(a.) Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.
(a.) Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn; as, a difficult person.
(v. t.) To render difficult; to impede; to perplex.
Example Sentences:
(1) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
(2) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
(3) In practice, however, the necessary dosage is difficult to predict.
(4) Cor triatriatum (CT) is a rare congenital defect, surgically correctable, and sometimes difficult to diagnose by cardiac catheterization.
(5) By drawing from the pathophysiology, this article discusses a multidimensional approach to the treatment of these difficult patients.
(6) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
(7) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(8) In many cases, physicians seek to protect themselves from involvement with these difficult, highly anxious patients by making a referral to a psychiatrist.
(9) The diagnosis of variant- or Prizmetal-angina is difficult because if insufficient specificity of the tests.
(10) The detection of these antibodies is difficult owing to the lack of standardization and of specificity of the laboratory tests.
(11) It was so difficult to keep a straight face when I was filming a sauna scene with Roy Barraclough, who played the mayor of Blackpool.
(12) That is, he believes, to look at massively difficult, interlocking problems through too narrow a lens.
(13) Conversion of the active-site thiol to thiocyanate makes it more difficult to inactivate the enzyme by treatment with Cd2+.
(14) If they end up going to another club that is difficult to take.
(15) Cigarette consumption has also been greater in urban areas, but it is difficult to estimate how much of the excess it can account for.
(16) The most difficult thing I've dealt with at work is ... the terminal illness of a valued colleague.
(17) In that respect, it's difficult to see Allen's anthem as little more than same old same old, and it's probably why I ultimately feel she misses the mark.
(18) This hypothesis is difficult to substantiate with direct measurements using human subjects.
(19) Extrapolation of gestational age from early crown-rump lengths (CRLs) has been difficult because previously established tables of CRL versus gestational age have contained few measurements at less than seven to eight weeks from the first day of the last menses.
(20) Companies had made investments in certain energy sources, the president said, so change could be “uncomfortable and difficult”.
Problematical
Definition:
(a.) Having the nature of a problem; not shown in fact; questionable; uncertain; unsettled; doubtful.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results show diet, self-control and parts of insulin-therapy to be problematic treatment components.
(2) Other problematic diagnoses were cancer of the head and neck and malignant fibrous histiocytoma.
(3) Various feedback techniques have been reported of value, but their superiority to suggestion and hypnosis is still problematic.
(4) Villous tumors of the duodenum are rare, but treatment may be problematic because of their association with invasive adenocarcinoma.
(5) "It causes a great deal of concern and is very problematic for social cohesion when people find they aren't provided with any preference when they are actually in the area they have lived in for a very long time," he told the Sunday Times.
(6) More problematic for Brown is that he has come to embody a government sufficiently unconvinced of its own case as to risk short-changing the armed forces at the front.
(7) The development of gallstones following this procedure, however, has become more problematic in that further opeation becomes a real necessity.
(8) The findings may be of assistance in general surgical reporting of problematic cases.
(9) The missing output of urine is an emergency case which is problematic with regard to old patients.
(10) The authors describe an approach to these problematic behaviors based upon early recognition, a clinical perspective, and administrative action.
(11) Detection of estrus in mares is problematic in that it requires the presence (or at least facsimile acoustic or tactile stimuli) or a stallion.
(12) In patients with problematic CT findings, particularly children and patients with allergies to contrast media, suprasternal sonography can provide important additional information.
(13) CVVH is suited to individualization of ultrafiltration and solute clearance in patients with acute renal failure and volume overload, specifically when there is impaired cardiovascular function or where arterial access is problematic.
(14) Patients with bilateral Wilms' tumor who have local recurrence after undergoing maximum-dose multitechnique therapy are problematic.
(15) As he rose to speak, a BBC spokesman reiterated management's opposition to revealing stars' salaries, telling journalists: "We've been consistent in our view that revealing contractual details of BBC talent is problematic for reasons of confidentiality."
(16) The second, or 'discrepancy model', suggests that the adoption of modern behaviors is problematic only when the individual has limited access to economic resources.
(17) It would be hugely problematic for Perry if any clear evidence were to emerge that he stopped the funding because he did not want a public integrity unit, especially one led by a Democrat, probing too closely into alleged improprieties .
(18) It is reported about 2 patients in whom the decision on electroconvulsive therapy was rendered more problematic by proven organic defects of the brain or a seizure disease.
(19) #p0rn What is genuinely concerning is that Meow has an option to hide a person's age, which could be very problematic in the wrong hands.
(20) Documentation of bioequivalence of topical products has been problematic, and current methods are being re-evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.