Should a country spend excessively or hold domestic interest rates too low, it would find it difficult to maintain its currency's tie to the dollar or, in the case of the United States, to gold.
The French left confounded pollsters and analysts who predicted it would find it difficult to obtain a clear majority in the Assemblée Nationale, the lower house of parliament.
Embroiled in the bitter reality of having to show more fiscal restraint than any previous Labour government, it would find it exceedingly difficult to remake capitalism.
He knows implicitly that he's getting it, though he would find it difficult to say at this point what, exactly, he's getting.
At 87 the elder Mr Kamprad would find it difficult to return to the helm if IKEA comes unstuck.
He came across as rather grey, uncharismatic and someone who voters would find it difficult to relate to.
Luchento said he would find it difficult to say yes to almost any of them.
After so many years of fighting in Iraq, it was natural the military would find it difficult to let go.
But it is a proposal they would find it difficult to reject out of hand-and that is more than can be said of any other proposal.
The King would reign for a little longer, but it was becoming apparent that he would find it difficult to keep the heir off his throne.
