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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are difficult to uphold" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing principles, standards, or arguments that are challenging to maintain or support.
Example: "The ethical standards set by the organization are difficult to uphold in today's competitive market."
Alternatives: "are hard to maintain" or "are challenging to support".
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But, she said, those plans are difficult to uphold when something like this happens.
Quantile regression provides estimates of how risk factors may alter an outcome within each quantile of the population distribution of a disease risk factor, but it requires parametric assumptions that are difficult to uphold for many empirical distributions (9).
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The popular distinction between vegetable and fruit is difficult to uphold.
Philippe Brun, a law professor at Savoy University, said the decision was unprecedented and would be difficult to uphold on appeal.
But with about 850,000 child labourers in Bolivia and only 78 inspectors, it will be difficult to uphold these protections.
Attempts to protect the property rights of slave owners led to increasingly restrictive laws - including laws concerning free blacks - that were difficult to uphold.
The suggestion that is associated with this distinction, however, that rational scrutiny only applies in the context of justification, is difficult to uphold for technological design.
"Making a big change to your diet that is difficult to uphold is, by its very nature, going to attract a certain type of person," Eve says.
An apolitical military was an American tradition, but one that was difficult to uphold in an era when American forces were employed overseas in large numbers.
Renal physicians may be tempted to ascribe all itching in their patients to uraemic pruritus, although it is difficult to uphold that assumption in the case under discussion, i.e. in a patient 9 months after successful renal transplantation: in our experience, uraemic pruritus settles quite quickly after transplant, as long as the graft function is good.
Courts will generally uphold reasonable liquidated damages when actual damages are difficult to determine, as is often the case.
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