The difficulty lay in judging the ability of an issuing bank to be able to promptly redeem their currency for gold or silver.

When World War I broke out, Constantine was faced with the difficulty of determining where Greece's support lay.

The difficulty lay in discerning truth from falsehood, credible claims from impossible one.

Since the affair had been kept secret she had difficulty obtaining information about him, and could not afford to visit him in the Edinburgh hospital where he lay dying.

The first settlers had great difficulty in cultivating the land because of the impenetrable walls of giant ti-tree, large gum and blackwood trees which lay under the surface.

The difficulty in reaching a surrender agreement lay in part in Johnston's desire influenced by President Davis, for more than the purely military surrender that Sherman offered.

" The real difficulty of the stunt lay not in the leap itself ; since she had practised this with the train stationary and it clearly presented no difficulties, but in the timing.

' Religion remained the major cause of differentiation in all Irish diaspora communities and had the greatest impact on identity, followed by the nature and difficulty of socio-economic conditions faced in each new country and the strength of continued social and political links of Irish immigrants and their descendants with the old country.

Alvin's first attempt fails: after experiencing difficulty starting the old mower's motor, he doesn't get far before the machine finally breathes its last, and he is forced to flag down a passing bus.

Several earlier attempts to form this county failed due to the difficulty in satisfying the general provisions of Tennessee's old constitution.

The soldiers kept yelling, Babo, ovsa (" Granny, give us oats ") but the woman, who was old and probably had difficulty hearing, thought they were saying Hopsa (" Jump "), so she repeatedly jumped, to the very great frustration of the Russian soldiers.

He was old and tired and his once active brain was gradually becoming addled, for he had great difficulty in sleeping without the soporific aid of alcohol .".

Evidence of blindsight can be indirectly observed in children as young as two months, although there is difficulty in determining the type in a patient who is not old enough to answer questions.

Though the actual Mentor in the story is a somewhat ineffective old man, the goddess Athena takes on his appearance in order to guide young Telemachus in his time of difficulty.

A small party of Scots led by Sir William Keith managed with some difficulty to make their way across the ruins of the old bridge to the northern bank of the Tweed.

I would dare to take an oath solemnly, swearing that, except for those who have murdered Tiberius Gracchus, no enemy has foisted so much difficulty and so much distress upon me as you have because of the matters: you should have shouldered the responsibilities of all of those children whom I had in the past, and to make sure that I might have the least anxiety possible in my old age ; and that, whatever you did, you would wish to please me most greatly ; and that you would consider it sacrilegious to do anything of great significance contrary to my feelings, especially as I am someone with only a short portion of my life left.

Charbonneau was stabbed at the Manitou-a-banc end of the Portage la Prairie, Manitoba in the act of committing a Rape upon her Daughter by an old Saultier woman with a Canoe Awl — a fate he highly deserved for his brutality — It was with difficulty he could walk back over the portage.

In the 1950s with the development of the Eastern shore, it was decided to build a larger bridge ; the old Hobart Bridge faced increasing difficulty in managing the larger volumes of traffic that came with development, and constantly raising the lift span for shipping was disruptive.

In general, elderly people had more difficulty adapting and the phrase " How much is that in old money?

" Being then sixty years old ," says his great-grandson, " he was with difficulty persuaded to accept the offer, when it came to him from authority.

For some time the new poets and critics found a great difficulty in being heard, but in 1884 they founded a review, De Nieuwe Gids (" The New Guide "), which was able to offer a direct challenge to the old guard's periodicals.

Leopard geckos with this condition may develop eye problems, have difficulty in walking, and noticeable constricting bands of old skin around their limbs.

However the Amendment ran into serious difficulty in the early 1990s, when the Irish Supreme Court was forced to deal with a crisis over the pregnancy of a fourteen year old girl victim of unlawful carnal knowledge by a school friend's father.

Because wedding apparel is often quite expensive, most brides find no difficulty in mixing old and new.

Although the artist had difficulty representing the perspective of the old church, this drawing is the only remaining evidence of its appearance.

Whales have beached throughout human history, so many strandings can be attributed to natural and environmental factors, such as rough weather, weakness due to old age or infection, difficulty giving birth, hunting too close to shore and navigation errors.

After Al-Biruni, Persian scholars took his description and formed ever more fanciful versions of the beast, aided by the absence of first-hand knowledge and the difficulty of reading and interpreting old Arabic script.

The explanation of this difficulty is furnished by Cicero, who tells us that, after the destruction of Himera, those citizens who had survived the calamity of the war established themselves at Thermae, within the confines of the same territory, and not far from their old town.

New signs were stuck over the old ones but were smaller, including unusual lane illustrations, disproportionate text, lack of route information, increased difficulty to read at a long distance and used incorrect fonts on them, annoying road users and road enthusiasts.

Although Currie actually received a plurality of votes in the old Algoma riding, Brown's dominance over the eastern corner of the constituency was such that he was able to win re-election without difficulty.

The team was but three years old and had encountered difficulty in the preparation of a larger engine.

The game has since been released as shareware and is available as a free download, although being a DOS game, users of post-Windows 98 operating systems may have difficulty getting it to run.

Being a DOS game, First Encounters has difficulty running with post-DOS operating systems such as Windows 95, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

No wonder that Pozzatti and I had at times difficulty in remembering the real purpose of our presence, namely, Cultural Exchange.

In the real world, a potential difficulty is that currency markets are far from a free market, with government and central banks being major players, and this is unlikely to change within the foreseeable future.

His character on Galaxy Quest had been a Wunderkind pilot, but the real-life Tommy has much more difficulty piloting a real starship and only masters the controls after watching video of his work as a child.

He goes on to explain that if gradual evolution of the eye could be shown to be possible, “ the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection ... can hardly be considered real ”.

Class issues are a strong component of screwball comedies: the upper class tend to be shown as idle and pampered, and have difficulty getting around in the real world.

A sophisticated attacker having the technology to use decoys, shielding, maneuvering warheads, defense suppression, or other countermeasures would have multiplied the difficulty and cost of intercepting the real warheads.

The use of VR in heritage and archaeology has potential in museum and visitor centre applications, but its use has been tempered by the difficulty in presenting a " quick to learn " real time experience to numerous people at any given time.

* The difficulty of explaining the real error to the American public and its elected representatives.

The Battle of Stirling Bridge is depicted in the 1995 film Braveheart, but it bears little resemblance to the real battle, there being no bridge ( due mainly to the difficulty of filming around the bridge itself ) and tactics resembling the Battle of Bannockburn.

This is partially due to the difficulty of comparing real mainframe hardware to other PCs and servers as well as the lack of concrete, controlled performance comparisons.

The difficulty with the question stems from the concern that human beings do not in fact fully understand or agree upon the nature of knowledge or knowing, and therefore ( it is often argued ) it is not possible to be certain beyond doubt what is real.

Due to the other game's high difficulty and similarity to its predecessor, Nintendo of America chose instead to hire the Japanese developers to finish off and release this original designed " Mario 2 " prototype, which has resulted in some confusion amongst fans as to which was " the real Mario 2 ", some siding with the former and others with the latter.

This statement illustrates the difficulty of trying to distinguish between " real " and " virtual " particles, because, in mathematical terms, they are the same objects and it is only our definition of " reality " that is weak here.

Reid responded in January 1936 that there had been no such mismanagement, that the province's financial problems were due to Social Credit's policies, both real and promised, and that had the UFA won re-election in 1935 it could have continued governing without serious difficulty.

In a parallel situation, amnesic individuals may have a greater propensity to have their memory manipulated and perhaps perform non-advantageous acts on the " direction " of external sources and have difficulty in differentiating imaginary and real experiences.

This example, more than the others, shows the difficulty of actually applying the principle of indifference in real situations.

The difficulty faced by Ganapati ( Ganesha ) in writing down Mahābhārata as described in the tradition, could be real, and was most probably faced by those people who first attempted to write it down as some reciter recited it continuously.

He definitely says that the " indentures are not very considerable /' and his drawing and his other statements prove that he had as much difficulty in making out the real characters as has ever been experienced since then.

In comparison, opiates can simply cause great difficulty regardless of things such as the presence ( real or imaginary ) of others.

An evolutionary psychology explanation for why negative news have a higher news value than positive news starts with the empirical observation that the human perceptive system and lower level brain functions have difficulty distinguishing between media stimuli and real stimuli.

Due to difficulty of testing under real conditions, Black's equation is used to predict the life span of integrated circuits.

One is the very simple fact that the real difficulty of representative government is how to make it representative, even in the smallest of small nationalities, even in the nearest parish council.

If the difficulty real or supposed has grown out of the circumstances of my having been connected with the negotiation at St Mary's I feel it my duty to state to the committee that I acted from an entire conviction of its propriety and an anxious desire on my part to promote the welfare and accomplish the wishes of the whole people of the State in assisting to add a large and fertile tract of country to that which we already possess "

The game includes many lessons over several difficulty levels, intended to teach a player how to play the keytar in Pro mode, and effectively for real outside of the game.