have a hard time

“I think we’ll have a hard time passing.”

At Salon, we do our best to cover the best in culture, but even we have a hard time keeping up with everything that is worthy of being championed in writing, and things fall through the cracks.

Contractors want to hire Americans but have a hard time finding enough of them with proper abilities, said Brian Turmail, a spokesperson for the Associated General Contractors of America trade group.

Craig Silverman, a journalist and cofounder of Indicator, a site that investigates deception on digital platforms, said that reporting on the context and true scope of the protests would have a hard time competing with the visceral images broadcast into Americans’ homes.

“I just have a hard time believing something could be a rivalry when there’s no stakes,” he said.