The company's recovery "certainly would have been more difficult" without the money, he said.

We wish to set them free but it will be difficult without your help.

It's going to be a bit difficult without him, though.

For most people I suppose the first side is difficult without the second.

Needless to say, getting through the day would be a bit difficult without them.

If he doesn't want us to read him, it's going to be difficult without the use of extreme measures.

This would have been much more difficult without your help.

I should move on, but it will be difficult without his help.

This raises a question: Will it be difficult to campaign without a significant other?

"Our situation is sufficiently difficult without your making it any worse."