Sentence examples for a difficult hand from inspiring English sources

He will inherit a difficult hand.

It has not been helped by the UN playing a difficult hand badly.

"But as far as playing a difficult hand, so far it looks like the governor has made the right decisions".

The same cannot be said of Ed Miliband, who is depicted as a weak leader, playing a difficult hand badly.

Bernstein said Pearce had "done well over a long period, particularly with all the factors, he's operated with quite a difficult hand".

Still, Mr. Gorman has received high marks from some on Wall Street for playing a difficult hand in the wake of the financial crisis.

Nevertheless, the published protocols provide further evidence that next-generation sequencing is a difficult hand-to-use technology and seems inapplicable for laboratories working in the field of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics.

Shirreff said those implementing the changes had "made a pretty good fist of a very difficult hand of cards", but added: "I wouldn't want to let anybody think that I think that Army 2020 is good news, it's not.

The Daily Mirror, loyal as ever to the Labour party, has a more difficult hand to play.

The loggers-v-greenies story thread deals the cast a more difficult hand, as it did in Sheehan's previous Tasmania-set mystery, The Hunter – perhaps because it's tricky to humanise characters whose opposition is so well known that it can stray into caricature and ideology.

This is a difficult bidding hand for North-South.