Sentence examples for a hard time maintaining from inspiring English sources

Until that happens, even a competent Afghan force will have a hard time maintaining stability.

Finance directly affects everyone's interests, but many have a hard time maintaining their interest in it.

Western classical music, notably, has had a hard time maintaining its balance in this kaleidoscopic culture.

But nonetheless the 40 scientists and 100 staff members have had a hard time maintaining calm during the emergency.

But faced with the facts of American racism, sexism, law breaking, and violence, I'm having a hard time maintaining my belief in the across-the-board openheartedness of my countrymen.

Even a city that is not facing immediate issues of solvency, the report said, is "having a hard time maintaining the services its residents want and need" as a result of widespread spending cuts over the past few years.

As a result, prisoners have a harder time maintaining ties with the lives they left behind.

Disney could have a harder time maintaining its anticipated number of 3-D screens that are not Imax.

The stigma, she said, may be one reason why the South Bronx has had a harder time maintaining artists and art programs.

"Black theaters and culturally and ethnically specific theaters, for whatever reason, have had a harder time maintaining economic stability," said Teresa Eyring, executive director of Theater Communications Group, a national organization for nonprofit professional theaters.

To the 85 percent of self-described middle-class respondents who said that middle-class families were having a harder time maintaining their standard of living, Pew then asked how much people blamed each of the following groups "for the difficulties the middle class has faced in the past 10 years".