There is a marked tendency of Russian hard consonants to be velarized, though this is a subject of some academic dispute.

Awful lot of hard consonants in that short sentence.

It was difficult to give the hard consonants sound.

After hard (non-palatalized) consonants, standard phonological rules prescribe a two-level reduction.

Alternations of hard and soft consonants represent the most abundant type.

In all subgroups, hard consonants such as p, t, k are softened to become b, d, g.

Terminal hard consonants are often dropped from pronunciation when found in sentences.

Notice the aspiration of the hard consonants, as if there were difficulty in controlling the speech centers.' '

The sibilant s, followed by a flat vowel and hard consonants.

They handled the hard consonants pretty well, but everything else seemed to turn into long i's.