The decline in home equity makes it more difficult for struggling homeowners to refinance and reduces the financial incentive of stressed borrowers to remain in their homes.
If I need to steal from a difficult spot, I like to use a 'bottom-up' attention strategy to direct the focus.
I feel England is the most difficult place for a bowler.
I began as a bowler and batting at No. 8 or 9 at Under-14, U-16 and U-19 levels, so to change myself was really difficult.
Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.
When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
I think 'Bridesmaids' has changed things socially and culturally. Before, it was really difficult for women to do scatological humour without seeming gross.
Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional.
It is very difficult to 'make it' as a top broadcaster or YouTuber.
Scientists generally are really chicken about getting involved in some kind of dispute. As a broadcaster, I find it very difficult to urge them, if it is a controversial subject. They don't want to have science being portrayed badly.
In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.
No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.
It's always helpful to have somebody help buoy you in difficult times and problem-solve with and to share the marvelous moments with as well.
Being described as a stupid bureaucrat with no link to representative democracy is difficult to take.
The busier you get, and the more forward-looking you become, the more difficult it is to actually acknowledge and gain strength and inspiration from the things you've already accomplished, which can become problematic when you're in a startup.
The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption.
My most difficult class at Harvard Business School would have to be finance.
It's very difficult to explain to a normal working citizen the implications of what $18 trillion in debt means and what it means when the Federal Reserve buys the U.S. Treasury bonds to finance our loss every month.
Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored.
