It is difficult to have hope.
It is difficult to have capitalism without freedom and almost impossible to have freedom without capitalism.
It is difficult to have pride of authorship in a sentence like that.
Once a resident has a voucher terminated, it is difficult to have it reinstated.
"It is difficult to have security in the whole municipality," he said.
At present it is difficult to have any confidence in the people who have been involved in these murky events.
"It is difficult to have two big domestic problems – the global financial crisis and the MPs' expenses," he says.
Still, it is difficult to have things more than one way, and when it came to the political drama of his youth, Annan was genuinely undecided.
(But, similarly, it is difficult to have a conversation about Absolut vodka with executives who sell it or advertise it without someone saying "absolutely" at least once).
It is difficult to have a voice when you're a small organisation like us so this does help us be seen and heard a little bit," he said.
"It is difficult to have a through-composed piece that incorporates untrained musicians," Michael McCurdy, a member of Mantra Percussion, said.
