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

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

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

Additionally, strategies to circumvent the Basel rules made banks more complex and difficult to manage and supervise.

One of the problems that had made the crisis more difficult after 1982 was the US dollar s appreciation.

Without this support, the planning and execution of the mission in Lebanon would have been made considerably more difficult.

The European Union recognized that the recent revisions to the Mission's mandate had made staffing requirements more difficult to forecast.

Anyone? It's much more difficult.

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

Moreover, the violence contributes to an air of suspicion and mutual mistrust, which has made negotiations more difficult in the past.

These are more realistic, but more difficult to build.

Is French more difficult than English?

Land acquisition became progressively more difficult.

Spain is a more difficult case.

It's more difficult than you think.

Securitization made debt restructuring difficult, if not impossible.

China s challenge, however, may be more difficult.

Yet the distinction has become more and more difficult to maintain.

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.

I liked it. Now, a little more difficult.

Jerusalem will be much more difficult to demarcate.

The force of the wind made it difficult to walk.

As technology advances, it has become more and more difficult to escape it.

Censorship has been made easier, not more difficult, by the government's decision in the 1990's to shift to a free market strategy for entertainment products.

This will prove more difficult than it first sounds.

This year, it's going to be much more difficult.

It is more difficult for women to get elected.

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.

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.

Or, more precisely, it makes the old responsibility to protect the weakest both more difficult and more urgent.

European officials will argue that their problem is more difficult.

The other lesson is moral, and it is more difficult.

Evaluating charities can be more difficult than making investment decisions.

For smaller economies, however, internationalization will be far more difficult.

Monetary policy is a more complex and difficult balancing act.

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

A few engineering proposals have been made for the more difficult task of capturing directly from the air, but work in this area is still in its infancy.

Those factors made it more difficult to put people at the centre of social development, and groups with special needs, such as women with disabilities, became increasingly marginalized.

The complex things get more fragile, more vulnerable the Goldilocks conditions get more stringent, and it's more difficult to create complexity.

And it's becoming more and more difficult to understand the people who are not like you.

The value for money question is even more difficult to assess.

A more difficult issue for Hu could be intellectual property rights.