The phrase "a consequence of the difficulty" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the results or effects that arise from a particular challenge or problem.
Example: "The delays in the project were a consequence of the difficulty in securing the necessary permits."
Alternatives: "an outcome of the challenge" or "a result of the problem."
The U.S. company's shortfall was viewed as a consequence of the difficulty of competing against a new wave of music services, from privately-held, large companies like Spotify, as well as new efforts from Apple in the form of Apple Music's radio offering and Google's YouTube-based product.
The low number of transfected cells in the epidermis and upper dermis could be a consequence of the difficulty of injecting DNA in these thin skin layers of mice.
On the whole, proposals for the later stages of the mechanism were less well formulated, mainly as a consequence of the difficulty of isolating reaction intermediates.
This is generally a consequence of the difficulty arising from two or more chemistries being compatible with each other under the same reaction conditions, while efficient reversibility is maintained for the whole system.
The sample size employed is in part a consequence of the difficulty of enrolling 101 different emergency department physicians, i.e., physicians who had not previously participated in this study.
As a consequence of the difficulty in diagnosing some injuries with autopsy, standard autopsy appears not to be a valid reference standard to test the performance of the PMCT in some cases [ 27].
Partially as a consequence of the difficulties of making inferences from contextual data, I have a secondary research focus on epidemiologic methodology.
Pacifier use was also analysed as a consequence of the difficulties encountered by mothers to maintain BF as source of satisfaction of their infants' non-nutritive sucking urge; moreover, pacifiers' prolonged use has been correlated with the development of myofunctional and dental disorders (Verrastro et al. 2006; Oliveira et al. 2006; Peres et al. 2007; Mendes et al. 2008).
A notable exception is Colorado where a recent Colorado Public Radio story highlighting variation in polls conducted in that state suggested that much of the inconsistency across polls was a consequence of the difficulties associated with polling Latino voters.
The relative scarcity of metabolomic investigations, relative to other 'omics strategies', is a consequence of the difficulties associated with the unbiased analysis of the wide physicochemical heterogeneity apparent across these compounds.
As a consequence of the difficulties in measuring the optical properties a reference phantom with well known optical properties is still missing, in spite of the many different materials proposed especially for tissue-simulating phantoms [ 14].
