"Cases of apparent extreme hardship have caused concern," the representatives wrote.
Nonetheless, politicians who had dragged their feet over reforms for the past two years made the tough decisions demanded of them, facing the wrath of a population angered and exhausted by the fifth year of recession, plummeting incomes, higher taxes, collapsing services, 20-percent unemployment and no apparent end to the hardship.
Her strength was apparent as she endured the hardships of cancer; she was uncomplaining and strong throughout her illness, something her family and friends found remarkable and inspiring.
But then I'd stop and listen to their stories — of the genocide and the wars and displacements, of growing up without parents, growing up without school, growing up without money or any apparent way out of extreme hardship — and I understood that their determination to pedal toward a better future was literally hell-bent.
The tragedy and hardships in Piaf's life are readily apparent here too.
Bihar is considered a high-risk state for polio outbreaks, and the hardships faced by the volunteers are readily apparent here.
Since then it has become more apparent how many lives might have been lost, what hardship survivors are enduring, and what peril they face from the risk of a deadly nuclear disaster.
Yet at the same time they were constantly facing a huge onslaught from everything that was being thrown at them the media, the police, the increasingly apparent divisions within the unions, and eventually from pure hardship and poverty.
As the weeks went by, it became apparent that we faced a long cold winter of untold hardship.
Another thing is apparent: South European nations, the "peripheral" ones in current parlance, have a hardship-softener too little factored into assessments of E.U. crisis — the sun — even if Germany has the money.
