Sentence examples for agencies difficulties from inspiring English sources

The parliamentary intelligence and security committee, which scrutinises the work of the agencies, was sympathetic to the agencies' difficulties, he suggested.

While the Snowden leaks have focused attention on the close relationship with the US intelligence agencies, difficulties in the military partnership were highlighted earlier this month by former US defence secretary Robert Gates.

However, many business impediments remain, such as high levels of bureaucracy, legal uncertainty due to overlapping and at times conflicting responsibilities between agencies, difficulty of enforcing contracts, and weak investor protection.

Whether the result of trumped-up charges, conflicting demands of intelligence agencies or difficulties of trying cases where evidence is withheld by governments looking to protect their sources and methods, numerous terrorism trials in the United States and Europe have similarly foundered over the years.

The 46-page report notes that the numbers of civilian casualties "could be much higher than recorded" because international agencies face difficulties in verifying incidents and accounting for those who died because of "lack of access to basic food, water or medical care".

Previous IT-related government problems have included a breakdown of the child support agency, which left thousands of families without money; chaos within the passport agency; a tax credit system which was left vulnerable to fraud; late payments from the rural payments agency; and difficulties in tracking foreign national prisoners.

A spate of food and product recalls beginning last year highlighted the agency's difficulties.

They said: "Recruitment agencies reported difficulty in filling semi-unskilled and unskilled positions and that reliance on migrant workers was increasing in a range of areas".

The agency's difficulties in getting hurricane assistance to small businesses and homeowners showed how years of cuts by the Bush administration had taken a toll.

Why not, asks Alison Acosta Fraser of the Heritage Foundation, "consolidate administrative functions, such as accounting and human resources, across all state agencies?"The difficulty is that you can squeeze only so much before services are cut beyond what most people even in libertarian-inclined Colorado consider sensible.

Due to the path, the agency had difficulties in forecasting Gordon, and the forecast errors were 10% to 30% above the average of the previous decade.