Word: difficult
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Rape politics are a particularly difficult area in this respect. The more strongly we feel about the crime of rape--and the more we understand about its devastating consequences for its victims--the less inclined we are to care about the other side of the story. I have heard people say, with the most earnest passion, that if a woman says she's been raped that's enough for them--as if to need any more evidence than that was to insult and trivialize rape survivors everywhere, to perpetuate the abhorrent tradition of blaming the victim. But it should work...
...most difficult save Jonas had to make during Union's long five-on-three time happened with two seconds left on the second two-man advantage...
...takes a lot of energy to maintain. Bush has stretched himself so thin to span the issues that his support tends to be shallow; voters who like him often can't say why. But if his ideology--a dab of conservatism here, a touch of moderation there--remains difficult to pin down, that is precisely the idea. His self-styled New Republican approach continues to draw supporters from across his party's ideological spectrum. By emphasizing issues like education, for example, Bush is attracting women voters at levels other Republicans can only envy. He is even winning favorable reviews from...
...categories before they are cut and polished, making it nearly impossible to mark each one in a way that could be retained from mine to showroom. Says Willy Nagel, a top De Beers broker in London: "The certification of diamonds is not foolproof. Smuggling is so widespread and so difficult to combat that one way or another, the UNITA diamonds are going to get on the market...
...city may be a sign of a new type of warfare. "This isn't really country against country," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "It's Russia fighting against an informal army that isn't clearly answerable to a defined political center, and which the Russians are finding difficult to distinguish from the civilian population." The fate of Grozny's civilians, then, may hold some bad news for civilians everywhere caught in the conflicts of the future...