UNDP gender mainstreaming policies lack clear objectives, targets and time frames, making it difficult to quantify progress.

Indeed, owing to the mixed nature of peacebuilding functions, it is difficult to make a clear delineation between the mandates of the two organs.

A free society recognizes two limits to economic and general inequality. Both raise quite difficult practical questions, though they are clear in principle.

The consideration of multiple reports on the same subject makes the formulation of a clear path forward extremely difficult.

The absence of strong regional institutions has made it difficult for the regional programme to find a clear counterpart for its inter country operations.

However, clear corroborated evidence of these sources has been very difficult to obtain because of the restrictions on our ability to conduct full law enforcement investigations in Afghanistan .

While the full economic cost of cybercrime is difficult to measure accurately, it is clear that the cost to individuals, businesses and governments is not only substantial but rising.

History offers two clear lessons reducing public debt is incredibly difficult without growth, and increasing growth is incredibly difficult with a huge burden of public debt. So we face a twofold imperative securing growth while reducing debt.

It's difficult to explain to people now that it was difficult then.

At the same time, participants generally agreed that there was no clear cut solution and it would be difficult to impose limits on how long agenda items should remain in abeyance.

It was made clear that Sweden found itself in a difficult position, and that Egypt's failure to honour the guarantees would impact strongly on other similar European cases in the future.

The path to recovery, though difficult and lengthy, has been relatively clear and specific. First, unit labor costs needed to decline toward productivity levels to restore competitiveness a painful process without the exchange rate mechanism.

It's difficult to watch, and even more difficult to look away, but Greene said that's the point.

They use it to get to the truth, and they do what mature leaders do everyday they have difficult conversations with difficult people, sometimes during very difficult times.

For without that, one difficult journey would be not merely difficult but close to impossible.

Kanji are difficult to read.

English is difficult to learn.

This is difficult to believe.

It's difficult to do that.

As was made clear by Mr. Egeland, dialogue efforts with the Government to develop a sound cooperative relationship between the authorities and the United Nations and other humanitarian actors have been difficult, and that is to be regretted.

With other treaties whose status during armed conflict is less clear, the two become more difficult to separate, and one should take care not to mistake treaty violation as evidence of an effect of armed conflict on that treaty.

But in general it was difficult it was really difficult to explain what the web was like.

It is difficult to deny the appealing simplicity of this argument. Who would deny that companies have a clear responsibility to earn profits for their shareholders, or that most shareholders invest primarily to make money, not to make the world a better place?

Patents are very difficult to overturn.

English is not difficult to learn.

Those shapes are difficult to change.

And it's very difficult to tune.

Russian is very difficult to learn.

It is difficult to satisfy everyone.

Some people are difficult to please.

This word is difficult to pronounce.

This novel is difficult to understand.

The president is difficult to approach.

It's difficult to speak English well.

It's difficult to answer this question.

It's difficult to understand his theory.

Is it difficult to learn Chinese?

I know it's difficult to believe.

Speculative pressures are likely to have been at work, influencing the decisions of OPEC and many others. Although changes in market psychology are difficult to understand, the broad concerns that underlie such episodes of irrational exuberance are almost always clear.

I'll try to make that clear partially clear.

Difficult.

In the opinion of another Party, it is difficult to conduct a direct and clear assessment on the extent of implementation by both affected and developed country Parties due owing to the lack of concise criteria to review the implementation of the UNCCD.

Interviewer It's actually quite difficult to walk.

It is difficult to give up smoking.

It's difficult to learn a foreign language.