I'm not talking about artists, writers, filmmakers and musicians – they weren't exactly on a trajectory toward Wall Street anyway – but any businesses that might have employed creative individuals were having difficulties surviving, and naturally, the arty types had a hard time finding employment, too.
Independent studios have historically had difficulty surviving in modern Hollywood.
"There are many orphans and widows who have difficulty surviving".
First, economic prospects are so dire that companies already in trouble will have difficulty surviving.
Many valuable crop and ornamental plants are very susceptible to disease and would have difficulty surviving in nature without human intervention.
The tendency of previously serious weeklies to use small cartoons here and there or to insert a funny page somewhere created not only new markets for cartoonists but also a temporary decline in the purely humorous magazines, and Punch, Life, and Judge had difficulty surviving the Depression of the 1930s.
And several Democrats said that if Mr. Sharpton were really treated as a serious candidate, he would have difficulty surviving questions about, for example, his income taxes, or his advocacy of Tawana Brawley, who claimed in 1987 that she had been abducted and raped by a gang of white men.
The problem was that these wines had difficulty surviving the long sea voyage to the thirsty British market.
They scraped moss away from the rock to leave 20-square-centimeter islands, marooning the inhabitants--tiny spiders, mites, and springtails that would have difficulty surviving on bare rock.
They have, however, been confidently shown to provide a habitat to species that have difficulty surviving elsewhere.
