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The phrase "assistance harder" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express that assistance is more difficult to obtain or provide, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "Finding assistance harder than expected can be frustrating when you're in need."
Alternatives: "more difficult assistance" or "challenging support".
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At the same time, the fortunes of poorer Americans, especially those with children, are more closely tied to the labor market because welfare reform in the 1990s made cash assistance harder to obtain.
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Those folk tick all the right boxes for assistance: hard-working, ambitious, saving, keen to have some financial security in life.
"Women in SHASS said they found the decision making 'far from transparent' and the 'rules of the game,' such as how to get special assistance, hard to discern". She also noted that the wide variation in salaries was field-dependent, with the highest salaries going to faculty in more quantitative fields, such as economics, which are dominated by men.
State Dept Spox on Yemen: "We are working very closely with the government of Saudi Arabia to try to encourage better humanitarian assistance". Try harder.
New York offers free health care, including HIV drugs, to HIV-positive state residents who are uninsured or underinsured, while assistance is harder to come by in North Carolina and South Carolina.
"We represent what almost every politician purports to love — self-made, no loans, no government assistance, just hard work," she wrote.
And it has led to speculation that the NSA had assistance from hard drive manufacturers, for example by getting access to details on how their firmware worked.
The problem of the existing intelligent wheelchairs is, however, that the rules for assistance are hard-coded and by consequence not adaptable to the personal handicap and needs of a specific user.
Alternatively, the Democrats could kill those tax cuts for the affluent and substitute a combination of assistance to hard-strapped state and local governments and a dose of deficit reduction.
But the Obama team asserts that it can hold down Mr. Romney's support in the center by invoking his past statements on issues like assistance to hard-pressed homeowners, the auto industry bailout and changes to Medicare.
Demands for more federal assistance from hard-hit New York and New Jersey may "pose a significant challenge'' for agencies amid U.S. budget cuts, said Robert Burton, who was the top procurement official at the White House Office of Management and Budget under President George W. Bush.
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