The difficulties of many European countries derive from their corporatism: state projects serving cronies and vast social protection programmes, both run by elites. These surged in the 1970s and 1980s.
Though our trials are diverse, there is one thing the Lord expects of us no matter our difficulties and sorrows: He expects us to press on.
I've always had difficulties with female characters.
I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
I have for some time now been deeply troubled by the growing difficulties faced by Christian communities in various parts of the Middle East. It seems to me that we cannot ignore the fact that Christians in the Middle East are increasingly being deliberately targeted by fundamentalist Islamist militants.
Apart from the scientific interest attached to my various journeyings, it has been made clear to me that human needs and aspirations differ little the world over and that no great difficulties arise in one race dealing with another when matters of scientific importance are involved.
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
There were times when there were riots in Africa, demonstrations against the IMF because of the policy advice they were giving, the conditionalities they were imposing, and the difficulties that arose out of the implementation of those conditionalities.
I did 'Impromptu,' which was a thrill and a horror all at once - my first movie and having to do it in Paris, and my wife wrote it, and I had some difficulties on the set, blah, blah, blah.
For me, I try to see difficulties as a way of expanding and growing as a person inhabiting this planet.
I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and injuries.
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.
The end of 2016, Mariah Carey got on stage, and it was mean. The technical difficulties that she came across, now everybody think that she was lost.
I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.
So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime.
What matters to me is to find rational solutions for those that are facing difficulties so that France preserves jobs and its ability to innovate.
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
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