A chief difficulty in managing definition is the need to use other terms that are already understood or whose definitions are easily obtainable.

Consequently, her chief ministers Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin and Robert Harley, who were called " Prime Minister " by some, had difficulty executing policy in the face of a hostile Parliament.

The chief ground of this persuasion was the extreme difficulty of the access to it.

A chief difficulty in nosology is that diseases often cannot be defined and classified clearly, especially when etiology or pathogenesis are unknown.

His chief drawback is an inability to view a situation without emotion, which Forster suggests is a typical Indian difficulty.

Daniel Sickles, III Corps commander, and Daniel Butterfield, Meade's chief of staff, caused him difficulty later in the war, questioning his command decisions and courage.

Keegan suggests that the confusion of spellings was due to grammatically differing forms of the name for the chief and for the village or island, or was simply due to Columbus's difficulty with the Lucayan language.

The chief difficulty lies in how rich Capua in 343 can have been reduced to such dire straits by the Samnites that the Campani were willing to surrender everything to Rome.

Triage is normally the first stage the patient passes through, and consists of a brief assessment, a set of vital signs, and the assignment of a " chief complaint " ( i. e. chest pain, abdominal pain, difficulty breathing, etc .).

A chief difficulty of treating DSPD is in maintaining an earlier schedule after it has been established.

Upon his expedition to Dali, he had difficulty crossing the Jinsha (" Golden Sand ") River ( a tributary to the Chang Jiang ), and received help from Mailiang, the chief of the Nakhi people.

He sketched with a free hand, wrote, as he lived, from hand to mouth, and the chief difficulty he experienced was that of getting rid of his characters who " hung about him like those tiresome people who never can make up their minds to bid you good night.

The chief difficulty in modeling turbulent flows comes from the wide range of length and time scales associated with turbulent flow.

Its chief liability was a lack of precision and the difficulty of using it in close combat, or closely ranked formations.

The chief difficulty was in finding an experiment where the two flexible theories would make distinctly different predictions.

In OSINT, the chief difficulty is in identifying relevant, reliable sources from the vast amount of publicly available information.

The chief difficulty is that it is relatively easy to count the degrees of freedom quantum strings possess if they do not interact with one another.

The chief technical difficulty was the construction of locks and dams to lift vessels to Lake Winnebago.

The nonlinear filtered advection term is the chief cause of difficulty in LES modeling.

Runs must be performed on their native consoles or on certain PC / Mac configurations ; runs on emulators are not allowed for a multitude of reasons, chief among them the difficulty in confirming that the run is not tool-assisted.

This difficulty is illustrated in statements made by Ranulf de Glanvill ( died 1190 ), the chief Justiciar of Henry II:

That was my chief difficulty in adjusting, the fact that I had never played forward before.

Devil May Cry 2 received mixed reviews, and has been criticized for a variety of development decisions, which made the game considerably different from its predecessor ; chief among these decisions was the lowered difficulty.

My chief difficulty was to compromise between truth and art, for I was writing a novel that was to be an exact reproduction of the period and an exact analysis and synthesis of a state of mind.

Wisman, who has had the chief controller's job for four years, calls the signals for a team operating three rows of dull-gray consoles studded with lights, switches and buttons.

His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

Next to it is a copper section, with cooking utensils and a figure of the chief cook in an elaborate, floor-length robe.

These headquarters engineers, headed by the vice-president -- Engineering, counsel and advise divisional managers and chief engineers on product problems as well as aid with design ; ;

The chief experience is the sensing of communion, and in the higher religions, of a harmonious relationship with the supernatural power.

In 1931 Mrs. F. H. Briggs, agent and chief operator, who was to retire in 1946 with thirty years' service, led agency offices in sales for the year with $2,490.

Walton, after a wartime stint with Time-Life, to become bureau chief for The New Republic.

Intercede for our separated brethren, that with us in the one true fold they may be united to the chief Shepherd, the vicar of thy Son.

The new Constitution provided for a much stronger national government with a chief executive ( the president ), courts, and taxing powers.

According to Vahram Nercissiantz, President Serzh Sargsyan's chief economic adviser, " Businessmen holding state positions have turned into oligarchs who have avoided paying sufficient taxes by abusing their state positions, distorted markets with unequal conditions, breached the rules of competition, impeded or prevented small and medium-sized business ’ entry into manufacturing and thereby sharply deepened social polarization in the republic.

These exceptions, introduced with a good object, had grown into a widespread evil by the 12th century, virtually creating an imperium in imperio, and depriving the bishop of all authority over the chief centres of influence in his diocese.

In process of time the title abbot was extended to clerics who had no connection with the monastic system, as to the principal of a body of parochial clergy ; and under the Carolingians to the chief chaplain of the king,, or military chaplain of the emperor, It even came to be adopted by purely secular officials.

Some scholars have hypothesized an original Proto-Indo-European pantheon, with the chief male god ( Di -) represented by the sky and thunder, and the chief female god ( feminine form of Di -) represented as the earth or fertile soil.

The philosopher Mencius once criticized its chief proponent Xu Xing ( 許行 ) for advocating that rulers should work in the fields with their subjects.

Among many roles in his career, Arau has played " Captain Herrera ", a lieutenant of Federal general " Mapache ", in Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western, The Wild Bunch, chief bandit " El Guapo " in Three Amigos ( USA, 1986 ), a comedy with Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Chevy Chase, and the smuggler " Juan " in Romancing the Stone which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.

Babbage was never able to complete construction of any of his machines due to conflicts with his chief engineer and inadequate funding.

Construction of this machine was never completed ; Babbage had conflicts with his chief engineer, Joseph Clement, and ultimately the British government withdrew its funding for the project.

His chief work is a Historia Francorum, or Libri v de Gestis Francorum, which deals with the history of the Franks from the earliest times to 653, and was continued by other writers until the middle of the twelfth century.

One of the terms of the surrender was that Guthrum convert to Christianity ; and three weeks later the Danish king and 29 of his chief men were baptised at Alfred's court at Aller, near Athelney, with Alfred receiving Guthrum as his spiritual son.

The marriage had been arranged by her father Alfonso VI of León in 1106 to unite the two chief Christian states against the Almoravides, and to supply them with a capable military leader.

He established connections with Kotys, chief of the Odrysians.