Mr Cardoso has been a popular president, and has achieved much, for all Brazil's present difficulties.
Much of the argument for firing Donald Rumsfeld rests on the contention that he should be held accountable for the present difficulties in Iraq.
President Obama, for his part, should take the perspective that in tough times we need to pull together rather than separately, and help each other get through the present difficulties.
If they wish to help, rather than hurt, our national security, they need to address not the symptoms but the cause of our present difficulties: We need a larger military.
Our troubles are surely less daunting today thanks to Thatcher and Reagan having so powerfully changed the debate, and even better, the success of their policies at a time when a previous generation had similarly begun to question capitalism provides us with a clear roadmap out of our present difficulties.
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India's extremes of hydrology, poverty and population present vast difficulties for water management which it has never mastered.
Analysing a labour market in which workers demanded more work for lower wages, or employers wanted to lose as much money as possible, would present some difficulties.
Both parties want our nation to emerge from our present economic difficulties stronger than before, and both parties have identified the vehicle that will get us there: Innovation.
Rather than further empowering the Federal Reserve, which helped create our present economic difficulties, it's time for individuals to challenge his inane assumptions while greatly reducing the Fed's role in the national and world economy.
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Although this may not be something people want to think about before receiving treatment, it could present practical difficulties for a potential claimant, and they should certainly check that the clinic or doctor providing the treatment holds appropriate indemnity.
But, at present, the difficulties easily outweigh the successes.
In fact, simply shopping for property can present location-specific difficulties, Kraft says.
And yet despite all of this, despite the bitterness of the past, despite the difficulties of the present, despite the uncertainty of the future, Dr. King held fast to his dream.
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National ambition aside, the spat speaks volumes both about the inadequacies of the present accord, and about the difficulties of revising it.
Even the cause of the present crisis should have been anticipated from past difficulties with the automated docking system.
But the group's heady expansion will present Mr Tata's successor with some difficulties.
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Today I will present 10 opportunities for doing business in Russia despite the difficulties we have faced.
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But one of the reasons for the attractiveness of US government debt is the extraordinarily difficult trading conditions at present, and this event is not going to lessen those difficulties.
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He added that people facing repayment difficulties did not have the luxury of the cheap mortgage rates that are seen in the market at present.
It may raise criticism, especially of the idea of writing off the debt of some enterprises, but under present budgetary constraints that is the only way to enable firms to carry on operating through today's economic difficulties.
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