Sentence examples for difficult to assess as from inspiring English sources

In addition, fertilizer prices are increasing due to high energy costs and because natural resources are limited and increasingly difficult to assess, as will be outlined in more detail below.

He was difficult to assess as he appeared terrified of any new face, sometimes rolling himself into a ball and edging into a corner.

The heat balance of the ice is often difficult to assess, as long-wave radiation and evaporation factors are not easily measured and are very important.

For several years the scale of the influx of non-European immigrants was difficult to assess, as no policy existed either to measure or to control it until the mid-1980s.

The bias is, however, difficult to assess as information on the target variables based on all Romanian migrants is lacking.

Even with contrast enhancement, superinfection is difficult to assess, as there is extensive adjacent enhancing soft tissue and granulation tissue around all collections.

The mechanisms of change and deterioration to chronic state may be as difficult to assess retrospectively as the initial cause of lower back pain [ 2].

She was not ill from Ebola, but meningitis caused by traces of the virus in what are known as immune-privileged sites, which are normally difficult to assess, such as the spinal cord, ocular fluid and the testes.

The relative preferences for y-and y+ media were difficult to assess, however, as flies laid very few eggs in either media with reduced acetic acid.

We demonstrated that parameters easily computable from small data samples (e.g. exon length or exon/gene ratio) are relatively good predictors of characteristics that are difficult to assess, such as total number of genes, gene products and exons.

However, this is difficult to assess here, as the pattern of covariance is very complex, with many gene pairs having high zero-order correlation and known existence of circuits in the causality networks, hence our use of the correlation variability matrix, described above, as a (weaker) criterion.