If Chinese start-ups are likely to be crushed, finance will be hard to come by.
Affordable housing in the capital for teachers and nurses is still likely to be hard to come by.
Some of his Italian plays display a lot of local knowledge, which it would be hard to come by without going there.
Spare cash can be hard to come by, and, after all, taking a vacation is a heck of a lot more fun.
Well that high-pressure, high-security experience may be hard to come by sans an electoral college vote but a presidential-style vacation is not.
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In remote and rural provinces, licences may be hard to come by, but demand is so low that it is probably not worth setting up shop.
New supplies will be hard to come by after the storm destroyed the area's mills, leaving only about a five-day supply of usable rice, locals said.
Both defences looked so strong that tries were always going to be hard to come by, and when the next one came along, it was set up by Flannery's angled run ripping a hole in the Rhinos defence, allowing Roby to finish off an attacking move he had himself started.
But, despite a massive worldwide investigation, evidence that would stand up in a court of law may be very hard to come by.
Many assets will need to be refinanced this year or next, but financing is still hard to come by and virtually unobtainable in the secondary market, defined as lower-quality properties in good locations.
"It's been a long process to gather all of the information because that was hard to come by so there was a lot of research having to be done to find out all of the names, " said Mr Goodman.
Agricultural exports that used to be the engine of the economy have shriveled, and foreign currency to import goods is hard to come by.
In 15 years Kanak voters will vastly outnumber Europeans but most Kanaks probably realise that, if jobs are hard to come by now, they will be a rarity without France as their guardian.
They add that at a time when foreign investment is hard to come by, anachronistic measures will not be welcomed.
Dr Spagat points out that, if their model is correct, it makes casualty data useful in a situation where intelligence about the enemy is hard to come by as seems to be the case in Iraq at the moment.
It makes it possible to offer customers advice, which is hard to come by in big superstores where shelves must be kept stocked.
It might not be quite as intense a version as on the PC, as hotkeys are hard to come by on controllers, but titles like Torchlight (created at the hands of former Diablo staff) have showed that there is a way to manage a huge number of weapons and spells on a console.
They complain that jobs are hard to come by, especially since employers fear that many Indians may be involved in crime.
Reliable unemployment estimates are hard to come by, but it is likely that several million will be unable to find work or will lose their jobs this year.
Big deals have been hard to come by and large corporations armed with lots of cash have proven to be stiff competition.
That number may be wildly conservative as exact data on the status of unlawful combatants let out of Guantanamo is hard to come by.
Unless Mr Blix faces new obstructions by Iraq or uncovers more evidence of illegal arms, it may be hard to come up with a form of wording that is acceptable to many of the countries that have spoken out against war.
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