Some of those lessons, he said, have been hard ones.
Obama says the easy issues never make it to him, only the hard ones; Bush often said the same thing.
He was certain that the lessons would be hard ones.
A general definition- My, you can think up some hard ones.
But what I liked best was running back to grab those high hard ones hit over my head.
The next six or seven years may be hard ones for us all.
Certainly there were miles ahead, and they would be hard ones.
He's got one victory and has three hard ones to go.
As a full professor, he drew a lot of the hard ones.
This did not stop the early years of the 19th century being hard ones.