It is hard to believe it is almost Christmas.

But it is hard to be confident.

And it's often difficult for young people to understand that.

It will be difficult to get countries to agree on uniform regulations.

But it is difficult to see how it is good for democracy.

At the very least I hope it makes it harder to deny their human rights.

During this time, it may be difficult to walk or work.

It may not be so hard to explain that different governments have different security priorities.

It may be difficult to notice what are the actual MDG series.

Also, the sub tricuspid region may be difficult to distinguish from the atrioventricular sulcus, which is rich in fat.

Projects can be difficult to monitor if teams have a lot of independence.

It may be difficult to assess the disruptive impact of our efforts against terrorist financing.

Without agreeing the terms of the debate, it is difficult to discuss these important issues.

You believe that when you have these new technologies and people who are ready to use this, it can make it much more difficult for the governments to lie, it's going to be more difficult for them to steal and probably even going to be more difficult for them to kill.

First, it will be difficult to afford these expensive new sources of energy.

Some institutions use normal serum albumin, but it is costly and can be difficult to find.

That is a simple, yet as recent events have demonstrated hardly an obvious lesson.

A formula for the integrand may be known, but it may be difficult or impossible to find an antiderivative that is an elementary function.

After all, it is much more difficult to make an argument for market economies when they are under siege.

Once we establish our government based on free election, it won't be difficult to change the country for good.

However, archaeological records of ibex can be difficult to separate from those of domestic goats.

Young children have difficult determining the location of leg pain, thus in this population, knee pain equals hip pain .

Gradual global warming is hard enough to notice, much less get worked up about.

Faced with continued internal division, pressing for a meaningful peace process is very difficult for the Palestinians.

Even if Taliban leaders affirmed their willingness to talk, it would be hard to trust their intentions.

Concrete cost assessments for any of these proposals are difficult to make.

Otherwise, it will be difficult even to discern the outlines of a common future.

BERLIN Entering a war is easy getting out of it is the hard part.

Without an effective rebalancing program, growth will be sub par, and employment difficult to restore on a sustainable basis.

In large corporations, it is often difficult to ascertain the contribution of any individual.

It would not be hard for psychiatry to develop a more adequate definition of depressive disorder that de medicalizes natural emotions of sadness.

But if Iran and the West reach an agreement, it will be very difficult for Israel to remain on the sideline.

Protectionism, even if not in overt form, will be politically difficult to resist.

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

PARIS It is usually easier to see the beginning of something than the end of it.

Overall, their written work is poor to illegible even if copied by sight from another document, and drawing is difficult.

Nonetheless, as senior officials of the Secretariat, it may be difficult for the three internal members to act in an independent capacity.

It is difficult, but not impossible, to identify some extraordinary measures that would meet these tough requirements.

Other shared problems such as corruption, poverty, and social underdevelopment would be similarly difficult to address together.

When certain colors cannot be expressed within a particular color model, those colors are said to be out of gamut .

Groups can actually be relied upon to support each other, and it may be difficult to get support outside of your group.

Such work would hardly have been possible without the cooperation and the full participation of all Member States, individually or within the various groups.

As a result, it will be difficult to sustain a reform program that is vigorous enough to satisfy the ECB and the eurozone core.

If they are right, it will be difficult to maintain the hard won economic and social gains of the last decade.

Investment is high, but further investment growth risks misallocating money, so reductions in China s trade imbalance may be hard to achieve.