41.   Dealing with the Justice Department -- or any other agency, for that matter -- is as difficult as trying to tie your shoes with one hand.

42.   Difficult as the work proved for some, the volunteers maintained a can-do spirit.

43.   Disproving any of the theories is at least as difficult as proving them.

44.   Difficult as this may be, Knicks fans should not worry about this series and the next.

45.   Defining just what the Cypherpunks are is about as difficult as understanding the highly technical world in which they operate.

46.   During a news conference Friday, Kerry said he felt happy that he had made his decision, difficult as it was to set aside his presidential ambitions.

47.   Erasing prejudices of all kinds could be as difficult as taking a Big Mac away from Hugh Rodham.

48.   Economists who heard that suggestion scoffed, saying regulating and coordinating the traders would be as difficult as setting a worldwide retail price for eggs.

49.   Even curbing the spread of the diseases is difficult as many travel as tiny wind-borne or water-borne spores or on insects flying from tree to tree.

50.   Even the ostensibly mundane task of hiring a window washer, he said, can be as difficult as getting an appointment with a top surgeon.