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.

The difficulty was compounded because both a black minute hand and a red second hand were also turning around during play.

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.

Understanding, as he did, the difficulty of the art of poetry, and believing that the `` only technical criticism worth having in poetry is that of poets '', he felt obliged to insist upon his duty to be hard to please when it came to the review of a book of verse.

Uncle Randolph and Joel had replanted the bottom lands with difficulty, for more of the slaves, including Annie, had sneaked off when the soldiers broke camp.

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.

While we had expected that compulsive children in the unstructured school setting would have difficulty when compared to those in the structured, we were surprised to find that the achievement of the high compulsives within the schools where the whole-word method is used in beginning reading compares favorably with that of the low compulsives.

The accumulated information on this point shows that first intercourse, even when it is achieved with minimum pain or difficulty, is seldom an overwhelming sexual experience to a woman.

Our difficulty arises when either viewpoint shuts out the other.

The difficulty appears when there is no natural choice of elements from each set.

The family factory produced armaments for the Crimean War ( 1853 – 1856 ); but, had difficulty switching back to regular domestic production when the fighting ended and they filed for bankruptcy.

In 1060, Ealdred was elected to the archbishopric of York, but had difficulty in obtaining papal approval for his appointment, only managing to do so when he promised not to hold the bishoprics of York and Worcester simultaneously.

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.

The conceptual difficulty of bare particulars was illustrated by John Locke when he described a substance by itself, apart from its properties, as " something, I know not what.

* Crackerjack – a 2002 Australian comedy film about a wisecracking layabout who joins a lawn bowls club in order to be allowed to use a free parking spot but is forced to play bowls with the much older crowd when the club enters financial difficulty.

Some have found difficulty reconciling this claim when Biafra also licensed to major corporations, approving with the other band members use of Dead Kennedys ’ songs in major studio film releases such as Neighbors, Freddy Got Fingered, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

At later ages symptoms can include a difficulty identifying or generating rhyming words, or counting syllables in words ( phonological awareness ), a difficulty segmenting words into individual sounds, or blending sounds to make words, a difficulty with word retrieval or naming problems, commonly very poor spelling which has been called dysorthographia ( orthographic coding ), and tendencies to omit or add letters or words when writing and reading are considered classic signs.

This practice can add extra difficulty when debugging DNS issues, as it obscures the freshness of data, and / or what data comes from which cache.

The player character faces them in large numbers, with the number generally increased when the higher of the game's five difficulty levels is chosen when starting a new game.

Thomas acknowledged that he returned to Wales when he had difficulty writing, and John Ackerman argues that " His inspiration and imagination were rooted in his Welsh background ".

In discussing his definition, Wreen noted the difficulty of justifying euthanasia when faced with the notion of the subject's " right to life ".

The problems other philosophers have had with Mill's position center around the following issues: Firstly, Mill's formulation encounters difficulty when it describes what direct experience is by differentiating only between actual and possible sensations.

Fellatio is also sometimes practiced when sexual intercourse can create a physical difficulty for a sex partner.

Such men have openly libelled him, like Dewes and Weldon, whose falsehoods were detected as soon as uttered, or have fastened upon certain ceremonious compliments and dedications, the fashion of his day, as a sample of his servility, passing over his noble letters to the Queen, his lofty contempt for the Lord Keeper Puckering, his open dealing with Sir Robert Cecil, and with others, who, powerful when he was nothing, might have blighted his opening fortunes for ever, forgetting his advocacy of the rights of the people in the face of the court, and the true and honest counsels, always given by him, in times of great difficulty, both to Elizabeth and her successor.

Studio glass or art glass often includes multiple colors which increases the difficulty of production, as each color has different chemical and physical properties when molten.

Some linguists ( e. g. Ruhlen 1994 ) claim that this difficulty can be overcome by means of mass comparison and internal reconstruction ( cf.

Howie encounters difficulty in extracting information from the islanders, who claim never to have heard of Rowan, and whose own mother insists does not exist.

According to the preface, the work is a romance and not a historical novel, because the author neither " dares, nor desires, to claim for it the dignity or cumber it with the difficulty of an historical novel.

One major difficulty with the argument relates to the claim that pregnancy and child-bearing are within the scope of the term " servitude ".

Many producers, citing the difficulty of getting programs financed and off the ground, look to claim the title for themselves.

Another difficulty for the claim that every truthbearer has a truthmaker is with negations of existential propositions ( or, equivalently, universal propositions ).

Guinness has accepted a claim of a, 2, 000 kg ( 4, 400 lb ) male saltwater crocodile living within Bhitarkanika Park in the state of Orissa, India, although, due to the difficulty of trapping and measuring a very large living crocodile, the accuracy of these dimensions has yet to be verified.

GNOME core developers claim that the majority of users find lots of options and choices confusing and difficult to learn, and that so-called power users have little difficulty finding options using an application such as Gconf-editor.

The difficulty inherent in judging the validity of claims to power by men who claim to be acting upon the ' secret ' will of God was disregarded by Filmer, who held it in no way altered the nature of such power, based on the natural right of a supreme father to hold sway.

Due to the difficulty of singing the song, this claim is highly dubious, although the chorus certainly suggests Bacchanalia with its lyrics " And long may the sons of Anacreon intwine the myrtle of Venus with Bacchus ' vine.

However, Islamic Scholars claim that the Gospel was translated into Arabic in the post-Islamic period due the difficulty that 16th century Europeans would have in translating early Arabic's defective script into Latin as well as the extreme rarity of written texts in Pre-Islamic Arabia ..

It stated that there "... was no excitement along the way ," and quoted a railroad official's claim "... it is a perfectly practical run and will be continued ," and engineer William Gates maintaining " This schedule can be made without any difficulty.

The difficulty with this approach is that, despite the Court's claim, the parents are seeking to vindicate not only their own free exercise claims, but also those of their high-school-age children ....

Sources of the early 19th century claim that the ruins of the fortress could still be made out with difficulty.

State Department spokesman Lincoln White offered the official claim that the U-2 was on " weather research " and that the civilian pilot " reported difficulty with his oxygen equipment " and that it was " entirely possible " that the pilot had lost consciousness and had " accidentally violated Soviet air space ".

The basis of the plot follows the same structure as in all the previous games: Calypso runs a car-based contest called Twisted Metal ( though in the game the contest is never called that ), in which the various characters compete risking their lives to claim the tournament's prize-any single wish they desire, no matter the difficulty, rarity or even reality of such wish.