Japan s overseas aid declined by 44 when that country hit hard times.

And yet, when hard times hit, spending on health is often among the first things to be cut.

True, Germany has been hit hard very hard by the economic crisis.

The Great Depression hit Sami's family hard.

Labor intensive industries were especially hard hit.

Major Israeli cities were hit several times.

Charity in Hard Times

This year's hurricane season hit my country very hard.

MILAN Investors have been hit hard by the current crisis.

Seven More Years of Hard Times?

Hard times tend to concentrate minds.

The province of Badakhshan was particularly hard hit, causing significant population displacement.

It is particularly vociferous in hard times.

Within days, helicopters were continuously ferrying food down Sumatra's hard hit western coast.

Fortunately, Russians know how to survive hard times.

True, the terrorist attacks on America and the Iraq war hit the economy hard.

Both countries external sectors have clearly been hit hard, while domestic consumption is stagnating.

Cities all around the world were hit hard, especially those dependent on heavy industry.

In hard times, you find out who your friends are.

In hard times, you find out who your friends are.

In hard times, you find out who your friends are.

Slow growth has hit equity valuations hard, and both economies are at risk of a major downturn.

That is 500 times the power of the 7.0 that hit Port au Prince 500 times the power, yet only under a thousand casualties.

The exact nature of his involvement is, at times, hard to identify.

MILAN Investors have been hit hard by the current crisis. Lessons are being learned and investment strategies revised.

Many will be staying there, because the global economic downturn has hit China hard, costing them their jobs.

These assumptions took a hard hit in the crisis, causing an abrupt shift to far more intrusive regulation.

But Sri Lanka was hit equally hard by the tsunami, and since then the Sinhalese Tamil conflict has worsened.

Indeed, Latvia was particularly hard hit by the slump in global trade in 2008 2009, given its dependence on exports.

In many of the previous banking crises, it was a country or a region that was hit hard (Argentina, Japan, etc.).

LONDON After years of rapid growth, the countries of Eastern Europe have been especially hard hit by the world financial crisis.

On the contrary, America s current economic difficulties will hit Europe hard, but with a time lag the best guess being 2009.

The US government spends 450 times more on hard military power than on soft power.

PALO ALTO Elections often turn on the state of the economy, especially in hard times.

One area hit particularly hard is Eastern Ghouta, where a chemical weapon attack on August 21, 2013 left hundreds of civilians dead.

For hard line Communists, he was a hero three times over historical, patriotic, and world class.

He grew up in the segregated South, escaped lynching and all that during some really hard times, and he provided a really stable home for me and my siblings and a whole bunch of other people that fell on hard times.

Easy travel plus hard economic times means that immigration rates may accelerate to the point where social friction exceeds general economic benefit. Similarly, hard economic times may worsen relations among governments, as well as domestic conflicts that can lead to violence.

While it meant that American banks were not hit as hard as they would otherwise, America s bad lending practices have had global effects.

Teachers and nurses are dying police and security forces are being hard hit, and 14 million children have already been orphaned by AIDS.

Given that the US is undergoing economic hard times, the size of the response has surprised many.

Adjustment reactions are brief, but useful a cognitive, logistical, and emotional rehearsal for possible hard times ahead.

Hard economic times are correlated with protectionism, as each country blames others and protects its domestic jobs.

Yet, the whole outcome must be appreciated as it came amid hard times Gaza is going through.

We afflicted the people of Pharaoh with hard times and with poor harvest that they may heed .