Major Tom Harris(ph), who trains the police here, says it's hard to get the police who live and work next to the militias to be independent of them.
Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans, who is from Swansea, says it was hard enough growing up in Wales as a Conservative, "let alone being gay".
Ichiro Murata, a director at the Academy of Management Development, which lists many of Japan's corporate giants among its clients, says it is hard to find good teachers who understand both technology and business.
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The same pollsters who give him such a hard time, he says, got it badly wrong last year: they had forecast, shortly before the general election, that Mr Guterres would win a bigger majority than Mr Cavaco Silva had held.
But if the Russians do not build the five extra reactors Iran says it eventually wants, it is hard to imagine who will.
Tam Fry, from the National Obesity Forum, says it is an "insult" to people on low incomes who are working hard to provide their children with a healthy diet when the odds are stacked against them.
Such ploys can make it hard to identify exactly who is behind a particular online assault, says Adam Vincent of Cyber Squared, another security firm.
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Michael Gerson, a former Bush speechwriter who's credited with making Darfur a priority at the White House, says it will be hard to make such a force effective.
"He just did it again, " says one conservative House Democrat, marveling at a politician who is extremely hard to kill.
Andrew who knows his three friends in the video from Nottingham Trent and Stafford Universities, says he finds it hard to believe the earthquake actually happened.
When you sing for your supper, it's hard to keep weight on, says Teddy Tahu Rhodes, who takes a star turn as the bullfighter, Escamillo, in the Metropolitan Opera's production of Bizet's "Carmen" starting Saturday in New York.
"It's hard work" reviving a tired line, says Andrew Leek, who is trying something similar at the U.K.'s Saatchinvest equity fund.
"It's hard not to be affected, " says Mr. Cockrell, who joined Jobing.com in 2007 and recently changed employers after learning that his position and several others at the employment site were going to be eliminated.
"The hard part about this budget bill is it hits people who are working, " Isdale says.
But the BBC's Mark Gregory says the guilty verdict for Ebbers will be a huge relief for the US prosecutors, who have found it hard to win convictions against those they see as responsible for the excesses of the dot com era.
The proximity of kisha club members to the people they cover creates chummy relationships that make it hard for reporters to write critical stories, says Akira Uozumi, a freelance reporter who worked for 20 years at Kyodo News, a wire service and kisha-club regular.
Mr Stewart, who studied Islamic history and Arabic at Oxford, says that after his long years in the Gulf he would find it hard to adjust to Western corporate culture.
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