The role of the geosphere itself as a chemical containment barrier is relatively difficult to evaluate. |
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It would be quite difficult to eradicate the indolent, careless, incogitant habits so formed in youth. |
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The timescale of prokaryote evolution has been difficult to reconstruct because of a limited fossil record. |
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Due to the ambiguous nature of the question, it was difficult to choose the right answer. |
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It was difficult to reach an agreement because of the friction between the two sides. |
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Accusations and reproaches from both parties made it difficult to pursue discussions. |
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She found it difficult to talk about her achievements without sounding pompous. |
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The college faculty can be pretty clannish, so it's difficult to be an outsider there. |
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Often, though, a suki to the chest will cause the sword to become lodged between bone and cartilage making it very difficult to quickly remove. |
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It's difficult to imagine that these changes will really be effective. |
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It's difficult to infer how these changes will affect ordinary citizens. |
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It's always difficult to prioritize work, school, and family. |
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It can be difficult to detach yourself from the chaos of the situation. |
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Last but not least the security situation makes it even more difficult to improve or even maintain existing levels of service. |
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Many objects of material folklore, big and small, are challenging to classify, difficult to archive and unwieldy to store. |
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The high temperature needed to produce perfect pieces made Billingsley soft paste method difficult to fire. |
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Of course it is very difficult to pinpoint why someone would resort to such obscene violence. |
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After five years in Italy he found it difficult to adjust to life and football back in Britain. |
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Although difficult to measure, the uncaring attitude of the northern clubs also had an effect on the Welsh game. |
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These had very complex circuits in which faults were difficult to trace, but had very efficient use of power. |
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Although she based it off her grandmother's recipe, she found it difficult to complete within the three hours allocated for that round. |
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Many stockholders operate in a restricted space and it is thus difficult to allocate much room to offcut storage. |
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However, resistance from state and local governments makes it difficult to construct new transmission lines. |
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Black ice is very difficult to see, because it lacks the expected frosty surface. |
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Sediment often settles in intertidal mudflats which are extremely difficult to colonize. |
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Ctenophores may be abundant during the summer months in some coastal locations, but in other places they are uncommon and difficult to find. |
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It is difficult to define a species in a way that applies to all organisms. |
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Except for the radioactivity of radium, the chemical similarity of radium to barium made these two elements difficult to distinguish. |
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Such variation made it extremely difficult to estimate what the rate would be for human beings. |
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It is difficult to predict at this stage whether the cryopreservation of ootids will be allowed in Italy. |
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It is because of this politicized recording of their history that it is difficult to retrace the exact origins of these objects. |
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Denmark has a well covered motorway system today, which has been difficult to build due to the county's geography with many islands. |
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In the extreme north is it difficult to state the trees forms true forests at all, due to the large distances between the trees. |
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Some fish prove difficult to breed in captivity and can be caught in the wild as juveniles and brought into captivity to increase their weight. |
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Outside of countries' exclusive economic zones, fishing is difficult to control. |
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It can prove difficult to regulate this kind of overfishing, especially for weak governments. |
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This makes tsunamis difficult to detect over deep water, where ships are unable to feel their passage. |
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This species' remarkable speed in digging can easily outstrip a human digger, making the clam difficult to catch. |
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A general law on the protection of habitats may be more difficult to implement than a site specific requirement. |
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However, this coast, which was difficult to navigate to begin with, had been heavily fortified before the war. |
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There is general agreement that a wide range of differences makes it difficult to estimate the number of different Norwegian dialects. |
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The province of Zeeland consists of several former islands which were difficult to reach until well into the 20th century. |
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Limited range and speed, especially underwater, made these weapons difficult to use tactically. |
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This made it difficult to give warning before attacking a merchant ship or to rescue survivors. |
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However, their ships proved difficult to sink despite severe damage and impressed the British with the quality of their firing. |
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Also, the eastern sky was overcast and the grey German ships were indistinct and difficult to range. |
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The low height of the radar mast makes it difficult to acquire and lock onto a target while maintaining a safe distance. |
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Fuel oil itself is very difficult to ignite, but its hydrocarbon vapors are explosive when mixed with air in certain concentrations. |
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The smooth, cylindrical geotextile tubes could be difficult to climb over before they were covered by sand. |
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It can be difficult to maintain tidal stream generators due to their size and depth in the water. |
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Overoptimizing the source code of a computer program may yield insignificant performance gains while making it difficult to read and maintain. |
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It is very difficult to overstain with safranin. Wash slides with several changes of water, until water is no longer pink. |
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Soon attacks on hunting parties by Lakota and other Sioux made it difficult to be safe in the treaty area. |
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Their total membership is difficult to estimate as many of their adherents identify themselves with one of the official religions. |
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Over the centuries any memory of them has been obscured, and thus the veracity of their historical existence is now difficult to substantiate. |
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Also, antelope will consistently display a fear response to perceived predators, such as humans, making them very difficult to herd or handle. |
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Due to the unique nature of this invasion in the southern hemisphere, it is difficult to predict likely impacts. |
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Although it is commonly stated that hawthorns can be propagated by cutting, this is difficult to achieve with rootless stem pieces. |
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These are often difficult to trace back to their original cultivar, and in some cases have been occurring in the wild for many centuries. |
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Fungal fossils are difficult to distinguish from those of other microbes, and are most easily identified when they resemble extant fungi. |
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It is difficult to know how far down the social scale this rationalism extended. |
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The Spanish crown found it difficult to enforce these laws in distant colonies. |
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A survey marker indicates the location of the cape, which would otherwise be difficult to identify. |
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The tides' influence on current flow is much more difficult to analyse, and data is much more difficult to collect. |
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The shape of the underwater portion can be difficult to judge by looking at the portion above the surface. |
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In all cases, shell middens are extremely complex and very difficult to excavate fully and exactly. |
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Despite the efforts of middlemen and charities to raise money to provide ransoms, they were still very difficult to come by. |
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Plastic debris, when bulky or tangled, is difficult to pass, and may become permanently lodged in the digestive tracts of these animals. |
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Archaeological evidence consistent with this understanding has been difficult to identify. |
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These are rare, because it is difficult to turn basalt into granite via fractional crystallisation. |
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The classic aerofoil section wing is unstable in flight and difficult to control. |
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In this type of salvage, vessels are exposed to waves, currents and weather and are the most vulnerable and difficult to work on. |
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In the late 7th century, the West Saxons occupied an area in the west of southern England, though the exact boundaries are difficult to define. |
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Their king was a personal friend of Tostig, and Tostig's unpopularity made it difficult to raise local levies to combat them. |
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There was no independent confirmation of the reported reception, and the transmissions were difficult to distinguish from atmospheric noise. |
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In languages like Nuxalk, it is difficult to know what the nucleus of a syllable is, or if all syllables even have nuclei. |
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Once they enter such tissues, they can be difficult to extract, often exacerbating the problem as they migrate across the membrane. |
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Apart from a terrorist outrage, it is difficult to conceive of circumstances in which one man could account for so many victims. |
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He was a large man with a mental disorder, and he was difficult to control. |
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It is difficult to estimate how many recreational fishing boats there are, although the number is high. |
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The life expectancy of Indigenous Australians is difficult to quantify accurately. |
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However, it is difficult to estimate an exact date for when the book was written and for when the book was finished. |
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Once the peat has been extracted, it can be difficult to restore the wetland, since peat accumulation is a slow process. |
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It is difficult to assess the factual veracity of these statements given the known bias of the surviving sources. |
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Jovinus was dead by 413, but the Romans found it increasingly difficult to manage the Franks within their borders. |
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In particular, the rapid migrations of the 20th century has made it difficult to assess what prior genetic states were. |
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It became more difficult to raise barley, the primary cereal crop, and livestock required additional fodder to survive longer and colder winters. |
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This frontier remained for about 100 years, and no doubt in that long period much was done to it to which precise dates are difficult to fix. |
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Manual pixel-perfect collision-detection routines can be difficult to create and processor-intensive to run. |
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That the name appears in two forms with two meanings makes it difficult to determine the literal meaning. |
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The diversity of Buddhist traditions makes it difficult to generalize about Buddhist clergy. |
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This continual cycle of provocation and retaliation makes it extremely difficult to end the feud peacefully. |
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Reliable data for when people would actually marry are very difficult to find. |
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Literacy rates are difficult to gauge, but in France the rates doubled over the course of the 18th century. |
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It can be difficult to distinguish which is the cause of a specific infection. |
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The Giudicato of Arborea, the only remaining independent Sardinian state, proved far more difficult to subdue. |
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Although not difficult to double, it was a concentration point of sudden storms and tropical cyclones, so ships were frequently damaged. |
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Nobody has the sure knowledge of it, because it is very difficult to traverse it. |
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Although potentially significant for the Mauritanian economy, its overall influence is difficult to predict. |
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Idealism is an exceedingly complex system, varying much with varying authors, very polymorphous, and consequently very difficult to discuss. |
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It is difficult to decide on the character of his statements as to recent Egyptian history. |
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Wild silks also tend to be more difficult to dye than silk from the cultivated silkworm. |
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Cheese imports from countries that traditionally breed camels are difficult to obtain due to restrictions on dairy imports from these regions. |
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The Portuguese trade routes were mainly restricted and limited by the use of ancient routes, ports, and nations that were difficult to dominate. |
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As a class, chypre perfumes are more difficult to place since they would be located under parts of the Oriental and Woody families. |
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Metal astrolabes were heavier than wooden instruments of the same size, making it difficult to use them in navigation. |
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For navigators on the deck of a moving ship, these limitations could be difficult to overcome. |
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For the most part, these were too difficult to be used by anyone except professional astronomers. |
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One needed also to know the precise time, which was difficult to ascertain in foreign lands. |
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The large enslaved population also proved difficult to oppress, with Portugal unable to invest many resources in the effort. |
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However, they were also difficult to control, and by the end of the ninth century the Berber frontier garrisons disappear from the sources. |
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This has made Paraguayan history in the Colonial and early National periods difficult to research and study. |
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Because of the importance of the informal sector, accurate economic measures are difficult to obtain. |
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The country abounds in other sites that are difficult to reach and have seen little archaeological exploration. |
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Although it is difficult to reconstruct the belief system through archaeology, some indicators of ritual practice do leave physical traces. |
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Other important, but difficult to reach, sites include Calakmul and El Mirador. |
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The biases of some historical sources make it difficult to understand his actions during the Spanish invasion. |
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The war with France had closed the Spanish Road for Spain, making it difficult to bring up reinforcements from Italy. |
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Faults in this region are difficult to study at the surface due to thick sedimentation on top of them. |
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It is difficult to generalize or average out the weight of all cattle because different kinds have different averages of weights. |
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By the end of the growing season, the kernels dry out and become difficult to chew without cooking them tender first in boiling water. |
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However, many farmers in developing countries receive a low price for their produce, or find it difficult to compete with developed countries. |
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The population figures for indigenous peoples in the Americas before the 1492 voyage of Christopher Columbus have proven difficult to establish. |
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The degree of proverbiality, or currency in oral tradition, attained by these exaggerations is difficult to assess. |
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An adjective phrase may include both modifiers before the adjective and a complement after it, as in very difficult to put away. |
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Linguists therefore find it difficult to define the term in a way that makes sense across all human languages. |
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Abstract concepts or words that do not bring a distinct image to mind are difficult to associate. |
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In some cases, phonological or semantic developments make the pairs difficult to recognise. |
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Before this, justice was difficult to dispose because the Lord Chancellor had to travel with the King wherever he went. |
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It is difficult to measure or predict how long it takes an accent to formulate. |
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Voiceless sonorants tend to be extremely quiet and difficult to recognise, even for those people whose language has them. |
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For example, user passwords are generally case sensitive in order to allow more diversity and make them more difficult to break. |
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However, because Kwadi is poorly attested, it is difficult to tell which common words are cognate and which might be loans. |
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It is therefore difficult to substantiate or differentiate the number of Creole speakers compared to English speakers. |
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Scholars have found it difficult to assess Zwingli's impact on history, for several reasons. |
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If a putaway is done incorrectly, it is difficult to find an item, or verify that an incorrect part number or quantity has been used. |
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How the development of apostolic government developed is difficult to say accurately because of the absence of certain documents. |
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I find it extraordinarily difficult to explain why it is that she has always put the wind up me to such a frightful extent. |
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Several voices singing different texts in different languages made any of the text difficult to distinguish from the mixture of words and notes. |
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In such a case, it may be difficult to locate the ratio, and on occasion, the courts have been unable to do so. |
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Lawmakers will provide for statutory damages for acts in which it is difficult to determine the value of the harm to the victim. |
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As in the American jurisdictions that have preserved it, this type of marriage can be difficult to prove. |
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However, since happiness is subjective and difficult to measure, other measures are generally given priority. |
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However, it is much more difficult to measure meaningful expression of one's desires. |
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Since the actio had been composed of elements of procedure and substance it was difficult to separate both parts again. |
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It has proven to be difficult to pinpoint the exact nature of Romanism in Bracton. |
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This definition leads to numerous issues that can be difficult to ascertain. |
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It is difficult to quantify the value of an environmental value such as a healthy ecosystem, clean air, or species diversity. |
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Another factor that makes it difficult to forecast our future happiness is that most of us are rationalizers. |
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The scope of the royal prerogative is difficult to determine due to the uncodified nature of the constitution. |
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A country's level of human capital is difficult to measure, since it is created at home, at school, and on the job. |
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Hot blast enabled the use of raw anthracite coal, which was difficult to light, to the blast furnace. |
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It is difficult to cool thick castings fast enough to solidify the melt as white cast iron all the way through. |
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However, mass production is inflexible because it is difficult to alter a design or production process after a production line is implemented. |
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In addition, calcium, zinc, and lead ions all produce white precipitates with carbonate, making it difficult to distinguish between them. |
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For materials which are difficult to sinter, a process called liquid phase sintering is commonly used. |
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Due to various laws, it was difficult to protect the patent on the machine, and the new system was widely adopted. |
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If commercially produced oral rehydration solutions are too expensive or difficult to obtain, solutions can be made. |
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Sabotage, done well, is inherently difficult to detect and difficult to trace to its origin. |
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The number of Taoists is difficult to estimate, due to a variety of factors including defining Taoism. |
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One reason was that it was more difficult to do so without causing harm to animal life. |
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Thus, the right to cycle exists even though it may be difficult to exercise on occasion. |
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Written records of the chapel do not begin until 1692 making earlier history difficult to establish. |
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The relatively unimpressive image of these plants, as well as their small, low growth, makes them difficult to protect. |
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The Dutch River was difficult to navigate, made more hazardous by shoals, three awkward bridges, and low water levels at neap tides. |
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Their chronological overlap with older structures makes it difficult to classify them as a coherent tradition. |
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This is satisfactory for simple cases like this one, but is more difficult to apply to more complicated cases as those below. |
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This may be where commons are in agricultural use, but where it can be difficult to reach agreement on collective management. |
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The most popular outdoor skating games, roller-frisbee, roller football, and roller hockey, are very difficult to adapt to indoor areas. |
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Well you know, sir, it's very difficult to have a favourite when it's all such jolly, rumpty-tumpty stuff. |
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It can often be difficult to distinguish an individual's call when a hydrophone is lowered into a chorus of sciaenids. |
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John is difficult to distinguish sometimes because he carries himself so self-effacingly. |
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There are several kinds of hormones available that may help your mare to settle properly in case she is difficult to get in foal. |
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The piece was difficult to read after it had been transposed, since in the new key many notes were sharps. |
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But the details of this massacre have been especially difficult to absorb. |
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If the spat are allowed to remain attached to the tank bottom for more than two days, they are difficult to remove without damage to the shell. |
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This type of cancer is difficult to detect in its early stages. |
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The instructions she left were vague and difficult to follow. |
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The reasons behind this sudden change are difficult to discern. |
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Some visitors find it difficult to adjust to the city's high altitude. |
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As Gorbachev's antialcoholism campaign intensified, it became increasingly difficult to purchase once-ubiquitous vodka. |
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In reality, true nature is as difficult to be met with in authors, as the Bayonne ham, or Bologna sausage, is to be found in the shops. |
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Beginningless time is one of those concepts which, in our human state, we find difficult to comprehend. |
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They have found it difficult to distinguish clearly, in the exercise of power, between a personal right, and a mere betrustment. |
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Mysterious bluejets can be seen with the naked eye from the ground, but they are rare and difficult to spot. |
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The buz of flies has been found no less difficult to explain than the hum of bees. |
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Juice bottled or carboyed at this high temperature is difficult to cool rapidly because of the danger of breakage of glass. |
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The high temperature tends to cause the material to crozzle, which makes it difficult to work in a kiln. |
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Moreover most young people who have grown up with computers find this cyberphobia difficult to understand. |
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The mineral chalcopyrite commonly crystallizes in disphenoids that are very difficult to distinguish from tetrahedrons. |
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This is a perfect dog-day. The atmosphere thick, mildewy, cloudy. It is difficult to dry anything. The sun is obscured, yet we expect no rain. |
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The new engineer had a donnish air, and found it difficult to communicate with the workers in the factory. |
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The duping delight increases when the liars have successfully deceived people with high reputation of being difficult to be fooled. |
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A lighthouse is the classic example of a public good because it is difficult to prevent a ship from using it. |
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They are the ghost kings of the high country, more cautious and wary than deer, and more difficult to track. |
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Go to your earliest memory and to your favorite one, then to one that's difficult to consider. |
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Although difficult to calculate, one prominent newspaper estimates that guolaosi claims the lives of 600 000 people in China each year. |
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For a casino table game,the handle is difficult to determine, as it consists of all the bets made in every game, whether by chip or by cash play. |
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However, in filming this scene proved too difficult to do, and instead the film opens with a close-up of Keaton's hawklike eye. |
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Hand methods of production were very laborious and costly and precision was difficult to achieve. |
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However, the Southern Uplands, and particularly the Highlands were economically less productive and much more difficult to govern. |
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The carvings are difficult to date, but are morphologically similar to late Bronze Age weapons. |
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It is considered equally difficult to maintain that the origin of the Peninsular Celts can be linked to the preceding Urnfield culture. |
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The degree to which earlier native beliefs survived is difficult to gauge precisely. |
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When one turns from the domboc's introduction to the laws themselves, it is difficult to uncover any logical arrangement. |
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The impact of the conquest on the lower levels of English society is difficult to assess. |
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The war was not going well for the loyalists, but Prince Louis and the rebel barons were also finding it difficult to make further progress. |
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It is very difficult to get bureaucracies to abandon their institutionalized practices. |
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It was very expensive and difficult to make, so the panes were made small and held together with a lead lattice, in casement windows. |
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This is similar to Ludo and it is regarded as easy to learn, but difficult to play well. |
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By 1624, James was growing ill, and as a result was finding it difficult to control Parliament. |
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In fact all the competing theories have developed their own specialized jargons and have a tendency to be difficult to penetrate. |
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Literacy rates are difficult to gauge, but in France at least, the rates doubled over the course of the 18th century. |
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It is extremely difficult to determine what people actually read during the Enlightenment. |
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The military officer corps was largely composed of noblemen, who found it increasingly difficult to maintain order within the ranks. |
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Owing to the Russian army's scorched earth tactics, the French found it increasingly difficult to forage food for themselves and their horses. |
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Seven major and eight heavy attacks were flown, but the weather made it difficult to keep up the pressure. |
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Independence is often difficult to achieve without the encouragement and practical support from one or more external parties. |
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As the number of ratepayers of some parishes grew, it became increasingly difficult to convene meetings as an open vestry. |
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Exact figures are debatable, because methods of estimating reserves vary and it is often difficult to forecast future discoveries. |
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Funding for the project from the British government has often been difficult to obtain. |
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A totally different liassic stone is Blue Lias, a whitish-grey stone obtainable only in relatively small pieces and difficult to dress. |
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Priestley and other Lunar Society members argued that the new French system was too expensive, too difficult to test, and unnecessarily complex. |
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The neutrino could account for the missing energy, but a particle with little mass and no electric charge was difficult to observe. |
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It is always difficult to say that anyone is 'absolutely indispensable', but if anyone was indispensable to Hut 8, it was Turing. |
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It might be that it is so difficult to start life that it has happened only once among all the planets. |
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Many of its staff joined the armed forces and it was more difficult to build and maintain equipment than in peacetime. |
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This is difficult to explain to someone not familiar with concepts of heat and thermal efficiency. |
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Because of image caching, mirroring and copying, it is difficult to remove an image from the World Wide Web. |
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It is usually difficult to measure the relative importance of selection and neutral processes, including drift. |
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Although this concept was mathematically convenient, it was difficult to visualize, and faced opposition. |
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Otherwise, whether a volcano is truly extinct is often difficult to determine. |
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The infinitesimal approach fell out of favor in the 19th century because it was difficult to make the notion of an infinitesimal precise. |
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Broadcast seeding results in a random array of growing crops, making it difficult to control weeds using any method other than hand weeding. |
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Tunnels are confined spaces and are difficult to duplicate while trains keep on running. |
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However, as the Senators were individually very influential, it was difficult to accomplish anything against the collective will of the Senate. |
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Their exact relation is difficult to determine from the sparse evidence of runic inscriptions. |
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Early runic inscriptions also are largely limited to personal names and difficult to interpret. |
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As a result, it can be difficult to predict the spelling of a word based on the sound. |
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However, the treatment of the state sector as homogeneous in nature is difficult to support. |
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It is very difficult to make a monkey out of policy makers who can read and write and can argue a case logically. |
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Several influential architects at the end of the 20th century are difficult to put into any one category or movement. |
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Several primary sources exist for Hereward's life, though the accuracy of their information is difficult to evaluate. |
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Digital technology has made it so easy to manufacture lies that it's become difficult to separate fact from fiction. |
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While Chaucer clearly states the addressees of many of his poems, the intended audience of The Canterbury Tales is more difficult to determine. |
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This makes it difficult to tell when Chaucer is writing to the fictional pilgrim audience or the actual reader. |
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It is difficult to find evidence that the poet shared knowledge of classical poets, such as Virgil and Ovid, with the likes of Chaucer. |
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Scholars have found it extremely difficult to assign one specific, overarching theme to the play. |
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Despite these known influences, the singularity of Blake's work makes him difficult to classify. |
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Their influence certainly existed but it is difficult to define in its totality. |
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Often it is difficult to know whether the name of the music came first or the name of the dance. |
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Early chamber works do exist, but it is difficult to date any of them to Handel's time in Halle. |
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Feldman, who held the rights to the latter, but a deal proved too difficult to achieve. |
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It can be executed with either one hand or with both and is generally considered more difficult to master than the forehand. |
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It is difficult to know when the concept of a county championship originated. |
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After the fight, Lewis decided he needed a new trainer to replace Pepe Correa, who had become increasingly difficult to work with. |
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Given this expansive and diverse geography it is no wonder the region is difficult to specifically define. |
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Lollardy was suppressed and became an underground movement, so the extent of its influence in the 1520s is difficult to assess. |
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Washington was finding it extremely difficult to keep his army together, even without any major fighting against the British. |
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Since it was cut through steeply sloped land, its flow became difficult to control, and it was never to function efficiently. |
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Informal empire, like many imperial relationships, is difficult to classify and reduce to a prescriptive definition. |
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These tactics were skilfully evolved and carried out, and were difficult to counter. |
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The raids appeared to show that British radars were difficult to knock out. |
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The explosion of a depth charge also disturbed the water, so ASDIC contact was very difficult to regain if the first attack had failed. |
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This made it far more difficult to evade contact, and the wolf packs ravaged many convoys. |
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The coastal bombing attack was largely ineffective at Omaha, because low cloud cover made the assigned targets difficult to see. |
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The beach and nearby streets were clogged with traffic for most of the day, making it difficult to move inland. |
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We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty. |
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If the capital markets are insufficiently developed, however, it would be difficult to find enough buyers. |
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In spite of trillions paid out by the US federal government, it became much more difficult to borrow money. |
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However, it is often difficult to precisely determine the location of a watershed in a region of level plains, such as in central North America. |
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Glasgow is also known for Glasgow patter, a distinct dialect that is noted for being difficult to understand by those from outside the city. |
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Cast iron is a hard brittle material that is difficult to work, whereas steel is malleable, relatively easily formed and a versatile material. |
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At first sales were very difficult to come by, and the project was due to be cancelled. |
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General rules of contract law apply in full, although it is difficult to hold agencies liable for breach of contract. |
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At least, though, it has become extremely difficult to build a case that inequality is good for growth. |
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Firstly, certain costs are difficult to avoid and are shared by everyone, such as the costs of housing, pensions, education and health care. |
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A lack of reliable data makes it difficult to study the relationship between inequality and political violence. |
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As a result, income and economic inequality increases, and it becomes more difficult to reduce the gap without additional aid. |
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This political corruption obscured justice, making it difficult to identify violence when it related to drugs. |
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These labs are more difficult to detect than stationary ones, and can often be obscured among legal cargo in big trucks. |
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These all form a set of coupled partial differential equations, which are often very difficult to solve. |
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As was emphasized above, quantum gravitational effects are extremely weak and therefore difficult to test. |
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The Hawking radiation for an astrophysical black hole is predicted to be very weak and would thus be exceedingly difficult to detect from Earth. |
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The Sun's energy comes from nuclear fusion of hydrogen, but this process is difficult to achieve controllably on Earth. |
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George, delegating the work to untrained assistants, drew up specifications and estimates that were vague or inaccurate and difficult to place. |
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Also, the line between what is in the European Convention, what is actually covered by domestic legislation, is difficult to draw. |
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The questions themselves were on the course syllabus they were just questions that candidates found difficult to get their heads around. |
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It is difficult to get resources out of acute care without closing buildings, which is a political problem particularly in rural areas. |
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Doyle, however, found it too difficult to understand the German medical terms at the classes in Vienna and quickly quit his studies there. |
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While such arrangements had wide popular appeal, Beethoven's music was more advanced and difficult to play than Thomson intended. |
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As noted below, however, any clear distinction between Cumbric and Welsh is difficult to prove. |
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Thomas's refusal to align with any literary group or movement has made him and his work difficult to categorize. |
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It's difficult to appreciate the innovative breakbeats when they're sandwiched between muzaky sex-talk, and the album mostly fails because of it. |
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It is very difficult to be an artist when there is huge public and media attention. |
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It is difficult to be both and the older mzees resent the irregularity of the position. |
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Movies like this are not merely difficult to make at all, but almost impossible to make well. |
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As used by him, these concepts are difficult to translate into modern terminology. |
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It was difficult to justify paying to watch rugby when there was little money for food and rent. |
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None of these definitions completely excludes ponds and all are difficult to measure. |
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