Some immigrant advocates worry that hard financial times make it more difficult for natives to keep jobs.

一些移民拥护者担心，经济困难会令当地人很难保住工作。

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I learned that the road to success is difficult and we need to have courage and work hard.

我知道了成功之路是艰难的，我们需要有勇气和努力工作。

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The pain in my back was hard to bear and even basic daily tasks became difficult.

背部的疼痛让我难以忍受，甚至连基本的日常工作都变得困难。

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But trade-union rules make it difficult to hire and fire workers, lower-paid jobs for the less skilled are hard to come by, and a combination of high taxes on low incomes and generous welfare payments reduces the incentive to seek work at all.

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All of this is the difficult politics of ambitious change - the hard choices of implementation.

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This not only makes it difficult to attract high-flyers into the public sector, but also makes it hard to raise standards by, for instance, putting the best head teachers in charge of groups of schools.

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