The phrase "ability to handle difficult" is not complete and lacks clarity in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's skills or competencies, but it needs to be followed by a noun to specify what is difficult.
Example: "Her ability to handle difficult situations makes her an excellent leader."
Alternatives: "capacity to manage challenging" or "skill in dealing with tough".
As the head of Harvard admissions, Fitzsimmons said one of the qualities he looks for in prospective students is their ability to handle difficult situations.
As our staff members work together to elevate mood ratings, they develop a wonderful confidence in their ability to handle difficult situations as a team.
Still others compete on the basis of product flexibility, their ability to handle difficult, nonstandard orders and to lead in new product introduction.
You receive a pupil/parent concern about a member of staff in your department, what do you do? "This question would be asked in a management role interview and I'd be looking for an understanding of school policy, an ability to handle difficult situations sensitively and someone who can formulate a plan – bringing a resolution to the problem".
The aim is that each table should score no less than nine out of 10 for mood, and as staff work discreetly to push the score up, 'they develop a wonderful confidence in their ability to handle difficult situations as a team'.
In addition to its ability to handle difficult stochastic problems, ADP has the added benefit of reducing a problem's dimensionality by summarizing the future states by a feature set.
Other researchers have provided clear evidence that the training of communication skills has a positive impact on the ability of medical students and physicians to handle difficult situations [ 27, 28], although we have not found such studies on handling potential sick-listing cases.
The programme will demand grit, strategic thinking, and the ability to handle extremely difficult situations.
A necessary eye for squalor, meticulous research and deft plotting, as well as the ability to handle the difficult God's-eye-view narration with aplomb make this a book which, unless you are completely Dickensed-out by this stage in the bicentenary proceedings, you'll be guaranteed to enjoy.
Meerkats teach young how to handle difficult prey by bringing them progressively less disabled prey to deal with, but mothers judge how much to disable prey by the age of the young as revealed by the timbre of their calls, rather than direct assessment of their ability to handle prey (Thornton and McAuliffe 2006).
The improvement in perceptions of having adequate staffing to handle difficult situations in theatre is more difficult to account for.
