Sentence examples for difficult to assert the from inspiring English sources

And yet it is difficult to assert the importance of freedom in 2012 without people raising a range of caveats: do we mean unregulated freedom to exploit?

"It is difficult to assert the idea that companies are owned by their shareholders," he says.Yet as Japanese companies adopt elements of American-style capitalism to compete internationally, this ethos is waning.

Without the erroneous finality of the statue falling, this argument goes, the notion of "Mission Accomplished" would have been more difficult to assert; the Bush Administration would have had a harder time dismissing an insurgency that, for a fatal interlude, it all but ignored.

Using only the accumulated PCR values, it is difficult to assert the state of a system.

Also, it is difficult to assert that the trend is the same in both the IPI intermediate and IPI high risk group, especially with the small sample sizes and insignificant p-value.

It was difficult to assert on the one hand that all government "derives its just powers from the consent of the governed" while holding millions of human beings as slaves.

Nevertheless, it is difficult to assert if the observed effects are due to compounds of low or high affinity before they are identified.

It is therefore difficult to assert that the microalgae involved in planktonic symbioses increase their net fitness in symbiosis and ultimately benefit from this association over evolutionary time.

(general practitioner 15, practice J) Some interviewees identified a particular situation where it was difficult to assert whether the patient died at their preferred place or not.

The findings, in this area, however, have not always been consistent, and comparisons across studies, therefore, are difficult to assert because of the discrepancies both in the studied groups and in the methods used to measure social factors.

However, it is difficult to assert generalizations regarding the foliar anatomy of Asteraceae because there is so much variation in characters such as stomata distribution, trichome density and type, hypodermis development, presence of secretory structures and parenchymatic vascular bundles sheaths (Anderson and Creech 1975; Metcalfe and Chalk 1979; Freire et al. 2005).