Sentence examples for hard time returning from inspiring English sources

They had a hard time returning it.

I suspect that this is a Freudian slip; whether it is or not, there's no question that last year austerity fever swept through the ranks of Very Serious People like a dance craze, and that both policy makers and the media are having a hard time returning to reality.

A series of civilian and military operations around the strategic southern province, made possible after a force of 12,000 American and NATO troops reached full strength here in the late summer, has persuaded Afghan and Western officials that the Taliban will have a hard time returning to areas they had controlled in the province that was their base.

And if that's too warm and fuzzy for you, flip over to the business side of this whole enterprise and contemplate why Kentucky could have such a hard time returning to the top next year -- a huge percentage of its team will hop to the N.B.A. -- and why St. John's is having such a desperate time in its coaching search (if your phone is ringing, the college may be calling to offer you the job).

Analysts say that while the company faces a hard time returning its smartphone division to profit, it is not impossible.

But unless the leadership in their churches does a better job with its teaching ministry, such students will have a hard time returning to their home churches.

And because of their reduced sense of smell, the affected salmon could also have a harder time returning to the right spawning streams.

Dewey's above-the-battle strategy, an overreaction to the criticism he had endured for campaigning too bitterly after the Fala speech in 1944, gave Truman the opening to charge that Republicans were going to shut down successful government programs and refuse to protect ordinary citizens when hard times returned.

Has the last great surge of reform – from Every Child Matters in 2003 – begun to peter out as spending cuts and harder times return?

The theory is that they won't decamp if hard times return.

But others see undercurrents of racial unease that could boil into conflict, especially if hard times return.