There had been difficulties, to be sure.
Of course, there are difficulties to be overcome.
An honest and open culture should allow difficulties to be heard, rather than to remain unspoken.
More details may emerge in mid-December, but the difficulties to be overcome are huge.
He called for "diplomatic difficulties" to be resolved to "stop the epidemic" and to compensate victims fully.
British Airways has shrugged off its recent difficulties to be named airline of the year for the first time in almost 20 years.
There are many technical difficulties to be solved before this can happen and a major one concerns the protection of patients.
But he added that the frank disclosure by the bank would allow "the difficulties to be addressed in an orderly fashion".
For most Americans, Mr. Weiner said, high speed is either too expensive or too fraught with technical difficulties to be attractive.
Most of the difficulties to be resolved before this is done involve, not the launching rocket, but the capsule that will carry the passenger.
Ms. Kuster, he said, "is not against the construction of social housing, but she does not want all the difficulties to be concentrated in the same place".
