(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”.
Unbreakable
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Nina Funnell’s terrifying physical assault detailed in Unbreakable is something her mind endures out-of-time, “valiantly trying to protect me from the trauma of what was occurring”.
(2) Fitness for purpose should not accompany Westminster’s repair – it should be its unbreakable requirement.
(3) Until then, we have an unbreakable moral obligation to save them.
(4) We have an unbreakable option with both Lanzini and his club, so any other team’s interest is irrelevant.
(5) While a little less than 60% of protective eye glasses were equipped with unbreakable lenses, 40% of protective glasses were simple eye guards, containing no lens at all.
(6) At least that’s the implication from FBI director Jim Comey’s push to ban unbreakable encryption and deliberately weaken everyone’s security.
(7) He added: “As Americans, we are in his debt because, having worked with every US president since John F Kennedy, no one did more over so many years as Shimon Peres to build the alliance between our two countries – an unbreakable alliance that today is closer and stronger than it has ever been.” The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, said: “He worked tirelessly for a two-state solution that would enable Israel to live securely and harmoniously with the Palestinians and the wider region.
(8) A series that followed the mixed fortunes of a group of guys whose unbreakable bond transcended their turbulent personal and professional relationships.
(9) Donald Trump has made a gushing show of friendship to the French leader, Emmanuel Macron, saying the two countries had an “unbreakable bond” , pledging to draw up a road map for post-conflict Syria, and asserting that the two leaders could work together despite clear differences on climate change.
(10) A filibuster, which would be unbreakable unless the Democratic leadership can muster 60 votes, would allow wavering politicians to avoid having to reveal where they stand in the fraught gun debate.
(11) In April, the star announced that she was delaying her Unbreakable tour because she and her husband, businessman Wissam Al Mana, were “planning our family”.
(12) Forget Edmund Burke 's grand myth of British history's unbreakable continuity – as an Irishman he should have known better: constitutional ruptures in these islands come round with the regularity of comets, pretty much every century.
(13) Treaties can be broken but our partnership is unbreakable.
(14) The prosthesis is non-reactive, virtually unbreakable, and undentable.
(15) According to Channel 4, Farnaby will be seeking out "magnetic boys" in Croatia, Serbia's "human battery", and an "unbreakable monk" in China.
(16) The H gene theory, postulates that the main defense against autoimmune disease is mediated by the permanent, unbreakable tolerances imposed on the clonal repertoire by the histocompatibility (H) antigens, major, minor and H-Y.
(17) However, a 7z archive with a password of, say, 40 characters is probably unbreakable in the foreseeable future.
(18) Made of clear polystyrene, with adjustable pegs of the same material, the device is small, light, unbreakable and easily portable.
(19) Vicious circles of economic instability, devaluation, and capital flight have brought down seemingly unbreakable regimes throughout history.
(20) Specimens plastinated with an epoxy-silicone copolymer are rigid enough to be polished, but are not unbreakable.