So exporting will become an even tougher business.

After expanding new uses of resources they end with exhausting the efficiency of those processes, producing gains that are first easier and larger over time then exhaustingly more difficult, as the technology matures.

These trends will become more difficult to reconcile and keep orderly if governance systems fail to adjust.

Managing the exchange rate becomes much more difficult when capital is free to come and go as it pleases.

Yet, we dither, taking no action to divert the asteroid, even though the longer we wait, the more difficult and expensive it becomes.

And that becomes much more difficult in a world where governments find it hard to tell where cyber attacks come from, whether from a hostile state or a group of criminals masking as a foreign government.

Will Americans Become Poorer?

For some people we made it harder by hiding the instructions.

European officials will argue that their problem is more difficult.

Things became more difficult with the advent of the Great Depression.

Intolerance was perhaps the most difficult challenge to address.

In a small state setting, imposition of a dense network of controls is likely to lead to the loss of mobile factors of production, while in a large state it is harder for labor or capital to escape.

To be sure, this is all very easy if you are the site with which the user communicates directly it is more difficult if you are in the background, a third party collecting information surreptitiously.

That Khamenei is himself more of an ideologue makes that task doubly difficult for him.

But governing the enlarged union has become more difficult and less efficient.

But success in Cairo might prove even more challenging.

However, the latter task would appear to be far more daunting than the former.

But pulling them back, all of the sudden becomes more complex.

Police work became more efficient.

With the Parliament dissolved, the New Constitutional Declaration giving almost all powers toSCAF, the choice between Muslim Brotherhood's candidate Mohamed Morsi and the regime's former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq gets even more painful.

And here, the endless delays are making the challenges more daunting and the outcome more uncertain.

The value for money question is even more difficult to assess.

A more difficult issue for Hu could be intellectual property rights.

That, of course, is much more interesting and harder to do.

China s challenge, however, may be more difficult.

As it turns out, parenting is hard, and the stresses of immigrant life only make it harder.

The technology there was much more difficult than what I'm dealing with here.

As a result, bank credit will be harder to obtain.

Calculating how much it would cost to stop landowners felling their trees is harder.

For middle income countries, it is a tougher call.

And it's getting worse because travel is getting so much better.

Managing this trifecta successfully will require skillful juggling of priorities and that will become much more difficult if Chinese policymakers lose international investors trust or, more important, that of China s own citizens and businesses.

As in the world of content and software, new design brands are likely to emerge and die more quickly the pace of change will increase and it will be harder to stay on top for long.

Evaluating charities can be more difficult than making investment decisions.

And reality is even harder to shape than a myth.

This will become more obvious throughout 2013.

In such situations, action becomes more fluid.

When Asia grows, the West does not become poorer.

The complex things get more fragile, more vulnerable the Goldilocks conditions get more stringent, and it's more difficult to create complexity.

This will prove more difficult than it first sounds.

New fungal infections are even scarier and might be harder to treat.

First, they are not easy to detect with confidence, and are even more difficult to prove.

But the larger the banking sector, the more difficult this might become.

In 2013, Sam s day would have been far more difficult, stressful, and expensive.

Every year the family seems to get bigger, and noisier, and with that Eid becomes an unpleasant experience.