Sentence examples for difficult to upgrade from inspiring English sources

And I also found it difficult to upgrade very good officers to decent contracts.

Most teller machines today run on I.B.M.'s OS/2 operating system, which is difficult to upgrade with new applications.

The result is millions of tonnes of e-waste, with our devices generally difficult to upgrade, fix or repurpose.

Even much-tested commercial varieties are often riddled with bugs, lack security, do not perform well and are difficult to upgrade.

Eschewing the "hard-wired" design that is difficult to upgrade, Global Radio has set out to create a software-driven chipset that is based on a generic digital signal processor (DSP).

Maintenance personnel have often found it difficult to upgrade their technical skills because much that is available is redundant, or does not take their current skill level into consideration.

The key thing here is the software element: Nokia's legacy (and the legacy of other carrier suppliers) has been in "kit" or equipment — the expensive and more difficult-to-upgrade hardware of the telco enterprise world.

Many coal-using utilities have complained that the agency's regulations, which were designed to make sure that old coal-fired power plants adopt pollution controls, made it difficult for them to upgrade old plants.

The aggressive competition among the top five also has to do with how it's getting increasingly difficult to convince consumers to upgrade their phones, IDC said.

And they underestimated how difficult it would be to upgrade and electrify the Great Western Line, which dates from Victorian times, while running a service on it.

Although GoPro is trying to engage its core users — namely outdoor enthusiasts and extreme sport athletes — it is difficult to get them to upgrade every time there is a new product, said Joe Wittine, senior equity research analyst at Longbow Research. .