"That would not have happened," he said, "if management wasn't willing to raise some difficult questions and put them on the table and go through the difficult back-and-forth that's necessary to make progress".
"We don't have to bat a difficult interview back and forth all day, do we?" So we move on.
Her help made possible the Filomen D'Agostino Residence Hall for about 370 students; its inspiration was her difficult trip back and forth from Brooklyn every day when she was a student.
It's difficult to go back and forth to school.
Ms. Marandino found it difficult to go back and forth between households and, realizing how much she liked city living, decided to move full time to Manhattan.
"Last summer we were in Key West, and it was so difficult to get back and forth, but this is so easy.
Most nights he stays in a New Jersey hotel because it is just too difficult to go back and forth: The trip, about 80 miles, using Metro-North, New Jersey Transit and a Dow Jones shuttle from the train station, usually takes more than three hours.
It is difficult to move back and forth between thinking-tasks and feeling-tasks more than once a day.
The back-and-forth-and-back description of the ruling made this very difficult to understand.
The back-and-forth continues for weeks.
It's a back-and-forth conversation.
