He was then asked for a solution of the difficulty, and began to talk trenchant sense, though private anguish showed through in the vehemence of his manner.

The only lasting difficulty was the food.

The basic difficulty, I suppose, was in my ultimate inability to feel a burden of sin from which I sought relief.

Under the circumstances, I had difficulty keeping up with the conversation on the phone, but when I hung up I was reasonably certain that Francesca had wanted to remind me of our town meeting the next evening, and how important it was that Hank and I be there.

The difficulty was that each day seemed to produce its quota of details which must be cleaned up immediately.

The upper limit was determined by the difficulty of measuring the characteristic anode surface temperature ( see below ) since only a small region of the anode was struck by the arc.

Despite extensive attempts to obtain highly pure reagents, serious difficulty was experienced in obtaining reproducible rates of reaction.

Following observation of the fact that the reaction rates of supposedly identical reaction mixtures prepared on the same filling manifold and exposed under identical conditions often differed by several hundred per cent, a systematic series of experiments was undertaken to see whether the difficulty could be ascribed to the method of preparing the chlorine, to the effects of oxygen or moisture or to the effect of surface to volume ratio in the reaction tubes.

By Nov. 8, 1958, weakness, specifically involving the pelvic and thigh musculature, was pronounced, and a common complaint was `` difficulty in stepping up on to curbs ''.

Roleplaying was offered as a solution -- and the procedure worked as follows: all candidates were invited to a hotel conference room, where the president explained the difficulty he had, and how unnecessary it seemed to him to hire people who just did not work out.

( 1 ) When an object was placed in the patient's hand, he had no difficulty determining whether it was warm or cold, sharp or blunt, rough or smooth, flexible, soft, or hard ; ;

There was some difficulty here.

( This patient, in actuality, was a neurasthenic who had almost come to the point of accepting the fact that it was not her soma but her psyche that was the cause of her difficulty.

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

She was in Egypt during the revolution and had passport difficulty.

Another frequent pioneer difficulty, caused by wearing rough and heavy shoes and boots, was corns.

`` He'll have no difficulty '', I was told.

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 ''.

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

This difficulty compounded when the Mortimer claim was merged with the Yorkist claim in the person of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York.

The difficulty in drawing objective lines between which lobbyists are " good lobbyists " and which ones are " bad ones " is compounded by the cleverness with which lobbyists or their clients can speciously argue that their own lobbying is of the " good " kind.

Under large loads, the finishing half hitch can jam, especially if it is not slipped ; the difficulty of releasing it can be compounded by the fact that the knot is typically still under tension when it is untied.

Egg and poultry prices plummeted in the early years of the Great Depression, and this difficulty was compounded by a double plague of Pullorum Disease and Coccidiosis, which swept through the chicken coops of Live Oak in 1931.

And since roads constitute the largest share of the total impermeable surfaces of a development, the difficulty is compounded by the grid type of layout.

The difficulty of discovering the method is compounded by the difficulty of discovering someone with the motive and opportunity to kill.

The difficulty of completing a shutout is compounded by the many ways a team can score in the game.

This was compounded by the difficulty of finding good teachers during the war.

Alonso, starting from pole on the clean side of the track, made a clean start and lead into the first corner, while the two Williams of Ralf Schumacher and Juan Pablo Montoya, who had started second and fourth respectively on the dirty line had difficulty getting away and were down to around tenth place by the first corner, being compounded by Schumacher's spin at the second corner.

The difficulty was compounded in the later half of the 13th century, when the lozenge shape came also to be used for the semibreve.

He furthermore observed the difficulty to be compounded by a lack of helpful Energy Tanks introduced in the NES Mega Man sequels.

The difficulty for evangelicals is compounded by Singh's confirmation of contact with Swedenborg in the spirit world.

Other communities -- the ones to be aided most by the Senate bill -- have had difficulty starting such stations because of the high initial cost of equipment.

Modern Westerners have difficulty comprehending this fusion of moral and material, largely because in the West the historical trend has been to deny the connection.

The difficulty is heightened when songs merge, as in " Now "/" Later "/" Soon ", because all three have to be performed in the same key, limiting the ability to pick a comfortable key for each singer.

As in other types of climbing, bouldering has developed its own grading systems for comparing the difficulty of problems, mainly because bouldering problems can be much harder than traditional rock climbing routes.

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 ).

Both dogs and coyotes can kill and not consume the prey, either because they are inexperienced, due to injury or difficulty in killing the prey.

Few undersea craters have been discovered because of the difficulty of surveying the sea floor, the rapid rate of change of the ocean bottom, and the subduction of the ocean floor into the Earth's interior by processes of plate tectonics.

Valiente was unhappy with this version, saying that " people seemed to have some difficulty with this, because of the various goddess-names which they found hard to pronounce ", and so she rewrote it as a prose version, much of which differs from her initial version, and is more akin to Gardner's version.

Growth was negative in 2000 because of the difficulty of meeting the conditions of international donors, continued low prices of key exports, and post-coup instability.

This situation is exacerbated by land degradation because of the reduction in productivity, the precariousness of living conditions and the difficulty of access to resources and opportunities.

Digitalis is an example of a drug derived from a plant that was formerly used by folklorists and herbalists ; herbalists have largely abandoned its use because of its narrow therapeutic index and the difficulty of determining the amount of active drug in herbal preparations.

Attempts to generalize his method to functions with more than two variables failed because of the enormous difficulty of the calculations involved.

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.

The 36 other passengers were informed that their arrival in Seattle would be delayed because of a " minor mechanical difficulty.

Fermat was not the first mathematician so moved to write in his own marginal notes to Diophantus ; the Byzantine scholar John Chortasmenos ( 14th / 15th C .) had written " Thy soul, Diophantus, be with Satan because of the difficulty of your theorems " next to the same problem.

Dollfuss had difficulty gaining admission into the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I because he was only 153 cm tall.

Players are permitted to play the ball with the flat of the ' face side ' and with the edges of the head and handle of the field hockey stick with the exception that, for reasons of safety, the ball may not be struck ' hard ' with a forehand edge stroke, because of the difficulty of controlling the height and direction of the ball from that stroke.

False friends can cause difficulty for students learning a foreign language, particularly one that is related to their native language, because students are likely to identify the words wrongly due to linguistic interference.

IBM had difficulty getting customers to upgrade from the smaller machines to the mainframes because so much software had to be rewritten.

The Qur ' an describes Jonah as a righteous preacher of the message of God but a messenger who, one day, fled from his mission because of its overwhelming difficulty.

An additional problem associated with precipitation is the difficulty of early mechanized sowing and harvesting because of waterlogged fields.

These papers were left to his heir, Francesco Melzi, for publication, a task of overwhelming difficulty because of its scope and Leonardo's idiosyncratic writing.

Orthodox Jewish authorities had little difficulty with the issue, because based on Talmudic sources virtually all agreed that grape juice was an acceptable substitute,, though some questioned whether it was acceptable for the Passover seder.

Battery power is used by many garden railway and larger scale systems because of the difficulty in obtaining reliable power supply through the rails outdoors and because the high power consumption and thus current draw of large scale garden models is more easily and safely met with rechargeable batteries.