"It will be politically difficult for the government to accept."

Other Republicans added that it would have been politically difficult to vote no at this point on the only trade bill of the year.

Governments failed to take politically difficult steps to bring the situation under control.

But the meeting came at a politically difficult time for the 59-year old leader.

But still at issue is the politically difficult question of how to do it.

But he said it would be politically difficult to enact.

"That can be politically difficult when income is higher than expected."

Still, raising the gas tax would be politically difficult - and for very good reasons.

We, of course, know how politically difficult it would be to carry this through.

But today's decision will make it more difficult politically for any new administration to simply drop the case.