It was, however, one of the main causes of the mortgage crisis of the that year, making it extremely an extremely difficult option to pursue now.
But it is now an even more difficult option to consider, because it would be seen essentially as a tax increase at a time when the economy was suffering.
Euro zone policy makers say "financial repression" is the least politically difficult option to ease debt while trying to encourage growth and productivity through economic changes.
(Remember Idi Amin of Uganda?) But it is a difficult option for someone accustomed to being the center of attention; Mr. Ben Ali has not been heard from since.
Officials noted that some provisions of the law can be enforced only through formal inspections, a difficult option when the city has not issued licenses to begin with.
It is a difficult option, but it has been a way for some to keep their home from dragging them under while they search for a new job.
One thorny question is whether new statutory duties will soon be required, to make plain that reporting abuse is not a difficult option but a professional obligation.
Because of the aesthete-queen's high visibility, the arts could be a difficult option for less confident men.
That was a difficult option.
(Meade's original plan had been to man a defensive line on Pipe Creek, a few miles south in Maryland. But the serious battle underway was making that a difficult option).
