And making sense of the financial crisis is very, very difficult.

Making sense of those things is a very difficult thing to do.

In addition, rains are making road access to various parts of the region difficult.

Benin was making an impressive effort, but it was a very difficult process which took time.

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

Nighttime temperatures in the van rarely dropped below 80 degrees Fahrenheit, making it difficult or impossible to sleep.

In addition, there were 30 different ethnic groups in Turkey, making it difficult to define minorities and majorities.

In this way, individuals can sever links between their new and old identity, making them difficult to trace.

At the mission level, OIOS noted that a shortage of qualified personnel is making it difficult to effectively manage MICA.

Only one minority community member is licensed to certify vehicular roadworthiness, making it very difficult for minorities to renew car registrations.

The rock that Kanzi is using is extremely hard and ideal for stone tool making, but difficult to handle, requiring great skill.

In the domestic setting, physical violence is often accompanied by sexual abuse, making it difficult, if not impossible, to have safe sex.

The quake and tsunami caused a major power outage that cut communications around Palu making it difficult for authorities to coordinate rescue efforts.

Yet three internal fault lines are making it difficult for the EU to achieve these ends. Britain is wondering whether it should exit.

The Committee also remains concerned that supervision and guidance for vulnerable families are not well structured and defined, making it difficult to monitor the situation.

Firms that invest little will become uncompetitive. In the jargon of economists, low demand will engender low supply, making a non inflationary recovery even more difficult to achieve.

In the final analysis, the Ivorian leaders bear full, personal responsibility for making the sometimes difficult decisions and compromises needed to ensure the peaceful resolution of the crisis.

It also came to light that countries frequently use very different definitions of the scope of distributive trade and of compiled variables thus making international comparisons quite difficult.

Making sense of these asymmetries is difficult. When financial markets concentrate on the fiscal health of the federal government, they miss the extent of government obligations as a whole.

Much of the devastation has affected developing countries already besieged by economic problems, making it more difficult for them to cope with severe hardships and to advance development efforts.

The cost to automotive companies of installing equipment to neutralize the fumes emitted by diesel vehicles is also increasing, making it difficult to keep the price of the cars competitive.

Calming a volatile situation may mean not publicly denouncing behavior that cries out for condemnation. Making the right call is more difficult in the real world than in a philosophy classroom.

Moreover, US President Barack Obama, facing an election in November, does not wish to be accused of being soft on Iran, making it difficult for the West to reciprocate potential Iranian overtures.

1.33 Staff living and working under conditions of extreme stress in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank frequently suffer from fatigue and burnout, making it increasingly difficult to produce quality results.

Finally, it is contended that Ms. Bakhmina's lawyers have been prevented from contacting their client during a particularly critical time after her arrest, making it more difficult for them to organize her defence.

Difficult.

Given this, it is difficult to justify Europe s failure to agree on a system of relocation and resettlement for a total of, say, 20,000 refugees this year, distributed among 28 countries according to individual quotas. Indeed, many European countries have accepted very few refugees so far, making their inaction even more difficult to comprehend.

A particular attraction to criminals and terrorists is that record keeping is limited or in codes only understood by the operators themselves, making it difficult to reconstruct money trails in the event of an investigation.

A third feature is the accessibility and virtual nature of the Internet, allowing criminal elements easily to conceal their true identity and making it difficult to identify both suspects and victims in offences against children.

There are concerns, for example, about problems associated with non owners squatting on land belonging to people who have been displaced, thereby making it more difficult, and potentially dangerous, for the displaced to return home.

MSRP objectives had been established early on, but the related quantifiable goals were not fully developed, making the benchmarking of results difficult as the legacy systems' work processes had not been sufficiently measured and documented.

So if that's the case, that's difficult, because persuasion is really difficult.

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

Latvia holds the opinion that withdrawal must be avoided by all available means, and to this end considers it important to achieve a consensus on making conditions for withdrawal from the Treaty extremely difficult and costly.

Governments should also work to improve tax compliance and reduce evasion, which requires limiting tax officials discretionary authority. Computerizing tax administration, for example, could help to limit corruption by making it more difficult to tamper with records.

What he says feels right to his followers, because it conforms to their prejudices. And the Internet, having swamped the quality press, feeds and reinforces those prejudices, making it more difficult to distinguish the truth from lies.

It's more difficult.

It's really difficult.

They're difficult integrals.

This is difficult.

It's very difficult.

Breathing was difficult.

The General Assembly had called upon the Committee to give more detailed information and adequate reasons when making its recommendations, but it was difficult to do so without overburdening what was also required to be a short report.

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

He said that this self imagined suspicion was spreading, and had amplified the existing contradictions, giving rise to new doubts, and making it more difficult for China and the United States to solve specific problems and encounter more resistance.