It was difficult to remove the coffee stain.

That claim was even more far fetched.

It was difficult for observers to judge its actual membership.

In practice, it has been usually difficult to locate them.

Vacancies in specialized areas had been extremely difficult to fill.

She said, It was a big hurdle just to get farmers to touch underneath the vulva.

Communication among the isolated cities was difficult and, at times, dangerous.

It was much more difficult to understand how it worked or why it failed.

Which, I have to say, would have been hard for him to deny because he was standing underneath a giant oil painting of himself.

That's hard to say.

Counsel adds that it had been difficult to obtain the complainant's personal consent to lodge a complaint.

However, as the Senators were individually very influential, it was difficult to accomplish anything against the collective will of the Senate.

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

The public consensus was that the US won. But how much the US won, and why it won, is hard to determine.

If a child has limited exposure to language before a certain age, language is difficult or impossible to obtain.

Because of the logistic curve nature of technology adoption, it is difficult to see in the early stages whether the hype is excessive.

It is difficult to translate a poem into another language.

It's hard to persuade Jonathan.

It is difficult to generalize.

The Old Jack tales that he had learned he talked like this, you could hardly understand him. But it was really wonderful.

But it was difficult to prove the source of the attack, and the Pentagon had to shut down some of its computer systems.

With regard to emissions reductions, it was difficult to identify potential solutions owing to the absence of information on specific operations.

In the absence of sampling and analysis, finding the evidence to uncover Iraq's biological weapons programme was difficult.

It is hard to imagine that such a nuclear attack would have remained merely tactical.

It is difficult to get birth or marriage certificates unless they births been registered.

It is hard to tell if an attack might have been aborted because of problems with accessing funding.

This problem is too difficult for me to solve.

We hardly ever see you around here.

It's hard being a parent.

Hard to believe, right?..

Yesterday was an indescribable day.

The blogger concludes Under the economic and military siege on the Palestinians, it was difficult for the Palestinian resistance to carry out operations.

E commerce continues to grow in most countries, although exact data on the value of transactions are not easy to obtain.

Such work would hardly have been possible without the cooperation and the full participation of all Member States, individually or within the various groups.

Compensation normally means some form of material transaction, although there could be difficulty in obtaining evidence of a formal contract

Perhaps Yanukovich s retreat from Europe should have been foreseen, given behavior like locking up his political opponents that has been difficult to reconcile with European values and democratic norms.

It is not perfect. Some of the compromises that democrats must occasionally make with one time terrorists are difficult to stomach.

Their illegitimate nuclear commerce has created a nightmare for the reputation, safety, and security of their country.

However, it was often difficult to draw the line between material published in exercise of the right to freedom of expression and racist propaganda.

First, it s tough enough for leaders within the Chinese Communist Party elite to agree on economic policy priorities.

This hypothesis was difficult to verify due to the observational difficulties of establishing what was happening inside a dense dark cloud that obscured all visible light emitted from within it.

It's going to be difficult for us to do that.

It is difficult to disagree with the protesters.

Was it defeat or liberation? For Germans this question was not easily answered, though clearly our family was liberated in every sense.

But knowing my father, and how he kept saying that he was a pacifist and non violent, I found it very hard to picture him with a helmet and gun.