Sentence examples for hard referring from inspiring English sources

Support to farmer nurseries is classified as either "hard" referring to material inputs (tree seed, water, inoculum, tools and fencing) or "soft" (information, training and backstopping advice).

"One major problem is that the sheiks they bring for these programs aren't authoritative," said Mshari al-Zaydi, a Saudi journalist and political analyst who is himself a former hard-liner, referring to the rehabilitation efforts.

Fixed automation, also known as "hard automation," refers to an automated production facility in which the sequence of processing operations is fixed by the equipment configuration.

Then, the term "hard hat" referred to the working-class white ethnics who were soon to bolt the Democratic Party for Ronald Reagan.

It is hard to refer to a team that won 69 games and finished 28 games out of first place as a giant killer, but the Baltimore Orioles spent the last few weeks as a thorn in the side of the American League titans.

Corruption has so embedded itself into the fabric of Nigeria's society that it is hard to refer to the country without thinking of the blatantly fraudulent past elections that have scarred the nation's image (not to mention the myriad "419" e-mail scams).

By Alexis Okeowo April 19 , 2011Corruption has so embedded itself into the fabric of Nigeria's society that it is hard to refer to the country without thinking of the blatantly fraudulent past elections that have scarred the nation's image (not to mention the myriad "419" e-mail scams).

These ideas are particularly hard to refer to by pointing.

The saving here was solid so we moved on to the hard stuff referred to coldly as "human capital" by accountants.

Hard constraints refer to must-have requirements which persist and are invariant during execution, such as CPU, memory, or legislation regulations; soft constraints refer to desired requirements which can change or be re-prioritised, such as the cost of consuming resources.

Countries such as Angola and Nigeria are finding it hard to refer to South Africa as a regional leader when its own house is in such a state of disrepair.