At one end of the legal spectrum, a federal judge in Louisiana had no difficulty in July in enjoining a company that sold shirts bearing the school colors and initials of four football powerhouses.
The country's failed attempt to host rugby's showpiece event in 2023 ran into difficulty in October when the board of World Rugby, the governing body, unanimously recommended that South Africa should host the event two weeks before the final vote.
According to the indictment, Mr. Cioffi and Mr. Tannin became aware of the funds' difficulties in March.
The difficulty started in March, when some of the organizers of the 2014 Game Developers Choice Awards received a bomb threat.
It blamed this on a reduction in the forward order book following operational difficulties in June and July which meant customers did not receive an adequate service.
The controversial production first encountered difficulties in June, when they had to move the play from the school in Bethnal Green to UCL academy in Swiss Cottage, after concerns from Tower Hamlets council that it would be "insensitive".
The United States initially kept the United Nations out of its transition plans, but when those plans ran into difficulties in January, the Bush administration asked the organization to take on major responsibility for shaping the transfer.
"If there is not substantial progress on the Irish border, the backstop, [which is] simply in line with what the British have committed to, then I think there will be difficulties in June," he said in reference to the next summit of EU leaders scheduled to review Brexit talks.
Despite fears among Republicans that Mr. Romney's political difficulties in September would hurt his fund-raising, Restore Our Future, the super PAC backing his White House bid, brought in $14 million, more than in the past two months combined, and began October with $16 million in the bank, according to disclosures filed on Friday with the Federal Election Commission.
But while Brazil received a record $30 billion loan from the monetary fund at the height of its difficulties in August, Argentina has endured months of off-again, on-again talks with its creditors and ended the year in default with even the World Bank.
