The country had suffered a serious economic depression the year before, and jobs were difficult to find.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

He hoped he had made the country understand one thing: the great need to forget hatred and bitterness in the difficult time of re-building that would follow the war.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

That could put Greece in the high risk investment category, making it very difficult for the country to borrow money.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

Determining Muse's true age is difficult because birth certificates are rare in Somalia,a country which has not had a functioning government for nearly two decades.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

"You are helping us to build a cleaner, brighter future and a stronger more prosperous economy and my administration and our country will support you in that difficult work,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

The country is large and travel is difficult and time consuming.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

"They said,without this service, NGOs [non-governmental organizations and agencies will be unable to reach operation areas in the east and south of the country, and it is an area that is particularly insecure and difficult,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.02

A newly released history of 20th Century Russia, written by a team of 45 scholars and edited by historian Andrei Zubov, includes a statement that much of the country's recent past is painfully difficult to study, which is why many refuse to do so.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

He says the process of sorting through those areas, which include sites around the country,but concentrated in the mountainous northern areas, will be a long and difficult one, though it is work that needs to be done in the name of the victims' families.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18