As a child, she survived a fever that left it hard for her to read and write.
In Afghanistan, two decades of war have also left it hard to distinguish between the bad times and the worse.
Blomfield's ambition can get ahead of him at times, leaving it hard to disentangle possibilities from plans, and plans from actually existing products.
"His senseless killing by so-called friends who grew up with him has left it hard for me to understand the futility of snatching Leon's future whilst, in the same breath, destroying their own".
Conservatives like Newt Gingrich and Representative Michele Bachmann have stoked fears about Islam in general, leaving it hard to tell just how much democracy they would seek to promote in countries like Egypt — where Islamists of various stripes have been winning elections, most recently for the presidency.
Additionally, it found some of the story's plot twists "not... suitably manipulated and prepared", leaving it "hard not to greet such... moments with anything but indifference".
Her first post-announcement interview was with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC this afternoon, and the way she talked about her decision left it hard to discern if some sort of presidential run is in the offing.
Give anything dehydrated a chance to rehydrate rather than just sprinkling it on top, which would leave it hard and difficult to taste at first.
When people leave, it is hard to get them to move back, says John Hudson, the submarines director at BAE Systems.
It is the subject of opener Long Way Around, single Not Ready to Make Nice, Lubbock Or Leave It, So Hard and the closing I Hope.
