People have a hard time figuring that out.

Are you having more trouble dialing the phone than you used to?

Europe, for instance, will find it increasingly difficult to export.

My own ears find it hard enough to believe what my lips are telling you.

People find it difficult to say.

The Commission had no difficulty in endorsing the proposed direction of the activities proposed.

The future will have great difficulty... and the question that's raised by politicians is

The Committee therefore finds it difficult to understand how the travel overruns could have been incurred to such a degree.

People living in other industrialized countries find this difficult to understand.

Peacekeeping missions may, however, find it difficult to translate their humanitarian role into the actions that are required of them.

In the past, African countries found it difficult to make their voices heard in major international negotiations.

After the 1907 panic, the US Congress convened a National Monetary Commission, whose most interesting and attractive potential model for the US was German style universal banks, which were imitated in Russia, Japan, Italy, and Egypt.

In many countries, however, political parties find it difficult even to contemplate such debates.

As a result, China will find it more difficult to exclude the US from Asia s security arrangements.

Contrary to China, India finds it difficult to adapt to its status as an emerging Great Power.

Low income countries can develop democracy, but they have a tough time maintaining it. India, which is both poor and democratic, is a happy exception to this rule.

Because the heart is beating and the body is warm, people may have difficulty believing the person is dead.

Tending farm by themselves caused problems to the animals but the pigs could figure a way around every difficulty.

But regional neighbors find it hard to criticize one another s policies and demand course corrections.

The communist leadership finds it hard to mention, let alone emphasize, the country s problems.

But it is becoming increasingly difficult for factories in the region to remain in business under conditions of weak global demand and strong local currencies.

It is little wonder that Germany finds it difficult to achieve a sustainable pattern of balanced growth in the eurozone as it is currently configured.

If China makes a bid for regional hegemony, it will find it difficult to resist the structural constraints placed on it within this hierarchy.

Something seems to be missing from the international debt strategy because so many countries continue to have so much difficulty in extracting themselves from its grip.

The trouble is that it will become increasingly difficult for China to maintain the kind of growth that it has experienced in recent years.

The deficit of 24,000 metric tons in supplementary feeding has made it difficult for humanitarian agencies to reverse the prevailing high malnutrition rates.

For example, they usually find it difficult to jump between species, because they would have to change their structure.

Pakistan might find it extremely difficult to reconcile the security of its Chinese ally with its de facto proxy war with India.

So authors and designers looking for GUI based tools for their work find it difficult to follow the semantic web method.

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.

In the United Kingdom, a hung parliament has resulted in a coalition government that will have a hard time implementing fiscal discipline.

That said, the wording for article 7 as found in the Working Group text did not receive a great deal of support, and it is clear that many delegations have problems with it.

Repressive regimes would find it harder to borrow, which would, in turn, make it harder for them to repress their people, and make it easier and cheaper for responsible and legitimate governments to secure important funding when they need it.

Moreover, the United Nations sometimes struggles to strike the right balance between quick impact projects and longer term, institution building processes.

Indeed, it is often said that creditor Governments have difficulty granting major debt forgiveness because of its budgetary consequences.

Given Italy s almost perfect bicameralism, this means that the new government will find it very difficult to function even under ideal circumstances.

Europe, however, has always found it difficult to come to terms with an over confident, let alone arrogant, Germany.

Girls then find it more difficult than boys to continue to attend school (55 per cent, as compared with 48 per cent, between 1998 and 2001) (http www.unicef.org infobycountry drcongo_statistics.html).

Of course, contrary to China, India still finds it difficult to fully perceive itself as a world power, though it is well aware that it has become a regional giant.

Somewhat surprisingly, France also seems to be having a hard time keeping up, with a below average growth rate of 2.1 .

The EFSF buys the bonds of the countries which find it difficult to finance themselves in the marketplace (for example, Ireland) and issues bonds that are AAA rated.

Owing to inadequate transport facilities and the fact that the urban labour market is often located far away from dwellings, women have greater difficulty than men in participating in the labour force.

At the same time, the main parties find it hard to address the country s problems, because they are reluctant to call for sacrifice before an election.

When the affected countries, in following internationally supported adjustment programmes, find difficulty in servicing debt to multilaterals, one possibility is extension of new credit.

Perhaps because they are older and more cynical, European societies seem to bask in a collective moroseness, from which they have difficulty emerging.