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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

It is difficult to speak of women without referring to a number of the initiatives taken by the Arab countries to enhance the status of women, not only in times of conflict but also in peacebuilding.

If the project is eliminated, European policymakers will be denied important information that could help to guide discussions about enhancing competitiveness. For example, registering property in Greece is more difficult than in Djibouti enforcing a contract in Italy takes roughly three times as long as it does in Vietnam and starting a business in Spain takes roughly 3.5 times longer than in Azerbaijan.

We have always provided assistance at difficult times, and our people and Kingdom, under the leadership of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, will always do so.

The computer in your cellphone today is a million times cheaper, a million times smaller, a thousand times more powerful.

Charity in Hard Times

And one of the first victims of difficult economic times, I think, is public spending of any kind, but certainly in the firing line at the moment is public spending for science, and particularly curiosity led science and exploration.

Adopting a stronger currency (as in euroization ) is neither difficult nor particularly unusual. Introducing a new, weaker national currency to substitute for a stronger one in times of financial distress is an altogether different matter, about which most economists know almost nothing.

PARIS In difficult economic times like these, one principle should be given the same prominence as the headline grabbing issues of high deficits and austerity packages. That principle can be captured in just a few words Everyone must play by the rules.

They were built in times that were not really the best of times in a certain way.

There are eight times more tractors in Latin America, and three times more tractors in Asia, than in Africa.

Excessive reliance on debt finance has undermined basic tenets of democracy, with government finance increasingly determined not by electoral cycles and political deliberation, but by repayment schedules. In times of economic growth, debt finance provides an easy escape from difficult choices.

CAMBRIDGE The United States is going through difficult times. Its post 2008 recovery has slowed, and some observers fear that Europe s financial problems could tip the American and world economy into a second recession.

But in general it was difficult it was really difficult to explain what the web was like.

In my business it's very difficult work.

In my opinion, Esperanto is very difficult.

Capacity We have 10,000 times more spectrum, 10,000 times more LEDs installed already in the infrastructure there.

In difficult economic times, it may seem logical to cut investments that yield results only in the long term, and thereby conserve money and resources to address short term problems. In fact, cutting investment in our future be it in people, the planet, political institutions, or business is deeply irrational.

Now we're in tough times economically.

So, back in the ancient times.

Turkey, too shares some of the responsibility for this mounting process of estrangement. Erdogan s behavior in Davos was, at the very least, irresponsible. He may have gained popularity back home, but in today s difficult economic times, the temptations of cheap populism are more dangerous than ever.

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(a) Recurrent publications Africa Renewal (four times a year) in English (8) Afrique Renouveau (four times a year) in French (8)

Good times and these are good times for the global economy are rarely the moment for concrete initiatives to deal with difficult problems. It is against this backdrop that I find welcome this weekend s announcement by a group of major economies acknowledging their shared responsibility for the orderly resolution of global imbalances while sustaining robust growth.

It's very difficult to work in the intestine.

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

I think I'm in a difficult position here.