The phrase "difficult to leverage" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe a situation that requires a lot of effort to make use of or benefit from. For example: "The many layers of bureaucracy in this country make it difficult to leverage any kind of change."
It remains to be seen how the idea goes down with sponsors, who would find it more difficult to leverage their investment, and broadcasters, who would have some difficult calls to make about how to cover the tournament.
We argue that industries cluster because entrepreneurs find it difficult to leverage the social ties necessary to mobilize essential resources when they reside far from those resources.
Many organizations, from the enterprise to public sector, have a wealth of security data that can be applied to their defenses, but this information is often siloed within their own organization, making it difficult to leverage it in tracking broader patterns and getting ahead of attack cycles.
Firstly, it is a fully heterogeneous environment, making it difficult to leverage performance of the targeted architectures.
Unfortunately, some of the most interesting aspects of our knowledge of the D. melanogaster genome are difficult to leverage to inform the annotations of other species.
Biomonitoring surveys, such as the NHANES National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveyy), offer one route to identifying possible relationships between environmental chemicals and health impacts, but sparse data and the complexity of traditional models make it difficult to leverage effectively.
But, without making some sort of deeper commitment — negotiating corridors for humanitarian aid, appointing a high-level envoy — it will be difficult to bring leverage to the negotiating table.
A validation is also artificially difficult to achieve: miners leverage computer power to solve complex cryptographic problems (the proof-of-work).
A programme of employee matched giving is clearly a fast and easy Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activity to introduce, although the superficial tie to business goals makes the attributes difficult to measure or leverage.
Through personal experience with the company over the last year, I saw an opportunity to rethink their brand channel process, a mainstay service that already exists but is painfully difficult to setup, and leverage it in new ways to deliver value for users and profits for the video giant.
