Until the Bush administration fills in those blanks, it will be hard not only to hammer out an agreement, it will be hard even to have a serious discussion.
Common ground will be hard to find not only between the U.S. and EU, but between Europeans.
Anyone doubting that his call for unity among expatriates will be hard to realise need only surf the 20-odd Los Angeles-based Persian-language television channels which can be viewed by owners of satellite dishes in Iran.
These will be hard times because not only do you have to deal with the changes being a teenager infringes upon you, but you also have to deal with the social pressures of your identity as a Muslim boy who comes from an immigrant family.
It will be hard for Labour, which is only reluctantly accepting the need for austerity and has no plans for big tax cuts, to promise less.The hash Mr Miliband made of his own conference speech, it must be said, was a gift to the Tory gathering.
Update: Denver entered Saturday 4 1/2 games out of a playoff spot in the Western Conference standings, a deficit that will be hard to make up with only nine games left on its schedule.
It's a juggernaut that will be hard to stop because the only moral language we have says "yes," not "no" -- though we all feel that familiar unease so prevalent in science fiction that warns of the danger of technology unleashed from a sense of the sacred.
By trying doing it all, however, it will be hard to keep up and will only result in frustration.
Gripping the edge of the piano like a despairing drinker clutching the bar, Rose poured out his heart in a performance that will be hard to equal this year – and it's only January.
He will be hard pushed to find many positives with only one more friendly, at home to Denmark in March, before he has to put pen to paper on the provisional party that will fly to the World Cup.
