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• n  a state of misfortune or affliction
  a life of hardship
• n  something hard to endure
• n  something that causes or entails suffering
  I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell
  the many hardships of frontier life

• For a man who enjoys the finer things he reportedly takes pleasure in Hollywood DVDs and expensive liquor, even as millions of North Koreans suffer in extreme hardship you .
• Gibson, who insists ideology matters less to him than stories of "penitential hardship" like his Oscar-winning Braveheart, puts it more bluntly: "The fearmongering we depict in .
• Now her main hardship is missing her grandchildren while spending as much as five months a year on the road, taking her save-for-forest drive to cities from Vancouver to Strasbourg.

• adversity
• hard knocks
• asperity
• grimness
• rigor
• rigour
• severity
• severeness
• rigorousness
• rigourousness

News & Articles

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• Native Speakers Inspire Change
  Interior Alaska Native leaders shared stories of hardship and messages of hope during addresses at a conference in Fairbanks yesterday. The annual Rural Providers Conference is aimed at eliminating alcoholism, domestic violence, sexual abuse and suicide through traditional and modern means. Listen Now
  June 14, 2013 - Alaska Public Radio Network
• Short sales fall nationwide in first quarter
  NEW PORT RICHEY - Completed short sales, in which lenders allow properties to be sold for less than what is owed on them, fell 10 percent nationwide in the first quarter this year, RealtyTrac reports.Homeowners behind on their mortgages or expecting to run behind because of some hardship prefer short sales to foreclosure and bankruptcy because the remaining debt is forgiven and the homeowners ...
  June 14, 2013 - The Suncoast News Pasco
• Hardship waivers an inexact science, but Olekaibe likely to get one at UNLV
  On the surface, the NCAA’s hardship waiver was created for a student-athlete just like Kevin Olekaibe, the former Fresno State junior whose father is in Las Vegas hospice care after multiple strokes have left him unable to speak and paralyzed below the waist.
  June 12, 2013 - Las Vegas Sun

Quotes

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• President Bush in Reuters
  There's going to be a harmful affect on many local businesses and it's going to be painful for a lot of folks. But I promise you this, things are going to return to normal. This region that has known a lot of hardship will bounce back just like... Barack Obama http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHQ0yfPaaXFGqLKymRgcres0I2nuA CNN http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/06/14/obama.gulf.alabama/&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG1bXebxaGXhLm3q9umsEBbLwn5kw Jun 14, 2010 45540 62009 hardship The best way to solve this diplomatically is for the United States to work with other nations to send a focused message and that is that 'you will be isolated and you will have economic hardship if you continue trying to enrich,'" Bush said.