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hardship

(= adversity) a state of misfortune or affliction debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity a life of hardship (= asperity) something hard to endure the asperity of northern winters something that causes or entails suffering I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women — James Boswell the many hardships of frontier life

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Simple sentences

Many have long suffered oppression and hardship under colonialism.
My term of service in India had trained me to stand heat better than cold, and a thermometer at ninety was no hardship.
You will have to go through hardship.
In a world where political and cultural divisions still cause so much hardship, maybe it's actually time that we gave Esperanto a real shot.
Climate change, civil war, financial hardship, and infrastructural chaos have all caused turmoil in this country.

Movie subtitles

Over this Pass men faced untold misery and hardship.
Now they were homeward bound and they were leaving the hardship and toil of Alaska to live in the land of milk and honey.
No great trail was ever blazed without hardship.
Yes, there is a thief on board this ship, which is unfortunate because you know what hardship that means for honest men.
Because all I can promise you, lads, is relentless pain and hardship.
It means danger, great hardship anyhow.
I've nothing to offer you but a life of hardship and danger.. but we'd be together.
It'll work no hardship on me.
Work again, work to wipe out the memory of idleness and hardship.
Now, it is to become a reality, a great reality, that will eventually triumph over hardship and privation!
It's a great hardship because I like to get around.
When you left home. weren't you ready to face hardship?
It's a life of suffering and of hardship and uncompromising devotion to your oath and your duty.
IN SPITE OF THEIR LONG HARDSHIP AND MISERY.
I've nothing to offer you but a life of hardship and danger, but we'd be together.
A poor, honest farmer pushed to the wall by hardship. Until finally, in desperation, he's forced to sell and stoops to the crass commercialism of newspaper advertising.
I thought you'd have some defense, some tale of hardship.
An alien cannot be deported if it works a hardship on an American citizen.
And under extraordinary hardship.
IT'S BEEN A HARDSHIP ON ALL OF US.
I bring bad news and orders that mean hardship.
So this is man's future: to bask in the sun, bathe in the streams. and eat the fruits of the Earth, work and hardship forgotten.
Endure pain and hardship in silence.
Surely that must have been his greatest hardship?
I don't mind hardship as long as it's for his sake.
A cold man like you never gets the hardship of humans!
AFTER TEN YEARS, THE YOUNG CHILDREN HAVE DEVELOPED INTO STURDY YOUNG ADULTS IN SPITE OF THEIR LONG HARDSHIP AND MISERY.
I thought you'd have some tale of hardship, your mother ran off when you were young, your father beat you.
It cost Commander Robert Peary. 20 years of unremitting hardship and misery. to reach the North Role finally in 1909.
Spare our son Sancho no hardship or danger. but teach him also that peace, not war, is the real task of a king.
We mean you no hardship, but the world has changed.
Look son, Meral is a rich girl. She hasn't experienced hardship in this world.
Everyone's enduring hardship.
If. it were just me, I would endure any bitterness and hardship, but to think that it might affect the life of the future generation.

News and current affairs

Was it new scientific information that led to the lifting of the flight ban, or was it a reflection of the hardship, both personal and economic, that the ban was causing?
Solemn promises made over the years would have to be broken (people would not get the social services that they paid for with a lifetime of high taxes), lives would be shortened (less money for hospitals and nursing homes), and overall hardship increased.
The financial crisis has inflicted hardship on a population that does not like to face harsh reality.
In this manner, they can contain the spread of economic hardship among the population, protect the most vulnerable segments, and put future generations on a better footing.
Some form of debt-friendly stimulus might ultimately appeal to voters if they could be convinced that raising taxes does not necessarily mean hardship or increased centralization of decision-making.
This caused economic hardship and undermined the government's ability to function.
Failure to do so would not only create hardship for the millions of unemployed, but would also threaten political stability, which depends on the expectation of continuing economic prosperity.
For starters, it could alleviate the social hardship that will arise when the price for heating alone exceeds household income.
It was obvious that the prisoners had been subject to psychological torture and extreme physical hardship.
Today everyone deals with life and hardship individually (a new word in our everyday vocabulary) regardless of any Kremlin desire to make life uniform.
Germans turned against Greeks; Greeks turned against Germans; and, as more countries have faced fiscal hardship, Europe has turned against itself.
On the contrary, shared hardship usually strengthens the ties between citizens and their rulers.
Clogged capital markets and resistance to social hardship have also delayed the replacement of incumbent firms by more efficient new entrants.
The risk is that social problems become intractable, as technological advances come to be regarded as benefiting the rich while creating additional hardship for the masses.
Labor mobility from poorer to richer areas provides a shock absorber against differential economic hardship.
Prayer and spiritual devotion were important components of Cory's daily endeavors - and a major influence in her decision-making and personal relations. Her inner reserves of faith, indeed, kept her going through every hardship.
But, again, this contradicts traditional trade dynamics, in which one country's success does not imply hardship for another.
Conceptually, the eurozone must include solidarity with countries facing hardship, because this is what unites and gives strength to the whole - but without the heavy machinery of a federal budget or a permanent increase in transfers.
Most are convinced that there is no military solution in Afghanistan and they know that public opinion, especially in time of great economic hardship, has no appetite for such operations.
And, at a time of domestic hardship and diplomatic isolation, North Korea's leaders, their confidence boosted by their possession of nuclear weapons, might try to distract their public through audacious, and possibly destructive, acts abroad.
There's nothing like a high-profile failure of a Washington-backed policy to stoke a general retreat from the region, leading to cascading bank failures, economic contraction, and widespread hardship.
Greeks turned against Germans; and, as more countries have faced fiscal hardship, Europe has turned against itself.
Governments bail out banks, rush to the aid of manufacturers, and claim primacy in averting national catastrophe and personal hardship.
President George H.W. Bush is widely believed to have lost his re-election bid, despite winning a popular war in Iraq, because he seemed out of touch with public hardship following the 1991 recession.
When decisions are made about who gets what aid in times of hardship, it is no surprise that ruling tribes get more than those out of power.

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