After so many years of supporting Hosni Mubarak, it was difficult to acknowledge him for the corrupt dictator he always was.
But if a culture wants to continue to believe that no unmarried girls are having sex, it is difficult to acknowledge this at an official level".
We found that along with the joy of expecting a baby, most women harbor more confusing thoughts and feelings that can be difficult to acknowledge, even to themselves.
(It's difficult to acknowledge it publicly, but the fact that ISIS has resorted to killing hostages may be another indication that the U.S. air strikes are tilting the military balance).
Conservatives said the plans, including descriptions of war crimes, were unpatriotic and "masochistic .If the suffering of civilians is difficult to acknowledge, it is harder still for Japan's nationalists to accept the atrocities inflicted by the imperial Japanese army across Asia.
In the era of stop-and-frisk practices, continuing reports of corruption and the brutalities that attended the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, it is easy to forget, and can be difficult to acknowledge, that a police presence, on its own, can yield beneficial social utility.
Therefore it is difficult to acknowledge the seismicity nature of the detected anomalies on earthquake day.
"After reviewing the contents and the process of the investigation so far… it is difficult to acknowledge the necessity and substantiality of an arrest at the current stage".
After centuries of queer discrimination, it's difficult to acknowledge that you're in fact the "other".
That's difficult to acknowledge when it feels like you're falling behind, but it's critical to accept.
