One is the use of clay, or other materials, to help make difficult concepts less abstract.
What this means is that school districts have been forced to make difficult decisions.
Officers must sometimes make difficult, split-second decisions about how much force to use.
How do you make difficult choices about tactics or strategy or philosophical direction when everyone has an equal say?
Even as we make difficult decisions about going to war, we must also think clearly about how we fight it.
He said health boards are having to make difficult decisions in "balancing high quality standards of care with financial responsibility".
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All this, even as we make difficult budget decisions while keeping our military the finest fighting force in the world.
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"We need to make difficult decisions and we need to reduce the living costs, so it's tough and painful, " said Niven.
So, rather than shifting costs through short-term cuts, we instead need to make difficult structural changes in our health care programs.
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In return, your leaders must rise to the challenges your country is facing, and make difficult choices to bring security and prosperity.
The Evelyn Grace Academy, a school for underprivileged children, bespeaks a genuine desire to demonstrate that architecture can make difficult lives better.
We will support those who make difficult choices in pursuit of peace.
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Cipfa director of policy Ian Carruthers said tight budgets meant councils had to make difficult choices between tax rises and cuts in services.
Splitting is a primitive psychological defense mechanism used to make difficult people in our lives seem all good, or all bad, as needed.
Any president, that is, has to make difficult decisions about how to balance national security with civil liberties and the rule of law.
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Thus, boost-phase interception requires very prompt detection of a missile launch -- which adverse cloud and weather conditions can make difficult or impossible.
We're by no means out of the woods yet, and given the administrations of recent weeks, the next quarter's figures are likely to make difficult reading.
As well as seeking emergency federal help for public pensions, infrastructure, and access to capital for short-term cashflow, Mr Nutter has been forced to make difficult cuts.
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There is a chance that he could leave Barclays in the embarrassing position of having to make difficult choices about its structure which it might wish to avoid.
Just as we agree that both sides will need to make difficult choices, we agree that unilateral actions -- such as Palestinians seeking a vote on statehood at the U.N.
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The U.S. must make difficult decisions: How much privacy should we give up to prevent a new round of terror, and what must be done to ensure things don't go too far?
No politician likes to make difficult decisions.
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President Bush said Friday that he would return to the Mideast in May to continue pressing for a peace agreement, saying Israel and the Palestinians need to "make difficult choices" if a deal is to be reached before he leaves office.
At a time when too many of our people are still out of work, we agree that we've got to stay focused on creating the growth and jobs that put our people back to work, even as both our countries make difficult choices to put our fiscal houses in order.
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If anything is begrudged, it is the passage by voters (through their representatives) of laws and regulations that make it more difficult to render assistance as they make it more difficult to live.
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From my perspective, this is a simple problem that has very complicated politics and emotion that make it difficult to make progress.
Wilmington Small Cap Growth Fund (ARPAX) has deceptively high costs coupled with poor holdings make it difficult to expect this mutual fund to make money for investors.
Meanwhile, in Europe, the French presidential election may make it more difficult to make further progress on dealing with the debt crisis (not an easy matter at the best of times).
High prices for corn, beef, and other staples right now make it difficult for a one-location restaurant to price competitively and still make a profit.
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