Sentence examples for a hard time devising from inspiring English sources

5. Walton: On occasions like this, composers have a hard time devising music that seems deferentially ceremonial but still manages to assert some kind of musical identity of its own.

But to the chagrin of hotel operators, union leaders and others in the convention business, the Spitzer administration has had a hard time devising a new and improved plan.

Walton: On occasions like this, composers have a hard time devising music that seems deferentially ceremonial but still manages to assert some kind of musical identity of its own.

If you are a talented marketer, but you have a hard time devising your thoughts on paper, you may want to seek a partner or pay an editor to clarify your ideas.

He may have a hard time just hanging on to the integrity of that most democratic, social, informational, commercial, accessible, hard-working and efficient piece of infrastructure yet devised by humankind -- the New York City street.

He had a hard time.

"It's a hard time.

"It was a hard time.

Except a hard time".

So I really had a hard time".

Mrs Merkel has a hard time ahead.