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 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.

As he watched the man sit suddenly, a detached part of his mind observed how very difficult it was, really, to knock a man off his feet.

It was a difficult and ambiguous kind of negotiation, even though the rancher was said to be expert in his knowledge of the aborigines and their language.

This was not simpler but much more difficult than exercises within Ptolemy's astronomy.

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.

the mere fact that he was selected, though as a substitute, to act as interlocutor or moderator for it, or perhaps we should say with Buck as ' father of the act ', is in itself a difficult phase of his development to grasp.

The statement was also made that undoubtedly the railroad had received some compensating benefit from the telegraphers, but that it was difficult to imagine what could balance a job for life.

It was the first blow that was always difficult.

Sleep was difficult these days.

It is difficult to tabulate exactly what was meant in each individual situation, but the conclusion may be drawn that 21 towns do not assess movable personal property, and of the remainder only certain types are valued for tax purposes.

His father Soeren was the village apothecary whose slender income made it difficult to feed his family, let alone educate them in a town without even a school.

In the first place, it was difficult for us to meet.

Serum potassium at this time was 3.8 mEq. per liter, and the hemoglobin was 13.9 gm. By Dec. 1, 1958, the weakness in the pelvic and quadriceps muscle groups was appreciably worse, and it became difficult for the patient to rise unaided from a sitting or reclining position.

In a course for supermarket operators, a district manager who had been recently appointed to his position after being outstandingly successful as a store manager, found that in supervising other managers he was having a difficult time.

Although the government was probably prepared for elections by mid-1958, the first decision was no doubt made more difficult as party strife multiplied.

electricity plays such an important part in community life today that it is difficult to envision a time when current was not available for daily use.

To get around this quite difficult corner, there is one first aid to objectiveness: prevent the distant sitter from knowing which reading was for him.

This was a slow and difficult course, and French trade suffered from the many mistakes of the new group of traders.

It was ruled a difficult chance and a hit.