His reply is that since all French citizens, including those in the "difficult suburbs", have a right to personal security, the criticism amounts to a droits-de-l'hommiste ("civil-rights-ist") elitism.So who's the enemy?Meanwhile, the left is hard put to attack Mr Sarkozy on the plight of France's sans-papiers, the 200,000-400,000 immigrants without documents to back a claim for a right to reside.
While visiting a "difficult" suburb of Strasbourg last week, Mr Bayrou noticed his pocket being picked and rewarded the culprit, 11-year-old Yacine, with a quick (and doubtless instinctive) slap to the face.Shock horror, for the politically correct.
Each city's demographic, zoning and geographic factors makes defining a suburb difficult.
Tight "green belts"—areas in which most new construction is banned surround London and small, pretty cities such as Oxford and Cambridge, making it difficult to build new suburbs.
IF scoring a morning parking spot at a Metro-North Railroad station in the suburbs seems difficult, try it in Spuyten Duyvil, where it seems to require extra levels of skill and cunning.
The two men met in "a sleazy bar in Los Altos", Mr Chizen says a difficult feat, since the suburb is rather posh.
As ecologist Peter Groffman has noted, it's increasingly difficult to tell one suburb apart from another, even when they're located in vastly different climates such as Phoenix, Arizona, or Boston in the much chillier north-east of the US.
The precise boundaries of the suburb are difficult to ascertain, though the southern boundary was fixed with certainty at the junction of Kells Lane and Durham Road by the Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832 and the eastern border with Sheriff Hill is clearly demarcated by Sheriff's Highway/Old Durham Road.
Urbanization is occurring so quickly in many areas that it has become difficult to distinguish city, suburb, and town.
This must be taken into account when considering the association found in this study of high EPDS with subjective variables such as "rating of own health", "reluctance to leave the suburb", and "difficult financial situation".
And developers say the state's purchase of a million acres of open space is making it more difficult to build in the suburbs.
