The phrase "a hard time securing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing difficulties in obtaining or achieving something.
Example: "She had a hard time securing funding for her project despite her best efforts."
Alternatives: "struggling to obtain" or "difficulty in acquiring".
But those ties may enable him to push Europe to make difficult concessions for instance, over its subsidy-soaked common agricultural policy that Mr Pérez del Castillo would have had a hard time securing.
Massively successful companies like Uber and Lyft would have had a hard time securing venture capital if their long term profitability was based solely on paying their workers the absolute minimum.
Wall Street analysts said other steel makers could be teetering toward bankruptcy, and even with the Chase financing, LTV could have a hard time securing more financing at favorable terms.
For the tragedy's fifth anniversary next week, they are having a hard time securing meetings with Washington politicians to fix the law that promised a more complete and up-to-date federal list of the mentally ill, who should be barred from buying guns.
But probably not on the street – vendors in trucks and gazebos have a hard time securing permission and space from councils, so they gather in disused car parks at night, or form mini food terraces in the privately owned public spaces that fill British cities.
Even the most innovative consumer products can have a hard time securing funding or even knowing where to look.
Without that insurance, these groups said, developers and nonprofits would have a harder time securing financing for housing programs in low- and middle-income neighborhoods.
CB Insights predicts that Internet start-ups will be the hardest hit, because they have attracted more seed money than enterprise and hardware companies but will most likely have a harder time securing follow-up investments.
But questions continue to mount about the ability of Europe's banks to ride out the crisis, as some are having a harder time securing loans needed for daily operations.
Trumka announced that labor would henceforth seek to form broad coalitions out of recognition that it was no longer as powerful and was having a harder time securing legislation it supported.
