The elves chattered in their strange, uncouth version of elven which Laurana had difficulty follow ing.

The most recent financial difficulties follow the company's abandonment in June of a plan to raise $800 million through an initial public offering.

Whatever difficulties follow now - and they will be profound - we are entitled to this moment of celebration.

It signified that the first shot would be sufficient to spell Creelon's finish, no matter what difficulties might follow for The Shadow.

Further difficulties would also follow for Labour with the by-election at Lincoln which was held on the same day as Chester-le-Street.

Numerous difficulties followed and the company struggled under poor management against a tide of low-cost products from developing countries flooding the global market.

To see livid lightning parting black clouds, sorrow and difficulties will follow close on to fortune.

But the difficulty we had was as follows.

Further designs and difficulties followed although non-rigid machines including "Sea Scouts" (popularly called blimps) proved generally less troublesome than the larger rigid examples.

It is severe and surgery and chemotherapy with all its accompanying difficulties soon follows.