Since the global financial crash, banks have traveled a hard road of bad debt, volatile funding markets and an uncertain economy.
But he acknowledged that a hard road had been made harder by the rise in oil prices and the disruption caused by the tsunami in Japan.
"I would say our experience in the United Kingdom is that you can take people with you as you take those difficult decisions, but ... it's a very tough and hard road, but it's a road we all have to travel, " he said.
Acknowledging Libya faces major security challenges, Mr Cameron told the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson the country was on a "long, painful, hard road to a genuine, secure and stable democracy".
Overall, I would suggest that if you let your fears control your actions, you probably have a hard and unhappy road ahead as an entrepreneur.
While Apple claims the device gets up to five hours of battery life--just about enough for a cross-country flight, provided you're not delayed--the inability to replace the battery on the go could be a problem for hard-core road warriors, who pop batteries into their machines the way a long-distance trucker gobbles amphetamines.
It said the aircraft made a hard landing on a road and then came to a stop in a nearby rice paddy field.
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander told the BBC that the world economy was in a "very serious situation" and the country faces a "long, hard road back to recovery".
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This paper in 1993 foresaw a long, hard, potholed road to peace.
"I am a bit wary of pushing too hard on road circuits when it is wet, " said the former bricklayer.
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For a Londoner it is like Tottenham Court Road on steroids with 10 times the noise and a hundred times the hard sell.
So clapping and singing nursery rhymes with babies and toddlers may not only be what many parents do naturally but might also protect children against the effects of dyslexia further down the road a hypothesis it is hard to imagine having developed without the insights that came from peering directly into children's brains.
Once a musician starts writing about how hard life is on the road, and the predation of the paparazzi, it's generally over.
It creates a bus lane on the hard shoulder and uses sensors in the road to detect when mandatory speed limits should be varied to help traffic flow.
The answer to addiction is not a demand for self sufficiency, it is the personal support on the hard road to recovery.
At the height of the Troubles she wrote the song It's A Hard Life about a conversation with a black-taxi driver on the Falls Road.
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Amazingly, a large number seem ready to put the blame on themselves, and, as if to show that they bear the retail trade no hard feelings, they wander off peacefully down the road to do their shopping at a nearby Tesco instead.
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Or to put it another way, it is hard to see how the eurozone convoy can or will do a u-turn on the road to ruin, unless and until that convoy sees that it is minutes away from driving over a cliff.
An America on the road to ending poverty, with the American dream becoming a new reality for millions of hard-working Americans.
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It's hard to execute at a level that I'm sure we're going to see down the road, but really for the first day, he did pretty good.
And it is hard to find a serious economist who doesn't believe that the strategy is to kick the can down the road.
And one of the things that I've always said about governors that Washington could learn from is that it's hard to be overly ideological as a governor, because the fact of the matter is, the rubber hits the road with you.
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