Difficult decisions had been required but the efforts made had proved worthwhile.

But the coordination of programmes and institutions involved has proved to be difficult.

The recruitment and retention of qualified, motivated and disciplined civilian peacekeeping staff have proved difficult.

The rainy season has proved to be as difficult a factor for operations as was feared.

In the past, meetings in some LDCs proved to be difficult because of the high travel costs or visa problems.

With a vast area of difficult terrain to cover, the initiation of this project proved to be a formidable task.

More importantly still, those flows proved increasingly difficult to manage in a way consistent with faster and more inclusive economic growth.

Distinction between direct and indirect participation should not be made because it has proved to be difficult to define it in practice.

Regrettably, in many instances it has proved difficult to implement the key provisions of international refugee law at crucial moments of crisis.

While the Government has taken important initiatives to reform civil administration at the central level, reforms below that level have proved more difficult.

OIOS is concerned that information and communication activities are still considered subsidiary activities and, in the first year, it proved difficult to mobilize the necessary funds.

Yet reaching a consensus has proved to be a very difficult task indeed, as many of us have approached these proposals from quite radically different viewpoints.

Excluded from this table are organizations that either did not provide data on the staffing of their procurement services or that provided data which proved difficult to verify.

You proved something.

Nobody proved otherwise.

They proved it.

You proved it.

The European Union noted with concern that coordination between MONUC and the various agencies, funds and programmes in the Mission area had often proved difficult because of their different approaches.

The troika has proved functional, and Europe would have been at pains to provide conditional assistance to eurozone countries without the IMF s participation and support. But cooperation has proved to be difficult, if only because each participating institution has rules and constraints that are not easy to reconcile with the others .

What have you proved?

He's proved that much.

Haven't I proved that?

It's proved in theory.

JTAC has proved immensely valuable.

Europe has proved no exception.

These have proved very helpful.

She never proved a thing!

Proved! That won't be hard.

And he just proved that.

It was felt that the categories of prohibited reservations established by the Special Rapporteur was useful however, in practice, which was rich and varied, it often proved difficult to distinguish among the different categories.

Facilitating actions, such as revised legislation, institutional strengthening, reforms in land policy and new financial mechanisms for infrastructure and housing development, have proved to be difficult policy areas but there are signs of progress.

Facilitating actions, such as revised legislation, institutional strengthening, reforms in land policy and new financial mechanisms for infrastructure and housing development, have proved to be difficult policy areas, but there are signs of progress.

The negotiating process on this resolution proved to be particularly difficult this year, and we welcome the responsible and constructive role played by a number of delegations during the debates in the Fifth Committee.

And once again, they proved themselves.

The rumor proved to be true.

Time has proved the supporters correct.

Several dozen others were proved groundless.

Superstitions have been proved 100 wrong.

You're guilty until you're proved innocent.

The process of decentralization has proved difficult in practice, both because of the stiff requirements imposed by the central administration for confirming the independence of a municipality or department and because of local technical deficiencies.

Decentralization has proved more difficult in practice owing to the requirements imposed by the Government for confirmation of the independence of a municipality or department and owing to the technical deficiencies at the local level.

Well, it's difficult. Very difficult.

It was further stated that, while in the case of international conventions it could be easily proved that the requirement of reciprocity was satisfied, such proof would be more difficult in the case of model legislation.

Fortunately, her lump proved to be benign.

But we proved them wrong in Iraq.