Difficulties appeared almost from the start, however.
His difficulties appear technical rather than temperamental.
The UK's judicial difficulties appear more significant when compared with France, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy and Germany where more than half of new judicial appointments are women.
But the scale of the party's difficulties appears particularly daunting as the Bush era seems to be ending and no obvious leader is waiting in the wings.
Although he is affable in person, his difficulties appear to stem from a confrontational governing style unsuited to a modest place like Seattle.
When difficulties appeared, America would ride to the rescue, cheered on by an accommodating Russia and all sorts of other, newly reliable friends.
An example of these difficulties appears in the first-act finale, in the coloratura leaps and runs negotiated by Lili Vanessi, a faded Hollywood star playing Shakespeare's Katharine.
If he really had an asthmatic condition, he would not have been able to play two excellent sets in the quarterfinal match of the Australian Open before the breathing difficulties appeared".
While trade ties have flourished -- bilateral trade grew 30percentt last year -- China's increasing economic might and regional clout and Japan's prolonged economic difficulties appear to have increased mutual mistrust.
Analysts said that the widening problems at SK Group and other conglomerates, coming against the backdrop of nuclear tensions with North Korea and uncertainty about developments in the Middle East, were beginning to create a crisis atmosphere in South Korea, even though the country's current difficulties appear to be far less severe than they were during the economic crisis of 1997 and 1998.
