"That's a pretty hard sell to the states, and I'd say it's going to be a hard sell to us," he said.
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"Musicals are a hard sell for today's audiences," he admitted.
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As an avid runner, that one wasn't a hard sell.
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Even for $99.99, that was a hard sell in 2013.
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But the reported deal faces a hard sell with lawmakers.
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Those who wanted to defend Renzi had a hard sell.
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The premise of Hanff's argument could be a hard sell.
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But those protections are a hard sell for House conservatives.
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Orner is aware, it seems, that he's a hard sell.
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To argue both at once could be a hard sell.
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Bundlers recalled hard sell after hard sell by Republicans seeking exclusive commitments, and if their candidate dropped out, there was no grace period before vulture finance operations swarmed and asked them for their Rolodex.
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And, so it was a little bit of a hard sell.
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Nobody does the hard sell like the house of the mouse.
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That made piloting a hard sell for young people starting careers.
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This programme was always a hard sell to frugal north Europeans.
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Even so, the course has been a "hard sell", said Basak.
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But the hard sell wasn't enough to convince those like Rep.
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The deal was hard sell to Bristol shareholders from the start.
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The conversation wasn't a threat or a hard sell, Webster said.
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But that has proven to be a hard sell to consumers.
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But it was a hard sell at times to some people.
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Washington political professionals are also going to be a hard sell.
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But Apple TV Plus is still a hard sell content-wise.
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I think it is really a hard sell for Nancy Pelosi.
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At a technology-focused show, that's not exactly a hard sell.
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They didn't, but I knew that would be a hard sell.
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I understand how this might be a hard sell for some survivors.
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As the experience of Maspeth shows, that can be a hard sell.
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The hard sell will fade from view in favor of actual entertainment.
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Effective altruism can be a hard sell, even for the rationally minded.
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But it would still be a hard sell for relatively little return.
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Using Libra means trusting Facebook, which is a hard sell in 2019.
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Still, if you needed any more convincing, Cruz gives a hard sell.
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Even economists realise that free trade can be a hard sell politically.
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But that's proving to be a hard sell to many in Europe.
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She and others initially thought that winter would be a hard sell.
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To his credit, Katzenberg knows he has a hard sell to make.
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Requiring consumers to pay for it separately might be a hard sell.
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This is not about hard sell techniques or fake offers that expire.
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But the climate concerns around oil make the offering a hard sell.
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At the very least, the companies face a hard sell to Bristol shareholders.
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That idea is spreading slowly, but clear sight is a surprisingly hard sell.
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But downplaying Facebook's role will be a hard sell for lawmakers and critics.
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That is a hard sell for Brussels, given the region's history of smuggling.
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We&aposll discuss that and the president&aposs hard sell to the heartland.
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Rolling back sanctions would be a hard sell with many GOP Russia hawks.
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That may make further tax leniency a hard sell to the British public.
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Cubism's intellectual methodology and monochromatic palette have sometimes made it a hard sell.
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The President: Vladimir, you know I'm a dealmaker, but that's a hard sell.
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That has become a hard sell for Turkish taxpayers during an economic downturn.
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But edible bugs can be a hard sell, especially in the United States.
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Greenberg, in fact, doesn't think any of this will be a hard sell.
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But getting someone to willingly strap into the device might be a hard sell.
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The top tax-writing lawmaker in the House put on the hard sell Wednesday.
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One is about artificial intelligence — the golden promise and hard sell of these companies.
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The legislation is likely to be a hard sell in the GOP-controlled Senate.
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"It's not a hard sell," an audience member told him after the storytelling workshop.
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For guys like Apple and Samsung, such a phone wouldn't be a hard sell.
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Samsung knew the first-gen Galaxy Fold would be a hard sell, of course.
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But the extra complexity could make this a hard sell for already wary investors.
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It sounds like this bill is going to be an incredibly hard sell politically.
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And if it doesn&apost work, you know that Trump gave the hard sell.
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Voluntary returns might be a hard sell, unless the only alternative is forced deportation.
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The deal, announced in January, was hard sell to Bristol shareholders from the start.
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When Greenberg critically supported Pollock, his paintings were inexpensive, but nevertheless a hard sell.
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But a compromise is already proving to be a hard sell in some quarters.
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But abroad, the agenda of "America First" is, for obvious reasons, a hard sell.
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But Kubo admits that, in its current form, Vota could be a hard sell.
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And it's easy to avoid a face-to-face with potentially hard-sell agents.
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If it wasn't free, High Sierra might be a hard sell for casual users.
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And trying to downplay Flynn's involvement in the campaign would be a hard sell.
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But in the US, as in Germany, that may still be a hard sell.
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And it would prove a particularly hard sell for fans invested in the game.
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It's a hard sell, he said, to Canadian producers struggling with low oil prices.
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It was a hard sell for "America first" and a hard slam at Iran.
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Ted Budd, confirmed through a spokesperson that he was unmoved by Trump's hard sell.
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The plight of registered female sex offenders could be a hard sell to some.
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If Mr Buhari is a hard sell to voters, so too are his main rivals.
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If you already own a smartwatch, the Focals may be a hard sell at $500.
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Because I come from a nice middle-class neighborhood, it was a very hard sell.
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A coup would be a very hard sell at home and in the international community.
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A nice as the idea is, the Y35 is going to be a hard sell.
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It has always been a hard sell to get people to move across the country.
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Noon has a lot of nice ideas, but the pricing makes it a hard sell.
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"Data is a hard sell," added Kyohere, who now heads Beyonic, a financial tech company.
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That's a pretty hard sell for any CFO walking in to boardroom at this time.
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"It can be a hard sell and it's not an easy treatment," she tells me.
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She said there would be no hard sell when it came to the pricey products.
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The same goes for their tax cuts, which, it turns out, are a hard sell.
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There were other signs Monday that party unity could prove to be a hard sell.
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Of course, it would be a hard sell to the generals and the arms companies.
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However, support for this evidenced-based program is still a hard sell for many funders.
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In some ways it could be more compelling, but it's a hard sell right now.
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But, for some, the LL-TA is truly an odd duck and a hard sell.
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But the toughness of German Expressionism can be a hard sell, particularly to Asian buyers.
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But also, it's a bit of hard sell for the layperson animation fan initially, too.
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Cost and the fact that it was susceptible to moisture made it a hard sell.
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But that will be a hard sell in the House, where conservatives oppose those measures.
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It's a hard sell, given Uber's cultural and regulatory challenges and its massive ongoing losses.
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With the country's poor infrastructure and alarming crime rates, it was initially a hard sell.
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In my view, it's a hard sell that his actions merit any mercy at all.
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Still, this B-game muddling is makes recommending games like Vampyr such a hard sell.
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However, persuading U.S. negotiators that these can be verified will be a "hard sell," Prasad added.
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He said without Trump's endorsement, it's a hard sell to get other House members on board.
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The HomePod is a hard sell when you consider the price and flexibility of its competitors.
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Online dating sites, too, have become popular venues for the hard sell by some trading firms.
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As for the Anglophone countries, getting foreign languages into the tender years is a hard sell.
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Just reading it feels like sitting down with someone intent on giving you the hard sell.
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It's a hard sell having spent billions and when they are close to a simple product.
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He's now 2-1 overall, and will be a hard sell in any subsequent MMA bouts.
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In both cases, the developers present the premium experience as an option — not a hard sell.
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As a businessman who relishes the art of the deal, that shouldn't be a hard sell.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Deepwater oil drilling can be expensive, time-consuming and a hard sell to investors.
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"At the same time, suppliers that struggle with this will remain a hard sell," Kuehn said.
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Stimulus may also be a hard sell politically, considering the financial burden it creates, he said.
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But it had the disadvantage of being an extremely hard sell politically beyond Sanders's core enthusiasts.
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It started last Tuesday, when an initial rally faded into a hard sell-off mid-morning.
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Do you ever feel like you are getting the hard sell or being bludgeoned into submission?
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"We know it's not a hard sell once people can taste the great flavor," she says.
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The Volks were courted by Colby's vice president of planning, but it wasn't a hard sell.
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The senator made a hard sell, saying she was the best candidate to unify the party.
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This might in fact be true, but it would be one heck of a hard sell.
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Ms. Sherman-Palladino didn't have to do the hard sell on the rest of the cast.
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If historical art is now a hard sell, and it is, learn to sell it hard.
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Most of Harris' plan relies on approval from Congress — a hard sell, to say the least.
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The hard sell is provided, at a surreal seminar, by Neil Patrick Harris and Laura Dern.
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Taking on ambitious legislation on top of all this is a hard sell for vulnerable Republicans.
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"Professors" advertised in local markets, offered brief free sessions, and then hit attendees with the hard sell.
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Asking representatives to vote against the same research center they just funded will be a hard sell.
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If philanthropy is a hard sell in crowdfunding, education is an even harder one, but the Code.
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However good it feels to stand up to Mr Trump, free trade is still a hard sell.
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Only after walking the audience to the nominee's Senate years did Bill finally push the hard sell.
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That's not exactly cheap, and with our top pick coming in at $50, it's a hard sell.
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And Hickey said asking people to carry another gaming gadget with them could be a hard sell.
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Not that the hard sell would be necessary; as well as knowledgeable, many customers are big spenders.
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With Theo, the bar mitzvah was a hard sell, and he was quite vocal in his opposition.
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That is a really hard sell, in fact, some of you don't think we can defend anymore.
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Yet given his intense public campaign against Hamas, such pragmatism would be a hard sell at home.
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But for $1,170 (for the Core i5 base model), it's still a hard sell for most people.
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But Brooklyn was still a hard sell in 1991, when there were 20013 murders in the borough.
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He added that Mr. Thain did not have to give him a hard sell on joining Uber.
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But even if it had been an American company, this acquisition would have been a hard sell.
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If they weren't already doing it, the idea of the British monarchy would seem a hard sell.
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"As we adopted a culture of individualistic parenting, public health became a hard sell," Dr. Reich said.
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Asking representatives to vote against the same research center they just funded will be a hard sell. Sen.
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This luxurious chromebook is full of great ideas—but a $900 luxury chromebook is a damn hard sell.
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That has made investment in the United Kingdom a hard sell in boardrooms from Tokyo to New York.
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And they must agree to their data being shared across government agencies, which is sometimes a hard sell.
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"It's going to be a hard sell overnight to say that 'Hey, Ric Flair has changed," he says.
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Because the 360 Sport sits in that netherworld between absolute simplicity and prosumer complexity it's a hard sell.
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"The blacks," or as Trump now calls them, "the African-Americans," will be a hard sell as well.
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In addition to making a hard sell on taxes, Trump is grappling with a looming government-funding deadline.
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"Being a super-Christian Democrat works great in Alabama, but it's a hard sell nationally," Isner told me.
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They had been there twice with no luck, and Marsel Kovaci was proving to be a hard sell.
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"Happiness Is a Choice You Make" feels like part of that hard sell: a relentless process of extrusion.
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A billionaire talking about income inequality is a hard sell, and Steyer certainly did not close the deal.
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Morcilla can, however, be a hard sell for those who discover that its principal flavoring agent is blood.
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Old masters have proved a hard sell at this elegant event, but so too have 20th century masters.
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But his emphasis on going along with globalization, not trying to stop it, was clearly a hard sell.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Getting readers to spend $25 on a book about athletes and concussions can be a hard sell.
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Twenty years after the term was coined, retailers and service providers are continuing the hard sell to consumers.
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"Suburbicon," a jaundiced, hard-sell comedy, wants you to know that the American dream was always a crock.
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK Worker's rights are turning into a bit of a hard sell.
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Facebook Executive Answers Questions on Privacy Facebook hardware chief Andrew Bosworth gives Sarah Frier the hard sell for Portal.
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Alongside a hard sell for age-reversal products, People Unlimited deals in a currency of community and positive affirmation.
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That may be a hard sell, though, if doing so requires users to don something that looks like this.
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Charlie Baker had also publicly stated that he was "kind of a hard sell" on the safe injection issue.
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That may be a hard sell for some in the FDP, whose leader, Christian Lindner, has criticised the sanctions.
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Although the company may bid for Toyota contracts again in 2020, it will be a hard sell, they said.
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But it's a hard sell compared to more well-rounded devices like the Echo Show and Google Home Hub.
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Given how excited some GOP House members were about the undelivered tax cuts, that seems like a hard sell.
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The strategy has been a hard sell to an American population fraught with anxiety over its place in world.
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But that is likely to be a hard sell in a party where the energy is increasingly with progressives.
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A quick internet search of Diamond Resorts turns up blistering reports from timeshare owners recounting its hard-sell tactics.
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She may have been tarred, too, by her association with 20th-century music, typically a hard sell to audiences.
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Without a plausible answer, advocates of an at least modestly-persuadable Supreme Court will have a very hard sell.
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"Marco's idea about the tax swap was a hard sell; it probably should have taken three years," she said.
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Previous collected editions of Prince Valiant, Pogo, Popeye and others "were almost always a hard sell," Mr. Groth said.
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"But we did too many years of the hard sell: Go register to vote, or else," Mr. Segal said.
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But the claim that trade surpluses often reflect weakness, while trade deficits reflect strength, is a very hard sell.
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The roads are clearly in bad shape — no argument there — but taxes are always a hard sell in California.
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Rates on bank savings accounts are still low — 2 percent is considered generous — making compound interest a hard sell.
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The for-profits employ hard-sell tactics, promising high quality programming and "guaranteed" job placement, but delivering very little.
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It enjoyed the hard sell of a huge media blitz, and Take Two claims it made its money back.
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McCarthy revealed in his introductory press conference that he gave Jones the hard sell while interviewing for the job.
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There's no hard sell from Mr. Buttigieg in South Carolina and only the gentlest contrast with his rival Democrats.
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Her move showed that even the Obama-style trade liberalization was going to be a hard sell for Democrats.
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But this will be a hard-sell to the Brexiteers (those U.K. politicians that have campaigned to leave the EU).
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While Amazon is still in the early stages of the proposal process, the groups' demands may be a hard sell.
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But convincing voters of the need to boost enforcement for the tax agency could also be a politically hard sell.
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Of course, that's going to be a hard sell if Google is trying to sell its vehicles directly to customers.
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It's a fascinating idea, for sure, but Formula E is already a really hard sell in a crowded media landscape.
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It would be a hard sell to get "Shark Tank " investor Kevin O'Leary to put his money into auto stocks.
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"I think satire is a hard sell, especially for people who want to make money off of it," Bolton said.
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And at the National Sheriff's Association conference in February, the nation's top law enforcement official made it a hard sell.
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It was always going to be a hard sell, trying as one British official put it, to "square the circle".
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On the morning Mr. Graham dropped out of the race for president, Mr. Bush was ready with the hard sell.
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A few tables over, Bosnians working for a Kuwaiti developer are doing the hard sell on their new condominium complex.
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The idea that everything would be better if only the city threw up more tall buildings is a hard sell.
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Let's just acknowledge that, as exciting science news goes, this is a hard sell beyond the most hardcore physics nerds.
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The hard sell reflects both the seriousness of the job and the complications of taking it on at this time.
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The contemporary romantic comedy "Love, Simon" was a hard sell last year because it ventured a kiss between teenage boys.
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"Her story was a hard sell at the time, so they embellished things to try to sell it," Lemmons said.
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And his brand of democratic socialism could prove to be a hard sell, including among Latinos elsewhere in the country.
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My audience couldn't have been more tickled by these hard-sell tactics, which hew closely to Gower Champion's original staging.
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And did we really need two scenes of the TV-ad hard sell, with the Wes Anderson Trio in tow?
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I think that is a very hard sell given where his poll numbers are among independents, but we shall see!
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But Popper argued that the original vision of Bitcoin as a mass-market consumer technology has become a very hard sell.
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Since decent human beings only want to have sex with people who are into it, this shouldn't be a hard sell.
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Geeky and soft-spoken where Mr Tsipras is confident and forceful, Mr Mitsotakis could be a hard sell to ordinary Greeks.
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It's hard to disagree with a man of Gracie's standing, but a credible fight between the two is a hard sell.
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Bombardier is shoring up its loss-making regional jets and turboprops with a mixture of hard-sell, cost-cutting and outsourcing.
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"It will be a hard sell for Sinopec," said one of the two sources, a banking analyst who tracks Sinopec closely.
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At $799 ($499 for early buyers) it's priced above similar drones from DJI and Parrot making the Lily a hard sell.
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This might be why The Americans, despite its rapturous reviews and titillating premise, has remained a hard sell for TV audiences.
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Convincing Republicans to clip the presidency's wings in the weeks before a Republican president takes office will be a hard sell.
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"It will be a very hard sell," said Kristin Diwan, senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.
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Some former State officials see Rohrabacher as a hard sell, suggesting that he may have difficulty getting confirmed by the Senate.
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At $1,299, the Embrace Smart Mirror is a hard sell, but is among the cheapest available smart mirrors on the market.
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These may include offering drivers options for fuel, food and lodging, perhaps with a bit of a hard sell thrown in.
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That has got to be a hard sell to rank-and-file members, especially those living in more competitive House districts.
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Daniel Crane, an antitrust expert at the University of Michigan, said Ms. Warren's proposal might be a hard sell to voters.
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At $2,700, the Mate Xs is even pricier than its original, and that may be a hard sell with some consumers.
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Without a certificate clarifying such practical details and their legal ramifications, performance art will remain a hard sell — and re-sell.
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Annie's Cheddar Bunnies Baked Snack Crackers Snack Packs Do I really need to give you a hard sell on wholesome cheesy crackers?
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His candidacy will be a hard sell to any parent who would reject his or her own child because of sexual orientation.
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At $549 when it ships in April, it's cheaper than the Priv, but will probably still be a hard sell to most.
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After Angelina promotes Natalie to CJO — chief jacket officer — the experienced executive goes into hard sell tactics to negotiate for Lyrsa's clothes.
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That made her business model a hard sell since investors are more likely to back an idea that personally resonates with them.
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It's a cool idea, with dead simple setup and instructions, but for $150 it could be a bit of a hard sell.
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But restoring miyake could prove a hard sell for Abe, who has otherwise made a policy of promoting female participation in society.
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It also made it a hard sell to fashion fans, because despite the number of pricey bands available, it's still pretty square.
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Discovery may be a hard sell as a standalone service, especially when consumers have Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon already at their disposal.
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Downtime issues, an extra fee for a website builder, and a confusing back end combine to make 1&1 a hard sell.
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Eventually Layman sold his rights to the game to an Indianapolis company called Knapp Electric who also found it a hard sell.
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One is a hard sell: Convincing elected officials and households that higher prices today could produce more stable employment in the future.
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Cuellar says he's working with colleagues on Capitol Hill to repeal the Cuban Adjustment Act, something he admits is a hard sell.
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Department stores and big name retailers are increasingly making the hard sell to sign up customers for credit cards at the register.
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It has proven a hard sell given the sector and the jurisdictions Iberconsa has exposures to, including Argentina, Namibia and South Africa.
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It is going to be a very, very hard sell, I would have thought, but let's wait and see the actual detail.
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A progress reset may be a hard sell for anyone so deep into a prior iteration, but Generations is a rare gift.
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Increasingly, that's a hard sell: Erdoğan's hostage diplomacy has plunged U.S.-Turkey ties to their lowest point in more than 28503 years.
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That novel defense may reflect the hard-sell to get people who hated Cohen for months to now donate for his defense.
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Department stores and big name retailers are increasingly making the hard sell to sign up customers for credit cards at the register.
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Through that experience, she came to meet Mr. Broodthaers, whose unsettling, poetic, acidly funny work was a hard sell even in Europe.
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She noted that Purchase can be a hard sell for people from Manhattan and Brooklyn accustomed to walking to shops and transportation.
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I've said it before, and it still holds true now, 5G remains an incredibly hard sell for a normal person in 2019.
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Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), while her more progressive rhetoric and tone, especially on social issues, made her a hard sell with moderates.
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But to a group of public health officials, any science presented by a tobacco company is going to be a hard sell.
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Simply swapping out Russell for a more conventional liberal Democrat (Ted Kennedy, say) would be a hard sell in a polarized environment.
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The people said ESR had targeted a relatively aggressive valuation which had made the deal a hard sell amid challenging market conditions.
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The loan proved a hard sell given the sector and the jurisdictions Iberconsa has exposures to, including Argentina, Namibia and South Africa.
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"It was one hard sell because it had a retail price of $25 and everything else cost half of that," Denton tells me.
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Obama made a hard sell during his State of the Union address, then hosted a White House health care summit in late February.
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All eight pages are loaded with unrealistic claims and useless filler in equal measure, mimicking the worst sins of hard-sell ICO bullshit.
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But right now the technology is still in its infancy, and comes with quite a few compromises that make it a hard sell.
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"Sensitive" is a hard sell around these parts, unless you're Gentle Richie, the Brooklyn-looking mac who can't enunciate worth a French fry.
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While marketing has typically been a top-down activity with brands trying to hard-sell their customers, the future is more bottom-up.
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In Maryland and Pennsylvania, the biggest states where Republicans vote next Tuesday, Cruz's brand of "just say no" Republicanism is a hard sell.
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It's still a hard sell for airlines — they have to get used to the idea, but those Rebels are arguing the win-win.
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It's a hard sell as it would require Samsung to convince merchants across the country to upgrade their existing point-of-sale machines.
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The rest would inevitably have to come from taxpayers' checks, which would be a hard sell for politicians to make to their constituents.
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With his one hundred percent finishing rate in professional mixed martial arts he shouldn't be a hard sell to the general public either.
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"We are not recommending you give to Texas per se" — this is not exactly the hard sell that many fundraising emails go for.
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There was no hard sell in the end, but I did buy the RMS foundation brush, the Eyeko shadow and the Electra lipstick.
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Amy Klobuchar is deploying her Minnesota hot dish at voter house parties, but it may be a hard sell outside her home state.
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That might play well in Ontario, where Mr. Chong lives, but would be a hard sell to the Conservative base in western Canada.
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It tried shifting that focus with its $1,500 luxe MARQ line earlier this year, but its iffy screen made it a hard sell.
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The BeoSound 23 is a hard sell as a regular 22-degree wireless speaker, because there are just so many competitive options out there.
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Vaccines can be a hard sell because people need to take them when they're healthy, and no vaccine has zero risk of side effects.
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If you're choosing between Ohio State, and Grambling, if you don't have a connection to the HBCU experience, it's pretty much a hard sell.
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But he said that marketing from partners will not be a "hard sell," based on research it did with pregnant women in the country.
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But further regulatory centralisation may be a hard sell in today's EU. The best hope for Europe's insurers would be an improved macroeconomic outlook.
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"If someone tried to stock $25 boxes of cereal across brick-and-mortar stores, I think it would be a hard sell," he said.
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Even with more allies in place, it will be a hard sell, since senators will be reluctant to vote to diminish their own clout.
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Aiming to strike Evernote when it's struggling, Microsoft goes for the hard sell today, again pushing the advantage that comes with switching to Office.
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Matt Yglesias I think Clinton trying to say her Wall Street plan is "tougher" is a hard sell for the reasons you offer, Andrew.
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Feature With a hard sell to prospective students and huge amounts in taxpayer funding, Jerry Falwell Jr. transformed the evangelical institution into a behemoth.
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Such a move could be a hard sell to global policy forums like the IMF and G20, which generally discourage intervention to weaken currencies.
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In the mid-1990s, Pizza Hut released its very first stuffed-crust pizza, and surprisingly, the company discovered that it was a hard sell.
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Chestnut Hall has been on the market since 2013, but its unique furnishings and top-dollar price tag have made it a hard sell.
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That would be a hard sell in a country that cherishes its collective-bargaining traditions, in which employers and unions negotiate annual wage deals.
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Brands executive Alan Murray that her economic policies were "probably" a hard sell for many Democratic primary voters, as reported by the Daily Beast.
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My "go-to gift" last year was a high-quality pair of running leggings — and as an avid runner, it wasn't a hard sell.
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The ads may not seem modern by 21st-century standards, but other car ads of the time, by comparison, focused on the hard sell.
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Because blockchain's connection to the shadiness that is bitcoin means public acceptance of anything even remotely related to blockchain will be a hard sell.
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San Francisco — In the hard-sell world of mutual funds, the art of pushing pricey investments is a source of pride for many executives.
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Still, as Florence said, "Muscadet is a hard sell," referring to the public perception of Muscadet as a wine without a lot to offer.
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It's a hard sell to make for one very simple reason: It doesn't have a name, this thing the Republicans are trying to do.
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But with other costs mounting and savings hard to find, that too will be a hard sell for a party that preaches fiscal restraint.
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Local authorities in Houston worked with FEMA to get the word out about the need for flood insurance, but it was a hard sell.
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I understand that demanding a dad nap may be a hard sell for a parent of any gender, if you're not used to it.
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He preferred the soft sell to the hard sell, information to pressure tactics, and wanted hosts to convey a product's virtues through relatable storytelling.
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It was a hard sell of her clear desire to keep at it, despite the board declaration that it was exploring strategic alternatives, i.e.
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As is, this strikes me as a hard sell at $60 / year when a Roku will cost you less money and isn't a recurring rental.
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Zuckerberg made lawmakers uneasy with the idea of a scandal-ridden company butting into global finance what can best be described as a hard sell.
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The new trove of documents shows how they went about those sales, with hard-sell tactics that played on people's hopes for a better future.
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The Road Beer Bill is probably a hard sell, especially in a state that is also above the national average for alcohol-related traffic fatalities.
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Initially, though, it was a hard sell: why would you use a complete desktop setup with a phone, instead of with a real desktop PC?
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Moreover, as a longtime member of the Washington establishment, Clinton was always going to be a hard sell to these voters in a change election.
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The case for further policy stimulus amid rising debt levels and already extremely low interest rates was a hard sell among some other G20 members.
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Its software was always a hard sell because it required handset makers to ditch Android and Google services entirely in favor of Cyanogen's own alternatives.
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It also doesn't require people to remove clothing or attach devices to their genitals, which makes it less of a hard sell to research participants.
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This is still a hard sell, as, at present count, it'd have to be at least 80 of them—almost a third of the party.
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My "go-to gift" two years ago was a high-quality pair of running leggings — as I'm an avid runner, it wasn't a hard sell.
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But it will be a very hard sell because of the social bias in our country that "real men" are tough and play tackle football.
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If I were to pitch a text story based entirely on somebody identified by essentially his made-up name, that would be a hard sell.
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And other things might be a hard sell: In her living room, she keeps a basket of clean hankies to use in lieu of tissues.
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The training facility — on the grounds of Gawthorpe Hall, a pristine Elizabethan manor house — made Burnley a hard sell to players and, particularly, their agents.
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"Considering the time we're living in, having someone with that color skin from that part of the world makes it a hard sell," he said.
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Though likely to be welcomed by many Chinese who worry about pollution, the measures could be a hard sell for a society used to convenience.
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At the same time, re-routing resources from a strategy with proven results to one whose ROI is murkier can be a hard sell, too.
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Most voters don't have tenure protections in their jobs so it can be a hard sell to get them to support tenure for university professors.
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While you are absolutely right that's how this will be portrayed, that's a hard sell if you look at the totality of his foreign policy.
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"Accommodation with Russia would be a very hard sell inside Ukraine," Steven Pifer, a former United States ambassador to Ukraine, said in a telephone interview.
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Killing the agency altogether would be a hard sell, and even some banking lobbyists have said they would be comfortable with a more restricted CFPB.
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"Even if Washington, D.C. was working perfectly I think would be a hard sell," said Phil Larson, a former space adviser for President Barack Obama.
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Whereas in Sapporo, he would be able to stay in the team dormitory and there would be lots of girls outside ... It wasn't a hard sell.
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Manga movies have proved a hard sell to Western filmgoers in the past, but Cameron, who retains a writing and producing credit, said "Alita" was different.
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Michael Byerly, a spokesman for the Congressional Leadership Fund, another Republican group, predicted Democrats' "ultra-progressive views" will be a hard sell with middle-class voters.
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But that could be a hard sell when trying to win over grassroots Democratic voters who loathe the out-of-control, post-Citizen United campaign spending.
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But for the rest of us, considering all we know, to insist that a world under Weinstein would still be fantastical would be a hard sell.
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It will be a hard sell considering how late to market Duo is compared to strong, sensibly intertwined products like Facebook Messenger and Apple's iMessage/FaceTime.
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A hard sell from Day One on the platform opportunities could make founders skittish, even if it is ultimately their company's best path to growing sales.
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Still, the idea of a female ruler could be a hard sell in a country where many still believe a woman's role is in the home.
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More importantly, it's about three times the price of the Echo Dot, making it a hard sell for all but the most loyal Moto Z owners.
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But that defense is proving to be a hard sell to consumers worried about their online information, and Republicans are feeling the heat on the issue.
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That would have been a hard sell as it would require Samsung to convince merchants across the country to upgrade their existing point-of-sale machines.
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If this sounds like a hard sell to a proud service, "Terminal Lance" fans have rewarded Mr. Uriarte's unflinching take and reportage with a full embrace.
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For instance, measures to make voting easier might be a hard sell in a party that appears to have so vigorously committed to curtailing voter access.
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Tenshin Nasukawa was awarded the decision, keeping his undefeated record, but it was a hard sell and it came at the expense of the judges' credibility.
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It's a more flexible option than active duty, but it's a really hard sell to get people who are really high talent in their current careers.
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Especially with recent news, it is going to be a hard sell, but I truthfully did not feel in danger at any point on this trip.
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Even today, they often run to one extreme or the other: hard-sell (Riverdance) or no-sell (Savion Glover.) Somewhere Dorrance has learned texture and pacing.
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An Amazon Echo owner might be more likely to expect ads relating to items you can buy on Amazon, and are more of a hard sell.
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The only white guy in the studio, he was a hard sell to some of the rappers, who suspected he was a narc or an undercover cop.
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This "insignificant move in gold is just a technical bounce from the hard sell-off yesterday," said David Meger, director of metals trading at High Ridge Futures.
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Even policymakers who were open to the idea of tiering acknowledged it was a hard sell and would further complicate the ECB's policy framework, the sources said.
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The villainous Mr. Wilkins, head of the bank that wants to call in Michael's loan, is a hard sell, mainly because Firth feels like stunt casting here.
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That is a hard sell in Arizona, home to waves of tax refugees from California and pensioners reluctant to spend their fixed incomes on other people's children.
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Presidential budget proposals rarely move forward in their original form, and bipartisan concern over proposed funding positions are likely to make the budget an especially hard sell.
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That might be a hard sell for anyone whose company isn't entirely reliant on Google's ecosystem (most people!), but HP thinks a dock might help convince them.
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Trump has yet to offer specific policy positions on many tech concerns, but the group's calls on immigration could be a hard sell with the president elect.
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No stranger to hyperbole and the hard sell, President Donald Trump laid it on thick praising Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in the wake of Singapore summit.
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Working now to stabilize it is a hard sell and members of the House including Speaker Paul Ryan have voiced strong concerns with the Alexander-Murray bill.
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No parent wants to compromise on safety or quality for their kids, but paying sky-high prices for the latest baby products can be a hard sell.
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Watch as Pastore puts on the charm and gives the panel of clearly amused and confused Sharks the hard sell on this low-brow "piece of rubber."
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Still — despite the success of films like "A Beautiful Mind," about John Nash, and "The Imitation Game," about Alan Turing — mathematics is a hard sell in Hollywood.
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More party than hard sell, this new breed of pop-ups is becoming increasingly innovative and fun — far more than the seasonal pop-ups that once prevailed.
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The company's attitude, Mr. Coutelle said, had long been that its products spoke for themselves — that there was no need to hard-sell anyone on their superiority.
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The other, his bracingly stripped-down revival of "The Glass Menagerie," was a hard sell — coming too soon, it seemed, after John Tiffany's stunner of a production.
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Getting distributors to pay for more content will be a hard sell, Breakingviews' Jennifer Saba argues, since some carriers are instead looking to slim down their offerings.
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But they were a hard sell, even though cameos have existed for centuries and became particularly popular in the 1800s, when British aristocrats made the Grand Tour.
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But when you tax the likes of Shell, you raise the costs to the whole economy and surely that must be a hard-sell to the public?
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"It was a bit of a hard sell, to be honest," says Novick, who taught an eight-week seminar on filmmaking at BPI before starting the documentary.
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"Ten years ago, when we pitched up in countries speaking with our partners to their government about social enterprise, God it was a hard sell," he said.
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As the most wide-open and hard-to-predict elections in over twenty years fast approaching, the case for easy monetary policy is not a hard sell.
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I must admit that I am really a hard sell on keeping attention towards a full book — I am more of a film buff than anything else.
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And if the company does manage to reverse those trends, it will still be a hard sell for U.S. consumers after several warnings from the country's defense departments.
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But three years of bruising feuds between Democrats and the Trump administration on housing policy make any agreement on overhauling the federal housing finance system a hard sell.
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Plus, the company has made a hard sell for converting users into Apple Music subscribers on iPhones, which competes with Spotify and Pandora for the top streaming service.
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Those beans were ultimately a hard sell to buyers and wound up in certified warehouses for years, until deep age discounts finally made them attractive to roasters recently.
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Most Americans are satisfied with their health-insurance coverage, so a true single-payer system would be a hard sell, even before interest groups began campaigning against it.
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Loof's agenda was a hard sell for Lofven, a former welder whose party is heavily backed by unions and who also relies on support from the Left Party.
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Discounted prices can be a hard sell for Uber drivers, who'll make less per ride, but the company promises that increased ridership will make up for lower fares.
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Even GOP leaders are still at the "soft-count" phase, with too many details left to fill in before they go in for the hard sell or pressure.
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Brexit: The European Union sealed a divorce deal with Great Britain on Sunday as British Prime Minister Theresa May faced a hard sell at home (The Associated Press).
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Explaining to the American public and elected officials that the cuts are necessary for the long-term health of the company would be a hard sell, he said.
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Single-payer requires taxes the middle class is going to pay, and that makes single-payer a hard sell politically, even if it benefits the middle class ultimately.
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Two people with direct knowledge of the matter said ESR had targeted a relatively aggressive valuation that had made the deal a hard sell amid challenging market conditions.
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Committee Chair Kevin Brady made a hard sell for the tax, describing a nation ravaged by competition from abroad and manufacturers finding it more profitable to operate overseas.
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But mostly, cities continued their hard sell, showing Amazon executives around their proposed sites and trying to assure the company that the region had sufficient housing and transportation.
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The "one country, two systems" framework would be a hard sell in Taiwan, where there have been several demonstrations in support of the protests in neighboring Hong Kong.
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Some companies pay as much as $2614,19653 to advertise at the university's computer science job fairs; recruiters at those events didn't always have to make a hard sell.
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But it could be a hard sell for a society used to the convenience of online retailers and couriers who deliver hot meals and packages swaddled in plastic.
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But the concept was a hard sell because while other transit advocates liked the idea of charging motorists, they did not agree on the need for more bridges.
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Groups like the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity are trying to convince ordinary Americans that the tax plan is good for them, and finding it a hard sell.
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But that's naturally going to be a hard sell politically to the vast majority of New York state residents who don't live in or regularly visit East Harlem.
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It's probably going to be a hard sell for the company — consumers (and tech bloggers alike) have been trained to salivate at the mere mention of specs, Pavlov-style.
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An argument is often made that we shouldn't judge the past by the values of the present, but that's a hard sell in a case as primordial as Renoir's.
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Convincing our global counterparts that the administration was fully focused on their day jobs was a hard sell at any point in this presidency -- but it's even harder now.
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Probably a hard sell, but it's worth it: Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann is the rare film that had me literally in tears from laughter, and then from actual emotion.
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That could make the Nokia 8 a hard sell against the Samsung Galaxy S8 and other similar Android-powered handsets, but pricing could make up for the design elements.
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In a time when your smartphone has access to millions of games, including non-official Rubik's Cube knock-offs, carrying around a purpose-built handheld is a hard sell.
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"Running to the right to win Iowa is going to be a hard sell here in New Hampshire," Graham, a supporter of Bush, told Reuters in Rindge, New Hampshire.
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The prospect of an endless supply of central bank money to finance government debt, however, is a hard sell for Germany - the most powerful economy in the euro area.
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Although diners dropping hundreds of dollars on prix fixe menus happily eat copper canyon daisy greens or cactus flowers, they can be a hard sell to the average eater.
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He's "Don the Con" to the thousands of students at Trump University, who between 2005-2011 paid for real estate classes they claim didn't deliver on his hard sell.
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But limited infrastructure such as charging stations make some green cars a hard sell, while low oil prices have sparked demand for sport utility vehicles and other petrol-guzzlers.
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Democrats also want some kind of deal on how to handle the expiration of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program -- which is a hard sell for conservatives.
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It stems in part from a hard sell of the franchise to Irving by Spencer Dinwiddie, the Nets reserve guard, after they shared a course at Harvard in September.
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Some advisers argue, though, that impact investing in the creative economy could remain a hard sell compared with more common recipients of such funding like education and health care.
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As for the centerpiece of the speech, the plan to create jobs through city investments may be a hard sell to the business community, and prove difficult to measure.
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Overall the V17 Pro is looking solid, but at 29,990 rupees ($422) in India, it could be a hard sell to many beyond hardcore selfie fans and notch haters.
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"It's all about the money and if she ups the bid now, that is a really hard sell politically," a senior source in May's governing Conservative Party told Reuters.
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The separation may be a hard sell given that the Trump administration has explicitly linked the two issues, like in the case of sanctions on Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.
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But the main problem is this: It would be really expensive, at more than $1 trillion over the next decade, and therefore a hard sell in any political environment.
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"It's going to be a very hard sell politically as well as economically," said Martin S. Indyk, a former special envoy for Middle East peace under President Barack Obama.
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Committee Chair Kevin Brady (R-TX) made a hard sell for the provision, describing a nation ravaged by competition from abroad and manufacturers finding it more profitable to operate overseas.
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The deal, announced in January, was a hard sell to Bristol shareholders from the start, and the approval concludes a tumultuous period for Bristol, which saw pushback from institutional investors.
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It's get skilled or get left behind in 21st-century America, and the Democrats don't want people left behind; how could that be a bad plan or a hard sell?
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Allow Brandon, the "hot but hard to read" star of MTV's new guilty summer pleasure Siesta Key, to give you the hard sell as to why you should tune in.
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"The people who will win are the ones who know exactly how to take advantage of social media in its early stages," says Paul, going in for the hard sell.
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"You know, previous to the swine flu epidemic, which was seven years ago this fall, influenza vaccines were sometimes a hard sell," said Dr. David Henderson, an OhioHealth pediatrics physician.
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Several agencies said while other ad-tech firms were notorious for hard-sell tactics, The Trade Desk took a consultative, relationship-based approach to them that's akin to media sellers.
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"It's a hard sell for the Europeans because they see scrapping the treaty as pushing them into a further arms race with Russia without improving their security," Mr. Colby said.
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Solutions that might require expanding government and providing more support for politicians will be a hard sell in an atmosphere in which everyone in the system is perceived as corrupt.
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Photo: EpsonFor those obsessed with image quality when it comes to their home theater setups, the clever tricks used by Epson's 4K PRO-UHD system might be a hard sell.
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The space has become a desirable asset for a lower-floor office that might otherwise have been a hard sell because it did not offer superior views, Mr. Mooz said.
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It received not a single nomination, and if you've followed the buzz over the past few months, you could see this coming—Silence is a hard sell, even by prestige standards.
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HARD SELL Some analysts said a tiered rate would make room for the ECB to cut its deposit rate farther -- a prospect that one source said was nowhere near being discussed.
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Another component on drug prices — the plan to tie Medicare payments for certain drugs to the prices European countries pay — is still a hard sell for some conservatives on Capitol Hill.
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A roughly $6.5 billion valuation at the midpoint of the price range proved to be a hard sell, however, especially just as protests broke out in Hong Kong and spooked investors.
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But because it would come at the cost of an unstable insurance market, it'll be a hard sell for the same moderate Republicans who opposed their party's repeal-and-replace bills.
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What we're really looking at here is the husk of a team that's going to go into hard sell mode this time next year after the current front office gets canned.
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Model healthy sleep habits No matter which ground rules and routines you put in place for your family, it will be a hard sell if you don't practice what you preach.
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But he can be calculating, choosing his plaintiffs carefully ("That's good, judges like adopted Indian boys") and putting on the anger and emotion when the time comes for a hard sell.
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As people grow more wary of entrusting their personal data to tech companies, persuading them to hand their checking account over to a partnership involving Google may be a hard sell.
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While this idea might be a hard sell to people who rely financially on fishing, tourism or maritime activities, it's a policy that saves lives during storm surges and killer winds.
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Combining the third- and fourth-largest wireless U.S. providers in a market with only four participants -- Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint -- could be a hard sell for U.S. regulators.
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Combining the third- and fourth-largest wireless U.S. providers in a market with only four participants — Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint — could be a hard sell for U.S. regulators.
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On Monday, a day before the Davos summit kicked off in Davos, Macron hosted a meeting of top bankers and businessmen in Versailles to give them the hard sell on Paris.
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He hates Durant, so it's not a terribly hard sell for Claire to persuade him to give her his votes in exchange for taking over as secretary of state next term.
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The prosyletizers for creative living proffer a slippery hard sell: You can tap into your creative side if you just learn how, preferably by buying this book or attending this workshop.
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It might be a hard sell to funnel money into something where you won't actively see financial returns, which is why founders should think of security as investments for the future.
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And though Mr. Doyle is justly celebrated for his unexpected presentation of song, having the ensemble hum the school alma mater to underscore particularly, er, memorable moments is hard-sell nostalgia.
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Washington (CNN)The Central Intelligence Agency has taken to Twitter as it makes the hard sell for Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump's pick to be the next director, to be confirmed.
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All this could save my life, but it hasn't been fun, and it can be a hard sell for patients, particularly if they have other health issues or can't miss work.
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The succulent lamb burger—which comes with goat cheese, black olives, slithers of portobello mushroom, onion marmalade, and fresh arugula—is another favorite, despite having proven a hard sell at first.
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Marty O'Donnell For people whose first introduction to consoles was with PlayStation it was a really hard sell—nobody really thought Microsoft would make a box that was going to unseat Sony.
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Obviously, Rodney has one blind spot during his hard sell to Candy: pimps can barely protect "their girls," as they continuously, and uncomfortably, refer to the women they control, abuse, and exploit.
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Chip Kelly is getting the hard sell from one of the best talkers in football history ... who's telling TMZ Sports why Kelly should choose UCLA over Florida for his next coaching job.
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Nevertheless, because the fair has that tripartite focus on art, antiques, and design, it actually ends up being more visually welcoming than other fairs, with their unblinking illumination and relentless hard sell.
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Salmiakki can be a hard sell to those of us who haven't grown up eating it, and that group includes pretty much everyone outside of the Nordic countries, Holland, and northern Germany.
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"It was a full-throated, well-coordinated, all-out campaign," said Alex Matthiessen, the founder and director of Move NY. But congestion pricing remained a hard sell, and not just to lawmakers.
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The technology can be a "hard sell," because of the high upfront cost, he added, estimating crawler rentals run between $600 to $1,000 per day, excluding the cost of an operating technician.
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Using hard-sell tactics promising increased home values, lower energy bills, and massive tax benefits, contractors approve tens of thousands of dollars in work in a couple hours, lawyers and homeowners allege.
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SoftBank's Sprint is currently urging regulators to approve its $26 billion merger with T-Mobile, a deal that might be a hard sell for two of the only four national wireless providers.
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This is actually why I also would think, from the outside, Houseparty would be a hard sell because you've got a world where everyone's texting each other and they're doing it asynchronous.
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Yes, the revenue from a carbon tax could be used to cut other taxes, but convincing enough people that they will be better off over all would be a very hard sell.
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University and local government officials made a hard sell to convince him, even renaming a major thoroughfare in College Station, which is about 100 miles northwest of Houston, as George Bush Drive.
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The 77-year-old who favors old-fashioned slang (Malarkey!) and who once hated to see his age as anything other than a hard sell for experience now offers a softer pitch.
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While I'd love to experience it, even the Siam Suite's rate can feel like a hard sell in a city where five-star hotels are regularly available for under $200 per night.
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For investors, though, the petro may be a hard sell, given that the system will be designed and controlled by the Venezuelan government, which has not been the most reliable financial player.
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Further, the original asking price of $22009 made the device a hard sell, especially as its singular feature made it pale in comparison to even the rudimentary cell phones available at that time.
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But as something that you can actually buy, compared to the $21600 kit that includes a standard Vive, two controllers and two base stations, the $290 Vive Pro is a real hard sell.
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Washington (CNN)While President Donald Trump makes his hard sell on health care at the White House, much of his family are enjoying some quality time on the ski slopes of Aspen, Colorado.
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Because it doesn't have the expansive bells and whistles of a Casio and because most of the smarts are in the app itself, it's a bit of a hard sell for most people.
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This is only a limited pilot program, but could save customers the headache of getting the hard sell from a dealer (at least initially), and would also dovetail neatly with this recent news.
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The original novel was written 30 years earlier, and while it is considered a classic, writing a new installment deep in a series long after its original author died is a hard sell.
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The upshot is that effective solutions to homelessness, which are often more complicated and take longer to implement, are a hard sell for scared citizens who favor the quick fix of daily crackdowns.
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The sky-high asking price and the inability to change lenses might seem like this a hard sell, but if you're familiar with that indescribable quality of Leica photos, it's almost a bargain.
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Mr. Kreidler, who is a strong supporter of Obamacare, says the current uncertainty makes it a hard sell for the companies, but he argues the Senate bill could make it even more difficult.
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If there is a plan for Yang to push his supporters toward a particular candidate, it may be a hard sell for the voters and precinct captains who've settled on caucusing for him.
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"Given that the dating app business model is based on a huge pool of users the apps don't get any money from, we don't think it'll be a hard sell, frankly," Greenberg said.
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This would be a hard sell, but it would be making that pitch to people who have already trusted credit cards to it for some time, so it's not as outlandish as you think.
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He is a salesman whose greatest product is himself, slapping his name on everything from skyscrapers to hotels, casinos, golf courses or the series of high-priced, hard-sell property seminars dubbed Trump University.
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The firm wants to issue more shares and warrants to stay afloat, but that could be a hard sell considering that its share price has collapsed from $32.90 on October 11th to 18 cents.
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That makes it a hard sell, especially when this custom portable Super Nintendo already has a massive library of classic 16-bit games—most of which are probably collecting dust in your parents' basement.
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That could be a hard sell given the renewed interest in secure tools due to the Apple-FBI fight, and considering Feed's hopes to eventually handle far more personal data than Sesame currently manages.
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That being said, without a partnership with Oculus or any other major VR software developers, it's likely going to be a hard sell to get consumers to buy a relatively unknown company's VR gear.
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Trying to argue that mostly unarmed men, women and children fleeing the Northern Triangle pose such a dire national security threat would be a hard sell to Mexico City (and likely to many others).
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I was never given the hard sell again, which is lucky, because if it had kept up I would have started wondering how committed the restaurant really is to keeping cheapskates like me happy.
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City Kitchen It remains a mystery to me why a delicious rabbit dinner, a habit in France, is such a hard sell in the United States, a meal many Americans would shy away from.
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It's a hard sell to convince teachers to take on the challenge of working with students who begin multiple grade levels behind in reading and who bring the challenges of poverty with them to school.
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The most impressive aspects of the service are the ones that require mastering Coda's formula language — which could be a hard sell at the typical American office, where workers often only use new tools begrudgingly.
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The larger Powerwall was positioned as a longer-term back up power supply, which GTM noted was looking like a hard sell, with other market alternatives that were priced far below the $3500 price tag.
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Take advantage and be prepared for the hard sell from Amazon as they try to upgrade you to Prime after you've had a taste of free expedited delivery on that bundle of new phone cables.
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If CNOOC ties pipeline access to its term cargoes, which tend to be more pricey than the spot market, CNOOC's initiative could be a hard sell, said a second official with knowledge of CNOOC's plan.
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Subsuming America's Middle East policy so completely to Saudi Arabia might seem extreme, but it was all part of Trump's hard-sell approach: He wanted to close a $110 billion arms sale to the kingdom.
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To assert that Medicare For All — or to use its more honest label, nationalization — would actually produce a better, more effective healthcare system for Americans is a hard sell when one looks at the facts.
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Metal donation bins in parking lots will be a hard sell with the IRS for two reasons: Many are not actually from recognized charitable organizations, and you will not have any proof of your donation.
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Camden has been pursuing the concept of chickpea-based ice cream for almost two years now, and he's confident that it won't be a hard sell when his shop Little Bean opens later this month.
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But without a structure behind him, Mr. Bolton was increasingly alone trying to sell positions that were a hard sell to Mr. Trump, who is much less an ideologue and much harder to pin down.
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Nothing in the Nerf line even comes close to the PRO MK-1's power and accuracy, but at $180 it's admittedly a hard sell to anyone but the most die-hard dart blaster fans.
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For the time being, however, I haven't seen a lot that convinces me that Vector's much more than a slightly more advanced Cozmo — which could make the pricey robot toy a hard sell for serious adults.
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Given that Apple is only charging $4.99 per month for the entirety of Apple TV Plus, it might have been a hard sell for students as it is given the small size of the service's library.
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But the goal of party politics is not mobilisation; it is victory, and the party's centrist wing, quiet as it is now, worries that full-throated progressivism may prove a hard sell at the ballot box.
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With European planemaker Airbus taking a majority stake in Bombardier's flagship CSeries jetliner program, the company is focusing on shoring up its regional jets and turboprops with a mixture of hard-sell, and cost-cutting plans.
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The company knew Libra might be a hard sell when it announced the digital currency last month, which is why it decided to share the news so far ahead of Libra's planned launch early next year.
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Quick take: Repealing the individual mandate would be a non-starter for literally all Senate Democrats and a hard sell for some Republicans, as it could cause insurance premiums to spike and ACA markets to destabilize.
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I do wonder who the market is, though — with the limited selection, it still feels more like a tech demo than an actual platform, and buying the rights to stream a game is a hard sell.
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There is no hard-sell involved, because I've already wished, time and again, to be a musician, or rather one of The Beatles, a band so loved and respected even my spell checker knows their name.
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Another hard sell might be getting Finns or anyone with functional nerve endings to go out in the middle of winter, especially when it's so easy to have that takeout delivered to your own kitchen table.
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This will be a very hard sell to those who have lent us the money in the first place, and expect to get paid back in dollars worth as much as those they lent to us.
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This alone makes them a hard sell for anyone with access to a PS2 or Xbox, since you can often snap up used games for a couple of dollars a pop from your local game store.
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A production cut would be a hard sell to the Kurds, who have long sought an independent homeland carved out of parts of Iraq, Turkey and Syria, and who are fiercely protective of their autonomy within Iraq.
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But no matter how Apple structures the proposal, it may be a hard sell for any of the papers, which already have big subscription businesses of their own and would be concerned about cannibalizing their own sales.
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It's a hard sell to say that the solution to a laceless design is to add about half of the hardware that goes into your smartphone and the ability to talk to your shoes with your phone.
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More competition is a hard sell when many people are already anxious about their jobs and income; but without it there is less chance of the dynamism that boosts productivity (and earnings) and creates new job opportunities.
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Cohen, who is skeptical about how much Trump can achieve, says infrastructure is a hard sell for politicians who are often reluctant to commit to long-term projects they may not get to cut the ribbon on.
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It is a hard sell politically, because voters in many northern European countries are still reeling from the almost 300 billion euros lent by euro zone governments to mainly southern European nations during the sovereign debt crisis.
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With Formula One far less popular than cricket in India, and Mallya under pressure from lenders to meet loan repayment obligations linked to his grounded Kingfisher Airlines, the stake on its own could be a hard sell.
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Logically, that shouldn't be a hard sell: when I was paid to cover O'Bannon case for media outlets while finishing my degree at Northwestern, it had nothing to do with my ability to also go to class.
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"I think it'll be a hard sell to the public if we go into the general election for 'Medicare for all,'" said Mr. Brown, citing the risk of alienating union workers who would lose their negotiated plans.
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Petrobras, as the company is known, has sounded out banks and investors for a potential IPO of Liquigas Distribuidora SA, but advisers said it would be a hard sell, especially to international investors, according to the sources.
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BUT HERE'S WHY IT REALLY DOESN'T: At the end of the day, paid family leave is a hard sell for Republicans, who are actively trying to decrease the number of government entitlements (or what they see as entitlements).
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That may be a hard sell among the dozens of nations in the EU, but could happen in the US, where the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration is considering a rule requiring all new vehicles carry V2V communications.
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Hawkins acknowledges asking drinkers to tip on top of the cost of their latte and gratuity for a barista may be a hard sell, but says significant funds could be raised if just a quarter of customers participate.
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That, coupled with a hefty $400 price tag (plus the cost of a required mobile device) when the SmartSleep is available sometime this spring in the US, makes it a hard sell over a mug of warm milk.
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Electric cars have been a hard sell for two reasons: They are expensive, and low gas prices—ushered in by the hydraulic fracturing boom in the United States—have made the economics of electric cars even more dubious.
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Donna EdwardsDonna F. EdwardsDemocratic Senate candidate blasts own party for racial 'foghorn' Autoworkers' union endorsing Van Hollen in MD Senate race Dem leaders' hard sell pays off on omnibus MORE (D-Md.) in the race to replace Sen.
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The film, a cryptic comedy about a troubled teen and the supernatural rabbit who urges him to act out, would have been a hard sell at any time, but was particularly unwelcome in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.
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Even getting Exxon or another major oil company to develop Syrian oil would be a "hard sell" given its relatively limited infrastructure and small output, said Ellen R. Wald, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Councils Global Energy Center.
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That price is part of WarnerMedia's plan to convert current HBO subscribers into HBO Max customers — which should not be a hard sell, considering it's offering all the new programming on HBO Max at no extra cost, for now.
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Convincing tourists that this is the best thing to do while visiting Switzerland might be a hard sell, but then again, New Zealand convinced people to jump off bridges with a giant elastic band strapped to their ankles.[YouTube]
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Within 15 miles of Reagan National Airport, no unmanned aircraft are allow to fly without specific FAA authorization which would have been a hard sell given the high-security of the event and the number of VIPs in attendance.
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Debt relief has been a hard sell in Germany, the biggest contributor to Greek bailouts over the years, though it is also unpopular in other countries, notably in poor Eastern Europe, where Greek welfare support seems generous to many.
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So, it's more of a hard sell for a soft sail, and a soft sell for a hard sail, and a boat face for both sell that may or may not sail or tunnel its way in the history.
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But as carriers continue to deploy 5G equipment (especially as things ramp up towards the end of the year and into 2020) the promise of 5G won't be as much of a hard sell as it is right now.
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Suncorp's sale is the latest in a list of life insurance divestments by Australian firms as media reports of hard-sell sales tactics and claim refusals drove policy cancellations and brought increased regulation, just as bank capital requirements tightened.
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"I'm not sure it would be such a hard sell for me to go to Congress and say do not defund NIH, because I'm sure a lot of those people will understand how significant that funding is," she said.
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It should be embraced by Democrats for its "fairness," and by Republicans for its pro-growth dynamics, but the reason it's a hard sell is because it would eliminate the IRS and all 77,000 pages of the tax code.
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Prices vary nationally, according to the organization, and you can locate a local booth to buy them using their website's cookie finder (in case you haven't already been given the hard sell by a child in a green vest).
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"You have to be cautious with technology because if we try to deploy [new] technology in an operational perspective and it fails or has a negative outcome, you'll have a very hard sell the next time around," he says.
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As we hurtle noiselessly into a dystopian future, headphone makers have already started offering Lightning-only earbuds, something that should give early adopters some solace but might be a hard sell for folks with a shoebox full of tangled traditional earbuds.
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"When you take the history of the characters into consideration, and that's the exact same thing that happened to them before, I think that's a hard sell for Kevin to Sophie to say all is going to be fine," Hartley explained.
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Many Korean ventures are focused on applications that would only apply locally, making them a hard sell for global companies, a Samsung Electronics executive told Reuters, asking not to be named as he was not authorised to speak to media.
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As the presidential election looks to be featuring two of the most polarizing candidates in modern American politics, we can expect a hard sell of potential stories and ads to try and make Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton more appealing.
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The Planetary Society's advocacy for more NASA funding could also be a hard sell with a new administration that is proposing to slash and burn the budgets of a number of agencies in order to fund other priorities like defense.
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Nostalgia is personal by its very nature, and without any larger context or hard-sell, each reference or story beat in the show that resonated with a viewer made it feel as if the show had been designed expressly for them.
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But Chrome is still a bit of a hard sell for many consumers already locked into Windows or macOS — and certainly the $999 starting price tag isn't going to win over people looking to pick it up on the cheap.
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"A talented Filipinx actor friend of mine is meeting with new agents and one just told him that Filipinos are a 'hard sell' and that she 'couldn't do anything with that,'" Crazy Ex-Girlfriend actress Tess Paras tweeted on Friday.
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That's not a lot of money in most cities for a service some consider essential, but in a city regularly forced to plug budget shortfalls, address rising pension plans and a perpetually underfunded school district, it can be a hard sell.
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But persuading a class of investors more accustomed to being pitched luxury high-rises in cities such as Los Angeles or Miami to buy into a heavy industry project in one of America's poorest states is proving a hard sell.
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There were even rumors that the company was planning to eliminate the "reachability" feature entirely, which would likely have made the 5.8-inch screen a hard sell for everyone who grew accustomed to the reachability in previous generations of iPhones.
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Given that Marketo's Ebitda over the last 12 months was negative US$49.6m, the deal was likely a hard sell, contributing to the sponsor going to an arranger like Golub instead of trying to broadly syndicated a deal, an investor said.
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While a renewed attack on Ukraine by Russian forces might make a warm relationship with Russia a hard sell on the campaign trail, it would play into Trump's not-so-veiled suggestion that it takes a strongman to confront a strongman.
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This confusion is the very thing that makes contemporary craft at once incredibly rich and exciting, but also terribly vulnerable to the financial vagaries of a culture industry where nuance and ambiguity are a hard sell for sponsors and donors.
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Earlier in the day, over tomato soup and thyme roasted chicken, the president had done his own hard sell, welcoming a dozen or so television anchors to lunch at the White House, a tradition before State of the Union speeches.
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I appreciate that the company uses multiple brands so there is no hard sell about how one beauty line is going to have the best products for your skin, which seems like a bit of an old-fashioned idea these days.
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The team has been running community initiatives around Oakland to win over a new generation of young fans and lure back fans angry that the team left San Francisco, which won't be a hard sell if the 49ers keep winning.
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"I think people often hard-sell in this business," said Ms. Larsen, 42, an agent at Citi Habitats who spent seven years as a domestic violence counselor, an occupation, she said, that taught her the value of being a good listener.
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The slimy, squishy invertebrates and strange plants that live in karsts can be a hard sell to donors, who prefer what are known as "charismatic megafauna"— cute, easy-to-anthropomorphize animals like elephants, tigers and dolphins that appeal to the public.
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"It's going to be a hard sell that this activity was either concerted or for mutual aid or protection, rather than simply venting or pitting one group of workers against the others, which does not sound very mutual," Morantz said.
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That would be a hard sell to those who bought the leave campaign's slogan in the 2016 Brexit referendum — "Take back control" — and is positively anathema to most of the Tory Party membership and its more enthusiastically pro-Brexit lawmakers.
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BELFAST (Reuters) - It is going to be a "very, very hard sell" for British Prime Minister Theresa May to win parliamentary backing for her emerging Brexit deal, the deputy leader of the small Northern Irish party propping up her government said on Tuesday.
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Because Backblaze doesn't offer any other cloud computing services, that was always a bit of a hard sell, as developers had to work with multiple vendors to write their apps and pay for the data transfer between B2 and their compute providers.
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But after losing her majority in June, May has little room for maneuver at home: "It's all about the money and if she ups the bid now, that is a really hard sell politically," a senior source in her Conservative Party told Reuters.
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Now, executives of the German automaker are embarking on what is perhaps the ultimate hard sell — trying to win back consumers at the annual Detroit auto show and, later this week, persuading regulators that VW has found a way to fix the problem.
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"It would therefore be a very hard sell for Saudi Arabia to have other countries join a collective action plan, while it is the main source of supply increase - outside of Iran post sanctions," Olivier Jakob at Petromatrix said in a note.
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Before The Weeknd took the stage to perform a medley of his songs "I Can't Feel My Face" and "In The Night," Grande came out to introduce him with a pun that even she knew going into it was a hard sell.
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IAAF President Sebastian Coe had said earlier this week that there had been some "scheduling issues" and an evening session with only one final, the women's shot, would have been a hard sell even in a country with a strong athletics tradition.
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It's an especially hard sell with the kind of folks who buy game consoles at launch: Gamers who own current game consoles; who own many of the games on the launch list; who are distrustful of new entrants into the video game industry.
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Shelby told the President that the more than $1 billion included in the deal is in the range of what the President wanted -- a hard sell considering Trump shut parts of the government down in December while demanding $5.7 billion for the wall.
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The Cuban-born lawyer would be a hard sell with Senate Republicans, but his credentials as the chief operating officer of the Department of Homeland Security put him on the inside track to manage one of the most complicated portfolios in the administration.
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Those enhancements would certainly add to the cost, but I feel that's not such a hard sell, and a more accurate picture of the Palm idea: I don't want a crappy phone, just one that's better suited to being more present IRL.
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For an MBA grad, that translates to one "hard sell" post, which relates directly to you and your MBA; one "soft sell" post, which is more educational and displays your leadership abilities; and four general pieces that your network may find useful.
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Choreographed by Andrew Fee, who founded RAW (formerly Raw Metal) in 1998, and Jack Chambers, an alumnus of Australia's "So You Think You Can Dance" who also performs in the work, "Untapped!" sets out to amuse and stays in that key: the hard sell.
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Mexican cabinet ministers have called Trump ignorant and racist, and Pena Nieto earlier this year likened Trump's tilt for the top job to the rise of Adolf Hitler, so the sudden invitation to the real estate mogul was a hard sell to the public.
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A hard sell Trump's Thursday event also served as another opportunity to press his case for the building of his long-sought US-Mexico border wall and rally his base with the hardline rhetoric against illegal immigration that has marked his campaign trail speeches.
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The film is something of a hard sell for widespread, mainstream audiences: it's more philosophical than action-oriented, it's distinctly weird and idiosyncratic, and it ends on an inconclusive moment that suggests a few different possibilities without explaining or committing to any of them.
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The 12.9-inch iPad Pro itself is already a hard sell for most people; the 9.7-inch model paired with the new, smaller Logitech Create keyboard that Walt Mossberg reviewed this week is a more mainstream combination that preserves the portability advantages of the iPad.
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And asking a prominent politician to start a foredoomed bid to save the Republican Party's honor when the party itself doesn't seem to be asking for a savior — well, that's a hard sell, and it's not particularly surprising that nobody is answering the call.
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In the six states where such laws have been proposed this year, supporters have argued not so much that it's necessary to protect students, which is a hard sell, but that it has proven harmless in the states where it's allowed in some form.
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Many institutions are attempting for the first time to recruit these students, but that can be a hard sell; often these adults were left with debt but not degrees and are understandably skeptical about risking that again, or now are juggling careers and children.
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The General Lighthouse Authorities of the UK and Ireland (GLA) have pioneered a radio-based back-up prototype called eLoran that would provide alternative position and timing signals for navigation, but faced a hard sell in other European countries, which are needed for a signal network.
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Yes, but: Barkindo's message is going to be a hard sell to U.S. policymakers who have been considering federal legislation that would subject foreign oil producers to possible antitrust action by the Justice Department amid the rising role of U.S. oil and gas in global markets.
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Despite these national and international security concerns, funneling money into policing illegal wildlife trade is a hard sell when many of the countries where the killings occur have other serious humanitarian problems that need addressing like food security and access to clean drinking water, among others.
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The struggle between collective action and individual freedom has always been a hard sell in the United States, and, as Clark disturbingly illustrates, the future of Flint could look something like the past: When it came to safe drinking water, then, people had to fend for themselves.
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"It is actually impressive that we have held these gains, even if we are down slightly, it is a pretty impressive day considering what is going on, that there hasnt been this hard sell-off pressure," said JJ Kinahan, chief market strategist at TD Ameritrade in Chicago.
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Rather than the 'hard sell' of 'I'm looking for a job, do you know of anything,' this informational meeting takes the 'soft-sell' approach of asking for information and for them to share their story so you gain advice for your job search and career journey.
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After he contacted PayPal to get his money back, someone calling himself "Nick" from MySafeVPN texted him, according to a copy of the conversation that he sent me, saying he was happy to return his money—but not before trying the hard sell one last time.
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However, he added, getting senior enlisted leaders like Mr. Rodriguez to come in for help is a hard sell, because they often see a PTSD diagnosis not just as a risk to promotion, but as an affront to their self-image as tough and self-reliant.
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Most people probably would end up better off under single-payer, but convincing them of that would be a hard sell; polls show much less support for Medicare for all than for a "public option" plan in which people could retain private insurance if they chose to.
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Until the very end, Mr. Trump's team was deeply divided over whether he should fully commit to a hard sell on a bill they viewed as fundamentally flawed, with Vice President Mike Pence pointedly advising the president to label the effort "Ryancare," not "Trumpcare," according to aides.
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The reality is that American Jews are Americans, not Israelis, and while elements of GOP social conservatism appeal strongly to Orthodox Jews, for most Jewish Americans, Jewish values and Jewish identity are tied up with openness and pluralism in a way that makes the GOP a very hard sell.
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Shop online first - with an open mind If you walk into a dealership for a test drive, you are going to get the hard sell, so financial adviser Larry Ginsburg does what he can to keep his clients at home until he has a deal wrapped up for them.
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A prosperity preacher, Paula White, spoke at Mr Trump's inauguration, despite grumbles about her hard-sell techniques, with worshippers prodded to make such "demon-slaying, abundance-bringing" donations as $229, chosen to honour I Chronicles 22:9, with its talk of Solomon earning respite from "enemies on every side".
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Considering most routers hover around the $100 mark with some falling as low as $20, it was a hard sell and the story manufacturers told – your Wi-Fi was insufficient for your home and you needed multiple little routers instead of one in the living room – didn't quite resonate.
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Gangsta rap is also a hard sell to an Academy that in years past failed to give a best picture nomination to the Eminem drama "8 Mile" (2002) or the widely praised "Boyz N the Hood" (1991), which nonetheless earned nominations for John Singleton, its writer and director.
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Petraeus would be a hard sell in the wake of the Flynn debacle given that he resigned in disgrace from his post as CIA director under President Obama over a scandal in which he ultimately pleaded guilty to federal charges of mishandling classified information to his lover, Paula Broadwell.
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When I thought about it later, it occurred to me that what I might have been reacting to was the hard sell that Denver's ganja-preneurial class was putting on these poor, weed-repressed out-of-towners, the way in which their stifled desire for pot was being commodified.
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He acknowledged that luring tourists from anywhere else but Russia was going to be a hard sell, especially as Abkhazia's only civilian airport closed more than 20 years ago and the only way to enter the territory is on foot across border crossings staffed by officious Russian border guards.
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" According to Sangeeta Kaul, who worked for an EB-5 consultant in the United States, "It was a real hard sell about five years ago to get Indians to buy into this program, but now I see full page advertisements in Indian newspapers inviting people to EB-5 seminars.
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These include congressional hearings on the misrepresentation of their products, social rejection, World War II (a sequence that flirts with bad taste), the advent of vulgar hard-sell advertising (rendered in a "Mad Men"-style production number snappily choreographed by Christopher Gattelli) and the cruel march of changing times.
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But even $500 a year can be a hard sell in Canarsie, as made clear by a recent tour with Zachary Paganini, a doctoral student at the City University of New York, who has been researching what the looming changes to flood insurance might mean for the neighborhood.
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That may make its five-show lineup for $10 a month a hard sell against something like Disney+, which is launching on its own for $6.99 per month and will also be available with Hulu and a stripped-down version of ESPN thrown in for $12.99 per month.
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"In a commercial gallery context, the male nude, or phallocentric tropes are a hard sell—while on the flip side, the art market has always embraced the female nude (with centuries of popularity, this is considered a classical paradigm and no one bats an eye)," Gingeras tells The Creators Project.
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But unless that gateway has overwhelming market penetration and support for a wide variety of protocols, it's a hard sell for a device manufacturer to place a bet or choose sides when they can now buy $1 Wi-Fi chips and produce their own gateway for between five and 10 dollars.
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"I think stocks will go up another 15 to 20 percent, but ultimately, when the recession arrives — and it will arrive — there's going to be a very hard sell-off in equities," the firm's global chief investment officer told CNBC's Brian Sullivan at the 2018 Milken Global Investment Conference on Tuesday.
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His message is also — to put it lightly — something of a hard sell in Washington; even Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the only democratic socialist in the Senate, dwells less on critiques of capitalism than on policy ideas like a $15 minimum wage, which he has been unable to get passed.
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Supporters of White House hopefuls who don't meet a threshold of 15% in any given precinct have the chance to recommit to "viable" candidates or go home -- and are facing a hard sell by pleading friends, neighbors and business contacts backing other candidates to join them before officials create final tallies.
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" TAX REFORM SPEEDS TOWARD PASSAGE: From POLITICO's Nancy Cook: "President Donald Trump is on the precipice of signing a sweeping tax reform bill, his first major piece of legislation since taking office 11 months ago, the result of a strategic decision to do one simple thing: focus on the hard sell.
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If you'd prefer this message be delivered in the form of adorable chubby green cats, LG has you covered: Asking developers to make a significant investment in developing hardware modules for the G5 is going to be a hard sell, given what most expect the G5's marketshare is going to be.
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Also, even though, in the past, he enjoyed a working relationship with Valley House Gallery in Dallas for a couple of decades and saw his work presented in a handful of solo gallery shows in New York right through the early 2000s, Tyler's art has always been something of a hard sell.
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A HARD SELL Nasser's plan bets on Iraq's recovery from years of war and on Iran eventually emerging from U.S. sanctions, a longer-term view which has attracted China's interest as part of its own so-called 'Belt and Road Initiative' to rebuild the old Silk Roads tying China to Asia, Europe and beyond.
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I could definitely see this as a second watch for runners who like to carry their phones while they jog but it is a hard sell as a standalone sports watch and an even harder sell for folks who already have a running watch that provides phantom coaching, reminders, VO2 Max, and the like.
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"Despite the sometimes seductive lure of techno, there was an anonymity in the whiplash beats and silky, ambient sounds that made it a hard sell on record," the Los Angeles Times' Robert Hilburn wrote at the end of 25, the year the Prodigy's Fat of the Land reached number one on the Billboard album chart.
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Rep. Donna EdwardsDonna F. EdwardsDemocratic Senate candidate blasts own party for racial 'foghorn' Autoworkers' union endorsing Van Hollen in MD Senate race Dem leaders' hard sell pays off on omnibus MORE, a Democrat running for a Senate seat in Maryland, blasted her own party and said racism is keeping her campaign from getting full support.
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"While China's fiscal stance is unlikely to be loosened during the remainder of the year, we think the PBOC will find it an increasingly hard sell to refrain from more decisive monetary easing," Martin Lynge Rasmussen, China Economist at Capital Economics said in a note, adding the better PMIs were likely a false dawn.
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Forward Networks is working in a fairly new area of the networking world — Erickson acknowledged to me when I asked about it that it can be a hard sell to some companies as a result, since it's presenting a new product and solution that network operators have essentially been making do without for decades at this point.
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Partovi spent time last year traveling to college campuses to help select and recruit the 30 undergraduate members, many of whom had so many competitive demands for their time—attention from corporate giants like Google and Facebook or venture capitalists recruiting them to startups—that he had to make "a very hard sell," he tells me.
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Obviously the first users would be parents who want to take a few hours of Dora to the ski lodge without Internet connectivity but, given the prevalence of Internet around the world and the ability to simply stream from a connected Hopper device via Dish Anywhere without the HopperGo it's a bit of a hard sell.
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Four hot-button issues that helped propel President Trump to the White House in 2016 are already coming into play in his approach with the region, and they are being driven by two parallel electoral strategies: appeals to his political base nationwide on immigration, drugs and trade, and a hard sell directed at South Florida on Cuba and Venezuela.
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"If the ad-blocker improves Chrome by building into it the ability to thwart harmful ads (say, ads with malware or that slow computers) regardless of ad platform, and if users can continue to install other ad-blockers, an antitrust case would be a very hard sell," says Geoffrey A. Manne, Executive Director of the International Center for Law & Economics.
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The things that made it a bit of a hard sell in the cinema — its reportedly tiny budget, its combination of several tired film genres (horror-comedy, vampires, mockumentaries), and, above all, its emphasis on situational comedy skits over any kind of plot — all worked wonderfully together online, where the film could be packaged and distributed as a series of hilarious jokes, all in GIF-size, easily digestible format.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE is desperately seeking an elusive political win in his efforts to lower prescription drug costs, but he faces a hard sell to conservative groups and GOP lawmakers as he touts ideas traditionally favored by Democrats and presidential candidate Sen.
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They also just didn't get the neoliberal hard sell that my generation got; we may still be in the grips of neoliberalism, but it's kind of a zombie ideology without true believers and true defenders, and so I think that that's the reason why we now have solutions on the scale of the crisis and we now have politicians willing to talk about marshaling the kind of resources that it would actually take.
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But such traditional foods would be a hard sell in a club, so Naho sticks with her Japanese-accented concoctions like kurosu-buta and yude-tamago sando, a sandwich of pork marinated in black vinegar, boiled egg, and lettuce; a toasted panini filled with karanikumiso and cheddar; and zunda muffins, small cakes flavored with a bright green sweet paste made from edamame beans, a specialty of Japan's Tohoku region, which pairs fantastically with Aoyama Hachi's shiso-infused shochu.
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The Good Huge, gorgeous, immersive 4,500 x 3,000 display • Easily adjustable hinge • True color sRGB gives it an edge over Wacom Cintiq's wonky color settings The Bad Sensitive rear hinge needs a locking mechanism • Surface Dial is a clumsy peripheral • High price tag and Windows 10 are a hard sell for Mac loyalists The Bottom Line Artists will love the immersive, creative workstation that is the Microsoft Surface Studio, but the Surface Dial is a poorly thought out accessory.
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