Tight budgets, for example, make it harder for the government to increase discretionary spending.
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Ratings downgrades make it harder for banks to sell credit-default swaps tied to bonds or loans.
Such developments will make it harder for America to finance its huge current-account deficit.
Fewer plankton make it harder for the fish, and therefore the birds, to survive.
It could also make it harder for Britain and its fellow euro naysayers to join later.
We should not make it harder for workers to organize, and that's his position.
Will these changes by the Fed make it harder for women to leave a dangerous domestic partnership?
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The draft legislation appears designed to make it harder for Iran to use euros as a substitute.
Italy has become riskier because rising rates make it harder for the country to service its debts.
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This could make it harder for people to move from one part of the country to another.
Full disclosure early in trials might indeed make it harder for firms to protect clever new ideas.
That could make it harder for banks to claw back pay if a bank runs into trouble.
They have built overly elaborate management structures that make it harder for people to do their jobs.
He said he wanted to make it harder for golf-course owners to fire caddies and replace them with golf carts.
This in turn will make it harder for any Flemish party to co-operate comfortably with any Walloons.
These special interest groups lobby to make it harder for shareholders to unseat crony boards and under-performing CEOs.
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What the bill does do is make it harder for pharmaceuticals companies to get around a built-in loophole.
Mr. Jaccard is concerned the fee will make it harder for him to make bulk trades for clients.
The combined effect of these regulations will make it harder for new insurance plans to enter the market.
But the charter-drafters wanted to make it harder for any other dominant majority party to emerge in future.
It says the move will save money and make it harder for law-enforcement agencies to shut it down.
UNITA's side of the war, it helped to make it harder for the rebels to sell their gems.
Wage controls, profit controls, exchange controls and other inflation-related restrictions similarly make it harder for businesses to function.
As more players enter the field, however, competition may make it harder for the new parking services to succeed.
It could make it harder for him to woo middle-of-the-road voters in the approach to next September's general election.
The government will also make it harder for businesses involved in using tax avoidance schemes to get government work.
Newly tightened disclosure requirements could make it harder for capital-hungry Asian companies to gain access to U.S. financial markets.
But they make it harder for women to gain the experience necessary to make it to the very top.
And subsidies for preschool make it harder for families to justify making the sacrifice to keep kids at home.
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Mr Darling's new guidelines should make it harder for planners to refuse applications.
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