21.   At that temperature, ice on the surface is as hard as granite.

22.   Because this team got tired of working as hard as Evans makes them.

23.   Breaking down a Celtic in the halfcourt is about as hard as breaking a dollar bill at a bank.

24.   All three hit their ground strokes with incredible power, and the Williams sisters serve as hard as many of the men.

25.   All the evidence indicates that Russo is hard as nails.

26.   Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush said Tuesday they want to remain on the sidelines but find it hard as Clinton and others criticize their oldest son.

27.   But as the conversation continues, he lowers his shield and the shell, which was as hard as a diamond, begins to turn paper thin.

28.   But Gagner also knows the system as well as anyone on the team and works as hard as any forward to succeed within the framework Gainey has set down.

29.   But Jesse Jackson, hard as he might try, would never be able to pull the country together.

30.   But making digital art is just as hard as making art in oils or acrylics or charcoal.