Sentence examples for difficult to stem from inspiring English sources

Once they start, they are difficult to stem.

Beijing is finding it increasingly difficult to stem the tide of speculative and illegal cash.

Conservationists say it is much more difficult to stem the effects of broad habitat degradation.

While the blazes can be battled, if slowly, it has proved more difficult to stem the flood of people who see the Peten as the promised land.

Is it really so difficult to stem the flow of drugs into prison, or does it rather reflect weakness of will?

The area has narrow crossings, heavy boat traffic and many landing spots, which make it especially difficult to stem the flow of illegal money, guns and drugs.

Scheper-Hughes said that despite recent high-profile arrests, organ trafficking is a difficult tide to stem.

Even sales of foods that are simple to prepare, like cold cereal and condensed soup, have fallen off, resulting in a persistent decline in sales that has proved difficult for Campbell to stem.

Further, the sequence of dispersal events has been difficult to decipher, stemming from incompleteness of the fossil record.

Defining vagueness is notoriously (and ironically) difficult, but it seems to stem from lack of precision in the meaning or reference of a term or phrase.

And in even the difficult to crack STEM fields (science technology engineering and medicine), we see progress.