21.   His simple and practical declarations have been especially welcome in a government that has often seemed lost between ideology and hard realities.

22.   I have always treated the notion as a predictable diversion from the hard reality of heartbreaking defeat.

23.   In the midst of such mock hostility and blossoming affection, the film seems all set to celebrate a simplistic triumph of love over hard political realities.

24.   Instead, the hard realities of military power prevailed.

25.   It is testimony to the hard political reality that with White House pressure, a sizable surplus and a possibly sagging economy, some tax cuts are inevitable.

26.   It is the product of hard political realities that are worth examining.

27.   Maybe when St. Louis stops acting like a farmhouse that finally got indoor plumbing it will face a few hard realities.

28.   Newspaper polls show that many people have accepted that hard reality and that Zedillo is enjoying the highest popularity ratings of his presidency.

29.   Nowadays movies invite children to suspend belief in magic and jump into the hard realities of adulthood.

30.   Not only are voters learning a lot about the candidates, the candidates themselves are being put to school on the hard realities of running.