The hard issues are a matter of design and investment.

"People didn't want to put hard issues on the table."

But he was trying out the hard issue, one that scares most of his colleagues.

"Most of my time is working on the hard issues," he said.

We let them know it would be a harder issue than before.

As for the "hard" issues, I take it that you mean affirmative action.

"Gun control is always a hard issue, one that all of them wish they never had to face," she said.

The show is going to be really exciting this year, because it's taken a dark turn everyone's struggling with hard issues.

"Members feel like it's a really hard issue to move, so let's go onto something else."

That was a harder issue to make viable to his needs.