It became increasingly difficult both to afford and actually buy food.

Now, it is becoming increasingly hard to find diplomats or policymakers who support him.

But it will become increasingly difficult for us to maintain our out of sight, out of mind attitude.

LONDON As the world recovers from the Great Recession, it has become increasingly difficult to discern the true trend of events.

Whenever a firm chooses to evade, it becomes increasingly difficult to find a vendor willing to engage in legal transactions.

It becomes increasingly difficult for governments to keep telling their citizens that they can t have an affordable home because of land restrictions.

And the unjust allocation of resources, which has enriched so many politically well connected individuals and families, has become more difficult to bear.

As a result, ruling Austria Hungary became increasingly difficult in an age of emerging nationalist movements, requiring considerable reliance on an expanded secret police.

Aside from the usual efficiency arguments, it is just going to become increasingly difficult and costly to maintain complex and idiosyncratic national tax arrangements.

More importantly still, those flows proved increasingly difficult to manage in a way consistent with faster and more inclusive economic growth.

As regional conflicts are increasingly defined along Sunni Shia lines, it is becoming more difficult for Shia dominated Iran to gain influence in Sunni majority countries.

So the outcome no longer depends only on their willingness to cooperate in order to navigate the raft to safety. It also hinges on their ability to do so in the midst of natural forces that are increasingly difficult to control and overcome.

Good governance is increasingly taking root.

Many young men in Gaza have become increasingly radicalized.

In particular, there is rising concern that Guinea Bissau is increasingly being used as a transit point for drug trafficking between South America and Europe, as evidenced by the growing number of narcotics seizures.

With that, it becomes more difficult to pursue longer term policy objectives, which merely adds further uncertainty about the precise path of European economic and financial integration.

As technology advances, it has become more and more difficult to escape it.

Bosnia s future is becoming increasingly uncertain.

The elections have also been increasingly free of violence.

China is also losing long term growth momentum, as falling fertility rates and returns on investment weaken labor force expansion and capital accumulation. And it is becoming increasingly difficult for China to take advantage of technology driven productivity gains.

Addiction to e mail is increasingly being recognized as a malady.

As political reform achieves results, Israel will no longer be able to claim that it is the only democracy in the Middle East with conditions changing on the ground, it will be increasingly difficult to ignore Palestinians demand for independence.

So what is to be done about the grey zone to Europe s east the six countries that now lie between the EU and Russia? Inaction is unacceptable.

The result is a world in which power is increasingly distributed rather than concentrated.

Investors are piling on more risk at increasingly elevated prices.

Green buildings increasingly show higher capital values.

The negotiations have taken on an increasingly unreal air.

By contrast, the 70 80 scenario seems increasingly likely.

Rich people increasingly populate the most expensive cities.

For all, a perilous existential moment is increasingly close at hand.

But it will become increasingly difficult for us to maintain our out of sight, out of mind attitude. To their credit, women in the developing world some of the most exploited and coerced women on earth are raising their voices.

Over the past two years, it has become increasingly evident that the modern or soft left is, all in all, governing well.

At the political level, too, the EU is increasingly shouldering its share of the burden.

News, in other words, is increasingly delivered from the bottom up.

But Spain increasingly regards Europe more as a problem than as a solution.

As a result, China s financial system is becoming increasingly fragile.

Increasingly, however, the problem is with Eastern Europe s states themselves.

And, increasingly, the reasoning behind such forecasts seems persuasive.

The prospects of a stable future look increasingly dim.

Another is increasingly integrated with the US and Canada.

The challenges facing Kim are piling up.

Church administration has become increasingly subject to uniform civil codes.

And, more and more, technological progress depends on this social willingness.

As we gain experience and expertise we are mounting increasingly ambitious operations.

But that halcyon scenario looks increasingly improbable.