Had it been bestowed while the Secretary General of the United Nations was living, unquestionably he would have been greatly encouraged in pursuing a difficult and, in many ways, thankless task.

And, from the first, he faced a difficult task.

A supporter of Alcott's philosophies, Emerson offered to help with his writing, which proved a difficult task.

This difficult task was accomplished by Count Peter Tolstoi, the most subtle and unscrupulous of Peter's servants.

This makes the opponent's task of covering the whole court much more difficult than if the lift was hit higher and with a bigger, obvious swing.

Emilio's brothers, Facundo and José, and his brother-in-law Henri ( Don Enrique ) Schueg, remained in Cuba with the difficult task of sustaining the company during a period of war.

Although shortstop Ernie Banks would become one of the star players in the league during the next decade, finding help for him proved a difficult task, as quality players such as Hank Sauer were few and far between.

Because their lives are not authentic this is a difficult task and they are under constant threat.

The key way characters progress is by earning experience points ( XP / EXP ), which happens when they defeat an enemy or accomplish a difficult task.

It is a difficult task to give novelty to what is old, authority to what is new, brilliance to the common-place, light to the obscure, attraction to the stale, credibility to the doubtful, but nature to all things and all her properties to nature.

Mountbatten tried to persuade Jinnah of a united India, citing the difficult task of dividing the mixed states of Punjab and Bengal, but the Muslim leader was unyielding in his goal of establishing a separate Muslim state called Pakistan.

The country is still facing the difficult task of reconstruction and recovery, while public debt is unsustainable and the government faces large financing gaps.

Because defining a GSSP depends on finding well-preserved geologic sections and identifying key events, this task becomes more difficult as one goes farther back in time.

Keeping the 1924 elections on track proved to be a difficult task.

Evaluating the Carías presidency is a difficult task.

To make the task more difficult, carbonaceous chondrites are rather sooty and therefore very hard to detect.

" Behe specifically explained that the " current definition puts the focus on removing a part from an already functioning system ", but the " difficult task facing Darwinian evolution, however, would not be to remove parts from sophisticated pre-existing systems ; it would be to bring together components to make a new system in the first place ".

His task became even more difficult after the well-received election of Tony Blair as Labour leader in July 1994.

The Jargon File further includes kluge around " to avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a kluge ", kluge up " to lash together a quick hack to perform a task ".

The lack of an obvious rule to determine whether a given Mersenne number is prime makes the search for Mersenne primes an interesting task, which becomes difficult very quickly, since Mersenne numbers grow very rapidly.

In this view, historians do their best to tease out later editorial additions ( itself a very difficult task ) and skeptically view accounts of miracles, leaving behind a reliable historical text.

A fear exists that nanomechanical robots, if achieved, and if designed to self-replicate using naturally occurring materials ( a difficult task ), could consume the entire planet in their hunger for raw materials, or simply crowd out natural life, out-competing it for energy ( as happened historically when blue-green algae appeared and outcompeted earlier life forms ).

# Transfer of technologies and capabilities are most difficult task to manage because of complications of acquisition implementation.

" To retain power, the hereditary prince must carefully maintain the socio-political institutions to which the people are accustomed ; whereas a new prince has the more difficult task in ruling, since he must first stabilize his new-found power in order to build an enduring political structure.

Generally, this task is much more difficult than supervised learning, and typically produces less accurate results for a given amount of input data.

The ten or more dangerous parties singled out for prosecution were still at large, and Pels realized that if these men entrenched themselves in their adobe houses, defending themselves through loopholes, it would be most difficult to capture them.

This made defending against missile attacks more costly and difficult.

The year 1793 was a difficult time for the French forces defending Rousillon.

However, the cost of defending Nagasaki was increasing and, difficult from the start, the financial situation was worsened by the great Kyōhō famine and the Siebold Typhoon of 1828.

Victory maps are the most difficult maps to fight on but also the most widely used by regiments because there is no advantage to the defending side.

This makes the path of the ball more unpredictable thus making the job of defending the stumps that much more difficult.

Defining " religion " as the dedication of one's whole person to whatever one regards as true and important, he took as his own religion the service of reason in a very full and all-encompassing metaphysical sense, defending what he called the " rational temper " as a human ideal ( though one exceedingly difficult to achieve in practice ).

During 1913 a number of senior officers such as Lord French and Henry Hughes Wilson had expressed their concerns to the government that the British Army would find it difficult to act against the Ulster Volunteers, given that they shared the same basic aim of preserving and defending the British Empire and believed Home Rule would threaten it.

The tenuous political circumstances made it very difficult to reconcile the two men's differing projects: innovative social and juridical reforms, however modest, fell victim to the more pressing existential needs of defending the supremacy of the Church's temporal powers.

Caesar states that this left him with a difficult decision, between keeping his forces safe over the winter but showing Roman weakness in defending her allies the Aedui and thus losing their support, or bringing Vercingetorix to open battle but risking running out of supplies-he chose the latter.

On 2 January, they captured Buna, and on 22 January 1943, after prolonged intense fighting in extraordinarily difficult conditions, the Allied forces killed or captured almost the entire defending Japanese forces.

Since the big ball is used mainly for defending and is difficult to throw, a bonus point would be awarded for a kill through throwing.

Given the high levels of Democratic success in the 1930, 1932, 1934 and 1936 elections, the Democrats did face a difficult position in defending a large number of seats, even without the pressures described above.

Given the high levels of Democratic success in the 1930, 1932, 1934 and 1936 elections, the Democrats faced a difficult position in defending a large number of marginal seats, even without the pressures described above.

As a result, defending the base is even more difficult, while the player is occupied with enemies on one part of the map, other enemies could sneak past the player and right to the base, destroying it without fear of retaliation and by complete surprise.

Combined attacks by infantry and cavalry would also have the same effect-the defending infantry unit would be placed in the difficult position of either forming square and being shot to pieces by the attacking infantry ( which would usually be in line formation ), or being ridden down by the cavalry if it decided to remain in line while trading volleys with the attacking infantry.

However this chip and regather is risky as it is difficult to perform successfully and good defending fullbacks will usually be lurking behind the defensive line, waiting for just this type of kick.