It's difficult to contemplate conspiracies and the kind of nefarious bureaucracy that results in failed statehood while sitting under a tree, watching herons stalking food along the river.
He held a deep regard for the players, and found it difficult to contemplate the forlorn situation and desperate straits that several of the old Yorkshire cricketers he interviewed were faced with".
Centralized, authoritarian power is sometimes credited with allowing quick policy changes that would be difficult to contemplate in democracies, where checks and balances and political jostling can delay reform.
"However, the existing legislation made filming the scenes too difficult to contemplate within the production budget and schedule, and a strong storyline which would have highlighted one of the hazards of smoking, had to be changed to something else".
And yet the obvious gains of rural reforms to agricultural productivity and restraint on labor costs are too difficult to contemplate for reasons of history and politics.
Has this fatally weakened the euro's prospects of rivalling the dollar as an international reserve currency?The world has grown so used to the dollar's dominant role as the most widely used hard currency that it is difficult to remember that it was once (in the late 1970s, for instance) chronically weak, and equally difficult to contemplate future change.
Lyon bowled beautifully at him from round the wicket and it was difficult to contemplate that this was the off-spinner who was being so derided, usually by his compatriots, two months ago.
Yet it is the coral that lies at the heart of Heron's unique habitat, and it is difficult to contemplate that even this distant paradise is being altered by the all too familiar effects of climate change, made all the more pressing by the fact that whatever affects the coral affects everything else in the reef.
"Now contributions and contracts are down, and we are finding it difficult to contemplate how we are going to serve the surge of people who are coming to our doors".
I visited the jungle camp in Calais last year and I found it extremely difficult to contemplate the vastness of this crisis.
