And after the last nine months, you know I wasn't kidding. (Laughter.) I wasn't kidding about it being hard.
The reason is not theoretical (it being hard to understand why the one unelected branch should be supreme over the other two) but practical.
Even the choice of the positive feeling word nurture (the act of promoting development of the individual) is stated from a point of view of it being hard work rather than being something done naturally for its intrinsic value.
It is easy to imagine King being dismayed by these historical regressive links, but it is hard to imagine him being moved to silence or inaction by them.
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On the other hand, the reserve is so large, it's hard to imagine it being much bigger.
He told reporters Tuesday it had been hard being away from home as the disaster unfolded.
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Perhaps a bigger problem is that there are so many good generic psychiatric drugs available now that it is perceived as being hard to improve on them.
And it's hard being out of work.
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If you have a lot of information gathered in one place and it is from a lot of different places, it may be hard for one human being to keep track of it all.
And so it's not hard to imagine a chimpanzee being bitten while it's attacking another monkey and picking up virus that way.
And it's been a very bitter fight, so it strikes me as being pretty hard to put that together at the end of the day.
"It's a lot of hard work being nominated for the Turner Prize and I'd advise anybody who gets nominated for it to think seriously whether you accept it, " she said.
Since patients often are treated without being tested, it's hard to know what's what.
If you truly loved (the first three seasons of 'Arrested Development'), it's hard to imagine being anything but disappointed with this new rendition.
"It seems many American consumers are being hard hit from multiple directions, and their overall budgets are being maxed to the limit, " Green said.
Once you've started charging for empty premises in full, and apart from new business premises being built, it's hard to see how business rates revenue can be lifted, buoyantly, by economic growth.
This large and competent study, by professors Nick Bloom, Toby Kretschmer and John van Reenen, was actually read by some, be it clearly without a proper understanding of its methodology (which, indeed, it being an academic paper, is hard to fully appreciate without proper research methodology training).
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It was hard to believe this was being presented as a serious suggestion.
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In negotiating concessions from foreign rulers, it helped to have a reputation for being hard to control and even harder to predict.
While it's hard to imagine that being totally commonplace usage, this does at least make for an easy way to get your tunes throughout the house.
Also, since it is regulated lightly or not at all, it is hard to tell whether children being taught at home are receiving an adequate education.
It is hard to see the system being both tougher and more appealing: making difficult subjects like maths compulsory may encourage a few borderline students not to give them up.
With so much of the set-up being new, Byrne admits it is hard to make predictions about what the team can achieve as he has no idea how the bike may develop.
"If you look at the results last cycle it's hard to argue that being early or being big was much of an advantage, " says Alex Conant, an adviser to former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
"I can understand it because you push yourself too hard and then it takes its toll because your body is being pushed beyond its limits, " the gold medallist said.
It's hard to blame Patrick for being eager to show off his new toy.
"It's been hard for me, being a woman, " Ms. Wile said during a trip to India last April.
Little is being discussed in the press so it is hard to know what is going on behind the scenes.
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