1.   But they were hard put to say that the proposals were wrongheaded.

2.   McKinney was hard put to say what his greatest accomplishments have been.

3.   She acknowledges with a smile that she has no place to call home and is hard put to say which country she is from.

4.   The game is so labyrinthine that even experts are hard put to say whether laws have been broken.

5.   What put the bank into play, she said, was the Meridian acquisition.

6.   Just days ago, he and his officials were hard put to say exactly when water supply would be restored to the affected parts of the Klang Valley.