The phrase "accepting the difficulty of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the acknowledgment or recognition of challenges or hardships in a particular situation.
Example: "Accepting the difficulty of the task ahead is the first step towards overcoming it."
Alternatives: "acknowledging the challenges of" or "recognizing the hardships of".
Even accepting the difficulties of carrying out research in this field, the available studies contribute only low levels of quantitative evidence.
Livingstone accepts the difficulty of finding suitable teachers but says children who already know about coding could take charge "with the teacher as facilitator".
But Sadiq Khan, the shadow justice secretary, told the Commons that while he accepted the difficulty of "reconciling the issues of justice and security" the legislation was not "proportionate to the scale of the problem".
In this perspective, Ribeiro and Laranjeira (2012) highlight that the very feeling of love and companionship, combined with the fear of not being accepted, influences the difficulty of denying crack when someone close offers it.
Many of us have difficulty accepting the generosity of friends.
In his appeal court ruling last year Lord Phillips, Master of the Rolls, said that he had "difficulty" accepting the assertion of the attorney general that courts could make it a criminal offence for a newspaper to fail to obtain clearance from him before publishing material to which he might not object.
In all focus groups, participants had difficulty accepting the findings of health studies that contradicted their own experiences of environmental exposures and illness.
Much research has shown that many individuals have difficulty accepting the tenets of the theory of biological evolution (Alters and Alters 2001; Miller 2008).
Globalization, at its best, is an embodiment of the utopian ideal of freedom, but Hedges has difficulty accepting the consequences of freedom.
While most Americans understand what happened in each crisis, they have difficulty accepting the length of time it will take to fix these problems.
