How To Use Difficult In A Sentence

The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
He asked me bluntly, ‘Why would you want to leave private life and take on such a difficult, dangerous and probably thankless job?’
Difficulties help to forge people into able folk.
Instead a great deal of difficult negotiation ensued. ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
Striking that balance between old and new will always be difficult, but after a few numbers here, memories of their old bandmaster begin to fade.

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Naturally, this makes interpersonal relations, especially with societies unexposed to the advantages of the American lifestyle, a little difficult.
Outrages like the Thomas case make it a good deal more difficult for enlightened penal reformers like the Professor to get a fair hearing when they advocate bringing back the lash.
Cppd crystals are smaller rods, squares, or rhomboids and are difficult to identify with light microscopy.
Considering my diminutiveness, the size of the pail in my lap, and my drinking out of it my breath held and my face buried to the ears in foam, it was rather difficult to estimate how much I drank. Chapter 3
It is difficult to see why dialogue negates or denies the existence of authority.
Also, it is difficult to get across diagrammatically the iterative nature of grounded theory - in particular its commitment to the idea that data collection and analysis occur in parallel.
It highlights key facets of presidential policies and priorities, difficulties and conflicts, while charting the developing nature of the office.
It acknowledges that some students may be experiencing difficulty, so we should be sensitive to their needs - such as allowing make-ups.
It'll be difficult to get past the ticket collector without paying.
Difficulty shows what men are. Epictetus
His impulsive temperament regularly got him into difficulties.
We're trying to solve the difficult problem by ourselves.
Union officials privately acknowledge that Phoenix's achilles heel has always been the difficulties it would face raising the necessary finance.
Many had difficulty negotiating the cross-drive obstacle, where often it was not until they were almost upon it that is was clear whether the sheep were going through or around the outside.
The greatest difficulty which presents itself in entering the southern mouth arises from what in America are termed snags, that is, large trees, the roots of which are firmly planted in the bed of the river, whilst the branches project up the stream, and are likely to pierce any boat in its passage down. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
In some cases, difficulties arise because of a combination of less individualisation and low survival.
The markings are so blurred that it is difficult to identify.
Faced with difficulties from recalcitrant landowners and political opponents, the scheme eventually necessitated financial rescue by the king himself.
The presence of small lymphocytes in serous cavity fluid can pose great difficulty in the differentiation between a low-grade lymphoproliferative disorder and reactive lymphocytosis.
Foot and mouth disease is a zoonosis, a disease transmissible to humans, but it crosses the species barrier with difficulty and with little effect.
He has no notion of the difficulty of the problem.
Waterford Chamber of Commerce are fully aware of the difficulties that its members are experiencing in recruiting suitable employees.
Their horrible loss in the Super Bowl has been difficult for many fans to stomach.
It's difficult to predict with any degree of certainty how much it will cost.
By the time the higher elevations are reached, such strange notions as Einsteinian curved space-time and the quantum uncertainty principle, heavy meals indeed, seem not so difficult to digest.
He stood and brushed the crumbs of bread off of him, knowing well how difficult it would be to follow his own advice.
The boundary between probity and fraud was much more difficult to draw in this area.
Not difficult, admittedly, but he remains a solid and dependable presence at the back. The Sun
The film was a difficult undertaking, though. Times, Sunday Times
It is difficult to fully assess the damage.
The dinner has highlighted the difficulty for the duke and duchess of how careful they should be about where their charitable donations come from. Times, Sunday Times
Some people think that it is difficult to prove the existence of the unconscious mind.
We had good straight-line speed, but overtaking is so difficult here.
The traditional view is that the malefic planets tend to be obstructive; planets debilitated by sign or house position tend to find it difficult to act.
It specialises in working with alloys and metals that are difficult to shape and form. Times, Sunday Times
Exhaust fumes from the Apache engines are also cooled as they emerge to make it difficult for heat-seeking missiles to seek and destroy the aircraft.
Ms. Thompson, whose city is wrangling with $288 million in incinerator debt, said seeking state help is only one step toward resolving Harrisburg's problems, and that "there are many difficult steps to come. Harrisburg Asks State for Relief
He had no difficulty in disposing of the fallacy, and he was in no danger of succumbing to it. Nineteen Eighty-Four
They found it difficult to cleanly isolate this property as an aspect.
Although the softest condition is obtained when the large globules of cementite are embedded in the ferrite, a smooth machined surface is difficult to obtain due to tearing.
They also come across a cryptogram, which is rather difficult to solve, but which eventually they manage to decypher, and which leads them to the treasure hoarded by the pirate, who by that time has met his end. Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess
So numerous and various were the influences, formative and impellent, which combined to bring the colonies up to the precise ripening-point of their independence, as to make it difficult to assign each its proper force. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876
Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
Her aggressiveness made it difficult for him to explain his own feelings.
Changing the corporate culture is a long and difficult process.
It's difficult to conceive of living on the moon.
He was finding it difficult to control his feelings.
I still believe that speedway solos are the most exciting form of motorsport to watch, and incredibly difficult.
Also well known is hydrophobia, literally ‘fear of water ‘, as a name for rabies, which sometimes appears to cause such a sensation in sufferers because it makes the throat swell and so it becomes difficult for the victim to swallow.’
And the high profile court battles have shown how difficult it is to get medical experts to agree on how to interpret the facts of a case.
The reform will make it more difficult for MPs to block legislation.
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty. Alexandre Dumas
But shortage of teachers and timetabling problems make it very difficult for schools to work any great breadth into the system.
She speaks with a thick middle European accent, and she is difficult to understand.
The shorter boxer seemed to start having difficulty with the height and reach advantage.
Where woods existed near undrained marsh or bog, a traveller's difficulties were enhanced.
The inn we occupied had one of these porches: Madame Barbot, our landlady, and her maid, were both dressed in Breton costume, with lace-trimmed embroidered caps and aprons of fine muslin, clear-starched and ironed with a perfection which the most accomplished "blanchisseuse du fin" of Paris would find it difficult to surpass. Brittany & Its Byways
Here he achieved that most difficult of tasks, humour and fun in dance.
The low cell activity in equine species makes both in-vitro fertilization and cloning more difficult in horses than in cattle and even humans.
As an author of a romantic comedy myself, I do understand that it is difficult to make the genre seem fresh after many miserable retreads.
As to the pay of the Mercenaries it nearly filled two esparto-grass baskets; there were even visible in one of them some of the leathern discs which the Republic used to economise its specie; and as the Barbarians appeared greatly surprised, Hanno told them that, their accounts being very difficult, the Ancients had not had leisure to examine them. Salammbo
And we have seen that sexism presents a greater difficulty than racism in this regard as well.
It becomes more and more difficult to reduce raw emissions, especially for heavy and high-performance vehicles.
This makes the task of introducing tolerance to parasites or disease via genetic modification exceedingly difficult, if not impossible. PHYLLOXERA: How Wine was Saved for the World
It is hard to justify requiring companies to keep records of historical importance in a retrievable format when technological advances make retrieval increasingly difficult.
After the operation you may find it difficult to chew and swallow.
We must drive home to him where the difficulties lie.
The relationship with her mother, Zippora, née Assur, the daughter of a prosperous merchant family, who had never attended school, became more and more difficult. Fanny Lewald.
I live with my nan and grandad and it will be extremely difficult for me to pay as we do not have enough money.
I wouldn't care success or failure, for I will only struggle ahead as long as I have been destined to the distance. I wouldn't care the difficulties around, for what I can leave on the earth is only their view of my back since I have been marching toward the horizontal.
No longer able to sell his craftwork, he has found it difficult to carry on his work on the church. Globe and Mail
There's a flood of whacky stories, and it's difficult to tell what's real and what's not.
While the difficulty of this work makes specialization in agency organization most desirable, in this complex and uncertain world we learn more by being uncertain. Taking Child Abuse Seriously: Contemporary issues in child protection theory and practice
It's difficult to test the cookies for doneness while they're still hot, but they're fairly resistant to overbaking.
When I started doing this, I thought, easy-peasy, but it's actually quite difficult.
The policeman evaded all the difficult questions.
These stains can be difficult to remove.
Only considerable skill in narrative can surmount the difficulty of this complete change of tone within the limits of one book.
This is done on the exterior, although landmark buildings have been retrofitted inside at great cost and with extreme difficulty.
The fact that we know how this horrible story ends makes it difficult for us to analyse the early chapters.
Sometimes crime investigation is so difficult, like the real stumper for Fort Worth, Texas, detectives.
On a purely practical level, it is difficult to see how such proposals would work.
Exact calculations of this effect are extremely difficult, and can only really be done by computer modelling.
Frenchmen, on craniology, which is exceedingly interesting, but full of difficulty, and giving very diverse indications. Travels in West Africa
'' His symptoms were difficulty breathing, muscle pain, gastroenteritis and what we call intravascular coagulation, '' the doctor said. WN.com - Articles related to World Cup Live: Paraguay vs. Spain
Sometimes doctors prescribe a medicated cream or pills to treat difficult warts.
Hence his reluctance to start painting before he had mastered the incredibly difficult art of drawing - and drawing the figure especially.
As it happens, Hicks was the first in what would become a long line of "difficult" men to whom Murdoch was attracted, culminating in a long affair with Elias Canetti, the future Nobel Prize-winner. The Good Apprentice
Above all else, the Monte Carlo Rally is so legendary because of how difficult it is to finish, let alone win. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Sometimes a film only uses storyboards for difficult sequences, other times the entire film is storyboarded.
Having done some cycling in England as a teenager, I have admired the amateur cyclists I've seen toiling up those climbs and can appreciate the difficulty of the last segment of stage eight.
The issues involved are extraordinarily difficult and their resolution is complicated.
“If Senator Obama doesn't have time to give Wisconsin voters 90 minutes on the issues, he's going to have a difficult time explaining that,” Penn said, noting HRC is running a tv ad in the cheese-head state to that effect. Obama Claims the (Thorny) Crown - Swampland - TIME.com
He has suffered life-long behavioural and emotional difficulties. The Sun
The difficulties that arise from the different demands made by the grammatical systems of different languages in translation should not be underestimated.
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive ; easy to govern but imposible to slave.
The elements of physics are difficult to grasp.
But the Oregon story also illustrates some of the difficulties that will accompany legislative changes on such a massive scale.
To remove these difficulties, we transmit you a certified copy of an authenticated decree of the National Convention of France, of the sixteenth Pluviose, second year of the Republic; (February fifth, 1794,) which has been lately received by the Pennsylvania The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921
Those who can foresee difficulties on their way to success may keep calm when they really appear.
It is difficult and unreasonable to separate the soundtrack from the film; they are symbiotic.
It is difficult to choose from the vast array of wines on offer.
What is tragically evident from the Harry Read Me file is the picture it gives of the CRU scientists hopelessly at sea with the complex computer programmes they had devised to contort their data in the approved direction, more than once expressing their own desperation at how difficult it was to get the desired results. Coyote Blog » 2009 » November
He mustered up enough courage to attack the difficulty.
This competitive logic of power politics makes agreement on universal principles difficult, apart from the principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs of other sovereign states.
The relationship between attitude and performance is indirect, and the validity of test results are more difficult to establish. Human Resource Management in Government
The separate dish of butter was hard and consequently difficult to spread - a minor difficulty.
‘You can only admire the sheer professionalism of our service, which is a great comfort when we are in these difficulties,’ he said.
The infinite deviousness of "the ruling classes" and the immense difficulty of the left's task are a given in these halls.
It would be difficult to find a man to take the place of the secretary.
You can't really go wrong with a loaf of wholemeal organic bread, but as much as I love the UK I find it difficult to get remarkable fresh bread.
Assisting a cargo vessel approach its berth she got into difficulties and capsized.
The most difficult and expensive item to acquire was a headset: these were often stolen from public telephone boxes. SIGNOR MARCONI'S MAGIC BOX: The invention that sparked the radio revolution
Crossing the busy circle is a difficult task for pedestrians in the absence of a subway.
If the snow isn't cleared from the roads quickly, it packs down hard and makes driving difficult.
Lengthy mouthfuls of Latin can be off-putting and difficult to remember for many.
Self confidence is desirable but it is difficult to achieve without considerable experience.
It is hard for the able-bodied to understand the difficulties that disabled people encounter in their daily lives.
It's a difficult companion, prone to accusatory comments and dark moods, and it changes you, leaving you both tougher and more tender.
As a swarm of new dot-com brands try to buy their way to brand recognition, clutter makes it difficult to break out, and it's easy to fritter away advertising dollars.
Prosecutors and judges will have no difficulty in differentiating between cases, however inventive are those determined to break a democratically enacted law.
I found it very difficult to drag myself back to the office after that, so after a quick conference with Paul I booked some holiday for mid-July when I got back to my desk and immediately felt better about things.
The internal debate within the Provisional movement has encountered some difficulties.
Subterranean species are difficult to monitor since they appear seasonally and sporadically in seeps and springs or may not appear even during high water flows.
Just getting a teen to stop racing from activity to activity for a few minutes of quiet reading can be difficult.
I find that conversing with her is quite difficult.
We're confident that the legal difficulties can be overcome .
The latter would not explain the possible ophthalmoplegia and difficulty with ambulation, however.
It is very difficult to describe our joy in word.
For Reeves, a Bowl concert can be intimidating, but the difficulties it presents also inspire her as a singer.
That is always a difficult task for an authority, because it is left with discretion.
The variation is required to meet the difficulty occasioned by the tension of the nitric acid and products of deoxidation. Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900
After some halting conversation, concerned mainly with the difficulties of the day, Orpishurda produced a bottle. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
Living the student lifestyle, it becomes difficult to envisage yourself in a ‘normal’ routine.
If this were so, it could very well be that the chain or pulley or linkages to the back end were removed in the photo retouching because they were too difficult to cut around (if the manip was done as a collage) or to frisket out (if the manip was a double exposure process in a darkroom). 1933 Walker: Fact or Fraud?
The whole page was blotted with fresh tears, and, upon the opposite interleaf, were the following English lines, written in a hand so very different from the peculiar characters of my acquaintance, that I had some difficulty in recognizing it as his own. The Assignation
Her charms would captivate me and make it difficult later to leave her.
And today comes further news of the - ahem - minor difficulties.
As it is sometimes difficult to rear young calves it is a good thing to keep them clean and dry., whitewashing the calf hulls two or three times during the winter.
And if you would now in fact make this chdce, it woald put an end to your present difficulties about your child. The Works...
Installation is difficult as you must remove door and trim a required amount off bottom.
It's difficult to emerge from such a scandal with your reputation still intact.
The fluidity of Polish syntax, due to inflection, makes possible a highly complex structure which, some Polish critics suspect, prevented Sep from attaining a wide readership in his time: he was too difficult.
The secretiveness and deceptiveness of the patients made the diagnosis difficult for those who were unaware of this tendency.
L'hyperplasie bénigne de la prostate (HBP ou hypertrophie de la prostate) se traduit par des difficultés à la miction, telles qu'une émission faible des urines, une augmentation deleur fréquence, des envies pressantes et des nycturies. EasyBourse : bourse en ligne, actualités financières
You have no conception at all of how difficult my life was in those days.
The trouble with tar oil preservatives, it is difficult to get them to penetrate.
When increased regulations made running the chatline more difficult in Britain, he simply chased business elsewhere.
Its ageing components make it increasingly inefficient and difficult to adapt to the demand for more and greener power. Times, Sunday Times
Believe me it's far more difficult to know what to say to an unconscious loved one than the movies make out.
The movie is about cultural differences and the difficulties of assimilation.
In the event of difficulties, please do not hesitate to contact our Customer Service Department.
In a world of shifting boundaries, vanishing borders, and proliferating frontiers, security is even more difficult to achieve.
It is difficult to reconstruct in their fullness the ways of light in bazaars before the appearance of electricity.
Not difficult, admittedly, but he remains a solid and dependable presence at the back. The Sun
In Russia, the ethnic and geographic diversity of the population ensured its transition would be more difficult than that in the more homogeneous and smaller Baltic states or eastern European countries.
Students in a reading teacher education program are trained to diagnose reading difficulties and to teach reading programs at various educational levels.
As already indicated, to make a contract that insurance should be in place is all that would be needed, and that is not a difficult or onerous duty to perform.
We're definitely moving in a positive direction, but each time we make a leap to a new level of functionality, things get more complicated and fractured and difficult for a while.
At first it's difficult to shake the feeling that it's kitschy schlock that they're radiating, rather than the sinister malevolence they may be aiming for.
Interviewer Ryan Tubridy sought the advice of Jon Snow ahead of the interview but was warned it would be difficult to extract anything 'revelatory' out of Tony Blair. Tony Blair interview greeted by Iraq war protesters and Jedward fans
The completeness of the 1989-90 material is more difficult to evaluate because the drugs in this period were available over the counter.
The singing, so difficult to bear for many listeners, never settles into a particular pitch, remaining agonisedly in motion; Jandek presents us with a voice in extremity, and an endless quarrying of pain and related states, in which infinite gradations of suffering are allowed to differentiate themselves. Archive 2007-10-01
Tomato sauce stains terribly - it's really difficult to get it out of clothes.
It'll be difficult to hire that many new staff in such a short time span.
This is difficult terrain for the son of a billionaire pitched against the son of a bus driver. Times, Sunday Times
At this moment it was difficult to recall how quiet, calm and determined she had been.
It becomes more difficult to be angry at politicians fiddling their expenses if we are weeping with them over their personal tragedies. Times, Sunday Times
Mr. V.V. stood by a spindly table, carefully examining a small but costly vase, the property of Mr. Heth, of the Cheroot Works; and now he went on with a kind of diffident resolution, the air of one who gives a confidence with difficulty, but must do so now, for his honor. V. V.'s Eyes
You haven't been this pale since, like, February, she says, poking a little fun at the difficulty I seem to have in maintaining any kind of darker pigmentary coloration in the winter. Things You Can Do, Some Can't Be Done
It was a difficult struggle, but she managed to hold it in.
The difficulties in her way merely strengthened her resolve.
The demands made upon Martin in the novitiate in his difficult work with the dying - and the hard-won joy it brings - lead to a further thought.
The team leader will be the most important factor in this difficult enterprise.
It isn't a disease but may be a symptom of severe constipation or emotional difficulties related to stool holding.
There are gaps between the new and the old tiles that will be difficult to clean and therefore unhygienic.
This difficult-to-treat strain, called neurosyphilis, can cause blindness and stroke, and a CDC researcher said that it's spreading among this cohort because, although they're already HIV-positive, they are not using condoms. Gabriel Rotello: Deadly Error Alert: Andrew Sullivan's Latest AIDS Fantasy
He found it difficult to hide his disappointment when she didn't arrive.
It is difficult for them to earn enough to feed their families.
It starts to become more difficult for the low intensity peaks, those with low signal-to-noise ratios, or those with a different elution profile e.g. peak tailing. Recovering full mass spectra from GC-MS data
This would have proved a difficult operation by other processes. Times, Sunday Times
We are assisting his family at this difficult time. The Sun
Some of the most difficult courses require you to bump a chip shot up a sloping green with the utmost precision.
BARRY: This may be very difficult, because they're using HMTD, which is hexamethylene triperoxide diamine. CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2007
As they go through life they will need to deal with moral complexity and make difficult judgments. Times, Sunday Times
I think that your role playing games have got the most difficult final level bosses.
He mustered up enough courage to attack the difficulty.
Their acclimation in these rural settlements proved difficult due to both their lack of agricultural experience and their traditional social structure which went counter to the principles of the moshav. Yemenite Women in Israel: 1948 to the Present Day.
There is a lot he can do to make life difficult for a candidate he has deliberately chosen to lobby against.
This paucity of experimental data makes it difficult to identify the ecological conditions that favor the evolution of the facultative response and of the particular environmental cues that may trigger it.
The project is running into financial difficulties.
When Hawkins missed a difficult green the colour finished hanging over a corner pocket and Parrott was left in a full ball snooker.
Doctors are so scared of being sued that many will refuse to treat high-risk patients or perform difficult operations, medical experts have warned.
Obviously waves may have frequencies of intermediate magnitude and so be difficult to classify as either destructive or constructive.
In the long run, persistent current account deficits are difficult and costly to sustain and are damaging to an economy.

How To Use Difficult In A Sentence

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