But the Flemish separatists are making things increasingly difficult in the longer run.

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Perhaps I have been making things as difficult as they possibly could be so I could come back and emerge the winner.

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He, or she, lives in the Congo River, and the hippo is making things very difficult and dangerous for people in the village of Bukhama.

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This dynamic is also making things comparatively more difficult to build big, utility-scale solar power projects.

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HMOs were put into place to do many difficult things, but making themselves popular was not one of them.

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So did several others, making it difficult for the fraudsters to keep things going.

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An Epson ink-jet printer's connector fit, but 3Com's marketers don't mention that Bluetooth behaves like a serial port rather than a parallel one, making installation difficult and keeping many printers from reporting things like the status of ink cartridges or paper jams.

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Making the process even more difficult is their busy travel schedule, making it harder to keep an eye on things.

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"Now that I've been filled in by friends about how difficult her troubled son (the shooter) was making things for her, I understand that it wasn't that Nancy was overwrought about the trivialities of everyday life, but that she was handling a very difficult situation with uncommon grace, " Mr. Leff wrote on the blog.

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Making the situation more difficult is that there seems to be little indication that things will get better any time soon.

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