"It's difficult to provide a meaningful forecast," said Steve McGowan, Sun's chief financial officer.
"From the start of the shift it was very difficult to provide a safe and satisfactory standard of care.
It is difficult to provide a rule of thumb for acceptable emergency response times in every rural setting.
"When there's someone out there cutting our cables, it makes it very difficult to provide a level of service that our customers deserve," she said.
Similarly, it would not be difficult to provide a similar service online, behind a reasonable paywall saving the viewer time and transport fares.
In the meantime, the regime is making it difficult to provide a full accounting of the cruelties its security forces have inflicted: almost all foreign journalists have been barred from the country.
"Cisco's normally upbeat chief executive John Chambers cautioned that the weak demand was likely to last until January at least but that it was"difficult to provide a forecast given the dramatic variability [in demand]".
"It is difficult to provide a single explanation for this trend, but it is likely that the greater number of selective and independent schools in the south of the country plays a part," he added.
"It's difficult to provide a guarantee," he said, "but we are asking them to consider that the company has already been through a heavy restructuring, and not to take drastic measures".
So, it is very difficult to provide a universally accepted definition on big data.
It is difficult to provide a definitive account of restorative justice.
