Word expert James Rogers says the word "it" in the saying can mean any and all difficulties.

VOA: special.2010.11.21

Her main goal was to increase public interest in the difficulties of people with physical problems.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

Officials believe that language difficulties cause problems for many in the Hispanic community.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

But the focus was on the secret military documents leaked by the Internet website WikiLeaks that highlighted the military difficulties in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

He added that some stations experienced minor difficulties in operating the electronic registration rolls and party observers arrived at some polling stations without proper accreditation.

VOA: standard.2009.11.28

But guess what? In the last decade weve been able to produce, in spite of all these difficulties, health workers in Mogadishu, in a hospital in Banadir University.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

It's a much safer pill and a lot of the difficulties have been worked out in terms of safety and side effects, not all of them, but there are still problems with the Pill.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

The author acknowledges that after nine years of large-scale U.S.military involvement in the Middle East, and with the nation's economic difficulties bearing down on them, many Americans feel the temptation to pull the U.S.strong horse out of the region.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

This is presidential historian and author Robert Dallek: "Once the public turns against a war, once it is convinced that you are embarked upon if not a losing enterprise then something that is going to produce a quagmire, it creates tremendous political difficulties for the president and it undermines his credibility, trust in his judgment and his ability to put across his domestic reforms,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

"What I would like for the country and everybody to know is that with the age of the computer, it takes time for us to try to keep up with the computer but if some people would start writing again, and sending their bills by mail, maybe it could ease a little of the burden as far as the financial difficulties that we are in."

VOA: standard.2010.04.13