The drive to cut budgets and debt as a proportion of GDP becomes ever harder as the denominator shrinks, especially if the answer from Mrs Merkel is always still more austerity.
The Italian government needs to get more people to pay their taxes, but, as the economic situation worsens, that is proving harder as more people resort to the black market for cash-in-hand jobs.
Issues such as trust and human relations become harder to handle as companies intrude into the lives of their employees.
Just as Sable said, it's harder for them as far as they are pushed to get a job.
But we easily forget that until Gates stepped aside from his business to, yes, save the world, he was widely despised as someone who gave us products that vexed us and made our lives harder in as many ways as they helped us, who often seemed to be in it for corporate enrichment and domination above all.
It was 100% dependent on parental reports, and that gets harder as the kids get older.
It's not easy, and it can become harder as you grow up and have families dependent on you.
Adding 50 or 60 decibels to that is an engineering challenge that grows exponentially harder as the decibels rise.
We have been working harder as each game has gone, but we have not yet played the perfect game.
Using the course to find an edge is becoming harder as the traditional differences between U.S. and European players fade.
Making small, light, efficient, cheap cars is hard, and harder as the standard for lightness, smallness, efficiency, and economy is raised.
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Highland Council warned that the settlement would hit rural areas harder as staffing costs were much higher in schools outwith urban areas.
In the global village it's harder for scamsters to hide their past, but it's harder as well for reformed sinners to get a fresh start.
Market-beating performance gets much harder as the pool of money expands.
Globalisation also makes the taxman's job harder as more individuals receive payments from work or investments abroad, which are more difficult for national authorities to monitor.
That gets harder as the two countries' economies drift apart.
Most children are registered with a family doctor, but Fizza Qureshi, who runs Project London for Doctors of the World, a charity, says this is getting harder as practice managers insist on proof of status first.
The better, quieter scenes, between Micky and his girlfriend (Amy Adams), who wants to pull him to safety, seem to hail from a different movie, and it becomes ever harder as the story lurches forward to see where the focus of interest lies.
Straightforward reforms, such as tax cuts, are almost completed, but the harder tasks, such as seriously trimming the bureaucracy that stifles entrepreneurship, are stuck.
There is a big problem, not so much about the number of people doing science, as the fact that it has got very skewed towards particular areas of science, such as IT and biology, and we are losing out on people doing some of the harder subjects such as physics and chemistry.
Even as the global economy recovers, its imperatives are making it harder for countries to levy taxes as they would like, particularly on capital.
Even I struggle with how to conceptualize those numbers ticking up and down in my bank account as real money, and understanding that concept as a child must be even harder.
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It would be harder, as Iran's sites are scattered, and some are deep underground.
Producing big quantities in America has become harder, as the authorities have cracked down on bulk purchases of the ingredients.
Statistics bear this out: a large part of America's growth in the past year did indeed come from more people working, as well as working harder.
Political discourse is harder, as is any consensus action, because the collaborative promise of an online global village has morphed into an endless number of walled and locked enclaves of exclusionary ideologies.
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So even though we're encouraging our kids to exercise, if they can't go to school and that -- get the same kind of exercise opportunities, then it makes our jobs as parents harder.
"As children, we have no problem meeting people, but as we grow up it becomes harder, " he said.
The fund industry hopes that as Europeans are forced to think harder about their old age, many will come to see that safe investments such as bonds and bank deposits generate lower long-run returns than equities do.
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