer," Shaw said.
Draw hard and fast conclusions -- without all the facts. 4.
"There was no religious hard and fast rule," he said.
There is a hard and fast rule that they stop.
There are no hard and fast rules, Dr. Wartella said.
But, of course, this isn't a hard and fast rule.
However, the above perceived "negatives" aren't always hard and fast truths.
There are no hard and fast rules are for this stuff.
On the other hand, these are not hard and fast rules.
So the great weight divide is hardly a hard and fast truth.
I'm definitely a lightweight, and the shots hit me hard and fast.
There are no hard-and-fast rules when it comes to breakups.
It's worth noting that none of these rules are hard and fast.
If there's any hard and fast rule, I guess it's that one.
She orders a $22 turmeric martini and downs it hard and fast.
The field's current standard-bearer, Lee Child, writes clean, hard and fast.
No hard-and-fast rule, just stay attuned to your partner's feelings.
There were no hard and fast absolutes in his realm of rubber.
Fashion, like society, is clearly not opting for hard and fast rules.
There's no hard-and-fast rule for how Times editors handle books.
There is no hard and fast plan to build a wall anywhere yet.
KARDO BECK London If you are going to fail, fail hard and fast.
Luckily there are no real hard and fast rules for personal money management.
As I wrote in 2015, TV serialization isn't a hard and fast split.
At the pulverizing pace of modern life, horrible news comes hard and fast.
Yes, but that's just Mother Nature's guideline, not a hard-and-fast rule.
Those in turn are tough to capture in hard and fast legal regulations.
However, career experts and coaches say there's no hard-and-fast, right answer.
"Maybe it was something more complicated" isn't exactly hard and fast evidence. 8.
These rules are hard and fast; the reality they govern is anything but.
His heart was beating hard and fast, but otherwise his exam was fine.
CNW is offering answers to questions that don't have hard and fast answers.
That's often the natural choice, but this isn't a hard-and-fast rule.
"I don't live by hard-and-fast rules in this job," he said.
But there's no hard and fast rule that I can't appear on there.
But there are no hard and fast rules about how that would work.
Disney theme parks have hard and fast rules regarding costumes, at least for adults.
Lying is supposed to be a hard-and-fast rule that requires mandatory termination.
This is not a hard and fast rule, but keep it in mind. 2.
"This is a pretty hard and fast 'don't try this at home,'" she added.
I whimper and throw back my head as the orgasm comes hard and fast.
They also shared hard and fast rules for hiring people for projects, particularly directors.
After Ellis's call, tears came hard and fast, but so did Dunn's psychological rebound.
That said, there are no hard and fast rules defining what "no shopping" means.
"These things tend to be fine and then you get hit hard and fast."
DOJ's restrictions, when it comes to self-referral, aren't nearly as hard and fast.
Did you have any hard and fast rules about who constitutes a "night flower"?
But surprisingly few Democrats have made a hard and fast decision about a nominee.
About 800,000 years ago, a monster space rock struck the Earth hard and fast.
There are no hard and fast rules in terms of how you do it.
There's no hard and fast definition of those, so Congress has the ultimate say.
There's no hard-and-fast formula for these calculations, but certain considerations seem obvious.
And there's no hard and fast rule about what kind of music is more beneficial.
There's no hard-and-fast rule on when the Secret Service stops protecting the loser.
In combat sports, there's a temptation to come out as hard and fast as possible.
Those warheads are coming in hard and fast and end up getting super, super hot.
While the Paris looks flew under the radar, posts about Orlando came hard and fast.
These questions don't lend themselves to hard and fast rules, and neither do reverse mortgages.
In 2016, the only hard-and-fast rule of weddings is there are no rules.
What does listening to hard and fast music offer to you that other music doesn't?
We barrel in hard and fast from above, before the kibes even know what's happening.
Still, there are still no hard and fast rules on how and what to post.
Finally, there is one overriding, hard-and-fast team rule: Friday night is taco night.
There are no battles, hard-and-fast rules, time limits, or big bosses to defeat.
Somebody would have figured out that serving hard and fast and unreturnably is really important.
But today's offering by Alex Vratsanos proves that there are no hard-and-fast rules.
In 99% of situations, having a hard and fast take on some event works out.
And then you go right into 'Regret Me,' which is hard and fast and raw.
Think of this recipe more as a suggestion than a set of hard and fast rules.
Syncs rolled in hard and fast too, like this ad for Toyota, set to "The Heat".
Of course, with so much color to play with, there are no hard and fast rules.
There's really no hard and fast rule, so you'll have to take it case by case.
But plan C also requires us to recognise new dangers coming at us hard and fast.
He claimed that until they did, they'd have no hard and fast evidence of his crimes.
But his "real fear" is a dislocation, or the market falling "hard and fast," he said.
But as we've seen here, there aren't really hard-and-fast rules, just patterns and probabilities.
Just keep in mind that there's no hard and fast rule when it comes to fares.
"There was no hard-and-fast rule that took it out of their hands," he said.
And that's why Google is pushing so hard and fast to embed itself into the NHS.
The fallout hit hard and fast over the weekend as the Times and Observer stories broke.
Travel experts all shied away from giving hard and fast rules about where not to go.
"There are no hard and fast rules," said Steven D. Sladkus, a Manhattan real estate lawyer.
Those hard and fast rules are very different from the "anything goes" style of political rhetoric.
But that's not a hard and fast number, because again, this isn't one-size-fits-all.
Laying a trap for self-driving cars Others might not be quite so hard and fast.
It's unclear if the Taliban will have to make hard and fast commitments before the meeting.
Accounting is not a hard and fast science, and subjectivity comes into play in many areas.
Like many people, young and old alike, Litt fell hard and fast for then-candidate Barack Obama.
I didn't feel a burden to expose anything politically or have a hard and fast political agenda.
"Fail hard and fast so you can figure out what it takes to succeed," he told me.
Unlike my regular gig as a correspondent, I didn't have a hard and fast deadline to meet.
Semis were sort of the pure play on the China fears and they rallied hard and fast.
Because I do think there are some hard-and-fast rules, but not a whole lot, essentially.
Sticking close to Pablo's side, Connery-style, I kicked hard and fast until we reached the wreck.
No Hard and Fast Rules Both Sethi and Carroll say that at Social Capital, nothing is codified.
But it's not as though we have hard and fast numbers we can compare election to election.
Drew's pretty open ... saying he thinks Swift falls deep, hard and fast for the guys she dates.
Mnuchin also stressed that the administration hadn't made a hard and fast decision about reforming Dodd-Frank.
But, there's no hard and fast rule that works for everyone when it comes to optimal timing. 
The only hard-and-fast rule is to never, under any circumstances, use the thumbs down Tapback.
We don't have a hard and fast ownership target, but we typically own [at least] 20 percent.
"One hard-and-fast rule Ed always had was, I'm not selling my life rights," Wizner said.
The only hard and fast rule is that your total has to be less than your income.
There was no particularly day on which I gave up, no hard and fast hour of surrender.
There are no hard and fast rules for what an interview is or how it should proceed.
Visa typically invests in C rounds or later, but that's not a hard and fast rule, Prabhu said.
They have a "red line" they cannot cross (they are required to maintain hard and fast liquidity requirements).
Every problem had a solution, and every battle could be won, if you thought hard and fast enough.
The beauty of fashion as far as I see it is there are no hard-and-fast rules.
Because the deadline is hard and fast, the courts probably could rule as quickly as they needed to.
We don't just adhere to a hard and fast idea of what content we will print and publish.
The lyrics weren't as rappy, so the beats that we played for them were more hard and fast.
I want to go as hard and fast as I can in the House and then go home.
There's no hard and fast rule that says you're never allowed to get up from the dinner table.
There's no hard and fast rule on how long is too long to wait before getting medical care.
Even rules that were once hard and fast—no advertising and no cuts—have gone by the wayside.
Switching to more resilient crops is crucial because "climate change is hitting us hard and fast," he said.
Gulliver wishes he could think of a hard-and-fast rule for how to behave in such circumstances.
"At RedState, there has always been one hard and fast rule: Oppose abortion at all costs," Cunningham wrote.
Alyza is non-binary, and they're uninterested in a hard-and-fast transition based on normative physical criteria.
Life was just beginning to get back to normal when the rains came this week, hard and fast.
Yet that does little to stop those forecasts of economic doom and gloom coming in hard and fast.
These hard-and-fast critics forfeited the opportunity to explore such dynamic neighborhoods as the Tre' and Montrose.
Yet closures in Chinese factories, and production squeezes caused by rural workers staying away, hit hard and fast.
The meeting was viewed skeptically because North Korea made no hard-and-fast pledges coming out of it.
It took several years for me to learn to touch myself hard and fast enough to achieve orgasm.
Plus, they claimed there was no hard-and-fast process they could follow to make their speaker invitations work.
Then again, there's no hard and fast rule that says that it's you who should be doing the work.
Weinberg says there's no hard and fast answer, but psychology seems to suggest it's about emotional and social connections.
If you don't have any hard and fast beliefs or ways of living, you don't hit as many obstacles.
You can put your Chalupa-obsessed nerves at ease, because we have the hard and fast answers right here.
But, Basile is quick to add, the guidelines of each ritual are merely that — not hard and fast rules.
Just like any other relationship, the "rule" about circling back to an old hookup partner isn't hard and fast.
But lacking the details doesn't stop people from drawing hard and fast conclusions about how they feel about it.
Lesnar has always like to throw out low kicks and they look both hard and fast for a heavyweight.
The Sanders bill imposes hard-and-fast dollar caps on how much health care the country can consume yearly.
Three or four decades ago, California tracks were known for being hard and fast, and horses set spectacular records.
Well, there are really no hard and fast rules for how an impeachment inquiry is done in the house.
While the agency doesn't give any hard and fast numbers in that case, they do recommend keeping serving sizes small.
The team's hard-and-fast rule was that all these videos needed to be "as authentic as possible," Yacenda says.
It contains up to seven volatile compounds called thiols or thioacetates, which means they bind hard and fast to skin.
Pai's FCC is working to repeal hard and fast rules, while the DOJ is looking at a specific antitrust case.
The only hard and fast rule to working with protective crystals is that they require a pretty rigorous cleansing regimen.
Neither Instagram nor the FTC have "hard and fast rules" for the practices, the New York Times wrote last summer.
Lately his sets skew towards hard and fast techno, which match his two acid-tinged LPs released through Dark Entries.
"The FIA understand the situation we're in and there's no hard and fast deadline," said Horner of the engine decision.
But there are no hard-and-fast best practices and models for how to tackle many of these issues yet.
He said their goal was to go in "hard and fast" to assess the situation and respond to immediate needs.
Trump has said officials in the U.S., Turkey and Saudi Arabia are "looking very hard and fast" into the situation.
Recent conventions, although not a hard and fast rule, have suggested that if members are above 68, they will retire.
Facebook's community standards don't have hard and fast rules for this but addressed the matter in their statement on Friday.
This isn't a hard and fast rule; hurricanes can kill anyone of any class, anywhere near enough to a coast.
There's no hard and fast rule, but Stern says that typically, female sex offenders were victims of sexual abuse themselves.
However, aside from that hard-and-fast rule, there are a lot of gray areas when it comes to SPF.
"I feel like this equation is roughly a good guideline but definitely not hard and fast," another friend told me.
" The responses came hard and fast—and they were remarkably harsh given that Tom is 2800 '219", blonde, and handsome.
Make it a hard and fast rule that all technology must be placed at the family docking station before bed.
I wish I was calculating the $ amount of returns so you can see that this spending isn't hard and fast.
The field was besieged by a blustery southern wind that further dried out greens that were already hard and fast.
View these 20 bottles not as a hard-and-fast list but as an outline of types to seek out.
So it's not a hard-and-fast rule, which is why we emphasize it's not diagnosis and it's more exploration.
But of course, these "rules" aren't hard and fast, and they don't stay stagnant; they grow and change with your relationship.
Alerts usually run under 140 characters, to keep them from getting cut off, but that's not a hard and fast rule.
Nevertheless, this hard and fast workout could be a good option for people who say they never have time to exercise.
It's a dicy time to make hard decisions about the future as change comes hard and fast to the auto industry.
In regards to when charges could be filed against Trump, should there be any, there's really no hard and fast rule.
From its deep dish to tavern-style thin crust, there are no hard and fast rules when it comes to pizza.
There are no hard and fast rules about what jazz is — you can make it whatever you want it to be.
Farrah took a hard spill walking up the stairs ... and judging from everyone's sheer shock, Farrah went down hard and fast.
There are no hard and fast rules about how to balance savings with paying down debt, and everyone's situation is different.
Granted, it's hard to explicitly define what constitutes "teen television," because it's not a genre delineated by hard and fast lines.
" He complains that "we had no hard-and-fast control over immigration as long as we were in the European Union.
The end result is that the policy standardizing a six-game suspension has not functioned as a hard and fast rule.
The factional boundaries are not hard and fast, with groups shifting their positions as the science and waves of activism evolve.
There's no hard-and-fast rule for what qualifies as a "tiny" home, but they are usually under 500 square feet.
This is the bottom line, he says: "The sentiment will change and [bitcoin] is going to drop so hard and fast."
But making the raw data public isn't a hard and fast requirement for publication of research in any of the journals.
Mars connects with Jupiter in Sagittarius on July 25—Mars does things hard and fast, and Jupiter amplifies whatever it touches.
This is not to imply that all Trump supporters' educational background was a hard-and-fast predictor of their political leanings.
However, it's a hard and fast rule that vintage watches that are original and well preserved today will have enduring value.
"There are no hard and fast rules when it comes to choosing a finish to hang art against," Mr. Drake said.
The rules about museum ethics are "not hard and fast," Sally M. Yerkovich, professor of museum anthropology at Columbia University, said.
While there's no hard and fast rule, here are some quick guidelines to keep in mind: Who is backing the app?
As for me, the only lingering effect of my hard and fast decision to decline Haldeman's offer were two unexpected moments.
"If they can still play hard and fast, so can I. "Everybody plays good tennis and everybody is strong and fit.
People react differently to these tools based on a variety of factors, so we can't really draw any hard and fast conclusions.
For the catfish, it's crusted in a seasoned cornmeal crust and then fried hard and fast in a skillet of canola oil.
Also, this isn't a hard and fast rule, but a lot of meatballs are made with breadcrumbs mixed in for added texture.
The scientific community hasn't yet put forth a hard-and-fast theory when it comes to women's physicality, politics, and power strategies.
So the only rule of climate policy that really matters is: go as hard and fast as possible, forever and ever, amen.
When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle met on a blind date in July 2016, they fell hard and fast for each other.
But her openness will be better than a hard and fast position that puts her on the bank side of the ledger.
Back in 2005, Slate's Daniel Engber wrote that "there are no hard and fast rules" among journalists on who counts as senior.
The second is more of a hard-and-fast standard, setting a salary level to determine eligibility for overtime, regardless of duties.
Experts say there are no hard and fast rules, however, when it comes to policy (and policing) of romantic relationships within organizations.
Cosmetic physician Sarah Tonks says that there's no hard-and-fast rules in terms of how often you should get them done.
Meaning that drawing hard and fast conclusions about what the Manafort indictment tells us about the broader Mueller investigation is a mistake.
The first is widely acknowledged to be a guide to psychiatric illnesses and their symptoms, rather than a hard-and-fast rulebook.
The advice below, stemming from Lombard's near-decade of experience as a photographer, isn't hard and fast rules for optimizing Instagram likes.
Aries is a Fire sign that likes to go hard and fast, so any kind of spirituality will pack a strong punch.
There is no hard and fast rule about how many countries' recognition is required for a state to be recognized as such.
As with the breakfast sandwiches, there are no hard-and-fast rules for the silog, except when it comes to the egg.
"There are no hard and fast rules," said White House cybersecurity coordinator Michael Daniel, in a 2014 blog post about the process.
While there are no hard and fast rules, it's important you master some of these basics before embarking on this new journey.
Despite baseball's strong union, certain provisions that kept salaries rising for decades turned out to be norms, not hard and fast rules.
Within minutes of the explosion, this debris started to rain down hard and fast, causing the roofs and floors of structures to collapse.
And of course, online censorship has less "hard and fast" rules when it comes to the sharing of content traditionally viewed as explicit.
As we first reported ... Drea asked the court for a hard and fast deadline for Kelly to pay her the $32k he owes.
But at the same time, fundamentally, I think we need to understand where ghosting begins, and there are no hard and fast rules.
When the good blow landed and stunned his man, Spinks would get serious and suddenly every blow would be coming hard and fast.
With Albini, you had the hard and fast drums and vocals, but the newer records have a much more grandiose and tailored sound.
So, my driving ambition at the moment is to work hard and fast until we get to the day when I walk out.
There aren't really any hard-and-fast rules to shopping for games (either physical or digital), accessories (like controllers, headsets, etc.), or consoles.
" She wrote in a separate 85033 law article that the doctrine "is not a hard-and-fast rule in the court's constitutional cases.
In fact, as my husband and I sat with our budget this past year, we came up with a hard and fast stance.
Earnings forecasts should fall hard and fast Analysts were expecting an earnings increase of 4.4% for the quarter at the start of 2020.
This isn't a hard-and-fast rule, since some comedies, like Arrested Development (2004), have managed to sneak in once in a while.
"Preserving stability is a hard-and-fast task that takes priority over everything else," the leadership said in the region's annual budget report.
There are no hard and fast rules for which soft skills employers require, and they may not be listed in the job description.
They harken back to Justice Douglas's probable reason: A hard and fast rule prevents the big players from squeezing out the little players.
The only hard and fast rule I've learned is that creators united—and in particular, POC creators united—is better than a community divided.
The only hard and fast rule Dylan had to abide by was presenting his lecture by June 10, or risk losing his prize money.
While we must remind you, once again, that there are no hard and fast rules about when to buy, the folks over at CheapAir.
Rieff's contrarian assault on memory turns out, then, to be distinctly moderate and to deal with likely results rather than hard and fast rules.
What we're hearing: Sending a bill to CBO by the end of the week would be great, but isn't a hard-and-fast deadline.
But we at Tea Party Patriots abide by a hard-and-fast rule: When political leaders do the right thing, we stand by them.
Bailey said the 25 percent requirement was not a "hard and fast" rule and that he was open to all views on the issue.
"We don't have any hard and fast halachah (Jewish laws) around why we eat dairy or even that we should eat dairy," she says.
Parents also need to be tuned into opportunities for physical activity and set hard-and-fast rules about television and time spent on electronics.
If you're eating intuitively — which, by many accounts, is a good idea — you won't even have any hard-and-fast rules to cheat on.
I don't like hard and fast rules in anything, so I think that applies to my teaching and I'm going to go embrace that.
It slowed down my entire blood flow, so my heart was beating hard and fast and my mind started to play tricks on me.
Dispute resolution When countries are found to be in violation of the agreement, there are hard and fast rules how to hold nations accountable.
"I think it's everyone's goal by the end of the year but it's not a hard-and-fast deadline," according to one Democratic aide.
There's no hard and fast rule for how many outlets need to cover a topic or event before it qualifies as Trending, for example.
After taking a quick and informal survey of friends and coworkers, I didn't find a hard-and-fast break-off point in your early 30s.
He has pushed hard and fast for his Cabinet picks, staffing the offices with members who if confirmed will push for a very conservative agenda.
Call 911 first, then push hard and fast in the center of the person's chest for 100 to 120 beats per minute until help arrives.
"There is no hard and fast rule for this, as sleep quality is probably more important than sleep duration, at least in children," she added.
Or do they force agents to follow hard-and-fast rules for approving applications, and any talk of "discretion" is just a legal fig leaf?
When I say I would like to exchange it for another Note 7, the look of confusion on his face hit pretty hard and fast.
When the stock resumed trading on July 25, 2014, it sank hard and fast and regained its status as a penny stock within two days.
We asked an expert to identify the most common STD warning signs and got schooled hard and fast that we were asking the wrong question.
WINNERS * Mitch McConnell: The Senate majority leader refused to make a hard and fast promise to Democrats that they would get a vote on DACA.
It is the errors that stand out in the memory, tricking us, deceiving us into believing the rare exception was the hard and fast rule.
One skill which Woodley has, but which he fails to incorporate into his larger game, is that he can thrown exceptionally hard and fast low kicks.
So far it has not committed to any hard and fast numbers on cuts, ensuring that the budget will be closely scrutinized by France's EU partners.
Edson Barboza is a known commodity—he kicks extremely hard and fast, and he can do it over and over until his opponent's insides are pulp.
And yet through the bulk of the book, Ms Favilla does something surprising: she offers guidance, opinions and very often, hard and fast rules about language.
I was coming down hard and fast, so I sat on the back porch curled up in a chair chain-smoking cigarettes until they got back.
Sprague doesn't claim to offer any hard and fast conclusions that will apply to everyone, but he's found a few interesting things about his own body.
I shouldn't but how do you choose between living hard and fast for your almost guaranteed short years, or living clean and hoping it pays off?
Weight was self-reported in those days, so the discrepancy isn't hard-and-fast, but reports have Corbett at the least 19003 to Jeffries' 220 pounds.
We say "most" because birth charts will always be tricky for those born before 1975 — DST was not exactly a hard and fast rule until then.
I have tried all sorts of hard and fast diets, fads and workouts, but I always would get burnt out after a few weeks or so.
Of course, that's not a hard and fast rule, and each website offers a range of tools and rentals that'll help you book the dream trip.
And it's not a hard and fast rule, but I'm mostly interested in backing startups that can leverage marketplaces, or that can be valuable to them.
And when this conversation inevitably comes up, I think back to the hard-and-fast rules I used to have when it came to online dating.
As a few misguided celebrities have shown us in the past, there are some hard and fast things that you should avoid when planning your costume.
Texas has taken to calling hardcore "God's music," and over the last few years he's dedicated himself to spreading the gospel of hard and fast tracks.
Starting about the middle of last week, a small number of senators started bringing this up to me, but not as a hard and fast issue.
But remember that Trump was a famous figure for decades prior to his running for president; people have long had hard and fast opinions about him.
But the only brutal thing Trump has done thus far is to refuse to take hard and fast positions and demand that Congress fill the gap.
The young star is still in shock that her single, about a girl falling hard and fast in love, has gone triple platinum, catapulting her to stardom.
There's no hard and fast rule that dictates when you need to say goodbye to your trusty old device and replace it with something shiny and new.
When we spend so much time swiping through an endless stream of unfamiliar faces, it's easy to get into swiping patterns and even hard and fast rules.
As the snow came down hard and fast, areas were already experiencing coastal flooding around the time of high tide in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Though there's no hard-and-fast rule about whether officers can be sent to dangerous posts alone, to Inserillo, and to her husband, it felt like retaliation.
What's next: There will be growing focus on hybrid systems that integrate the power of deep learning with the simplicity and explainability of hard-and-fast rules.
Background: The NYT's Sarah Jeong recently explained to her colleague Charlie Warzel that in a legal system there are good reasons to have hard-and-fast rules.
We warn you, however, not to think of the information as hard-and-fast rules: A lot of pros apply products in a lot of different ways.
Background: The NYT's Sarah Jeong recently explained to her colleague Charlie Warzel that, in a legal system, there are good reasons to have hard-and-fast rules.
Once a dog has eaten something with xylitol in it, the symptoms—which include vomiting, staggering, seizures, and even death—hit hard and fast within a day.
Elordi and King fell hard and fast into a relationship behind-the-scenes of the Netflix movie, becoming one of the new young "it" couples for summer.
"It really was one of those hard and fast rules," says Tyson Buhler, head bartender of Manhattan cocktail church Death & Co and former American World Class representative.
"It really was one of those hard and fast rules," says Tyson Buhler, head bartender of Manhattan cocktail church Death & Co and former American World Class representative.
There are a few hard and fast rules in life and one of them is this: never call a fat person pregnant or a pregnant person fat.
There may be a few hard and fast requirements, but the rest of the description's a best guess at who'll be an ideal fit for the opening.
I met Cat at a sunny BBQ in 2013 where we bonded hard and fast over our shared bipolar diagnosis, love of condiments, and quietly seething rage.
GM will be seeking out 5 companies (though that is not a hard and fast number, Lauckner said) within each batch to make investments with 500 Startups.
Kerry McGowan, managing director of The HR Specialists, told CNBC Thursday that there are no hard and fast rules when it comes to workplace policies on relationships.
Because this is the Trump presidency, it would be foolishness to make too many (or, really, any) hard and fast predictions about what the future might hold.
Bottom line: Humans need fuel to stay healthy, so we should listen to what our bodies need and not create hard-and-fast rules surrounding eating habits.
Still, despite those obvious hazards (falling hard and fast is not without its risks), there are probably more dangerous ways for a teen to spend her afternoon.
New York (CNN Business)Coronavirus has hit companies hard and fast over the past several weeks — prompting calls for industry bailouts and dramatic measures to cut costs.
Rather than some hard-and-fast rule, this is generally an individualized determination made based on the child in question, their parents, and their health care provider.
"The one hard-and-fast rule in fashion is that if it swings in one direction, it will swing back in the other direction," Ms. Steele said.
Critics also say that relying on the LSAT's hard and fast numbers hampers minorities, who may not have had access to the education needed to score highly.
The caution that I would register is that they not be hard-and-fast rules because in the life of immigrants, there are too many extenuating circumstances.
Not Zhao De. The 26-year-old Beijinger only has around 55,000 yuan ($8,400) to play with, and he wants to make it work hard and fast.
The states' argument, in one sentence: It sets pretty hard-and-fast standards for who qualifies for deferred action and work authorization; that seems pretty rule-like.
"There are no hard and fast rules about what steps the government is obligated to take; it's very much contextual," said Michael Bradley, S.'s attorney in Australia.
For people who are super-serious about their denim, there is no one hard and fast rule when it comes time to cleaning their favorite pair of jeans.
Deadline While there is no hard and fast deadline on the issue, a reminder that Congress leaves for its July 4 recess at the end of this week.
It doesn't have to be that, but by any name it's hardly consistent with candidate Trump's "hit-them-hard-and-fast-and-leave" gospel on the campaign trail.
As a reminder, it continues to be a hard-and-fast rule that at least one editor must know the specific identity of any anonymous source before publication.
There were lots of rhetorical questions and lovely turns of phrase, but Saul always seemed to be hearing a hard and fast "no" that Jivadi wasn't actually conveying.
In writing about your own preferences and taste, did you find yourself shying away from the more hard-and-fast critical edge of your professional reviews and critiques?
"Without that kind of data and evidence-based practice, we have to say it's the logical next step, but we cannot issue hard and fast guidelines for other allergies."
Those individuals stay in constant communication during the process, but there's no hard-and-fast rule about perspective or continuity that the company abides by in crafting its experiences.
"Share markets have run hard and fast from their December lows and are vulnerable to a short-term pullback," said Shane Oliver, head of investment strategy at AMP Capital.
Although honestly, I feel like that speaks more to the low threshold women have to surpass to arouse a men's sexual attraction than any actual hard and fast preference.
Ultimately I'd love people to say, "I'm going to take the Ford," but it's interpreted in a different way, a nontraditional way, than just a hard and fast property.
The Department of Justice typically does not reveal new details about an investigation involving a candidate 60 days from an election, but that's not a hard and fast rule.
If there's one hard and fast rule in Washington, it's that once one party invents a new type of partisan chicanery, it will eventually be used by both parties.
"There appear to be no hard and fast rules it has to follow in matters of I.P.," FastShip founder David Giles told me via email, referring to the Navy.
"Press hard and fast in the center of the chest to the beat of the song `Stayin' Alive' or the Darth Vader theme song, `Imperial Death March,'" Brown advised.
The notion that there are few hard-and-fast rules when it comes to public support for environmentalism has influenced the response of environmentalists to the Yellow Vest protests.
Unfortunately we can't give you hard and fast rules about how the big social platforms could license out your content, and even if we could, they would probably change tomorrow.
He said that most people don't seem to have hard and fast rules about condom use, and people were generally willing to use a condom if their partner wanted it.
Artist Miryam Lumpini tells us that there are no hard-and-fast rules to the products that should be in your aftercare routine — the final choice is up to you.
She wrote hard and fast to finish a draft during November's National Novel Writing Month, figuring 26.2 days was a reasonable sacrifice for the project even if it went nowhere.
"But I would say also, until we have a process that allows for everybody to see this with full transparency, it's pretty hard to come to hard and fast conclusions."
In fact, the kids have 10 hard-and-fast rules for being their BFF, including loving The Clash, never ditching a friend at the pool, and no mouth-breathers allowed.
Harris seemed to dodge any difficult question with a standard "we should have that conversation" line that left you not really sure if she had a hard and fast opinion.
And yet, in opposition to hard-and-fast plans about who you want to be, Isvari's "Risk You!" is a love letter to embrace experimentation, changing passions, and the unknown.
In lieu of a hard-and-fast rule to determine when a food's gone bad, the FDA also suggests that a dash of common sense should be plenty enough help.
Kim, along with a bunch of other types of jumping spiders, use hydraulic pressure — basically pumping blood into their legs at high pressure — to shoot them backward hard and fast.
After a banner year of successful rocket launches for Elon Musk's private space flight company SpaceX, so far 2019 sees the company coming back down to Earth hard and fast.
It is a range, 6.5 percent to 7 percent economic growth over last year, rather than a number, suggesting that leaders are rethinking their adherence to hard-and-fast goals.
While there are no hard-and-fast statistics on the matter, it's clear that the youth of today is learning about beauty from the "beauty gurus" of Instagram and YouTube.
While there are national, state, and local guidelines, there are no "hard and fast" rules about who gets a test and who doesn't, which adds to a lot of confusion.
"An alliance is not a formal type of business arrangement where you have hard and fast rules on who does what, who shares what and who benefits how," he said.
Interactions between each of the amino acids can produce surprising shapes, and there are few hard-and-fast rules we can rely on to predict how a protein will look.
But rather than pointing to any hard and fast date, they say it's better to think of rabbit domestication as a long journey, with plenty of pit stops along the way.
"Life, like swimming the 100 free, can come at you hard and fast as you can't always see who, or what, may be chasing you down," he wrote at the time.
Eastern religions, on the other hand, are characterized more so by a kind of philosophical openness, a deep-rooted sense of spirituality and time-worn tradition without hard-and-fast rules.
The thing is, there aren't really any hard and fast rules to channeling an iconic celeb on All Hallow's Eve (or really, any other time of the year, for that matter).
But Chertoff told Fox News the hard and fast rule is first start with the side that has the most cutlery and then work your way in, closer to your plate.
On Wednesday, Russian Deputy Finance Minister Maxim Oreshkin told Russian news agency Tass that current prices may result in "quite hard and fast closures" of some producers in the coming months.
There's no hard-and-fast rule about when pregnant women must stop flying (and it's generally deemed safe in a healthy pregnancy until quite late), but it could be a deterrent.
There is no hard and fast rule for when kids can start running, said Dr. Danelle Fisher, the chair of pediatrics at Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif.
Whether it be hormone treatment, top surgery, or other medical procedures, the choice to undergo gender-affirming procedures is entirely up to the individual, and not a hard and fast rule.
Have someone call 9-1-1 while you start chest compressions, pressing hard and fast at the center of the chest at a rate of 100 to 120 compressions a minute.
"It's very important that we don't prejudge election results and we don't take hard and fast positions," she said recently, before heading off to a rally at an antique boat museum.
Heather L. Evans, the executive director of the Canadian Tax Foundation, a research group, said there was no hard and fast rule for determining who is a resident for tax purposes.
Beware NFC East ... the Baton Rouge blur known as Derrius Guice is BACK, 'cause the Redskins star just posted a video of him running hard AND FAST on his surgically repaired knee.
In other words, some elemental pairings may be more compatible on paper than they are IRL (and vice versa), so none of these theories should be interpreted as hard-and-fast rules.
Mr. Cruz, for his part, has responded by dispensing with his hard-and-fast rule against attacking Mr. Trump, whose supporters he hopes to win over, or perhaps inherit, down the road.
But creator and showrunner Eric Kripke (Supernatural, Timeless) has crafted an adaptation that honors the comics while also giving new audiences access to a story that comes at viewers hard and fast.
Great Firewall While there are some hard and fast rules for what content is banned in China — pornography, separatism, terrorism, for example — for the most part companies are expected to regulate themselves.
Enough with the endless possibilities and twists and turns; you want some hard-and-fast rules for getting ahead so you can simply keep putting one foot in front of the other.
Though Diaz believes that a similar recommendation is needed for sitting, his 2017 study did not provide enough evidence to construct a hard and fast rule, he said: More research is needed.
Grassley, however, viewed blue slips as a courtesy, not a hard-and-fast rule, and refused to allow them to be used as a Democratic tool to block Trump's circuit court nominees.
The doctrine is, Judge Barrett wrote, "not a hard-and-fast rule in the court's constitutional cases," and she added that its power is diminished when the case under review is unpopular.
We don't talk about it that much, but we have hard-and-fast rules of what can fly in our world and what can't and how certain things are going to interact.
" Thune added, "I think anytime you have a situation like this where nobody knows exactly what the truth and exactly what the facts are, it's hard to draw any hard-and-fast conclusions.
" Barrett wrote in a 2013 law review article that the principle of generally respecting past rulings, known as stare decisis, "is not a hard-and-fast rule in the court&aposs constitutional cases.
Simple hard and fast rules to follow include to always swim with a buddy — even if there's a lifeguard present — and never leave children unattended near water, according to the American Red Cross.
More From VICE: There are no hard and fast rules for people trying to navigate their sexuality after an SCI; every injury affects a different spot on the spine to a different extent.
I always secretly had a crush on her and thought it would be the perfect to reconnect after my workout, so I made sure to run extra hard and fast to impress her.
"If you have a great idea, you have to be able to run really hard and fast," he added, in order to compete with someone who is as good at the same thing.
"The news hit us hard and fast," a military contractor working for the SDF headquarters in the region told Business Insider, speaking anonymously because they are not authorized to speak to the media.
But, Aikman points out that there is no hard and fast rule that applies to everyone because some people don't have work experiences that lead them to what they want to do next.
"Though there is no hard-and-fast rule, lenders want to know that if you get laid off, or sick, you can cover the mortgage for at least a few months," Orman says.
While your engagement should be incredibly special, that old adage that a ring needs to be worth a month's salary is just that — old, and certainly no longer a hard-and-fast rule.
With few good options for protecting the city that do not involve deploying American troops, it made sense for the candidates not to stake out a hard-and-fast position, analysts said. Mrs.
Famously uninterested in genre labels, as well as supposedly hard-and-fast distinctions between improvisation and composition, Mr. Sorey has established momentum in different lanes that are often thought of as mutually exclusive.
I look forward to seeing further nuances at later performances, and I record that several items from "The King and I" and "West Side Story" already made me tear up, hard and fast.
The trade-off, in general, is that the wines will be simpler in texture and flavor, and will not age as well (though this is by no means a hard-and-fast rule).
"Forget the club, it would just be management by committee," Mr. Christensen recalled him saying, noting that Mr. Seuss had been a self-taught computer technician whose decisions typically came hard and fast.
The professionals who arrive at Augusta every April to compete in the Masters Tournament, the event for which the club is known, expect to be tested by greens that are hard and fast.
But the sergeant's lawyer, Andrew C. Quinn, argued that the department's training set few hard-and-fast rules, often leaving decision-making to field supervisors, such as Sergeant Barry, a nine-year veteran.
There's no hard and fast rule that a Targaryen has to be the rider, so Tyrion could end up being one of them, without any sort of surprise family history thrown into the mix.
Secretary-generals serve for five-year terms that can technically be renewed indefinitely, though no secretary-general has served longer than two terms, which is informally customary but not a hard and fast rule.
A transition official stressed that some of these policies are still in their initial stages and added that when Trump unexpectedly weighs in, he's not necessarily offering up a hard and fast policy proclamation.
There's no hard-and-fast-rule for how to do it, so it often comes down to having years of study and experience with the Zodiac — and even then you can get it wrong.
For one thing, natural languages are constantly changing and any attempt to nail them down with a set of hard and fast rules is bound to distort how that language is used in practice.
While the U.S. has yet to legislate hard and fast rules on bitcoin and other virtual currencies, the Securities and Exchange Commission warned in July that it might move to regulate new token sales.
The simple fact is that there is no hard-and-fast -- or even close -- indicator that, two and a half years out from a reelection race, can tell us whether a president will win.
As we work towards resolving energy poverty we must embrace a hard-and- fast approach to apply diversified energy solutions that make sense according to context – this isn't a "one-size fits all" problem.
Twitter does not seem to have a hard and fast rule determining when they are sent out — past notifications have centered on election night, Olympic results and even ABC's The Bachelorette, among other things.
There's no hard-and-fast metric I can pull out to demonstrate to you that, objectively, NFL games are boring or bad, but considering the NFL's ratings this year, I'm not the only one.
Rather than a hard-and-fast regulatory change—which can take longer to develop than Obama has left in his presidency—they represent less formal guidelines that the ATF will implement for gun sales.
He argues that "the statutory terms do not erect any hard and fast rules about precisely how good the president's good cause must be," as he put it in his brief to the court.
Ms. Cagan is so careful trying not to make readers who have substantial debt feel bad that she offers "things to consider" as opposed to hard and fast rules, which I would have preferred.
Some years there were only twenty or thirty falling stars for our trouble, but other years they came hard and fast, as if someone were throwing them at the lake like handfuls of pebbles.
We don't need a hard-and-fast definition of the term "millennial," but whatever it's supposed to signify loses all meaning when we apply it willy-nilly to everybody from 40-somethings to teenagers.
"[Firefighters] would drive by, douse us, and move on to the next because they were working so hard and fast to save other homes, so I understand why they were scarce with water," Johns said.
As you say, in the past maybe there's been one 3D title per hardware generation on average, but I wouldn't say that that's a hard-and-fast rule that would have to be adhered to.
"It can be kind of daunting thinking about pushing hard and fast on the center of a woman's chest," and some people may fear they are hurting her, Audrey Blewer, the study's lead author, said.
It makes sense since models have to embody whatever their client can dream up, meaning they can't really have too many hard and fast rules when it comes to what they will or won't do.
Most of them seem to defy the hard and fast rules of attachment, just like mine—we dated for less than a season of Please Like Me but the break-up kneecapped me for months.
The Pokémon Company hasn't gone after map makers So it would seem that Niantic and The Pokémon Company have hard and fast rules on what they will and will not allow with regards to gameplay.
Maybe you will be surfing apps instead of channels, as the Apple chief executive Tim Cook predicts, skipping between shows that don't have commercial breaks or hard-and-fast 30- and 60-minute time limits.
Obviously, members of Congress are going to be interested in knowing the facts — and until we get all the facts out ,there it is going to be hard to draw any hard-and-fast conclusions.
News has been coming so hard and fast in 2017 that many Americans are not yet aware of the remarkable amount of ground that Trump has already given in the face of sustained public pressure.
One man, for example, wondered if giving a hug to a female colleague would cross a line, as if there were a universally applicable, hard-and-fast rule about what makes all women feel uncomfortable.
But rather to acknowledge that we come from disparate backgrounds and experience life in different ways -- and that we need to understand that before we start making hard and fast judgments about people and groups.
Pritchard said there are no hard and fast rules for what players can and can't do with the cup, but he said he asks that they be respectful to the trophy, the game and its history.
"It's a semantic game that's being played here, about what constitutes weakening, what constitutes backdooring, that the government is still playing hard and fast on in the hope that, essentially, a big lie sticks." https://twitter.
When Iran tested ballistic missiles in late January -- which the US believes could strike targets in Israel -- then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn came down hard and fast on Tehran, announcing there would be new sanctions.
"It doesn't mean I'm hard and fast 100 percent, but we have to get a lot of what I'm asking for, or we're not going to have a country anymore," the GOP presidential front-runner added.
There are no hard and fast rules of ghosting, but if it's fair to assume that a person has been awake for 12 hours and you haven't received a response, you are experiencing paranormal activity. Yes.
There are no hard and fast rules as to who can or can't join the Coney Island Polar Bear Club, but Thomas emphasizes that going with an experienced group means everyone looks out for each other.
Over the past 15 months, what were once thought to be hard and fast ethics rules have turned out to be far more porous, especially when the enforcement depends on a president with his own ethical challenges.
While there's no hard-and-fast evidence that it works to boost the immune system, many people do find that a spoonful of honey is an excellent way to quiet a cough and soothe a sore throat. 
Some items are reproductions or approximations of what Victorians might have used; living out this experiment on a shoestring budget has meant that they don't live by the hard and fast rules some people imagine they do.
"We're in the middle of managing pretty significant issues on the Trent 900 and 1000, and how that evolves, that's a risk around the business so don't treat that as a hard and fast number," Daintith said.
First, we can allow the TV screen to act as a hard-and-fast boundary between fiction and reality, and treat this scene as merely another progression in a saga we've been watching unfold; as a plot-point.
"Share markets — globally & in Australia — have run hard and fast from their December lows and are vulnerable to a short-term pullback," Shane Oliver, head of investment strategy and chief economist at AMP Capital, wrote in a note.
Until we know more about Hodgkinson's motive -- assuming we can find it out since he has now died from wounds he suffered -- it's difficult to reach hard and fast conclusions about why, allegedly, he did what he did.
While a typical gaming or VR session makes you aware of its own rules and parameters pretty quickly, The VOID succeeds in playing against what your brain assumes are the hard and fast limitations of the virtual experience.
It's not a hard and fast rule that all entries in a theme set have to do the same thing, although there's a lot to be said for a theme that's tight enough to accomplish such a feat.
But there are no hard-and-fast rules regarding the eligibility of bladed runners at scholastic or collegiate levels, and the scientific debate has never been fully settled about whether the prosthetics offer a competitor some unfair advantage.
But the consensus for now is to have open hearings done before the Thanksgiving recess — "though that's not hard and fast," one staffer told me — and to hold a floor vote on articles of impeachment by mid-December.
The point isn't to get you off the internet, or even off social media — you're still allowed to use Facebook, Twitter and other social platforms on a desktop or laptop, and there's no hard-and-fast time limit.
They tend to be highly intelligent, and both hard and fast workers, but they haven't spent as much time implicitly learning from others' mistakes, so if still anywhere near their larval stage, they're more likely to make them anew.
There's no hard-and-fast definition of a starter, or entry-level, home but a one or two bedroom — and a small three-bedroom — typically would qualify, says Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors (NAR).
I'm guessing you can get more or less whomever you want on camera, so do you start with a list of hard and fast list interviewees, or do you find people to fill in certain holes throughout the project?
Although I overwhelmingly approve both funding for Harvey relief and raising the debt ceiling, which is the only responsible option, I think it should be a hard-and-fast rule that you do not politicize the debt ceiling. Ever.
But what I can say is that they have allowed me to sort of maintain my balance during the course of eight years, because this is a place that comes at you hard and fast and doesn't let up.
Lawyers for San Francisco and California seemed to not be pressing the panel hard to preserve the nationwide injunction but did plead with the judges not to set a hard-and-fast rule that such injunctions were never appropriate.
"Of course we don't have hard and fast evidence but I think a logical conclusion would be the introduction of Article 23," Lam said, adding that Chinese officials had been pushing for it behind closed doors for some time.
There's a certain groove, and a certain loose vibe where you can tell it was just three dudes in a room playing as hard and fast and pissed as possible, and not a bunch of layered "tracking" and overdubs and precision.
Arkali said that while there are "no hard and fast rules" for an ideal credit utilization ratio, FICO research shows that the highest-scoring 25% of consumers — those with a score above 795 — use an average 230% of their credit limit.
There are likely many more questions that won't be answered until the system goes live for developers and Apple updates its App Review Guidelines, which are its hard-and-fast rules for apps that decide entry into the App Store.
But even those aren't hard-and-fast rules for those with locks that skew dry or have processed hair: "People with color in their hair can wash their hair every-other day, or even every day," says celebrity colorist Rita Hazan.
Maybe it's because our favorite royal Duchess loves to sport it, or perhaps Pantone's mention of it in their top 12 shades for spring got the ball rolling — either way, we're falling hard and fast for electric blue this fall.
And reckless moves that didn't pay off — like the reformocon tax cut or the Gang of Eight immigration bill — haven't killed him either, because he was able to swing hard and fast enough in the other direction to stay alive.
Unfortunately, there are no hard and fast figures for just how much copper scrap China is now generating, but the trend must be reassuring enough for Beijing to become ever choosier in what sort of material it is prepared to import.
"There isn't a bubble around the classical world, no hard and fast lines separating one culture from another," said Mr. Potts, noting that Alexander the Great's conquests included Central Asia, and that the Roman Empire extended as far as Afghanistan.
You usually do things hard and fast, Aries, but this eclipse in fellow fire sign Leo—contrary to what you may assume—requires you to be still, to go deep and get in touch with your most primal needs and emotions.
Humans are messy, complex, and contradictory; human interactions are that squared; the results are so complex and context-sensitive that they often need to be judged on a case-by-case basis, rather than by any hard-and-fast rule.
According to new legal docs obtained by TMZ ... the disgraced singer's ex-wife, Drea Kelly, is asking the court for a hard and fast deadline for Kelly to pay her the $32k he owes in interest on back child support.
Then the 'gigger' must sneak up behind it... steady, now... and, in a single fluid motion, drive the pitchfork, or 'gig,' deep into the frog, and the surrounding muck, scooping upwards once they're sure they've got the animal hard and fast.
The White House's move to back off on the hard and fast date for the new tariffs came as a sigh of relief for markets, which have been increasingly on edge amid the intensifying trade war between Beijing and Washington.
"The only hard and fast rule in there, and I think it's probably the most important thing in terms of the guidelines, is that 8 percent number," Jeff Novitzky, the UFC vice president of athlete health and performance, told Hill.
LONDON (Reuters) - Rules forcing banks to provision for losses on souring loans should not be treated as being hard and fast when it comes to dealing with fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) said on Friday.
" A UN Tribunal recently found that "while in many cases the effects of environmental change and natural disasters will not bring affected persons within the scope of the Refugee Convention, no hard and fast rules or presumptions of non-applicability exist.
As a founding member of the Grammy-winning rock band Living Colour, the singer and guitarist Corey Glover helped break ground as a black metal artist who could shred as hard and fast as his primarily white counterparts in the genre.
MAKE SURE YOUR RENTAL CAR IS COVERED The question of whether or not to get rental car insurance baffles many travelers, and while there is no hard and fast rule for every situation, I learned a valuable lesson the hard way.
"It's not a hard and fast rule, but what from I've seen in terms of the volatility, you want to be able to comfortably not need to touch the money for at least five years, if not longer," she says.
As secretary-general, Guterres will serve for a five-year term that can technically be renewed indefinitely, though no secretary-general has served longer than two terms — an informal custom of the position, but not a hard-and-fast rule.
The move comes days after the offshore yuan tested near seven-month lows over the weekend after central bank Governor Yi Gang suggested in an interview that there was no hard and fast line in the sand for the exchange rate.
And while there's been no hard and fast research to back up that statement definitively, it does seem to hold some observational weight, with more traditionally brunette stars than we can count ditching their dark locks and turning into a towhead for summer.
"I think they got a little faster, closed some time and space on us and we had a difficult time making the adjustment that you've got to go hard and fast in this league and they won't slow down for you," Maurice said.
The hard and fast rules of "men do this, women do that"—we need to blur those lines in order to create a world that's going to be able to sustain itself and not blow itself up and not be at war.
Again there are no hard and fast rules we can give you, but with a lot of purchases (especially computers with multiple configurations on offer), you'll find some upgrades give you a lot more power or performance for not much extra cash.
It's Hard To Have Hope tackles class privilege, wage theft, violent misogyny, feminism, reproductive freedom, "designer" pet breeds, and the endemic problem of sexual assault at shows, with plainspoken lyrics that hit hard and fast in vocalist Serena Cherry's rough-edged roar.
Allaire says it's aiming to be live in all 28 European Union Member States by the end of this year, so it's clearly driving hard and fast to get all the pieces in place for a US-Europe-China p2p payments play.
Proper anal prep is far too scandalous to be taught in schools, and since porn's more focused on fantasy than reality, the hard and fast anal fucking we see onscreen often leaves out a few (or more than a few) important steps.
"The current oil prices may lead to quite hard and fast closures of certain oil producers in coming months," he was quoted as saying by TASS news agency in an interview to RBC TV. (Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; Editing by Jack Stubbs)
A fourth promise was an area of common rule of law, that in order for states to participate, they had to agree to hard-and-fast ground rules — say, keeping below a maximum debt level in order to retain membership in the eurozone.
This is in part circumstantial; as Sophie Gilbert notes in a widely-read piece on the sub-genre for The Atlantic: these speculative texts are largely "rooted in the US and its own distinctive cultural anxieties," which are coming hard and fast.
The two fall hard and fast for each other — even though George has never dated a woman before meeting Mae — and after that, a montage rockets us past the early parts of their relationship to the point where they're moving in together.
Given rising political turmoil in the UK combined with a hard and fast-approaching brexit deadline, startups are well advised to prepare for the worst — which means leaving the EU with no contingencies in place beyond those you've put in place yourself.
Klosterman stays true to the premise suggested in the title — that no matter how carefully considered the ideas he examines are, they will most likely still turn out to be wrong — so he avoids trying to draw any hard-and-fast conclusions.
For starters, this study was the first of its kind, and should be replicated in other populations before we draw any hard and fast conclusions (the study only included people seeking fertility treatments, so the findings may not necessarily apply to a general population).
The laughs come hard and fast when Conor and his friends start showing up for school dressed like Duran Duran and the Smiths, and the songs — written by Carney with '80s hitmaker Gary Clark — should have audiences singing long after they leave the theater.
But in the absence of any hard and fast guidance from the central government as to what exactly councils should be spending their money on, particularly regarding the exterior cladding that is thought to have helped the Grenfell fire to spread, responses have varied.
"It can be kind of daunting thinking about pushing hard and fast on the center of a woman's chest," said Audrey Blewer, a University of Pennsylvania researcher who led the study, according to the AP. CPR training may be biased in subtle ways, Blewer continued.
"As soon as an unexpected event takes the market down hard and fast, we believe this will trigger the next wave of buying from central banks, but this time directed at stocks," Yves Lamoureux, president and founder of behavioral research firm Lamoureux & Co., tells Axios.
Read MoreBase metal investors may not be able to wake up from thisnightmare And while Krinsky said history provides more of a guideline than a hard-and-fast rule, the addition of internal weakness will weigh even more on the S&P 500 this year.
The email included a list of all the various closing costs, which we had known about in vague terms (she had warned us we would spend close to an additional $5K all told), but until then we had never seen any hard and fast numbers.
"The question is, when is that course correction best enforced as a matter of governmental mandates, and when is that course correction best advanced through a combination of state-based educational and regulatory initiatives that might fall short of hard and fast legislation," Kertesz said.
And though there's no hard-and-fast rule about which properties tend to get the biggest marketing push, the past few years have seen movie studios focus on SDCC while NYCC has become a hub for TV networks and showrunners to highlight their upcoming releases.
"Our results don't provide hard and fast answers regarding why media and research participants consider video games more salient in school shootings committed by white perpetrators than black perpetrators," said James Ivory, a coauthor of the study and communications researcher at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.
If things fall apart, it could be because "Trump presents Kim with a hard-and-fast binary choice: relinquish nuclear weapons and live in peace and prosperity, or cling to them and risk the impoverishment of your people and the safety of your regime," Haas said.
But despite their insistence that there are hard-and-fast, right-or-wrong answers to empirical questions about politics, the yawning gap between the top and bottom of this range lays bare the reality that their results can be highly sensitive to starting assumptions and methodological choices.
Hampton was appointed chairman at GSK's annual meeting in May 2015 and he said at the time he hoped Witty would remain in charge for "a good while to come", while adding there was no hard and fast rule about how long chief executives should serve.
His hard and fast rules for a memorable gathering include his mantra, "more is more, so laugh louder, dance faster and eat whatever you want, just don't get crazy," as well as one other tip that can sometimes get lost in the shuffle of entertaining to-dos.
But it has been the limits imposed by the hard and fast spending caps each year, regardless of our defense needs, combined with operating the government under a CR for months at a time that have done the real damage to our military posture and readiness.
"Swinging the driver as hard and fast as you can is probably the least nuanced part of the game, so that generally gets most of the attention from the recreational player," said Harry Arnett, the senior vice president of marketing and brand management for Callaway Golf.
Sure, it's pretty late in Obama's presidency for a fresh Supreme Court appointment, but there is still no actual precedent to support such a hard-and-fast rule, and there's that bit in the Constitution that says it's the president's job to appoint new Supreme Court justices.
"It's all a part of feng shui—there are no hard and fast rules, it's about how you interpret the magic," said Ghafoor, who explains that Hong Kong's new—and dramatically expensive—developments take many aspects of feng shui into consideration to draw in wealthy Chinese renters.
Congress has twice asked the White House what its hard-and-fast demands are on a DACA deal, and on both occasions — in October and again on Friday — the White House's response has been a wish list constituting a comprehensive crackdown on legal and unauthorized immigration.
Talen Energy spokeswoman Taryne Williams told AP that employees will be re-assigned to decommissioning work going through the middle of this year, but there's no "hard and fast numbers or timelines" as the company considers how many workers it will need for the two remaining units.
What women need are not the hard-and-fast medical guidelines and rules to follow that carried us through pregnancy (eat this, don't eat that; see this doctor this many times) as much as some kind of connection to other women and the sometimes nebulous help that it offers.
You love hard and fast, but can also be a loner on your bad days (or good days, depending on how you look at it); you're sensitive (hence the shell for protection) and nurturing; and you always follow your gut when it comes to big decision-making moments.
"The world will be specifically watching whether the zero percent yield anchor for 10-year JGBs is a hard and fast line in the sand, and if so, whether the BOJ will unequivocally commit to JGB purchases to that end," Mizuho Bank said in a note on Monday.
The idea that the Portland Trail Blazers point guard might transport his stunning on-court cool into a recording booth is alluring, but Dame DOLLA is unfortunately not an exception to the hard and fast rule that any MC with a convoluted acronym in his moniker should be avoided.
Starting with the Lebanese Civil War, Raad has been active in pointing out the merging of fact and fiction in regard to the wars in the Middle East — how Western governments and media have played hard and fast with the facts, manufacturing a bogeyman for their fears (see: orientalism).
The Fed has also recently told on-the-ground bank examiners not to treat 2013 guidelines outlining restrictions on leveraged lending as a hard-and-fast rule - a subject of contention among bankers, who say examiners have imposed the guidelines as though they were the letter of the law.
With each State of the Union address varying in length and presentation over time, the only hard and fast rule that each address sticks to, according to the House of Representatives' History, Art & Archives, is that each address must also include a Budget Message and an Economic Report.
I was raised by two scientists in Ohio, a place where medicine works hard and fast and comes in caplets, which means I tend to look at Chinese medicine like I do Instagram and Oprah (anything with hordes of devotees)— with at least as much skepticism as interest.
Richard W. Long, the executive director of the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association, which opposes the governor's moratorium, said there is "no hard-and-fast rule" on the timing of when to pursue a capital case in the state, which has one of the nation's broadest death penalty statutes.
If this isn't a clear enough sign that Miley is moving on hard and fast, here's Brody Jenner doubling down on the fact that him and Kaitlynn and him are over, as he touched down in Vegas Saturday -- he's in town DJ'ing at TAO later tonight, following his DTLA gig Friday.
I figured a man with his hand in that many pots would turn in a pretty wild set, and he really delivered—cramming 30 songs into 30 minutes, making hard and fast cuts from frenetic footwork and club tracks to totally blown-out raps to glitchy M.I.A. remixes and back again.
"There's no need for Australian business or the Australian government to be hard and fast about allying with either China or the U.S. to the exclusion of the other," said Adrian Perkins, a partner at the law firm King & Wood Mallesons, the merged product of a Chinese and an Australian firm.
There's a ton of advice out there, and plenty of schools of thought, but there are no hard and fast rules; ignore anyone who tells you that you absolutely have to spend three months' salary, or that you have to spend a certain amount for each year you've been together.
While there are few hard-and-fast rules about how impeachment gets started in the House, there are two main 20th-century examples — Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton — in which things really kicked off once the House Judiciary Committee and then the full House voted to approve an impeachment inquiry.
A double attack can be something of a brute force strategy because if it extends to strikes beyond the jab it can rely on hitting hard and fast each time, where a more long term striking strategy might call for variety of blows, set ups and varying degrees of speed and power.
That quandary presents a moral issue for large-scale international brands that value their business overseas: Do they want to sell in China, which has strict guidelines that make animal testing a hard and fast rule, or do they want to preserve their cruelty-free status and the customers who cherish that?
The problem, according to Jodi McAlister, a lecturer at the University of Tasmania whose recently published paper looks at how the "virginity loss confessional" genre has evolved over time, is that we tend to think of love as a hard-and-fast prerequisite for first time sex when it's really a mirage.
The fact that even GLAAD can't find a hard-and-fast rule on who to honour and who not to in a single award year just goes to show that as conversations around #MeToo continue, many of us are still in the dark as to what the 'right' and 'wrong' solutions are.
Then, because of the sensitivity of anal tissue (and the risk of causing extra damage to the rectum by thrusting too hard and fast if excessive amounts of an appropriate lube mask sexual intensity), the risk of those slips leading to disease transmission is likely still elevated relative to similar slips in vaginal sex.
For men they were more likely to be on surfaces, desks, nightstands, dressers, and so they might then come across as more important, more accessible, more meaningful, really falling deep and hard and fast in men who have them, are really interested in looking at them often and therefore are very attached to that relationship.
Keep An Eye Out For Alcohol Content Since there are so many types of wine out there, it can be hard to come up with a hard-and-fast rule for what to always buy or never buy, but Milne says one good rule of thumb is avoiding wine with a high alcohol content.
Following a list of rules of the road isn't enough to drive as well as a human does, because we do things like make eye contact with others to confirm who has the right of way, react to weather conditions, and otherwise make judgment calls that are difficult to encode in hard-and-fast rules.
"Our company doesn't have any hard and fast rules on playing music in the office, but because one of our core values is to be neighborly, we don't encourage people to play music on speakers unless you can make sure it doesn't carry into your co-workers' workspaces," said Natalie Angelillo, vice president of community at OfferUp.
The swiftness of these removals highlights a truth that many tech companies don't want to fully acknowledge in an age of increased ideological polarization among their users: The idea of "protecting free speech" isn't actually a hard-and-fast policy on their sites, but rather an increasingly handy excuse they can use to avoid taking controversial action.
There's no hard-and-fast rule here, but depending on what time of day the class is, Jackson-Roberts recommends not eating a heavy meal in the hour before class, since some of the breathing exercises and inversions (postures where your heart is at a higher level than your head) might be intense enough to nauseate you.
"We share the same vision of an open world and the need to cooperate together to provide hard and fast answers to the problems faced by our citizens, whether we are talking about fighting terrorism, the security issues, management of migration, jobs and growth or climate change," said Antonio Tajani, the president of the European Parliament.
"While it's not a hard and fast rule that borrowers won't refinance into a higher rate in order to tap available equity — 23 percent of cash-out refi borrowers over the past six months did just that — for the most part, as rates rise, HELOCs will continue to become more popular to homeowners looking to tap available equity," said Graboske.
It covers everything from the historical importance of desert cities (Baghdad, Cairo) to the adaptive weirdness of desert creatures (camels, locusts) and the highly variable composition of deserts themselves, which, as we learn, take up twenty-five per cent of the earth's surface—if not more, since, as Middleton points out, natural features do not have hard-and-fast boundaries.
President TrumpDonald John TrumpNorth Korea asking for aid, while denying any coronavirus cases: report Iranian official maintains Tehran has 'no knowledge' of American hostage's whereabouts Unemployment claims surge to 3.2 million as coronavirus devastates economy MORE's goal to reopen businesses shuttered by the coronavirus by Easter – April 12 – is not "a hard and fast rule or target," his top economic adviser said.
As Future Perfect's Kelsey Piper has explained: Following a list of rules of the road isn't enough to drive as well as a human does, because we do things like make eye contact with others to confirm who has the right of way, react to weather conditions, and otherwise make judgment calls that are difficult to encode in hard-and-fast rules.
But the hard and fast question of whether they can win the nomination is, to a certain extent, supplanted by the general sense that the movement is a just and right cause and, therefore, in the end, the cause will prevail, likely in a shocking fashion when no one anticipates it or believes it can be done, à la Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The six justices who heard the case of a consultant who claims Barrack Rodos & Bacine reneged on an oral contract to pay him a share of its profits produced four different opinions Tuesday as they attempted to figure out whether the public's best interest lies in a hard-and-fast rule that unethical contracts cannot be enforced or in a more flexible, fact-specific approach.
That's largely a reflection of the fact that unemployed people are rare compared with people who are not in the labor force — the job-finding rate among the formally unemployed is considerably higher — but it also goes to show that there is in reality no hard-and-fast line separating those who are in the labor force from those who are outside of it.
With both parties so close to the negotiating table, Bolton and Pence's comments indicate "a lack of appreciation for how delicate the situation is and what's at stake, " he continued: "The White House may see an opportunity to push as hard and fast for a favorable outcome as it can, yet the manner in which they are doing it risks having the opposite effect. "
Star Citizen can still wow audiences with new footage, but a hard-and-fast release date remains as elusive as Planet X. And in the midst of that uncertainty, Cloud Imperium is pushing out a referral contest that grants in-game rewards and the chance of a free trip to GamesCom to people who've brought anywhere from one to more than 2,942 people to the game.
The best advice we could give this administration would be not to provoke an escalation but to open a serious dialogue with Iran to avoid one; the best advice to the next one would be to keep that channel open and, before reaching any hard and fast conclusions, engage Iran on any number of issues, from the nuclear deal to regional security, to test the limits and parameters of the possible.
Sterling was a fraction weaker going into a meeting, but the BoE is likely caught in as much of a limbo as everyone else in the UK. The Dec 12 election has created a hiatus in the Brexit saga and it will be very hard make any hard and fast predictions about the outcome of either yet at least none strong enough to warrant any change of policy.
There's no hard and fast way of 100 percent guaranteeing you'll never get caught out by a dodgy link (apart from just ignoring them all completely), but you can minimize the risk: Check the social media account or email address sending the link is genuine, head to the site in question in a separate browser window to see if you can find the same offer advertised, and be sure the offer you're looking at is the one that was promoted.
She realises she's drooling slightly, she can't control it, her bottom lip is completely numb and suddenly she's listening again because there's a seriousness in the doctor's voice which makes her heart start beating hard and fast, dropping into her gut like fear, even though she doesn't know why – when we did the scans in A&E we discovered that you are in fact three weeks pregnant – and the nurse is standing beside him, looking at Candice with something resembling pity, but it also seems like a practised look.
Change since 2008 (percentage points) 100% 94 Black 93 –143 72 +5 75% 70 +9 67 Asian 61 Hispanic 47 50% 163 –1 White 25% 2008 '21 '225 '22008 '210 '212 214% Black 183 218 –22020 Change since 22018 (percentage points) 72 +5 75% 70 +9 67 Asian 20203 Hispanic 50% 47 46 –1 White 25% 2008 '10 '12 '14 '16 '18 By The New York Times | Source: analysis of Cooperative Congressional Election Study by Brian Schaffner, Tufts University Latinos' partisan loyalties are much less hard and fast than, say, those of either African-Americans or white evangelicals.

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