The night was so clear that Richardson had no difficulty making out the silhouette.

An earlier difficulty was overcome by making it clear that individual libraries in any area might join or not, as they saw fit.

Air shows, and other big shows such as agricultural shows, on grassy land, are vulnerable to continued heavy rain waterlogging the ground, and making the cloudbase too low for flying, forcing cancellation, or the show ending early, costing much money for the show's organizers, as people and parking cars have difficulty moving about and turn the land into a morass, and the organizers may be tempted to put straw or cinders down to make movement easier, and the owner of the land cannot accept the resulting damage.

In the field of artificial intelligence, the most difficult problems are informally known as AI-complete or AI-hard, implying that the difficulty of these computational problems is equivalent to solving the central artificial intelligence problem — making computers as intelligent as people, or strong AI.

Perforators were often imprecise, causing difficulty in making prints for the opposite perforation format.

The difficulty of the manufacture of a large cylinder with a tightly fitting piston was solved by John Wilkinson who had developed precision boring techniques for cannon making at Bersham, near Wrexham, North Wales.

In addition, many students who are considered literate still have difficulty in comprehension which may be related to making reading instruction contingent on spoken language.

Unlike other Spheres, the difficulty of Spirit magic is often a factor of the Gauntlet, making these spells harder for the most part.

Predators, though, seem to have difficulty determining which prairie dog is making the call due to its " ventriloquistic " nature.

Like all social sciences, political science faces the difficulty of observing human actors that can only be partially observed and who have the capacity for making conscious choices unlike other subjects such as non-human organisms in biology or inanimate objects as in physics.

Berengaria had almost as much difficulty in making the journey home as her husband did, and she did not see England until after his death.

Ezri had difficulty making the transition and sought out Ben Sisko on Earth.

Before the fourth edition, skill and ability checks worked as follows: all actions in the game, from the use of skills to making attacks in combat, are first given a target number that reflects the difficulty of the action which is then raised or lowered by various modifying factors, such as environmental conditions, the condition of the character, the use of mechanical aids, and so forth.

Siebe Gorman was allowed to sell in Commonwealth countries, but had difficulty in meeting the demand and the U. S. patent prevented others from making the product.

Foster had difficulty making the transition to life and politics in Washington.

I introduced myself and told him that I adored his movies, his contributions to film, because he was the first guy who really started making films about the reality of the vacuity between people, the difficulty in traversing this space between lovers in modern day ... and he never gives you an answer, Antonioni – that's the beautiful thing.

* The Saxon city of Goslar starts making efforts to redeem its already issued annuities, a sure indication of financial difficulty and maybe an early sign of the 13th century crisis.

According to a letter to the Empress Pulcheria collected among the letters of Leo I, Hilarius apologized for not delivering to her the pope's letter after the synod, but owing to Dioscurus of Alexandria, who tried to hinder his going either to Rome or to Constantinople, he had great difficulty in making his escape in order to bring to the pontiff the news of the result of the council.

This meant Boone had difficulty making ends meet ; he was often taken to court for nonpayment of debts, and he sold what land he owned to pay off creditors.

There are considerable variations in vocabulary and grammar in various parts of Papua New Guinea, with distinct dialects in the New Guinea Highlands, the north coast of Papua New Guinea ( Pidgin speakers from Finschhafen speak rather quickly and often have difficulty making themselves understood elsewhere ) and the New Guinea Islands.

Uilleann pipe reeds are also often called " the piper's despair " for the immense difficulty of maintaining, tuning and especially making the double reed of the regulators and, most importantly, the chanter.

As he was making his exit, it is believed that Townsley spotted a woman in difficulty and stopped to help her.

Sidekicks frequently serve as an emotional connection, especially when the hero is depicted as detached and distant, traits which would normally generate difficulty in making the hero likable.

All concluded that a kibbutz upbringing led to individuals ' having greater difficulty in making strong emotional commitments thereafter, such as falling in love or forming a lasting friendship.

The difficulty of analysis of any subsystem in the phonology is an inverse function of the size -- smaller systems are more troublesome -- for any given degree of morphophonemic complexity.

There is little evidence that existing public or private training programs have any great difficulty getting students to enroll in their programs, even though they must pay tuition, receive no subsistence payments, and are not guaranteed a job.

and in fact without any difficulty if the pressure is kept downward at all times.

The fundamental difficulty of which the Selden case was `` a striking ( though not singular ) example '', concluded Hough, `` will remain as long as testimony is taken without any authoritative judicial officer present, and responsible for the maintenance of discipline, and the reception or exclusion of testimony ''.

She had great difficulty controlling them, and little success in instilling any education.

Estimates of the total number of Protestants are very uncertain, partly because of the difficulty in determining which denominations should be placed in these categories, but it seems clear that Protestantism is the second largest major group of Christians after Catholicism in number of followers ( although the Orthodox Church is larger than any single Protestant denomination ).

Moore and Hastings Rashdall ) tries to meet the difficulty by advocating a plurality of ends and including among them the attainment of virtue itself, which, as John Stuart Mill affirmed, " may be felt a good in itself, and desired as such with as great intensity as any other good.

The age group Open is so called because divers of any age, including those over 18, may compete in these events, so long as their dives meet a minimum standard of difficulty.

Now all these signs ( of spiritual gifts ) are forthcoming from my side without any difficulty, and they agree, too, with the rules, and the dispensations, and the instructions of the Creator ; therefore without doubt the Christ, and the Spirit, and the apostle, belong severally to my God.

In high level competitions, there are two preliminary routines, one which has only two moves scored for difficulty and one where the athlete is free to perform any routine.

Due to this difficulty, and due to the lack of any observed effect of grand unification so far, there is no generally accepted GUT model.

Most patients do not experience any difficulty after the radioactive iodine treatment, usually given as a small pill.

Prior to the 386, the difficulty of manufacturing microchips and the uncertainty of reliable supply made it desirable that any mass-market semiconductor be multi-sourced, that is, made by two or more manufacturers, the second and subsequent companies manufacturing under license from the originating company.

Between January and April 1990 each of the Communist Party leaders of the five states of Soviet Central Asia assumed the position of Chairman of the Supreme Soviet in their respective SSRs, without any difficulty from the still weak opposition forces in the region.

Either from the imperfect cutting or the difficulty of placing the lights advantageously, or the immovability of the stone itself, which should be made to revolve on its axis, few catch any of the brilliant rays it reflects when viewed at a particular angle.

" These included absolute acceptance of any circumstance and consistent good cheer in the face of any difficulty.

First-language speakers of Polish never experience any difficulty in mutual understanding ; however, non-native speakers have difficulty distinguishing regional variations.

Generally the left wing is favored by the right-handed majority of writers because the feather curves away from the sight line, over the back of the hand, although because of the modern scarcity of substantial quills this is rarely a consideration as the curvature is not actually so pronounced as to cause any difficulty in the writing process.

Phenomena such as the Unruh effect, in which particles exist in certain accelerating frames but not in stationary ones, do not pose any difficulty when considered on a curved background ( the Unruh effect occurs even in flat Minkowskian backgrounds ).

A difficulty with any such historical search is that " Robert " was in medieval England a very common given name, and " Robin " ( or Robyn ), especially in the 13th century, was its very common diminutive.