As difficult and painful as holding a hot potato.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

But Mark Zandi of Moody's Economy.com in New York says that as difficult as 2009 has been so far, the rest of the year could be worse.

VOA: standard.2009.03.10

And I feel like having dealt with adversity really helps me to lead a group of men through difficult times as well."

VOA: special.2010.06.02

Many of his stories are about a child trying to survive while facing difficult emotions such as fear.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

We all know that some people do not seem as emotionally strong as others when life gets difficult.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

This makes it more difficult for the body to effectively use the same amount of oxygen as it would on the ground.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

And an international movement known as hospice has helped bring attention to difficult-to-treat pain for the dying.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

President Obama also spoke about the difficult time people in the Gulf area were going through as a result of the oil spill.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

She says the original books written during the Depression served as an escape from difficult economic times.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

Although it is inevitably slower and more difficult than any of us would wish, we are mobilizing all resources as fast as we possibly can."

VOA: special.2010.01.16

As Rosemary grew older, she became increasingly difficult to live with and supervise.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

He says it will be difficult for Iraqi security forces to stop Sunni attacks, unless Sunnis themselves decide to stop them as they did in two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.08.22

Others are more difficult to identify and not as well known.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

So it might be difficult to imagine anything twice as big.

VOA: special.2009.09.22