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

Given the huge financial stakes involved, achieving global consensus will be difficult, as the Copenhagen climate change fiasco proved.

The diseases caused by viruses such as HIV and influenza virus have proved to be more difficult to control.

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

However, it crashed twice, and proved to generate a disappointing amount of lift, and was difficult to transition to horizontal flight.

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

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

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 .

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.

That proved decisive.

On May 27, 1901, Edison establishes the Edison Storage Battery Company to develop and manufacture them., It proved to be Edison's most difficult project, taking ten years to develop a practical alkaline battery.

Russia s calculations proved correct.

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.

But, in the end, ordinary Germans have been proved right, and the elites have been proved wrong.

That hope soon proved illusory.

Sadly, his prediction proved correct.

Elsewhere, change proved far more complicated.

China s victory proved to be Pyrrhic.

The aid skeptics were proved wrong.

Kennedy had proved a powerful truth.

But appearances proved to be deceptive.

This assessment proved to be correct.

But keeping the group small proved impossible.

The crisis proved that this was inadequate.

It proved to be a moderate success.

(i) Where the charge has proved groundless

Domestic remedies thus proved ineffective and inadequate.

Regaining the local population's trust proved extremely difficult, despite intense social mobilization efforts, the involvement of traditional leaders and healers and a targeted campaign to end widespread risk behaviours such as funeral rituals or the multiple use of syringes.

Not only is the US military busy trying in Iraq, but the way the US went into Iraq which proved to have fewer nuclear capabilities than Iran undermined American credibility, making it difficult to recruit allies to contain Iran's nuclear ambitions.

An attempt was then made in December 1942 to create a longer range attack aircraft by doing the same thing to a B 25 medium bomber to convert it to a commerce destroyer , but this proved to be somewhat more difficult.

That warning has already proved to be correct.

But, as the euro s current troubles demonstrate, a common currency requires unified and centrally established monetary and fiscal policies, which presupposes political integration a process that is likely to be no less difficult in Africa than it has proved to be in Europe.

That proved to be a lot of bovine stercus.

Why should they change systems that proved so resilient?

And so it has proved in Palestine and Israel.

By contrast, it proved highly remunerative for George Soros.

But the forecast proved to be far too optimistic.

In other words, Kipling could yet be proved wrong.

The Iraq engagement proved to be built on deception.

Regulators proved unable to forecast and prevent the crisis.

This, however, was soon proved to be a forgery.

That has proved very beneficial and will be continued.

It may be proved by any means, including witnesses.