It is hard to balance and measure the emotional value of items given to beneficiaries.
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Corporate technology executives aren't just obsessed with work--they work hard to balance personal lives with their demanding schedules.
It's a great fitness activity and stress reliever, but it's hard to balance the schedule of a CIO with the training hours needed for all three sports.
While the knowledge acquired can make a big difference for a small company, it can be especially hard to balance school, the often-around-the-clock demands of running a business and a personal life.
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"I tried hard to balance the needs of the science with the IPCC, which were not always the same, " wrote East Anglia climatologist Keith Briffa to Penn State's Michael Mann in April 2007.
Sumrin Mudgil, 14, says it can be hard to balance her homework with so much practice, but she loves playing the sport especially the tournaments, which allow her to make friends across the country.
With the country running a nearly trillion dollar annual deficit, it is time to make the hard decisions required to balance the books.
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Apologising for not being able to attend the party, he said the commission had worked hard to strike a balance between the freedom of the press and the need to treat fairly those who found themselves in the news.
Its always hard to tell but on balance I think the Chinese government is aware of this, yet is willing to lose money on its capital investments in order to provide jobs for people moving to the city.
It was hard to get this delicate balance in emotionally intense scenes but, says Shanley, with actors of Streep and Hoffman's caliber his approach was to use a very light touch.
The board has tried hard to address off-balance-sheet abuses.
Pakistanis have worked hard to maintain a crucial strategic balance in the Waziristan region by forging peace with three of the region's four major militant factions.
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And they will seek out employers who try hard to make better work-life balance a reality.
He added that retailers such as Debenhams had to strike a "hard balance".
"The Bank remains between a rock and a hard place in trying to strike a balance between the rising pressures of inflation and supporting the economic recovery, " he said.
There also needs to be a balance between price and specs which may be just as hard to achieve.
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If people continue to save more than they typically have, on balance, that's going to be hard for retail without factoring in online purchases from offshore which are an issue as well.
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But it will be a hard, if not impossible, balance to strike.
America's government is working hard to revive markets for securitised debt, aware that banks lack the balance-sheet capacity to absorb all of those credit-card receivables and auto loans.
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The second was to use its balance sheet to help commercial and investment banks finance their holdings of hard-to-value securities and avoid fire-sales of assets.
Those with balance issues may find it hard to feel secure when wearing rubbery flip-flops.
They say it is important to find a balance between how hard the exercise is, how long you exercise for and how often you exercise.
Still, after years of financial convulsions abroad it is hard to say that the RBI has got the balance between safety and thrills wildly wrong.
One problem is that investors have lost confidence in bank balance sheets, making it hard to assess what the true probability of default might be.
But the prospect of an equal balance in parliament makes it hard to see a stable government being formed, says Erion Veliaj, leader of the small G99 party.
Mr. Horvath: We wanted to find a balance between Sun's hard work and something reasonable.
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Highly leveraged balance sheets could lead to bankruptcies during hard times.
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Many countries, particularly within the eurozone, have been cutting back hard on welfare spending in an attempt to reduce debt and balance government books as tax revenues fall because of weak growth.
Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, was among those who'd been critical of the plans and a senior party source told the BBC he had "worked incredibly hard within the coalition to ensure these proposals achieve the right balance between liberty and security".
But that growth is what will get us to balance, if we are willing to make the hard decisions of cutting.
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