Sentence examples for hard formula from inspiring English sources

The Indiana Pacers played beautifully last season with a lineup of overachievers, but that is a hard formula to sustain.

"We did start with a very hard formula of five sequences of six minutes of suspense," Raimi recalled, "no less than 18 scares.

He began holding regular retreats for the top 100 or so executives, the most recent of which was last month in West Palm Beach, Fla. Part of CNN's problem was that during the rise of Fox News in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the network faced an identity crisis: should it match its competitor by offering more talk-oriented fare or stick to its hard news formula?

In the last year, the Fox News Channel began to gain on CNN -- which had stuck with its hard-news formula -- with a strong mix of opinionated talk-show hosts.

Score: 4/5 Why you should listen: The Vegas metal band stick their hard-hitting formula of chugging guitar riffs and anthemic choruses on this sixth studio album.

Both follow simple hard-rock formulas, trading heavy riffing with guitar fills and solos.

The Bush administration should press hard for that formula.

And the advertising formula: hard work to counter the recessionary downturn.

Baltimore Ravens 28, New England Patriots 13 In trying to figure out how the Ravens would counter the Patriots' hurry-up offense and quick-strike spread passing game, we failed to consider the most basic formula: hard hitting.

After a decade or so of hard use, that formula looked threadbare and made for parody, though it has persisted and can still be glimpsed in episodes of "Law & Order" and similar television fare.

Van der Gugten runs in without any frills, holds the seam up and hits the deck hard – a simple formula that has brought him 21 wickets at 32 in the Championship and he goes at less than a run a ball in 50 overs cricket and not much more than that in the 20 overs format.