Sentence examples for difficult hands from inspiring English sources

When play was slow, there were several possible reasons: a particularly close match, complex conventions requiring much study of defensive methods, naturally slow players and difficult hands.

He has huge experience of the Premier League as a player and coach and in his relatively short managerial career has played difficult hands adroitly.

"It is great to be in government at a time of expanding finances, at a time of nice opportunities, at a time when ministers can appear in front of cameras and smile at things, but the reality of government is we need to learn to take difficult decisions to deal with difficult hands when we are played them at difficult times and to be realistic and accept those.

It was a few days before he replied, saying that life deals us some difficult hands, and that he understood, and would offer his full support.

Sometimes, life deals difficult hands that force us to become less active than we previously were.

He will inherit a difficult hand.

It has not been helped by the UN playing a difficult hand badly.

Abe and Xi's handshake is just the latest in the long historical greeting line of difficult hand-shaking.

The Daily Mirror, loyal as ever to the Labour party, has a more difficult hand to play.

But Warren found it difficult handing his baby over to other writers, who shared scripting duties with him.

"But as far as playing a difficult hand, so far it looks like the governor has made the right decisions".