The growth of national big box and formula retail chains into the city has been made intentionally difficult by political and civic consensus. |
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In practice, it is very difficult for a Saudi woman to obtain a judicial divorce. |
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The speed of trains, as well as the number of passengers that crossed multiple borders, made enforcement of passport laws difficult. |
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None of these definitions completely excludes ponds and all are difficult to measure. |
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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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After a difficult Atlantic crossing, she then continued her path of destruction and devastation in the greater New England region. |
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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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He was in a difficult situation, as he had taken an oath not to attack Richard's lands while he was away on crusade. |
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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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They are very cheap and usually used in combination with other mines in a minefield to make sweeping more difficult. |
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Ships can be designed to be difficult for mines to detect, to avoid detonating them. |
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Dislodging them proved difficult and eventually cost the Soviet Union dearly. |
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The battle was difficult and slow progress was made against strong French resistance. |
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Units operating in more difficult terrain had higher ratios of missing to killed but probably most of the missing had died. |
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Distribution of rations and ammunition was difficult and after the water mains were broken, water could only be taken from derelict wells. |
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The evacuation was made more difficult by a lack of information from Brest, St Nazaire and Nantes. |
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In the windy conditions, the tide came in more quickly than expected, making manoeuvring the armour difficult. |
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It was a difficult task that was not achieved because of the depth of the Axis minefields. |
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It is both the most effective and the most difficult form of blockade to implement. |
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The lower the power of the desired signal, the more difficult it is to discern it from the noise. |
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This was important in the early development of this type when high frequency signal generation was difficult or expensive. |
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During the difficult rescue, one helicopter broke two winch lines, making it even harder to rescue the seamen. |
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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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There has been a growing concern about farming as the current farmers are aging with a difficult time finding successors. |
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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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Valens arrived there after marching for seven hours over difficult terrain. |
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They can quickly learn to avoid poisoned baits, which makes them difficult pests to deal with. |
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Summer floods can destroy nests or make fishing difficult, resulting in starvation of the brood. |
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This makes it difficult both for the snake to use its venom and for scientists to milk them. |
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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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Scientists are now calling on government authorities to revisit this decision before eradication is too difficult and costly to consider. |
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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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Some cultivars, if left unpruned, will grow very large, which allows them to bear much more fruit, but makes harvesting very difficult. |
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Due to infestations by key insects and diseases, organic production is difficult in Europe. |
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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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This makes the extraction of the honey from the comb difficult, and it is therefore often sold as comb honey. |
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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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The parallel parking or reverse parking manoeuvre is known for being one of the most difficult and as a result, fails a great many driving tests. |
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It is difficult to know how far down the social scale this rationalism extended. |
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The connection, in this case, between guileful tactics of the Greeks in the Iliad and those of the later Greeks is not a difficult one to find. |
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It's a large job, but if we parcel it out among several people over several weeks, it shouldn't be too difficult. |
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The Spanish crown found it difficult to enforce these laws in distant colonies. |
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There are only a few extant inscriptions, making study of this writing system difficult. |
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A survey marker indicates the location of the cape, which would otherwise be difficult to identify. |
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Landing on the island is very difficult, as it normally experiences high seas and features a steep coast. |
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Biological sampling of the deep, hard bottom is difficult under the Gulf Stream with the consequence that the fauna is relatively poorly known. |
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Many towns in northern Canada, where agriculture is difficult, are sustainable because of nearby mines or sources of timber. |
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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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Pest control of the crops is less difficult than within the tropics, due to the cooler winters. |
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Also, wind waves modify the flow near the surface, and make observations close to the surface rather difficult. |
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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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As indicated in the table below, each basin uses a separate system of terminology, which can make comparisons between different basins difficult. |
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But the complex routes of ocean cruises rendered the association of navigational data with magnetometer readings difficult. |
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Many runners report that running becomes noticeably more difficult at that point. |
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Tests of correlations between extinctions and reversals are difficult for a number of reasons. |
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In all cases, shell middens are extremely complex and very difficult to excavate fully and exactly. |
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He also argued that crossing the Atlantic with the means available at the time would have been difficult, if not impossible. |
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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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With the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, the land route to Asia became much more difficult and dangerous. |
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With the Fall of Constantinople to the Turkish Ottoman Empire in 1453, the land route to Asia became more difficult. |
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After 1810 southern states made it increasingly difficult for any slaveholders to free slaves. |
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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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Travel by car in the city is often difficult with regular jams centred on the Exe Bridges area. |
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These are rare, because it is difficult to turn basalt into granite via fractional crystallisation. |
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The production of granite by metamorphic heat is difficult, but is observed to occur in certain amphibolite and granulite terrains. |
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Comparison of tax rates around the world is a difficult and somewhat subjective enterprise. |
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Of course, services provided by governments in return for taxation also vary, making comparisons all the more difficult. |
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Regulation makes entrance to the taxi business particularly difficult for them. |
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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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By subcontracting work to different suppliers, it is more difficult for Adidas to ensure company labour standards are enforced. |
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He and his wife wanted to make cameo appearances, but scheduling proved difficult, so the director used lookalike Andy Harmer instead. |
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However, this is difficult for some time periods, because of the problems involved in matching rocks of the same age across continents. |
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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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Above the waterline, the hull gradually narrows to compensate for the weight of the guns and to make boarding more difficult. |
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However, the thrust against Porto stalled in difficult terrain and due to the flooding of the River Esla. |
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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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In 1886, Hampshire lost its status after years of difficult circumstances and poor results. |
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Carryings on the first section were encouraging, but constructing the tunnel at Ventnor was proving difficult. |
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Completion of the harbour barrier proved difficult, partly due to damage by storms, and a further Act had to be secured for an extension of time. |
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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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This, however, is a difficult task that only a true philosopher, and not a mere philodox, will be willing to tackle. |
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He was a large man with a mental disorder, and he was difficult to control. |
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The practice of multiple county seat towns dates from the days when travel was difficult. |
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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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The Nile, however, was impassable at several cataracts, making trade and contact by boat difficult. |
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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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The era of the French Revolution and the subsequent Napoleonic wars was a difficult time for monarchs. |
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However, the phytoextracts are normally composed of a mixture of several ecdysones, the separation of which is often very difficult. |
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The country of the Eburones was difficult for the Romans, being woody and swampy in parts. |
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In fact they established hedges throughout their lands in order to make them difficult for cavalry. |
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In 1999, transport on the river was made difficult by the NATO bombing of three bridges in Serbia during the Kosovo War. |
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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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The transition process was difficult for the majority of the population which plunged into poverty. |
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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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As a result, it is difficult for the reader to understand why the battles he describes had the outcome they did. |
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Despite the difficult ground, Valens reached Adrianople where the Roman army fortified its camp with ditch and rampart. |
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Here the narrow valley of the Wachau, with its densely forested escarpments, made access to the riverbank more difficult. |
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Some video game consoles use specially designed cartridges to make software piracy more difficult. |
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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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Pepin at his death had been in process of building an empire, a difficult task. |
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This made it difficult for multiple students to study one title, but helped ensure the safety of the tomes. |
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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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Due to a dearth of formal government statistics and the recent civil war, it is difficult to gauge the size or growth of the economy. |
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Transporting the large quantity of materials required for construction was difficult, so builders always tried to use local resources. |
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Stone can hold under its own weight better than brick, but is more difficult to use. |
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Perceiving the situation as intractable and urgent, Radcliffe went on to make all the difficult decisions himself. |
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The final 'ay' is from the Old Norse for island, but the first two syllables are more difficult to interpret. |
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A nervy tank lining will be difficult to lay around tight bends or in corners because it tends to spring back. |
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As with prehistory, determining when a culture may be considered prehistoric or protohistoric is sometimes difficult for archaeologists. |
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Transport by water was preferred where possible, and moving commodities by land was more difficult. |
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However, the military situation in Britain, which was already difficult, worsened still further. |
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The English cavalry was hemmed in making it difficult for them to manoeuvre. |
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However, by the beginning of 1317 famine had stricken most of the country making it difficult for King Edward to provide food to most of his men. |
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In more difficult cases of immoral behaviour they could work with the local magistrate, in a system modelled on that employed in Geneva. |
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Mary denied writing them, arguing that her handwriting was not difficult to imitate, and insisted they were forgeries. |
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Its first years were extremely difficult, with very high death rates from disease and starvation, wars with local Indians, and little gold. |
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This decision was so difficult to understand, Howe's critics accused him of treason. |
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Recruiting adequate numbers of Loyalist militia in America proved difficult due to high Patriot activity. |
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Britain had a difficult time appointing a determined senior military leadership in America. |
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A bayonet made firing difficult, as its cumbersome shape hampered ramming down the charge into the barrel. |
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If this occurred, a decisive victory would be much more difficult to obtain. |
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However, the strikes were so fleeting that it was very difficult to turn the antenna in time to positively locate one. |
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To reduce the drag of the antennas the operating wavelength could not be much greater than one m, difficult for the day's electronics. |
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Medical and dental inspections were introduced after 1908, though reaching remote schools proved difficult. |
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Successive glaciations tend to distort and erase the geological evidence, making it difficult to interpret. |
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Generally, the cherry can be a difficult fruit tree to grow and keep alive. |
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Lack of adequate transportation, long hours and poor pay made it difficult to recruit and maintain workers. |
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The Scottish crossbill is extremely difficult to separate from the red and parrot, and plumage distinctions are negligible. |
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The Curragh Incident showed it would be difficult to use the British army to enforce home rule from Dublin on Ulster's unionist minority. |
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The Additional Member System used to elect Members of the Scottish Parliament makes it difficult for a single party to have an absolute majority. |
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Differentiating between a bias crime and a nonbias crime can be difficult, particularly in an atmosphere of heightened racial tensions. |
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In the hands of a good player, the violin is extremely agile, and can execute rapid and difficult sequences of notes. |
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She was raised thinking that she had been briefly deprived of oxygen during a difficult birth resulting in a learning disability. |
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Since they were nonconsecutively numbered, it was difficult to find out whether any of the barcoded goods were missing. |
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Carnoustie is considered by many to be the most difficult course in the Open rota, and one of the toughest courses in the world. |
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Scoring without the hammer is commonly referred to as stealing, or a steal, and is much more difficult. |
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Access to parts of the station is difficult for people with physical disability. |
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Llywelyn was also finding it difficult to raise the annual sums required under the terms of this treaty, and ceased making payments. |
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Democratic socialism is difficult to define and groups of scholars have radically different definitions for the term. |
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Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism. |
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Among the nonheavy drinkers also, those who were depressed had a more difficult time stopping drinking once they had begun. |
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The extraction of iron from its ore into a workable metal is much more difficult than for copper or tin. |
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It remained difficult for artists relying on the Welsh market to support themselves until well into the 20th century. |
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After the departure of the Roman Legions, the later half of the 5th century was a difficult time in Britain. |
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Archaeologists still do not know who erected these dolmens, which makes it difficult to know why they did it. |
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Many metals are superior to lead in some of these aspects but are generally less common and more difficult to extract from parent ores. |
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Consequent upon the acquisition of international personality, the difficult matter of succession to treaty rights and obligations arises. |
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A difficult question is what the consequences are for the inhabitants of a territory undergoing state succession. |
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It often is very difficult to remove a true limpet from a rock without injuring or killing it. |
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Following his return, Gaveston's relationship with the major barons became increasingly difficult. |
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The negotiations proved difficult, and they arrived at a settlement only after Isabella personally intervened with her brother, Charles. |
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However, the period from 1350 to 1400 was difficult, with recurrences of the plague and heavy taxation to pay for the war with France. |
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The quarry closed in July 1969, the result of industry decline and difficult slate removal. |
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During this time life was difficult for communities built solely around a singular industry, especially as most families were on a single wage. |
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As the mines became deeper and ventilation become more difficult to control the risk increased. |
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Heavy rain and mud again made movement difficult and little artillery could be brought closer to the front. |
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Nonstarred titles throughout the bibliography mark the many Gothic works that are relatively scarce or difficult to obtain today. |
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The system was implemented for the Scottish Parliament in order to make it difficult for one party to win an outright majority. |
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In many ways, coalition warfare serves to make the crafting of a peace more difficult than the winning of the war itself. |
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Outside of countries' exclusive economic zones, fishing is difficult to control. |
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This information is used in consumer credit scores, making it difficult or more expensive for the defendant to obtain credit. |
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The large numbers of people involved in demography are often difficult to comprehend. |
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A little later, with Sedgwick as his companion, Murchison attacked the difficult problem of the geological structure of the Alps. |
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Before the arrival of railways in the district, travel to the quarries was difficult and workers' houses were built near the quarries. |
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The evolution of migration in animals seems to be a complex and difficult topic with many unanswered questions. |
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They are very difficult to tame and breed, as males are sterile, though females are fertile. |
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One disadvantage of polecat skin, however, is its unpleasant odour, which is difficult to remove. |
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Porpoises, as opposed to their dolphin counterparts, generally do not thrive in captivity, and are very difficult to maintain. |
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It is a popular plant in alpine gardens, though difficult to grow in warm climates. |
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There are substantial profits to be obtained by mislabelling, and enforcement is difficult, especially in outlets like cafes. |
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The Welsh language itself has many characteristics unfamiliar to most English speakers that can make it difficult to understand its place names. |
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They had a difficult relationship with the Mamluks of Egypt because the latter considered them a vassal state. |
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The tribal chiefs were difficult to appease and an endless cycle of violence curbed Ottoman efforts to pacify the land. |
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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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Narrow sites such as Conwy were instead built on tall rock formations, making any attack difficult. |
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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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Celtic art is a difficult term to define, covering a huge expanse of time, geography and cultures. |
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Chinese sculpture also achieves the difficult feat of creating effective landscapes in three dimensions. |
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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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Rescheduling of some matches was difficult, partly caused by fixture congestion due to the 2015 Rugby World Cup. |
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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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He octaviates some fragments of the tune without even the excuse of avoiding difficult stopping. |
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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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This process was tedious and difficult, and vehicles were subject to damage and could not be used for routine travel. |
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Building a pressure hull is difficult, as it must withstand pressures at its required diving depth. |
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The conditions on a submarine can be difficult because crew members must work in isolation for long periods of time, without family contact. |
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Sediment often settles in intertidal mudflats which are extremely difficult to colonize. |
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The difficult navigation of the harbour gave security to the locals, as larger attacking ships could not enter. |
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However to cross straight over the dune by going over the trailing arms, can be very difficult. |
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Also, traversing the nose is very difficult as well because the nose is usually made up of loose sand without much if any vegetation. |
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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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The presence of these many allotropes makes machining plutonium very difficult, as it changes state very readily. |
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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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Otherwise, whether a volcano is truly extinct is often difficult to determine. |
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If the turbine has a difficult access road, a containerized crane can be lifted up by the internal crane to provide heavier lifting. |
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However, it did prompt complaints from booksellers that they were difficult to display, and even that they could easily be shoplifted. |
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Vehicular access is now very difficult and the gates tend to remain locked. |
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Madeira is very mountainous, and building the levadas was difficult and often sentenced criminals or slaves were used. |
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The most difficult buildings to integrate within French cities are skyscrapers, as they are visible from afar. |
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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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The detection of oceans, even through the spectroscopy method, however is likely extremely difficult and inconclusive. |
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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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It can prove difficult to regulate this kind of overfishing, especially for weak governments. |
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Hence it is difficult in this case to subduct water through the thermohaline circulation. |
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Defining the shoreline is a difficult task due to its dynamic nature and the intended application. |
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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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Lobsters live up to an estimated 45 to 50 years in the wild, although determining age is difficult. |
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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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Large species nest very close together and sit tightly, making it difficult for aerial predators to land among them. |
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The eggs of most gulls and terns are brown with dark splotches, so they are difficult for predators to spot on the beach. |
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The wide range of the acipenserids and their endangered status have made collection of systematic materials difficult. |
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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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Conversion is not encouraged by mainstream Judaism, and is considered a difficult task. |
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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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Another advantage was that oil gave off considerably less smoke, making visual detection more difficult. |
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Defensive mines along coasts made it much more difficult for capital ships to get close enough to conduct coastal bombardment or support attacks. |
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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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Secular law, like most other aspects of prostitution in the Middle Ages, is difficult to generalize due to the regional variations in attitudes towards prostitution. |
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In 2008 and 2011, Ethiopia's growth performance and considerable development gains were challenged by high inflation and a difficult balance of payments situation. |
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Brambles are difficult to eradicate once they have become established. |
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During the fighting, they both find themselves in difficult positions and are forced to save each other, first Vorenus saving Pullo and then Pullo saving Vorenus. |
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Although Han fortifications such as Yumen Pass and the Yang Pass exist further west, the extant walls leading to those passes are difficult to trace. |
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A difficult Heineken Cup pool made up of tough opposition in Leicester Tigers, Stade Francais and ASM Clermont Auvergne proved too difficult, as they finished a distant third. |
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In cases where it is difficult to reach the os sacrum however, a pectopexy has also been discussed as a useful and very effective option in recent literature. |
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The divisions within OPEC made concerted action more difficult. |
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From the W, the cape is difficult to identify, but from the S its extremity appears as a reef which dries in places and is marked by breakers even in calm weather. |
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In countries that are highly multicultural and multilingual, it can be difficult for national election campaigns to engage all sectors of the population. |
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European archaeology had rapidly expanded during the 1950s, leading to increasing specialisation and making the synthesising that Childe was known for increasingly difficult. |
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He enjoyed interacting and socialising with students, often inviting them to dine with him, despite finding it difficult relating to other humans. |
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In the summer of 1910, Welsh was finding it difficult to find a fight. |
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The removal process has proven to be particularly difficult in the center of the lake, where a specially equipped ship may be needed to pull the weed off the lake. |
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The navigational assistance service is especially important in difficult navigational or meteorological circumstances or in case of defects or deficiencies. |
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If you overlead this question with too binding absoluteness requirements I am afraid that a satisfactory and not dogmatic answer will be rather difficult to find. |
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The classic example of this is breaking a wine glass with sound at the precise resonant frequency of the glass, although this is difficult in practice. |
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An off-time transition is difficult to deal with because no norms of behavior or social rituals exist to guide the person experiencing the change. |
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When war broke out between England and France as a result of the Italian Wars, James found himself in a difficult position as an ally by treaty to both France and England. |
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The number of expatriates in the world is difficult to determine. |
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Mathematicians and scientists feel that they have found a more difficult but much more satisfying game to play. Newton's Flaming Laser Sword is one of the rules of that game. |
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Agriculture proved difficult and the local Indians, though hostile to Spain, were unwilling to trade for the combs and other trinkets offered by the colonists. |
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Tactically Tourville made the best he could of a difficult situation. |
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Nevertheless, it has its own distinguishing features, which were formed by a variety of influences during the country's long and difficult history. |
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Clouds and their effects are especially difficult to predict. |
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Polybius was charged with the difficult task of organizing the new form of government in the Greek cities, and in this office he gained great recognition. |
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This is a difficult task since it is made out of a living tree that would require being cut down, a fact that only the real Odysseus would know, thus proving his identity. |
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Her act became the hottest ticket in the country, and getting into the Ramona Room had become as difficult for the nightclub-goer as it had been for Jo in the first place. |
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It is often very difficult to regulate marine pollution because pollution spreads over international barriers, thus making regulations hard to create as well as enforce. |
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Marius found that ending the war was more difficult than he had claimed. |
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As naval mines have become more sophisticated, and able to discriminate between targets, so they have become more difficult to deal with by conventional sweeping. |
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Most truckers had difficult schedules to keep and as a result had to maintain a speed above the posted speed limit to reach their destinations on time. |
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Dune ecosystems are extremely difficult places for plants to survive. |
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If the rowlocks are too close together the oars will be difficult to use. |
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In Eastern Europe, the exact figures are difficult to establish. |
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Her being a goddess, or symbolizing a psychic archetype, accordingly it is difficult to assign a single nature to Tanit, or to clearly represent her to consciousness. |
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Accurately measuring differences in biodiversity can be difficult. |
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It is also often difficult to identify the remains of ctenophores in the guts of possible predators, although the combs sometimes remain intact long enough to provide a clue. |
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Live copepods are popular among hobbyists who are attempting to keep particularly difficult species such as the mandarin dragonet or scooter blenny. |
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As a rule, wildcat fur is difficult to dye in dark brown or black, and has a tendency to turn green when the dye is not well settled into the hair. |
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In many Chinese communities, Mahayana Buddhism is easily syncretized with Taoism, thus exact religious statistics is difficult to obtain and may be understated or overstated. |
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Captured common dolphins are said to be difficult to keep in captivity. |
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Since the original Asian and Atlantic populations have become extinct, it is difficult to determine the unique features among whales in these stocks. |
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At 60 volumes it proved to be difficult for judges and lawyers to use. |
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However, as the king was the most powerful individual, and the one with the highest honour in an area, it was difficult to enforce the law against him. |
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The business environment factors aggregate and value the regulation, tax rates, levels of corruption, economic freedom and how difficult in general it is to do business. |
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Many of these proved ineffective as the pilot had to fly his airplane while attempting to aim a handheld weapon and make a difficult deflection shot. |
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Our marriage went through a difficult time, but now it is on the mend. |
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Taoism is easily syncretized with Mahayana Buddhism for many Chinese, thus exact religious statistics is difficult to obtain and may be understated or overstated. |
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However, consistent transatlantic signalling was difficult to establish. |
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It is difficult to determine when the definition changed to include the current four tournaments, although many trace it to Arnold Palmer's 1960 season. |
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French transport continued to arrive at the perimeter and it was difficult in some places to recognise German troops following up, which inhibited defensive fire. |
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The gharial, with its narrow snout, is easier to distinguish, while morphological differences are more difficult to spot in crocodiles and alligators. |
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Spills of nonfloating oil in the ocean are difficult to clean up. |
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Gathering the men together into fighting units was made difficult by a shortage of radios and by the terrain, with its hedgerows, stone walls and marshes. |
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