Sentence examples for hard reason from inspiring English sources

According to several witnesses and some of the converts, Mr. Mack, a North Carolina native, used a combination of authority, Southern charm and cold, hard reason.

But if you figure that there is more to choosing a vehicle than cold, hard reason, more than tallying cup holders, luggage capacity and warranty terms, then the SSR could tug at your heartstrings.

Re "Sprinter Faces a Marathon: After 6 Weeks of Turning Back Party Rivals, Kerry Sets Off on Grueling Race Against Bush" (news analysis, front page, March 3): Senator John Kerry's policy positions, past and present, trumpet experience and hard reason.

That's a hard reason to hate on the delay, but the promises are starting to get meaningless.

He insisted, however, that we must bear "the undoubtedly bad effects" of moral progress, strengthening this point in the second edition of the Descent: We cannot check our sympathy "even at the urging of hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature" (Ibid. 134).

Dunkirk may seem like the odd film out here, but in some ways it's the most powerful example: We're given a set of essentially blank-slate characters who make decisions using only cold, hard reason in the face of extreme circumstances.

And there are so many hard reasons for that.

In past wars, there were both ethical reasons and practical reasons for adhering to the Geneva Conventions — soft reasons and hard reasons.

Instead, we have to face up to the hard reasons why thousands of young men (and some women) with full mental faculties have become serial killers.

What they are learning — what one hopes they are learning — from the global political catastrophe prompted by the revelations from Abu Ghraib and other military prisons is that there were hard reasons, too.

This is one of the hardest reasons for a break-up, because it isn't anyone's fault, and you both must still have a lot of affection for each other, but that doesn't mean you should stay together if it's not right for the people you are today.