Subversion for the sake of subversion is hard to swallow.
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This is a public relations spin that's hard to swallow.
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There's an absence of logic that's hard to swallow, too.
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My jaw was tight, and it was hard to swallow.
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Perhaps that's what the industry finds so hard to swallow.
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"It was very hard to swallow this morning," Reyes said.
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He's also America, and it's hard to swallow that about ourselves.
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It is hard to swallow but it is what it is.
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We all saw it coming, but it's still hard to swallow.
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Many analysts I spoke to found this explanation hard to swallow.
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That does, however, make its $40 price a little hard to swallow.
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I no longer know which oneIs making it so hard to swallow.
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The regime's thuggishness makes even a largely symbolic concession hard to swallow.
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For Ms Fujimori, a second narrow defeat will be hard to swallow.
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Like green juice, the orthodoxy of decluttering can be hard to swallow.
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But I think nontechies will find this a bit hard to swallow.
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The idea of a loan is hard to swallow for some employees.
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Mr. Trump's sudden concern for human rights is particularly hard to swallow.
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"It was (garbage), so that would be hard to swallow," Maurice said.
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That's all unknowable, and makes a five-year maximum contract hard to swallow.
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But such technology may also come with tradeoffs that are hard to swallow.
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But many people will find the Apple TV 4K's price hard to swallow.
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But Justice Thomas's purported rationale for his silence was always hard to swallow.
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Hard to swallow This is a Thai ad for a skin-whitening pill.
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In those cases, though, it was hard to swallow their anti-capitalist messages.
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And that is hard to swallow because things could get out of control.
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Whatever made it hard to talk could make it hard to swallow too.
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These resentments are hard to swallow on the left of the political spectrum.
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But push any more onto consumers' plates and it'll be hard to swallow.
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And as good as the games were, the dissonance was hard to swallow.
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The notion of a $1,600 Android Wear device remains, as ever, hard to swallow.
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Many readers will find this bubbly optimism hard to swallow, like too much champagne.
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It's the same pill it was 25 years ago and it's hard to swallow.
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But given the explicitness of the statements in the paper, that's hard to swallow.
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Considering feature phones essentially don't use data, the price hike is hard to swallow.
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What is clear is that this sequence is labored, unconvincing, and hard to swallow.
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Brits with a sweet tooth might find the news a bit hard to swallow.
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It's sometimes hard to swallow that, after millions of years, people are still basically people.
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For Justice Samuel Alito, author of the majority opinion, that reading is "hard to swallow".
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The idea that Hannah may not know about Jed's alleged girlfriend is hard to swallow.
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That will mean, for now, prices and products that may be (ahem) hard to swallow.
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And like many Wes Anderson films, the humor masks a harsh truth that's hard to swallow.
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": "All this love, human kindness, compassion, honesty, sincerity stuff," Quinn noted, "it is hard to swallow.
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"The strike on the funeral was really, really hard to swallow," the first administration official said.
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AS BEFITS A deal in the medical industry, this one has been rather hard to swallow.
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More important, many Republican senators may find it hard to swallow the House plan's Medicaid rollback.
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Now, that's a rather bullish figure on IBM's part, but it's not too hard to swallow.
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Several found it hard to swallow producers made Clark the hero ... they say she simply wasn't.
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So the buttons are terrible, the surface finish is questionable, and the price is hard to swallow.
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That thought alone makes me feel like an asshole, a deserter—and that is hard to swallow.
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It's hard to swallow, but in some cases feeling this way can help you structure your future.
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The birth scene is primal, powerful — and, through no fault of Moss's, a bit hard to swallow.
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Maybe that's hard to swallow in hyper-interventionist Washington, but it's something sober strategists must seriously consider.
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The president's attempt to distance himself from the former Wikileaks editor-in-chief is painfully hard to swallow.
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That seems hard to swallow, but other patents could alter the flying experience in small but beneficial ways.
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That has to be hard to swallow—even with a glass of organic, non-GMO, minimally processed milk.
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For Justice Samuel Alito, author of the majority in the latest ruling, that reading is "hard to swallow".
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That's hard to swallow when you consider that one in 10 US households faced food insecurity in 2018.
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Still, he has largely kept his cool, even though the Knicks' nonexistent defense has been hard to swallow.
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"I have some bouts of peace, but it's hard to swallow that this was supposed to happen," she says.
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The concept can be a little hard to swallow, especially for those skeptical of astrology in the first place.
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FLINT WATER CRISIS Hard to swallow: A nationwide survey found Flint residents paid the highest water rates in America.
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Ms Tsai's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), unlike Mr Ma's party, the Kuomintang (KMT), finds that notion hard to swallow.
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It was hard to swallow the cost at first, but I've decided that it's something I want to prioritize.
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The club plays exclusively techno, one of the more aggressive, hard to swallow, introspective sub-genres of electronic music.
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But her extraordinary ability to dodge death — and Annet Mahendru's consistently gorgeous performance — makes this episode hard to swallow.
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But there's a power imbalance at work in this particular relationship that makes this all a little hard to swallow.
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As one poor excuse for a "sorry" gives up its place to the next, it's not just hard to swallow.
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Though there were clear legal differences between the cases, many activists have found it hard to swallow the divergent outcomes.
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For the pre-Trump version of the Republican Party, either one of those facts would have been hard to swallow.
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Lenihan's insistence that he actually agrees with antifascism in theory but merely disapproves of antifascist tactics is hard to swallow.
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The title is quite the mouthful, but it's not the only thing about "Abundant Acreage Available" that's hard to swallow.
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So it's a little hard to swallow him telling people whether they should be a benefit to America or not.
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But the alternative, accepting the bipartisan deal House and Senate lawmakers hashed out Monday night, is proving too hard to swallow.
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We've spoken before about how much we love the original Gravity Blanket, but that $249 price tag was hard to swallow.
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A coffee that's more than a little hard to swallow — pretty much like everything else going on in America right now.
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The movie is a molotov cocktail of all that is wrong with America in 2018, and it's pretty hard to swallow.
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"That seems hard to swallow when they make seven times what they invested in the first four years," Dr. Prasad said.
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Get on Down has done the same for "Too Hard to Swallow," the seminal debut album from the Port Arthur, Tex.
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An underdeveloped villain and a hard-to-swallow turn of events in the crucial scene threaten to weaken this important story.
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That hard-to-swallow conflict ultimately reveals itself as the "no half-measures" approach of the one we've already been witnessing.
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My guess is for those who believe prison should punish offenders, a cap is going to be really hard to swallow.
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So for him to see them as a threat to this country rather than a proud benefit, is pretty hard to swallow.
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In all this effort to bring attention to the hard-to-swallow truths in the underbellies of American patriotism, Who Is America?
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It's just strident and overstated about all these things to a degree that adult viewers are going to find hard to swallow.
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Members find this hard to swallow when ABP's assets have grown from under €300bn to over €400bn in the past five years.
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But anyone who was kind of aroused by Dr. Mantleray's alien-woman fantasy may find this definition of paraphilia hard to swallow.
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Either way, I found it pretty hard to swallow that she would simply stop watching her back after she booked that ship.
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Even Vanilla Ice got in on the action, recording a nu metal album called Hard to Swallow at Indigo Ranch in 1998.
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So while it was hard to swallow, in my heart and my soul, I knew that was a part of my karma.
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Donald J. Trump's triumph is especially hard to swallow, because it is a form of death to President Obama's body of work.
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He finds the breezy condescension of a Laborite like Herzog almost as hard to swallow as the contempt of someone like Lieberman.
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"From the viewpoint of common sense, many things about this are just hard to swallow," said Liu Xiaoyuan, a human rights lawyer.
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But it's hard to swallow that when there's a community of people saying the filter makes a mockery of — and belittles — their identities.
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That seems like a fair argument to me, though a 20 percent price increase may be hard to swallow for some small businesses.
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"I know for some this is hard to swallow, but doing this for these guys, it&aposs just the right thing to do."
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It's all hard to swallow, but that doesn't mean we can't rejoice in this small, delightfully humiliating moment of resistance to the president.
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That cost, which would be a hard-to-swallow $156.55 today, was an immensely expensive price for a state-of-the-art toy.
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A trip across the Lausitz, where a third of Germany's lignite is mined, helps explain why coal-workers find this hard to swallow.
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As he grew older, he found it hard to swallow foods and had frequent stomachaches, followed by some anxiety and obsessive-compulsive tendencies.
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"They would not go lower than nine times Multimedia's EBITDA, which may prove hard to swallow for any potential buyer," another source added.
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With news like that—and the fact that this truck is circling the city—those two Presidential scoops might be hard to swallow.
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I don't have children yet, but I imagine that it must be hard to swallow your pride and admit your shortcomings as their caregiver.
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" Alito said the challengers' assertion that immigrants had to be detained within 24 hours of ending a prison sentence is "especially hard to swallow.
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" Sam Becker summarized his observations: "This can be particularly hard to swallow for people who were promised pensions and the support of social programs.
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On the one hand, that's hard to swallow for some traditional metalheads, who fear change and just want to remember the things they like.
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So is the image a dream, or a harbinger of a hard-to-swallow resolution of the current war, given all that has transpired?
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A story where Superman doesn't care about killing or death (the story Batman v Superman is at least attempting to sell) is hard to swallow.
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Usually a reliable ally for a Republican running for president, the Chamber, like many of its members, has found Trump's populist rhetoric hard to swallow.
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But when you remember that the results are something you'll be sharing on Instagram or Facebook, that $250 price is a bit hard to swallow.
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Straight vinegar can be hard to swallow and may cause you to gasp and aspirate vinegar into the lung, which could potentially lead to pneumonia.
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Now there's a feeling of helplessness that's particularly hard to swallow for those who indulged in the national chauvinism of lazy Greeks and financial imperialism.
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Washington's decision could be especially hard to swallow, given that the NRA has spent more campaign money there than any other state in recent years.
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That last bit is hard to swallow, and probably causes the most confusion of any concept I've ever learned or tried to teach in sociology.
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I didn't understand why if the only complaint I ever heard was that there was so much hate, why love was so hard to swallow.
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Yet many people here tend to have conflicting values that make repeal of the health law appealing on its face but ultimately hard to swallow.
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This exploitation makes the show's insistence that everything Rick and company are doing is morally righteous and good for future generations increasingly hard to swallow.
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Trump's executive order is especially hard to swallow given the way Farhadi's films beautifully depict Iran as a society just like any other on Earth.
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That makes the $140 price tag a little hard to swallow when you could just as easily plant a small garden in an old computer tower.
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Their troubles are milder than those of some American inner cities or French banlieues, but hard to swallow for a society that prides itself on order.
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Coming back from Rio the next morning, and turning on the television and watching the Olympics — it was really hard to swallow, really hard to watch.
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Terry said that he thinks the e-commerce giant's stock is undervalued even though the already high price could be "hard to swallow" for some investors.
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And while this fact is hard to swallow, there's a small silver lining: At least now it's out in the open that women aren't making this up.
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Of course, if you don't actively believe in conservative versions of Christianity, and maybe even if you do, all of the above can be hard to swallow.
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Iran Hamed Mousavi, a political science professor at Iran's Tehran University, said that Trump's attempts to strike a friendlier tone in Saudi Arabia were hard to swallow.
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Over four dramatic, messy, and practically perfect seasons, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has given us plenty of hard-to-swallow realities, but this just might be the toughest.
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The need for hard-to-swallow tradeoffs stems from the dire state of the nation's third largest school district and a broader fiscal distress confronting Illinois and Chicago.
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The same goes for McAdams as Esti, a character treated with the nuance her particular situation deserves (even if her British accent is a little hard to swallow).
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TONY VENEZIA, WHITE PLAINS To the Editor: The truth of Ibram X. Kendi's take on racism in the United States is hard to swallow, but he is right.
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The cold, hard-to-swallow truth is that it is perhaps Kith, more than any of these other stores, that encapsulates the luxury evolution that left Barneys floundering.
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But further cutbacks, particularly to pensions which have already gone through 20183 cuts since the start of the Greek debt crisis in 2010, would be hard to swallow.
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He eventually admits to Sansa that he made a mistake, but it's hard to swallow, given Ramsay's outsized behavior and how clever and aware Littlefinger is supposed to be.
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The price point isn't too hard to swallow: The entire collection ranges from $25 to $80, and the brightening powder — the uncontested star of the lineup — goes for $60.
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Two members of the club are private, and ADM, the largest of their two listed peers, is nearly twice as big as CIL, so would be hard to swallow.
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Indrawati has previously said Indonesia's tax-to-GDP ratio of below 11 percent was "hard to swallow" and she was committed to raising it to 16 percent by 2019.
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We made a good race out of it, but it's hard to swallow on a day like that when our Mobil 1 Ford was the class of the field.
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All this makes Trump's proposed cut — the elimination of an initiative that's essentially a rounding error in the overall $4.1 trillion federal budget plan — especially hard to swallow for advocates.
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"The strike on the funeral was really, really hard to swallow ... We thought that was particularly egregious," said one of the U.S. officials briefing reporters about U.S. policy toward Yemen.
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He was being interviewed about his band, which makes his proclamation a little hard to swallow, seeing as how Buzzcocks were a punk group, and they were doing quite well.
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Mr. McCain is also a deficit hawk and could find it hard to swallow a tax cut that will add around $123 trillion to the federal debt over 212 years.
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John Cena and Nikki Bella's dinner date looked hard to swallow by the looks on their faces, and we're guessing it had nothing to do with the meals they ordered.
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"I find it hard to swallow that the president would attack professional athletes for their freedom of speech, and a freedom that I spent 21 years protecting," Mr. Kemp said.
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Fox News and Trump seemed to be intertwined, and any claim that it wasn't "mainstream media" was hard to swallow, considering its popularity and its positioning close to the president.
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The only reason it punches slightly above iceberg is because it has some semblance of flavor, despite being bitter and hard to swallow like the opinions of our current president.
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For families still grappling with the fallout of the Camp fire, the idea that their dead loved ones won't be officially included in the disaster's death toll is hard to swallow.
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According to Snowflake founder Asad Khan, the idea was to make the most exquisite dessert experience anyone could have — that is, if the steep price tag isn't too hard to swallow.
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Ariana Grande says she's having trouble breathing and it's hard to swallow ... so ya gotta imagine going on a stroll with temperatures in the 30s is NOT what the doctor ordered.
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I find that pretty hard to swallow, especially after Kristen and Navid spot him climbing into a homeless man's tent and speculate on whether he's sleeping with the disheveled man inside.
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When one of TV's most beloved couples falls in love offscreen, it's easy for fans to conflate the fictional and real-world relationship — making the latter's breakup particularly hard to swallow.
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Brutally honest and blazingly funny, Dear White People might be hard to swallow for some sensitive snowflakes, but we need more shows with this level of self-awareness, humor and heart.
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It is a beautiful, nostalgic look at the technology of yore, but the $199 and $299 price tags (depending on if you buy the small or large size) are hard to swallow.
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And you can bet the Chinese will, at the very least, demand the end of the trade war America is now waging – on terms President Trump might find very hard to swallow.
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This is all rote Trump administration business by now, but what's still hard to swallow is the fact that the women who press his message all look like variations of each other.
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Mr Sarkozy argued vigorously for France to stay in the EU. But voters found it hard to swallow his bromides about European co-operation after years of hearing him rail against it.
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A "Person who's hard to take," someone who argues about everything, or is just a general wet blanket, earned the nickname PILL a long time ago — something unpleasant and hard to swallow.
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A lot of your compositions deal with harrowing themes of a psychological or political nature, yet very few artists expose their audience to these dark and hard-to-swallow experiences, preferring to entertain.
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The bitterness of "Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?" is hard to swallow, but also bracing, like a shot of strong liquor that leaves you with a clearer head and sharper senses.
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"We are writing to express our interest in working with you on bipartisan tax reform," said the letter, which then cited "prerequisites" for Democratic participation that Republicans would likely find hard to swallow.
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While the proposal's pathway to citizenship for nearly 2 million undocumented immigrants will earn plaudits from many Democrats, the framework also includes several hardline immigration reforms that Democrats may find hard to swallow.
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"It can refer to anything that's particularly hard to swallow," explained Jenny Gao, a Shanghai- and Los Angeles-based chef who was born in Chengdu, in southwestern China, and raised primarily in Canada.
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Yet more reforms are hard to swallow in Greece which has only just emerged from a multi-year recession brought on by the debt crisis and the austerity demanded in exchange for three bailouts.
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Naysayers of the multiple timeline theory will claim that we're experiencing these conversations through Dolores' memories, but I think this episode makes that hard to swallow, if only because of Dolores' frequent costume changes.
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That may be hard to swallow for Erdogan and Turks in general who would not welcome a recession that lasts beyond the second half of 2019, when economists currently expect a return to growth.
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And if you haven't played a parser game before, its simplicity of interaction might make it a good on-ramp onto the genre—even if the subject matter is a little hard to swallow.
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The new populist government in Rome found this hard to swallow, given that French border police have been routinely blocking thousands of migrants who try to leave Italy, upholding the EU&aposs flawed asylum rules.
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Of course, this means the gift of the chickens saddles your country with a designation that is not exactly flattering, which might be especially hard to swallow for a leftist, anti-imperialist government like Bolivia's.
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I know the idea that "a million dollars isn't enough to retire on" is hard to swallow, but your opinion doesn't change the reality: A million dollars is simply not what it used to be.
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European officials were keen to secure the agreement, and tried to get Mr. Yanukovych to release the detainees, arguing that their captivity was damaging his reputation and making closer ties to Brussels hard to swallow.
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Some will be harder to take than others, but in our six years with this unforgettable story and these incredible women, we have come to see why those hard-to-swallow realities are the most important.
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Amid the financial market and political fallout — including a Conservatives leadership contest and a "vote of no confidence" in the leader of the opposition Labour Party — some "remain" voters are finding the results hard to swallow.
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So when the news is too hard to swallow, maybe it's spirited conversations about the most exciting artists grappling with the same tough issues that can help us imagine a future we want to live in.
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It's particularly hard to swallow this extra charge when none of these video streaming constraints existed in the first place on Verizon only three months ago when there was only one unlimited plan, but here we are.
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The idea that Riverdale has somehow been taking place a year in the future solely to preserve the continuity of a background character's magic trauma is pretty hard to swallow and, not to mention, dumb as hell.
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It's not the counterfactual plot to kill a historical character that is hard to swallow; Frederick Forsyth demonstrated a long time ago, in his thriller "The Day of the Jackal," just how well that could be done.
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We are absolutely in love with the backyard down here, even though it's hard to swallow the $450 rent increase ($300 of which I've had to take on, since my salary is $22k higher than C.'s).
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The bottom lineBenefit's Brow Powder clocks in at $24, which is line with many other high-end brow products, but it may be hard to swallow if you're used to buying a $3 eyebrow pencil at the drugstore.
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For all the hard-to-swallow moments this year gave us in the news, at least the Kardashians and Jenners were there to share what their kids were up to and make us all smile for a moment.
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It put the Blue Devils in the unfamiliar position of being scrappy underdogs, even though the program is loaded with blue-chip recruits—a turn of events that's particularly hard to swallow for the "Anybody But Duke" crowd.
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For generations of fans brought up to expect high octane attacking soccer, Van Gaal's stultifying approach was hard to swallow, particularly when it did not work well, after he spent almost 300 million pounds ($434.34 million) on players.
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That defense was always a bit hard to swallow for anyone who has been paying attention to Trump since, well, basically forever, but this anecdote just further illustrates how little Trump cares about fighting corruption in foreign countries.
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For generations of United supporters brought up to expect high octane attacking football against teams who went to Old Trafford merely to survive, Van Gaal's stultifying approach was hard to swallow — particularly when it did not work very well.
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At first glance this can be hard to swallow, but Adekunle remains adamant that he is building a platform and not a line of toys — think PS4 instead of an expensive, single-use robot collecting dust on a shelf.
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But most polls have shown them likely to need backing from smaller nationalist parties, notably from Catalonia, which would seek concessions that Sanchez - labeled a traitor by the right for being open to dialog with secessionists - might find hard to swallow.
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For him, the prospect of never being able to mine coal again has been especially hard to swallow because Spain will continue to import coal from other countries, for a transitional period of time while it closes coal-fired plants.
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But for residents who were told by government officials last year that their water was fine even while dangerous amounts of lead leached out of their pipes, the claim that the water is now safe is proving hard to swallow.
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The show is clearly signaling that trust and cooperation are the only ways to ensure peace and prosperity for all, and while it's a worthy message, those platitudes are hard to swallow when the country — and the world — is so divided.
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Amen's lead singer, Casey Chaos, had also been hired to work on the Vanilla Ice album, Hard to Swallow, and wound up living at the ranch for six months, much of which he spent sleeping in an unused isolation booth.
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But most polls have shown them likely to need backing from smaller nationalist parties, notably from Catalonia, which would seek concessions that Sanchez - labeled a traitor by the right for being open to dialogue with secessionists - might find hard to swallow.
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Negotiators had considered refraining from cutting the top individual tax rate of 39.6 percent, in a risky step that many Republicans in the House of Representatives could find hard to swallow, but recent reports have said a cut may be included.
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Still it is hard to swallow that this court is about to solidify a deeply conservative majority, despite the fact that in six of the last seven presidential elections, more Americans have voted for a Democrat than for a Republican.
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That should be hard to swallow for someone who ran for office on the pledge of stopping, and reversing, America's huge and systematic hemorrhage on external accounts, and its steadily deteriorating net foreign debt — $8 trillion at the last count.
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That ending will be hard to swallow for many Democrats and their activist allies, considering Senate Republicans completely stonewalled the nomination of Judge Merrick B. Garland made by President Barack Obama almost exactly one year ago, on March 16, 2016.
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It was a wrenching, hard-to-swallow exposé of the polarizing and blasé political, legal and cultural climate that has allowed the likes of Michael Cohen to operate and thrive for so long as Mr. Trump's personal fixer, intimidator and enabler.
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Here are four takeaways from the town hall: Giving the Boston Bomber the vote As criminal justice has moved to the forefront of the increasingly progressive Democratic agenda, there are some proposals that middle America may find hard to swallow -- and Vermont Sen.
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Nevertheless, it's still hard to swallow that a significant majority, or plurality, of Christians will go to the caucus and make the case for a three-times-married, casino-building, occasionally pro-choice, foul-mouthed New Yorker who makes jokes about women's bodies.
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Likewise, the patient relies on the health care provider to practice medicine in line with the latest recommendations and best practices and to tell her the truth about her medical condition and treatment options — even if that information may be hard to swallow.
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Darren Kerr, a media studies lecturer at Southampton Solent University and the co-editor of a 21980's Hard to Swallow: Hard-Core Pornography on Screen: In the early 22000s, pornographers were trying to find the language of sex on the screen.
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If you're a libertarian who's prepared to work for someone who hates free trade and doesn't like immigrants, and who wants to ban Muslims from America—a lot of stuff that, if you're a libertarian, it would be pretty hard to swallow.
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Pearce said the expected return of a backlog of hundreds of stranded MAX jets to the market in 2020 could produce a surge in capacity that would be "hard to swallow" for aircraft markets - offset partly by the retirement of older jets.
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The Steelers played hard from beginning to end, especially defensively, to shake off the hard to swallow 21-214 loss to the Cowboys last week when Dallas running back Ezekiel Elliott scored on a 20-yard run with nine seconds to play.
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That may seem hard to swallow, now that the Dow Jones Industrial Average has vaulted above 21,000, just tied the record for number of consecutive record highs, and matched the dotcom-era record for swiftest climb from one "round number" (20,20083) to the next.
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Some of the 28503 million viewers of Superbowl LI who stole peeks at headlines during commercials may have run across the article "Taiwan Bans Euthanasia of Stray Animals," featured by a prominent news site, and found it hard to swallow—especially between bites of hotdog.
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I've long since mourned The Walking Dead that was in its season 4 and 5 heyday, but episodes like last week's are a firm reminder that the show can still deliver … making follow-ups like "The King, the Widow, and Rick" especially hard to swallow.
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Given the legal and policy hurdles involved in making wastewater fit for drinking - as well as psychological barriers that can make the concept hard to swallow - it may be easier to promote investment in reuse schemes for industry and agriculture, with the right incentives.
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"Stick-thin and ever on the move, the single Ms. Bolen sometimes comes across like a Cosmopolitan Girl on uppers," Newsweek wrote, "a persona that her less successful colleagues find hard to swallow" — because they had to work all the harder to match her energy.
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But the Big Six, which includes top Trump aides and congressional Republican leaders, is expected to refrain from cutting the top individual tax rate of 39.6 percent, in a risky step that many Republicans in the House of Representatives could find hard to swallow.
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"What they're basically saying is that one victim is worth more than the other," said a visibly angry Villarruel, who finds it hard to swallow that for her victims there has been no justice while former guerrillas have received official pardons and reparations by the Argentine state.
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But he flatly denied the quos (a claim the jury found hard to swallow after an email was introduced in which the governor asked Mr. Williams about a $50,000 loan and six minutes later emailed his own staff for an update on his university research request).
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Across its mostly terrific eight-episode first season, which concluded Sunday, Levinson introduced explicitly hard-to-swallow themes—drug addiction, domestic abuse, the hazards of online hookups, pedophilia, depression—and didn't hold back with regard to the physical and psychological violence these issues havoced on his characters.
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Their characters aren't quite as poignant as the couple in "Force Majeure," but these two comedians give the drama a go, ultimately finding an equilibrium between jokes — and frankly, there aren't many of them — and the film's sometimes unsettling emphasis on the more hard-to-swallow comedy of awkwardness.
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There's a lot of plot to get through, and finding out at the end of the game that certain newly introduced mysteries won't matter until Kingdom Hearts IV: Dream A Little Dream For Me 420 Blaze It comes out on the Playstation 7 is a little hard to swallow.
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"The fact no details were announced indicates whatever was agreed was hard to swallow and may be hard to implement, especially in light of the attempted coup in Turkey," said Andrew J. Tabler of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, referring to events in Turkey on Friday.
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The fear all along among right-wing Israelis has been that Mr. Trump would draw down some of the good will he has banked with Mr. Netanyahu, possibly by demanding such hard-to-swallow concessions as statehood for Palestine with a part of Jerusalem carved out for its capital.
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While some diehards found the thought of replacing Staley—who died of drug-related causes in 2002—hard to swallow, Alice In Chains continued on with 2009's comeback LP Black Gives Way to Blue, a record that's as powerful and dark as anything the band has done.
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"That was really hard to swallow, but you know information is supposed to be power and when my team began negotiations knowing what we knew, that was the barometer in which I expected to be paid, based on the law and based on what I know to be fair," she said.
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Some of Mr. McCain's oldest friends are already resigned to that, but in a state that has produced the likes of Mr. McCain, Mr. Goldwater and the former House minority leader John Rhodes, whom Mr. McCain replaced in the House, the specter of elevating a run-of-the-mill political mortal is hard to swallow.
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While left-wing parties like the Social Democratic Party (SDP) have seen some of their traditional voter base (working-class voters from more industrial parts of the country) go towards the AfD, so too has Merkel's conservative alliance of the Christian Democrats (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU) with some voters finding her liberal immigration policy hard to swallow.
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Sure, Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE may be brash and many of his statements may be hard to swallow, but one thing we are certain of and that is unquestionable loyalty and love for America.
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Whomever you believe is behind movements like Gamergate and the pushback against The Last Jedi, what they reveal about America in the 2010s feels a little hard to swallow at first: At this point in history, a lot of us — and especially a lot of young, white men — are centering their identities and their senses of right and wrong on pop culture artifacts, sometimes with a near-religious zealotry.
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And while the composer distanced himself from readings of the symphony that would reduce it to the horrors of the second World War, it's hard to swallow the dissonance between a video game about American soldiers tearing it up across the European theater and a symphony of such profound sorrow and loss that was written after someone was unable to musically come to grips with one of the most profound tragedies of human history.
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Cryptic calls, lip-reading and a thumbs-down: Behind McCain's dramatic vote Republican lawmakers have had several fits and starts this year, including a dramatic vote in the Senate earlier this week -- but the failure lays bare a hard-to-swallow political reality for Republicans after months of painful negotiations and soul-searching: There is little will left in the GOP to gut a health care law that the party has been railing against for seven years.
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