Sentence examples for and difficult by the from inspiring English sources

So is the idea that bygone mass audiences would put up with upmarket material on the grounds that there was little else to watch (a dramatisation of T S Eliot's The Confidential Clerk in 1953 was criticised for being "highbrow" and "difficult" by the listeners' panel).

Contrarian and difficult by nature, the band, as usual, did not offer an encore, only an intermission, during which the video for its single "Schism" played.

It's getting more and more difficult by the minute.

The NHS was "on track" to meet one of its most crucial and difficult targets by the end of 2005 a maximum waiting-time of six months for admission to hospital.

I was hard put to finish it without getting out of the bathtub and flushing it down the toilet, and it was difficult by the second act for me to believe that I had written it at all.

The farm economy at home was stagnant at best, with pollution killing the fishing industry and irrigation made difficult by the draining of Chapala Lake by nearby plants.

David Cameron said: "It's a classic mid-term result and obviously made difficult by the fact that the Conservative MP left the seat in question.

Treatment is prolonged and made more difficult by the bacterium's intrinsic resistance to antimicrobial drugs (6 ).

They included the success of the first intubation attempt, the intubation difficulty scale (IDS) as described by Adnet et al. [ 19], and the ease of insertion of the laryngoscope and tube advancement, which were subjectively rated from 0 to 3 (0, very easy; 1, easy; 2 difficult; and 3, very difficult) by the intubating anesthesiologist.

Identification of the eprl, and thus of sdf1 and sdf2, is made difficult by the variable development of the eprl in certain taxa.

Dallapiccola's progress towards 12-note music was a gradual one, and it was made difficult by the lack of performances of the music of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern in Italy.