11.   Finding and capturing Osama bin Laden will be difficult without the cooperation of Afghanistan, and even the president may not know exactly how that can be accomplished.

12.   Finding higher federal court decisions is astonishingly difficult without plenty of practice.

13.   Finding those shots will be more difficult without Duncan attracting defenders near the basket.

14.   It makes social spending difficult even without a budget deficit.

15.   It would be really difficult without him.

16.   It would be so much more difficult without her caring and attentiveness.

17.   Life would be extremely difficult without anyone to trust.

18.   Proving that the owner of an e-mail address is the same person who sent an e-mail can be difficult without corresponding evidence, he said.

19.   She knew it would be too difficult without them sitting in the cart or toddling along beside her, pleading to buy this or that.

20.   That would be very difficult without electronic tuning.