1.   But old habits die hard, and Apple has shown a proclivity to chase Market share while hand-wringing over shrinking gross Margins.

2.   It was probably unnecessary, she thought, but old habits died hard.

3.   Tradition dies hard in the Hebrides and to be one of the guga hunters was considered a great privilege in Hess.

4.   As in most old industrial cities, people arranged themselves by class, and such traditions, bound by economics, die hard.

5.   But old habits die hard, even when GRC began developing commercial products.

6.   But judging by the movies of late, habits of mind die hard.

7.   Increasingly, such calls for revenge are being uttered with the kind of ethnic venom that dies hard in Africa, which has repeatedly been torn by such animosities.

8.   Old habits die hard, even when a better solution becomes available.

9.   Six hundred loonies may go a lot further in Nouveau Brunswick or Gaspesie, but the Old Orchard habit dies hard.