Iraq remains a very difficult security environment.

Now in an urban environment, that's extraordinarily difficult.

As expected, impassable roads, increases in prices, and a difficult operating environment related to the rains have hindered operations.

Realizing that it's difficult to get loans in this environment, you're doing business with people you trust, in your local markets.

Implementation costs are very difficult to estimate, as they represent the cost to adapt standard products to the specific client's environment and needs.

A credible political process offers the best prospect for improving the security environment, which continues to remain difficult in certain parts of the country.

It provides a framework for democracy to thrive, and we are very proud of what we have produced, particularly in such a difficult security environment.

The majority of the poorest inhabitants of the planet are people living in an environment which is rapidly degrading and are living under very difficult and desperate conditions.

We need a democratic, competitive environment, initiative at all levels, an active civil society, and real public control. Only under such conditions will difficult problems lend themselves to solution.

In the current environment, technological innovation is difficult to accomplish by oneself, it requires extremely high costs, and there are many problems to be solved, so cooperation is particularly important today.

In this difficult environment, UNOCI has endeavoured to carry out its mandate of contributing to the promotion and protection of human rights and ending impunity for human rights violations in Côte d'Ivoire.

Climate change, which was largely brought about by the activities of developed countries, has made it difficult for poor and vulnerable countries to fight poverty. It has created a more hostile environment for development.

Difficult.

This is obviously not the ideal environment for France not to mention the struggling economies of Southern Europe to implement difficult structural reforms. But, by changing its economic doctrine, Europe can improve its prospects considerably.

It is expected that the applied measures in total will reduce POPs releases with consequent benefits to health and the environment but it will be difficult to link any single measure to a particular benefit.

Likewise, US involvement in the negotiations would benefit all parties. The process would provide an opportunity for the Egyptian military to engage with the US, helping to bolster its case for aid in a difficult environment.

During its final two years, and following some difficult experiences, MINUGUA reached out more systematically and effectively to the national news media as an essential partner in creating a favourable political environment for the peace process.

So if that's the case, that's difficult, because persuasion is really difficult.

It's difficult to explain to people now that it was difficult then.

It's more difficult.

It's really difficult.

They're difficult integrals.

This is difficult.

It's very difficult.

Breathing was difficult.

But the task of finding, appointing, and accepting independent judges remains. It will be particularly difficult in an environment in which the sharia that is, Islamic religious law administered not by judges but by priests is never far away.

For without that, one difficult journey would be not merely difficult but close to impossible.

NEW YORK Dark, lowering financial and economic clouds are, it seems, rolling in from every direction the eurozone, the United States, China, and elsewhere. Indeed, the global economy in 2013 could be a very difficult environment in which to find shelter.

It fits into the environment. It is the environment.

They use it to get to the truth, and they do what mature leaders do everyday they have difficult conversations with difficult people, sometimes during very difficult times.

Now, that is difficult.

Extra difficult. Extra hard.

Speaking English is difficult.

Difficult husband not possible.

The navigation is difficult.

Difficult, eh? It's meaningless.

This problem seems difficult.

Mastering English is difficult.

English is difficult, innit?

This is very difficult.

Man is business difficult!

This seems very difficult!

This word is difficult.

Those were difficult times.

This is not difficult.