hard times
trying times

He is someone to turn to during the hard times.

Simply running away from hard times back home is not good enough.

I'd been through some hard times in the last few months.

I've took to making me own in these hard times.

Even her patients, on hard times themselves, have their hands out.

But this may be just the start of hard times.

And he has seen some of them fall on hard times.

"I felt like he was going through some hard times."

She'd stood by him through a lot of hard times.

You look like you're having some hard times, my old son.

During the 90's, financial problems put the company on hard times.

Even better, he can do it in hard times like these.

To say simply that in hard times nothing can be done.

It is good to be a human being, even in hard times.

We had to, because in hard times everyone's eyes get better or at least good enough.

The 76-year-old company has recently been hit by hard times.

Something that would still be of value in the coming hard times.

As was said a moment ago, there have been difficult and hard times.

He was quite successful in business, but hard times hit.

The museum and the city have both been through hard times.

You can live through a lot of hard times, if you've got that.

This was clearly a man who had seen hard times.

Despite, or perhaps because of, the hard times, people here help one another.

"I went through some hard times for a long time," he said.

"When they were built, no one thought hard times would come."