Sentence examples for difficult statement from inspiring English sources

Mr. President, I said at the outset that this was a very difficult statement to write and deliver.

This may seem a difficult statement to make, after Friday's disappointing jobs report, which showed that the domestic economy produced just 69,000 new jobs in May, roughly 90,000 fewer than were expected.

This is a difficult statement to accept since Mr. McCain has taken the old party line of teaching intelligent design in public schools, support of conservative judges, being a military hawk, and the list goes on.

Mean statement difficulty ranged from P = 0.29 (statement 6) to P = 0.80 (statement 1), which means that, on average, only 29% of students answered the most difficult statement correctly, while 80% answered the least difficult statement correctly.

Statement 1 failed to meet our original cutoff for statement discrimination (D > 0.20), probably because it is the least difficult statement in the instrument.

Stephenson was facing the prospect of a difficult Commons statement by Theresa May, the home secretary, and anxiety expressed by the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, about confidence in the Met because of the failure to tackle the scandal.

The chancellor will give his most difficult financial statement to parliament since he outlined his "fiscal mandate" – the elimination of the structural deficit by 2015-16 – in his emergency budget in June 2010.

Finally, unlike Aquinas, Henry of Ghent, and John Duns Scotus, Gregory was active in a relatively understudied period, so that placing Gregory in his context is difficult and statements about Gregory's originality are precarious.

We have offered the family our support and condolences at this difficult time," the statement said.

"We believe that all sides are committed to healing the family and ask for your consideration during this difficult time," the statement said.

But I think Mr Cowen muddies the discussion here with the difficult to judge statement that the auto bail-out "worked better" than did "most of the stimulus program".