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rough sledding

For Mr. Renwick, these cases can involve some rough sledding.

Since then, it's been rough sledding for shareholders.

If Berkeley's not having it, you know you're in for rough sledding.

On issues from missile defense to creating a more conservative judiciary, President Bush's agenda suddenly faces rougher sledding.

"The people who wrote the law realized that there might be rough sledding initially."

"We will have some rough sledding with that," he said.

Edwards said: "When we started it was rough sledding, but we've grown as a team and done some nice things.

Still, it was going to be rough sledding leaving the one thing he loved best outside of the wife and children.

Without the guarantees, some economists say, the country faces rougher sledding.

And the introduction of ever more powerful new desktop computers will mean increasingly rough sledding for the line in the 1990's.