hard put

If it’s possible to work around a no-beard policy when the stakes are life and death, I’m hard-put to imagine a job where accommodation isn’t possible.

I’m hard-put to advise today’s graduates on how to succeed in the workplace.

You will be hard-put to find the Mart mentioned in the literature about what Thomas Mann dubbed “German California.”

Now the Russians will be hard-put to encircle the Ukrainian forces in the east, which have been fighting Russian-backed separatists since 2014.

In media interviews, Israeli officials were quizzed over whether Trump had “betrayed” the Kurds - a term they seemed hard-put to deny.