Sentence examples for but difficult to apply from inspiring English sources

This legal test is, of course, easy to state, but difficult to apply.

Applications of monocultures of hybrids and sometimes alien species, and simple ecosystems of plants and microorganisms are feasible but difficult to apply in some cases.

Equally promising in mice but difficult to apply in humans is the use of CD40 stimulation.

Regular eye drops can soothe itchy eyes but are difficult to apply even with teenagers.

Models for predicting wear can be found from lab scale tests, but are difficult to apply in large scale applications.

The split of the crack tip element into two makes parameter determination easier and gives better simulation results, but is difficult to apply to three-dimensional surface crack problems.

The settlement values were far below what would be necessary to cover each case's decade-plus tally of fees and expenses, meaning that economically such litigation must look to donor funding or pro bono contributions by lawyers, both of which are important but are difficult to apply in hard-fought cases and have limited scalability.

Family-based association is an excellent strategy for early-onset diseases, but is difficult to apply to age-related disease where the parents of the proband are often deceased [27].

Radiographic imaging is limited by the thickness of the surrounding soft tissues [11]; ultrasonic, scintigraphic approaches all have an interest but remain difficult to apply in field conditions and on a large sample of horses [16], [11].

Radiographic imaging is limited by the thickness of the surrounding soft tissues [31]; ultrasonic, scientigraphic approaches all have their uses but remain difficult to apply in field conditions and on a large sample of horses [31], [32] Studying kinematics of the spine requires fixed markers and horses in controlled conditions moving in front of fixed cameras e.g. [33], [34], [35].

Constraint-based methods have been reported to find biochemically more realistic pathways [ 33] but are difficult to apply to large-scale models.