But it is a long-term, difficult, risky, costly, audacious project.
They have vowed to make his five-year term difficult, if not impossible.
For John Stephens, mellifluous soul charmer, Kanye West protege and self-proclaimed Legend, the term "difficult second album" is especially meaningful.
It's part of our inherent baggage, which can defuse a short-term, difficult situation but can also perpetuate a long-term one.
… We didn't really say, "This is a badly abused nation, and helping this get on its feet is going to be a long-term, difficult, expensive project".
Royal KPN, the former Dutch state telephone company, and Belgacom, its Belgian counterpart, ended their long-running merger talks, saying the slump in telecommunications stocks made agreeing on terms difficult.
Speaking of the Greek election result, he said: "There is a massive contrast with what has happened here in Britain where, yes, we have taken long-term difficult decisions.
So let me just explain the long term difficult decisions that had to be made and what I know we must also do to entrench that stability for the future".
The long-term, difficult (and so on) decisions that he is touting mostly involve the economy, and specifically the tough line the government has taken with some public-sector unions over pay.
