"Big ears, big old jug ears like that." Pett says,cartoonists are essential to showing the lighter side of life, especially in difficult times.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

It was the largest and most difficult structure of its kind ever built when work started in nineteen thirty-one.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

But protecting plants and trees in the garden may not be too difficult if you follow a few suggestions.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

He says the actively changing nature of the Internet makes it difficult to stay current in studying its effects.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

I did not want them to be difficult or to get in my hair while I was working on the computer.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

"The ambiguity that's in those answers is very,very difficult for humans to understand, never mind a computer to understand.

VOA: special.2011.02.28

The objects in the exhibit tell a story about government expansion during a difficult period in American history.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

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

His first years in the United States were difficult, like those of most immigrants at that time.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

The Democratic Party had a much more difficult time choosing a candidate for president in eighteen sixty-eight.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

So they quickly passed a bill that made it much more difficult for Chinese citizens to come to live in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

We slept on the hard ground, ate canned beans from cold metal plates and spent our days in the difficult search for gold.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

Miller examined this difficult period in American history by setting his play at another difficult time.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

But the published report says that would have forced it to fly in a difficult position.

VOA: special.2010.03.16