The phrase "a hard ride" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a difficult or challenging journey, whether literal (like a bike ride) or metaphorical (like a tough experience).
Example: "After a long day of hiking, we finally reached the summit, but it was a hard ride to get there."
Alternatives: "a tough journey" or "a challenging trip."
These are companies who place profit miles ahead of people and they should be given a hard ride.
As is his custom, Mr. Guyton takes modernism, with its touchy-feely spiritual pretensions, for a hard ride.
Those tires provide a hard ride and have a high rolling resistance, but they have low wear rates and are low maintenance.
"If hell is worse than this place, then those of us going to hell are on a hard ride down, baby.
He was a hard ride for a 5lb claimer in his two previous outings over hurdles, swerving and unseating his jockey on the run to the last at Hexham in August.
Needham did little actual stunt work after Foul Play in 1978, but continued as a second unit director on films including Take a Hard Ride (1975) and Gator (1976), and turned up frequently on television as himself in series such as Cybill (1995) and in documentaries on a variety of colleagues from Chan to Martin.
Finally, Liberty would probably also get a harder ride from Germany's cartel office.
Mr Bercow, who has made a point in the Commons of asking MPs to behave with decorum, will have a harder ride in Kabul.
And endless court of appeal, of apologia, of defensiveness, of concession?" It does seem that Kipling gets a harder ride than many authors.
But those complaints have had mixed success, which is why this class action is significant: it demonstrates a bigger will of the people behind the privacy group's claims, and it shifts the center of gravity away from Dublin to the continent, where Facebook has been given a harder ride where data protection and user privacy are concerned — for example in Austria's neighbor, Germany.
