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.

Those were difficult times.

And very, very difficult times.

And it's made today in these difficult economic times.

We live in difficult and challenging economic times, of course.

The United Nations has recently gone through some difficult times.

And these are and we see it very clearly today nearly always highly turbulent times, highly difficult times, and all too often very bloody times.

In difficult times, pessimism is a self fulfilling, self inflicted death sentence.

That pitfall was avoided despite a difficult and at times disappointing discussion.

It rained three times during the trip.

It rained three times during the trip.

This figure is rising steadily, both during times of peace and times of war.

We know the obstacles that are in our way right now, in difficult times.

In the end, more Jewish settlements appear. Indeed, the great paradox of this cycle is that more settlements are built during times of negotiations than during times of conflict.

Measuring the quality of output is difficult, although The Times Higher Education Supplement attempts to do so every year.

We encourage the United Nations to continue to build coordination and collaboration links during quiet periods as well as during times of crisis.

We have raised those problems in this forum a number of times during earlier debates.

Getting them is proving more difficult than envisaged, mostly due to uncertainty during the takeover process.

It's an arduous, difficult sport, and I don't remember smiling at any time during this sport.

During the rainy season, driving is difficult because of the very poor state of the roads.

Honduras expresses its solidarity in these difficult times and raises its voice so that the Haitian people will not be forgotten again.

The Guatemalan people welcomed MINUGUA with open arms, standing by the Mission in difficult times and engaging actively in the peace process.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has begun to talk about a Bretton Woods II that would give a bigger voice to Asia in the world s great multilateral financial and economic institutions, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy has asked that China help the West during these difficult times.

At peak times, over 7 million refugees were living under difficult conditions, mostly in neighbouring countries, burdening the social fabric of those populations.

International human rights law forbids measures of this nature at all times, including during states of emergency.

Sexual violence during times of conflict continues to be a source of major concern for the Office.

We call on the international community to make a common effort to provide intensified humanitarian assistance to help those countries through these difficult times.

In Soviet times there was a railroad connection to Kapan and Meghri which was destroyed during the war.

During the period under review, the country has remained peaceful, although the political situation is still difficult and complex.

In fact, today in your capital, in difficult times, some who mind the nation's purse want to cut life saving programs like the Global Fund.

However, two or more images acquired at different times during the growing season may allow differentiation of crop cover.

The user page views per month increased more than 2 1 2 times during the first year of operation.

Left to their own devices, global financial markets provide too much credit at too cheap a price in good times, and too little credit in bad times. The only effective response is counter cyclical capital account management discouraging foreign borrowing during economic upswings and preventing capital flight during downswings.

On the same day, he was returned to prison and was assaulted several times by prison guards during his transfer.

There appears to be a trend toward recognising greater continuing effectiveness of treaty provisions during war than in earlier times.

What I collect is the initial issues of magazines published during the country's two times of publication resumption after its founding. They reflect that Chinese workers are always in the forefront of the times, contribute to social development and lead progress of the times.

These developments within countries will make more difficult the challenge of generating global consensus on how to meet threats beyond borders as governing successfully at home becomes more difficult, so will governing abroad. For citizens and leaders alike, tough times lie ahead.

The Bolivian people has gone through difficult times recently and is selflessly and maturely reinvigorating its democratic process as an essential element of life in our Republic.

During a general crisis and with the presence of considerable foreign aid, it is difficult to discuss gender discrimination among different branches.

Very often, it is increasingly difficult to recruit qualified technical experts to deploy during emergencies in the continent, especially French speaking experts.

It helped me realize something else during this project, is that recording that one second on a really bad day is extremely difficult.

It was during those difficult war years that the friendship and cohesion between the various ethnic groups living in our country were strengthened.

I did use that during these last 15 years about 20 times never with that type of wing, but at the beginning.

Anyway, I went out to Airstream about six times during the process of building this prototype, and it's called the Bambi prototype.

If contributions to the fund were made in times of prosperity, Governments would not need to cut spending during less affluent periods.