The force of the wind made it difficult to walk.

Weakening Lebanon has also made it more difficult to rein in Hezbollah.

The difficult security conditions made it more and more difficult for the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations to provide protection and assistance.

Securitization made debt restructuring difficult, if not impossible.

But it wasn t increasing homicide rates that made officials pay attention it was the realization that the violence hurt the region s image abroad and made it difficult to attract foreign investment.

This entire project was made difficult by language barriers.

They figured I made Ali s life difficult that day.

The barrier also made the Agency's daily operations difficult.

It has made it difficult for people to be outside so most of everyone is staying in or going to the malls.

But WTO membership has made it difficult, if not impossible, to resort to these traditional forms of industrial support.

Fear of China bashing has made it difficult for so called friends of China to discuss its darker side openly.

This, along with media disinformation, has made it difficult for outsiders to penetrate the cases and separate fact from fiction.

He stressed that the transnational nature of modern business made it difficult for any one State to regulate business properly.

The sharp increase in the peacekeeping budget had made it extremely difficult for many Member States to pay their assessed contributions.

Ms. Hampson also discussed the increasing availability of universal jurisdiction and that it had made it difficult to avoid prosecution by moving to another State.

Namgoong ... it is difficult.

An unpopular war would have made military recruitment difficult in any circumstances.

Outbreaks of disease also occurred in districts cut off by heavy snow, which made it difficult for these outbreaks to be reported.

It is a difficult problem.

It is a difficult problem.

At first, it is difficult.

It is difficult to generalize.

English is difficult, isn't it?

English is difficult, isn't it?

In such chaos, it was difficult to do the reconstruction and development work that could have made Iraqi lives better and attracted support.

Extensive agendas and the large number of meetings made it increasingly difficult to manage negotiations efficiently in the limited time available at sessions.

The ambiguities inherent in certain types of unilateral act often made it difficult to distinguish between a political act and a legal act.

Those negotiations made concrete progress last year in some difficult and controversial areas.

This mechanism makes it more difficult for governments to see traffic, and thus more difficult to block it.

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

For those countries that have already made the leap, the choices are more difficult.

United Nations bodies also differed in their assessments, and those differences made coordination difficult.

We will always remember the difficult concessions they made in order to reach agreement.

Is it so difficult to write?

I find it difficult to believe.

Climate change, which was largely brought about by the activities of developed countries, has made it difficult for poor and vulnerable countries to fight poverty.

MADRID How difficult it is to die!

It is difficult to give up smoking.

It is difficult to prove a negative.

Ms. GOICOCHEA (Cuba) commended the outgoing Director General for advancing the reforms that had made it possible for UNIDO to survive in a very difficult period.

This hasn t happened, and officials now acknowledge that they have a huge problem on their hands. But it wasn t increasing homicide rates that made officials pay attention it was the realization that the violence hurt the region s image abroad and made it difficult to attract foreign investment.

Improved and better coordinated intelligence, law enforcement, and homeland security efforts at both the national and international levels have made it more difficult for terrorists to succeed.

The mapping of the MMX registers onto the existing FPU registers made it somewhat difficult to work with floating point and SIMD data in the same application.

Organized crime and illicit drugs trafficking provided supportive mechanisms for terrorist groups and made it more difficult for States to address urgent issues of security and development.

Moreover, several hundreds more were being held indefinitely in administrative detention and it was made very difficult for their lawyers to meet with and represent their clients.