Sentence examples for difficult to urge from inspiring English sources

Mr. Lubbers noted that it was difficult to urge Pakistani ministers to give better treatment to Afghanis crammed into squalid camps "when some public figures in far richer industrialized countries treat asylum seekers like a modern-day version of the Plague rat".

But wealth inequality in the United States is now on a par with those countries, so it is clearly difficult for the United States to urge these nations to spread wealth and jobs more equitably when America is doing so poorly itself.

Mr. Mugabe has cast his struggle to retain power as a battle between African liberation and neo-colonial power, a strategy that has made it difficult for other African leaders to urge him publicly to step aside.

"Most definitions of compulsive buying disorder include repeated, difficult-to-control urges to buy," says Elias Aboujaoude, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, who has researched compulsive purchasing.

And if he was a sexual predator who had already committed a murder, it would have been very difficult to silence those urges for a lifetime, Dr. Stone said.

If you have a sex addiction, you may be in a dangerous situation where you'll find it difficult to control your urges.

It's difficult to resist the urge to be cynical.

It may be difficult to control the urge to try them on.

And it's really difficult to fight the urge to say: "Well, it worked the first time.

But, while Jones's 1951 novel provided a corrective to romantic-heroic views of the second world war, it is difficult to understand the urge to resurrect it today.

Congress may find it difficult to resist the urge to condemn him as a bad person, even if there is no evidence that he has committed high crimes and misdemeanors.