These are not easy issues for a Continent that cannot agree on a single phone or mail system.

Small rural primary schools are never an easy issue for councils, especially in recession.

Some say it is an easy issue for politicians and the news media to focus on.

"It isn't an easy issue to sort, and there may be worries about starting a legal process," Cameron said.

Obama says the easy issues never make it to him, only the hard ones; Bush often said the same thing.

I think it is a difficult personal question and not an easy issue for government to address.

All of this demonstrates that media ownership is no easy issue.

The distribution of food stamps, a federal benefit, has not been an easy issue for the commissioner.

It may also mean as good-looking, although that was clearly the easiest issue to address the second time around.

Clearly, these are not easy issues, either technically or politically.