If the loss of a livelihood meant hardship, the Nyces didn't show it.

The failure to address the deficit may mean insolvency and hardship for all of a company's insureds.

For many, inflation means hardship as their frozen incomes are outstripped by the soaring price of what they eat.

The break meant more hardship in a region already suffering from cutbacks in water use because of drought.

I think a strike will mean severe hardship for working people.

It means real hardship to small-business owners who will lose income because they can't sell lottery tickets.

For many people, in other words, risk doesn't mean extra life - it means hardship, unemployment and even the possibility of early death.

Some residents may lose up to $80,000, which would mean serious financial hardship for them; all could face higher monthly costs because of the buildings' problems.

A recession, he added, would not only mean hardship for many people who previously would have benefited from social welfare programs.

Relocating the programs has also meant financial hardship for the Chinese partner universities, administrators said.