Dog Eat Dog, which was let off the leash at last week's Cannes film festival, is a hard-scrap story.
It would be hard to scrap elections to the parliament now.
The Catholic church in the country had fought hard to scrap the law; some see the court's decision as evidence of the church's waning influence.
The financial impact on these folk would make it politically hard to scrap quotas overnight, say Dutch farm officials, even if it would help younger farmers, for whom quotas are a big disincentive.
Other "clusters" in the genre include the recent tweak in which older-generation hoolies and hard men scrap with hoodie-wearing youngsters, a clash-of-subcultures hybrid amplified in The Guvnors and We Still Kill the Old Way.
The Eagles' defense is a mess across the board — the linebackers are not good (and that's being especially exposed by the Wide 9), nobody is tackling well, only Cullen Jenkins and Jason Babin are living up to their free agency hype — but it's hard to scrap an entire defensive system midstream and start over.
Major Wall Street banks, such as Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co., handle the vast majority of derivatives transactions and lobbied hard to scrap the restrictions.
"We've been five games of playing hard and scrapping to the end.
In "letter from the editor" in today's Independent, Blackhurst said he had thought "long and hard" about scrapping the Viewspaper.
For example, America's charities have lobbied hard against scrapping estates tax: they fear people will cut legacies to charities out of their wills if there is no longer any tax advantage in making them.Tax incentives probably do not cause people to give in the first place, but they may well encourage them to give more generously.
"They're athletic, they play hard and they scrap," United States guard Deron Williams said.
