Word expert James Rogers says the word "it" in the saying can mean any and all difficulties.

VOA: special.2010.11.21

He talked about personal responsibility, and used himself as an example of someone who overcame difficulties.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

Miz McClellan praised Wilma Mankiller's ability to lead and help others during such personal difficulties.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

Loneliness has been linked to health problems like depression and sleeping difficulties.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

A friend of Webster's described the meeting in these words: "Mister Clay came to Mister Webster's house and had a long talk with him about the best way to settle the difficulties growing out of slavery and the new territories.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

Hearst says that he and Gluckstern encounter the same difficulties all entrepreneurs face, but once or twice their youth created a small issue.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

"The preparations for the second round going on,". "Until now,we don't have any specific difficulties or challenges, and we are going to go ahead."

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

Let me reassure you that the government will meet those challenges and overcome these difficulties."

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

He added that some stations experienced minor difficulties in operating the electronic registration rolls and party observers arrived at some polling stations without proper accreditation.

VOA: standard.2009.11.28

Halima Lewis,29, and her mother,Michelle,say that trial and other difficulties now seem unimportant.

VOA: standard.2009.06.28

It's a much safer pill and a lot of the difficulties have been worked out in terms of safety and side effects, not all of them, but there are still problems with the Pill.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

The author acknowledges that after nine years of large-scale U.S.military involvement in the Middle East, and with the nation's economic difficulties bearing down on them, many Americans feel the temptation to pull the U.S.strong horse out of the region.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

"This is a rough-and-tumble place and it's nice to come back to two people who care about me, who care about my success, who care about the difficulties I might be having either at work or at home and just to have two friends who are a sounding board."

VOA: standard.2010.08.07

This is presidential historian and author Robert Dallek: "Once the public turns against a war, once it is convinced that you are embarked upon if not a losing enterprise then something that is going to produce a quagmire, it creates tremendous political difficulties for the president and it undermines his credibility, trust in his judgment and his ability to put across his domestic reforms,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.09