Sentence examples for difficult interlocutors from inspiring English sources

According to Mr. Riedel, Indian prime ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi "had been difficult interlocutors for four American presidents; only Kennedy had succeeded in building a real partnership with the Indians".

American officials want to avoid taking steps that might bolster the stature of the current president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose anti-Semitic rants and hostile attitude toward the West make him a potentially difficult interlocutor for diplomatic outreach.

For months, Russian diplomats have been saying that foreign governments will be pleasantly surprised by Mr Putin once he becomes head of state again: they will not find he is a more difficult interlocutor than the genial but weak Mr Medvedev.

It has also positioned itself to be a key interlocutor with difficult states such as Iran and North Korea.

Ignatius Pardies, another of Newton's interlocutors, similarly found it difficult to differentiate the claim about the corporeal nature of light from Newton's ideas concerning refrangibility and heterogeneity.

Her songs don't moon or wobble; she sings like an interlocutor, usually schooling a difficult boy. "Thinking he knew where I was going, he put Ryan Adams on.

Atomism a theory which thrives in Hellenistic times as the physical theory of Epicureanism, and is thus an interlocutor of skepticism leads into difficult epistemological questions.

In asynchronous Internet-based communication, the evaluation of an interlocutor's knowledge is more difficult than in face-to-face communication because fewer channels of communication are available.

In a difficult situation, it's important that there is an interlocutor they can all talk to".

2.(S/NF) Qadhafi is a famously mercurial interlocutor: his comportment ranges from quiet and difficult to engage (sometimes avoiding eye contact) to holding forth in rambling, non-linear fashion.

So, in terms of the positioning of audience members, the strategy here construes an equal status with interlocutors in terms of working together on a difficult task, one of which is to decide what the concept of 'task' means!