While an accountant at Carnegie Hall in the early 1980s, he grew infuriated at the difficulty of figuring out the city's alternate-side-of-the-street parking rules.
Under the Tories, ministers railed at the difficulty of getting welfare reforms through the Lords, but they never questioned the Lords' right to vote against the government.
He told me how he founded Songkick in 2007 after growing frustrated that at the difficulty of finding out when his favorite bands were coming to town, or just finding good live music on any given night.
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The 18-strong team at Cleethorpes RNLI lifeboat station rescues dozens of people in difficulty at sea each year.
However, Mr Justice Treacy disagreed and said they went beyond mere advice or information aimed at resolving a difficulty.
We had difficulty at first getting exact cost comparisons for similar treatments, but we did our due diligence and developed accurate comparisons.
"He's been a great servant to the club but he just feels that the travelling from Derry has become a difficulty at this stage of his life, " said MacEil.
We have some wonderful supporters in Leicester who have become firm friends over the years and they can rest assured that their generosity continues to help people in difficulty at sea.
McMoRan Exploration tumbled after the company reported a technical difficulty at its Davy Jones prospect, which the company has said has the potential to be one of the largest wells on the Gulf of Mexico's shelf in decades.
But the company's "junk" credit rating has impeded its fundraising to the point that it has difficulty borrowing at rates that make the loans profitable.
Secondary education in the United States is unusual in that students typically have considerable latitude in selecting which subjects they study and at what level of difficulty.
"Migrants become easy targets at times of economic difficulty but introducing yet more tough measures to exclude people could damage our prospects for economic recovery, " said IPPR's Tim Finch.
Investigators questioned a woman who complained of difficulty breathing at the time the wires were discovered but ruled out the possibility that she lodged the complaint to provide a diversion, said New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne.
One expat observes that Britain's left, faced with the erosion of civil liberties at home and a plausible Conservative victory at the next election, has difficulty feeling holier-than-thou when looking across at Barack Obama, the Democrats' probable candidate for president.
These vocational qualifications could be in anything from engineering to hairdressing, but will be taught at a level of difficulty which is meant to show that pupils are able to carry out "complex and non-routine" skills, on a par with A-levels.
So Nagty's courses are set at a similar level of difficulty to that of a first year of a degree.
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One area they are looking at in particular is the difficulty of getting venture capital for business start-ups once you get out of the South-East.
But as I listened, Doug, to the presentation, I don't think at least I have any difficulty with the diagnosis of the problem that threat facing us is international terrorism.
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Since reaching the final of the 2006 World Cup, the French have won just one of their 10 tournament matches and have exhibited an alarming tendency to unravel at the first sign of difficulty.
The encounters we had a chance to look at seemed like the perfect difficulty, as I personally witnessed several attendees vanquish the demo dragon handily while others were drenched in dragon acid and died quickly.
According to the National Sleep Foundation's 2004 Sleep in America poll, 13% of school-age children have difficulty falling asleep at bedtime and 26% of preschoolers seem sleepy or overtired during the day at least a few days a week.
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At this point the political difficulty for Israel became the size of prisoner release that Palestinian intermediaries were demanding and the difficulty of agreeing to a step that might be seen as rewarding the militant group so soon after the fighting.
But he has said that it is "unacceptable in a time of difficulty when people at the top of our society are not showing signs of responsibility" and said the government was consulting on measures to "make sure we get transparency in terms of boardroom pay, proper accountability and more power for shareholders".
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If you race through each mission you could snuff out all your enemies in no time at all, especially on easier difficulty levels.
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But the view that the next pope has to be European and, if not progressive, then at least moderate, runs into difficulty on two counts.
The health board also said it was having difficulty coping with capacity at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh because of rising population levels in Lothian.
This chart reported by the folks over at the Volokh Conspiracy illustrates the difficulty of determining whether lawsuits, regulators, manufacturers or consumer demand reduce liability.
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If your credit score is below 620, you will be considered subprime and will have difficulty getting a loan at all, let alone one with favorable terms.
Contrary to Mr Wood's assertions, the evidence so far suggests that they are eating into workers' real earnings, and hurting companies' profit margins at home (as they have difficulty passing on higher costs).
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