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One difficulty after another arose.
Do you have difficulty understanding what women or small children say to you?
We must get over this difficulty.
He had no difficulty in finding the place.
I had a little difficulty in getting a taxi.
I had difficulty in having it repaired.
The old lady climbed the stairs with difficulty.
We can get over the problem without difficulty.
The riot was suppressed without difficulty.
I had difficulty getting a ticket for the concert.
I had difficulty in solving this problem.
This kind of music is something that older people have difficulty understanding.
I solved the problem not without difficulty.
I had no difficulty finding your house.
You'll have some difficulty in carrying out the plan.
I had no difficulty in finding his office.
Japanese children brought up overseas sometimes face great difficulty in adjusting themselves to Japanese schools after returning, even though they have a perfect command of Japanese.
If you have any difficulty, ask me for help.
We had much difficulty in finding the bus stop.
Are you still having difficulty with physics?
When I was in England, I had great difficulty trouble in speaking English.
A new difficulty presented itself.
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Normal size has been my difficulty.
We won't have any difficulty getting him to put up the entire amount.
I had great difficulty in getting here.
However, the bishop didn't have any difficulty meeting him.
Now, as I recall the past, I have difficulty in believing that it was really like that But the truth is beyond any commiseration. M. Gorky.
The only difficulty about that is the time.
You're taking my little difficulty more seriously than I am.
You found difficulty with the boys?
If you're in difficulty, I'll answer questions.
With the falling off of profits in the illegal liquor industry the mobsters have difficulty in paying protection.
Now, as I recall the past, I have difficulty in believing that it was really like that.
The difficulty now is, ah, one of, ah, choice.
After all, you could eliminate all this difficulty if you'd set an early date for our marriage.
The German tanks are moving with difficulty.
The difficulty is, Ebba, that I do.
There's one difficulty, sir, a very grave one.
We'll have no difficulty getting the entire amount.
He will have great difficulty in answering.
Then the truth got you into this difficulty and a lie gets you out. Darling, I had no idea you could lie so beautifully.
That's the difficulty.
I'm sorry if you had any difficulty finding them.
What sounds like a wild ocean on the third floor, on the fourth, sounds like a little difficulty with the plumbing.
We can find a way out of this momentary difficulty.
There seems to be some difficulty at the other end.
Hey, what's the difficulty here?
With great difficulty.
Leon, tell monsieur seated over there- the gentleman with the big hat and boots- if he's having difficulty in choosing his breakfast, i'll be happy to assist him. Ask him if he wouldn't perhaps prefer to be served at my table. We're old friends.
I'm afraid so. As you know, I only became chief of police to help your father out of a temporary difficulty.
To meet your needs in case you were in some difficulty.
But that's only if the difficulty isn't serious..
The title would present no great difficulty.
And have you had any difficulty getting into our velvet rope restaurants?
It is easy to disguise the face, sahib, but with me, the real difficulty is here.
You'd have difficulty getting that far. Then where would you go?
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But differences in cultural norms and the difficulty of verification would make such treaties hard to negotiate or implement.
At the same time, the pressure to articulate a vision can get a leader into difficulty.
I still recall the difficulty that I faced, as South Korea's foreign minister, in convincing Bush administration policymakers to negotiate with North Korea instead of merely applying pressure and waiting for the North to capitulate.
Despite the considerable advantages of a common currency (price transparency, lower transaction costs, and inflation credibility, to name a few), the difficulty of macroeconomic management of such diverse economies looms larger than ever.
The stereotypical Latin American economies of yesteryear used to get into trouble through populist government spending, while the East Asian economies ran into difficulty because of excessive long-term investment.
Both cases raise issues that neither Iran nor the US wants to see repeated - but that both will have difficulty avoiding.
Canadian farmers and processors accomplish this routinely and without difficulty.
Still, we must always bear in mind the difficulty of forecasting bubbles.
The bottom line is that Social Security's long-term funding difficulty, while real, is projected to be much smaller and much further in the future than any of the nearer, larger, and more significant fiscal problems currently facing the US government.
Instead, when they recognize that they are having difficulty competing internationally, they resort to protectionism.
And the difficulty people everywhere have in thinking in terms of probabilities - especially low probabilities, which they tend to write off - weakens political support for incurring the costs of taking precautionary measures.
The difficulty of repossession (where did the borrower park the car?) and sale (the used-car market is still in its infancy) meant that most of these bad loans had to be written off.
These accounts should be frozen, despite the difficulty in doing so in a world rife with secret banking and nominee accounts that disguise true ownership.
The other difficulty with that fashionable hypothesis is that most of the alleged costs are illusory or trumped up.
Part of the difficulty arises from the perpetual African dilemma of identity.
From Ghana to Kenya, governments are having increased difficulty in raising money for infrastructure projects and selling official debt.
Berlusconi seems to be fully aware of the difficulty of governing Italy.
Carter had difficulty choosing between the muscular line of his national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and the more moderate approach of his secretary of state, Cyrus Vance.
But Asians who have more than caught up with the West may have difficulty adjusting to the idea that the US would for the first time in history not be headed by a white president.
The difficulty of working through the full economic implications is precisely what discourages consumers from making purchases and causes firms to postpone investment.
Given the difficulty and expense of separating plastics, the most economically viable option is often secondary recycling of a few commodity thermoplastics - mostly bottles, for which collection infrastructure is already in place.
Competition policy, however, faces great difficulty in dealing with industries in which technical breakthroughs can create apparently instant monopolies.
Part of the difficulty of exposing this narrowness is that there is a family split among neo-classical economists between those who believe that real-world market economies approximate perfect competition and those who don't.
The uprising in Tibet, and the government's response, have highlighted ethnic tensions within China that the Chinese government is having difficulty managing.