11.   But the joyous mood may soon be replaced by the hard realities that now face Aristide and his nation, the poorest in this hemisphere.

12.   But the other hard reality is Los Angeles has become the Ellis Island of America.

13.   But the show distracts from hard economic realities, such as high unemployment and few professional opportunities.

14.   But the hard reality of dying is brutally disappointing.

15.   By that time, the playoffs will be a distant dream and the lottery a hard reality.

16.   Cowan, like Schumer, says the new strategy is dictated by the hard reality of a Republican White House.

17.   Fuentes bounces along rural roads, losing his hubcaps and camera to thieves and his political naivete to hard reality.

18.   Good jobs are scarce, and the guarantee of lifetime employment, or shushinkoyo, is disappearing, as corporations are forced to face hard realities.

19.   Here are a few hard realities.

20.   Here, among the hard realities of a hardly known nation, a champion trains hard.