41.   The hard truth is that voluntary guidelines will not work in an industry that has a trendy, lucrative product such as cypress mulch.

42.   The New York Times did a survey showing us, the Viagra generation, the hard truth.

43.   The reasons have to do partly with some hard generational truths, partly with enlightened self-interest.

44.   The trend plays into more general criticism that the news media have become oriented toward entertainment rather than hard journalistic truth.

45.   They were more than willing to absorb hard truths.

46.   This hard truth can also be demonstrated mathematically.

47.   Three hours later, I was struck by a hard truth.

48.   Where admirers see him as an unblinking observer of hard truths, others detect nihilism, at best, and racism, at worst.

49.   While such explanations may be crude, the hard truth seems to be that tipping does not work.

50.   While Peng was whipping Tsingtao into shape, the foreigners began discovering some hard truths about the Chinese market.