Sentence examples for a more difficult environment from inspiring English sources

"And that has made it a more difficult environment to publish a biography about Joe Paterno".

"The problem is in Washington you don't have people like Bullock," Mr. Pauken said, predicting a more difficult environment for Mr. Bush.

"I cannot recall a more difficult environment in terms of technology spending than the one that has unfolded over the past few months," said Michael C. Ruettgers, above, EMC's chairman.

"The key question is how Ford's solution has changed in response to a more difficult environment.

"The wireless and wireline phone companies that are the customers of these equipment makers have been merging for years, creating a more difficult environment to compete in," says telecom analyst Jeff Kagan.

DiOrio says that commission enticements are part of the business cycle: "When it's easy to sell properties commissions drop a bit, but in a more difficult environment they go up".

This is feedback from the F.B.I. indicating that potential terrorists see this as a much more difficult environment to operate in as a result of the things we've been doing".

Mr. Kelly, in remarks at a City Council hearing and to reporters afterward, said that several weeks ago, the department learned from the F.B.I. that suspects had said that terrorist operatives now considered New York City "a much more difficult environment in which to function".

"Obviously there have been all sorts of issues that have arisen as a consequence" of directly advertising to children, like "childhood obesity, diabetes and other social issues — and that's why it's a much more difficult environment to advertise directly in," said Stuart Hazlewood, the chief strategy officer of the advertising agency DDB New York.

He said that leaving the euro would entail a big risk for Cyprus, and that an exit from the currency could find the country having to pursue reforms "in a much more difficult environment".

But the G8 is one thing, you've said elsewhere so at some stage in this next hour, let's please talk about the emerging economies, the Brics and other countries because it's a complicated, much more difficult environment in which we're working now compared with 2005 or '98 – the last times we hosted a G8 – and in many ways that's welcome but it does make campaigning a little more difficult.