Whether a concept analogous to the principle of internal responsibility operates in a nation's external relations is less obvious and more difficult to establish.

seeing an aborigine today is a difficult thing.

It is perhaps difficult to conceive, but imagine that tonight on London bridge the Teddy boys of the East End will gather to sing Marlowe, Herrick, Shakespeare, and perhaps some lyrics of their own.

Presenting an individualized Negro character, it would seem, is one of the most difficult assignments a Southern writer could tackle ; ;

It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.

It is difficult to reconstruct the primeval fears of man.

And Zen Buddhism, though it is extremely difficult to understand how these internal contradictions are reconciled, helps them in their struggle to achieve personal salvation through sexual release.

The release, the freedom, involved in loving another is either terribly difficult or else absolutely impossible ; ;

moreover, it is increasingly difficult to distinguish between the two.

The making of distinctions, like the perception of the great distinctions made, is an inordinately difficult business.

Since civilizational change is the most difficult to perceive and analyze, it seldom is given adequate attention.

It is more difficult with Faulkner than with most authors to say what is the extent and what is the source of his knowledge.

It seems quite obvious that all the really difficult tasks of human beings arise from the fact that man is not one, but many.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

But however we come, finally, to explain and account for the present, the truth we are trying to expose, right now, is that the makers of constitutions and the designers of institutions find it difficult if not impossible to anticipate the behavior of the host of all their enterprises.

It is not difficult to anticipate circumstances in which negative tensions will cumulate ; ;

In the wide range of experiences common to our earth-bound race none is more difficult to manage, more troublesome, and more enduring in its effects than the control of love and hate.

Accordingly we may speak of the Platonism peculiar to Shelley's poems or the type of Stoicism present in Henley's `` Invictus '', and we may find that describing such Platonism or such Stoicism and contrasting each with other expressions of the same attitude or mode of thought is a difficult and challenging enterprise.

It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.

This, naturally, will be difficult to do since both the archaeological and place-name evidence in this period, with some fortunate exceptions, is insufficient for precise chronological purposes.

The approval of only three members of the board of school estimate is required to certify the amount of money to be allotted to the college.

Pauling's estimate of 200 megatons yield from the present series of Russian tests will probably turn out to be too high, but a total of 100 megatons is a distinct possibility.

In the first place, a large part of the discrepancy between President Eisenhower's estimate of a 1.5 billion dollar surplus for the same period and the new estimate of an almost seven billion dollar deficit is the result of the outgoing President's farewell gift of a political booby-trap to his successor.

They estimate further that with sufficient experience and when cost-data of compact cars is compiled, the break-even point may be reduced to 7,500 miles of travel per year.

The safest procedure is to let your builder estimate the size of the unit you need, rather than trying to do this yourself.

Another approach is to estimate from the rate of growth and the smallest size at maturity.

When an evaluative situation is set up, and no concern is with the details that lead to an over-all estimate, we say that roleplaying is used for evaluation.

By means of charts showing wave-travel times and depths in the ocean at various locations, it is possible to estimate the rate of approach and probable time of arrival at Hawaii of a tsunami getting under way at any spot in the Pacific.

This ignorant estimate, I repeat, is not of any interest in itself ; ;

It is interesting that, although the percentage of married students is not appreciably higher at Brooklyn than elsewhere -- about 30 per cent of the women and 25 per cent of the men in the graduating class -- the anxiety of the unmarried has puffed up the estimate.

An estimate of one million dollars is probably not excessive.

Total farm output for this year is officially forecast at 129% of the 1947-49 average, three points higher than the July 1 estimate and exactly equal to the final figure for 1960.

From actions aboard, it is easy to guess that Spencer's boast of twenty staunch followers was a modest estimate ''.

The participating institutions each broadcast, in real time, a frequency signal with time codes, which is their estimate of TAI.

* If it is required to use a single number X as an estimate for the value of numbers, then the arithmetic mean does this best, in the sense of minimizing the sum of squares ( x < sub > i </ sub > − X )< sup > 2 </ sup > of the residuals.

A formula for calculating an unbiased estimate of the population variance from a finite sample of n observations is:

Based on this sample, the estimated population mean is 10, and the unbiased estimate of population variance is 30.

According to the estimate of a former prime minister, Hrant Bagratian, 55 percent of Armenia's GDP is controlled by 44 families.

The best current ( 2009 ) estimate of the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) for the value of the astronomical unit in meters is A = m, based on a comparison of JPL and IAA – RAS ephemerides.

The total population estimate in all of Norway, Sweden and Finland is a mere 120 adult individuals.

`` No telling how good this horse is '', Mike panted.

My God, how long is he going to wait, I thought.

this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.

It is hard to see how the situation could be otherwise.

Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.

I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

It would be interesting to know how much `` integration '' there is in the famous, fashionable colleges and prep schools of New England.

After how many generations is such wealth ( mounting all the while through the manipulations of high finance ) purified of taint??

It is of the utmost importance to the people of America and of the world how their governing President `` ends up '' during the four years of his term.

Analogously, anyone who argues that Einstein's theory of gravitation is simpler than Newton's, must say rather more to explain how it is that the latter is mastered by student-physicists, while the former can be managed ( with difficulty ) only by accomplished experts.

It must be granted that the flouting of convention, no matter how well intentioned one may be, is sure to lead to trouble, or at least to the discomfort that goes with social disapproval.

But I can see from this latest trick of memory how much more arbitrary and influential it is than the will.

Although it is constantly made to look foolish ( too simple to come in out of the rain, people say, who have found in the innocent an impediment ), it does not mind looking foolish because it is not concerned with how it looks.

When someone in the audience rose and asked how does it feel to be a celebrity, Carl said, `` A celebrity is a fellow who eats celery with celerity ''.

No matter how earnest is our quest for guaranteed peace, we must maintain a high degree of military effectiveness at the same time we are engaged in negotiating the issue of arms reduction.

Even Harriet could boldly write, `` I know not how it is ; ;

There is a risk that instead of teaching a person how to be himself, reading fiction and drama may teach him how to be somebody else.

if he instructs them in how to evaluate a work, he is helping them to achieve their own identity.

This is in large part a code of behavior and a glossary of values: what is it that people do and should do and how one should regard it.