One can appreciate the difficulty of devising a methodology to apply to all countries.
Measuring vertical velocity in the ocean posed a major problem for years because of the difficulty of devising a platform that does not move vertically.
So writes Joan Didion near the start of her 1984 novel, "Democracy," a book that's narrated by a character named Joan Didion, who describes the difficulty of devising a whole fiction in the fragmented modern world.
Mr. Rehn, in his defense of the Cyprus negotiations on Wednesday, suggested that the difficulty of devising a deal for Cyprus was made worse by member states like Germany and others that insisted on limiting the total contribution to €10 billion — even though the total financing needs had been estimated at €17 billion.
GPs' perceived level of difficulty of devising a management plan for these patients or subjective norm were not associated with GPs' management intention.
Instead of devising a policy toward North Korea, Mr. Bush devised an epithet: "the axis of evil".
This elite and visible unanimity, however, belied the tangle of issues revealed earlier in the day during the smaller, nontelevised meeting where scholars from economics, political science, law, and public policy examined the likely difficulties of devising immigration policies that help the economy without harming immigrants or people who are already in the country.
For example, in a 2004 study in The Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, the researchers noted the difficulty of devising such a study but settled on one in which 86 healthy participants, 15 to 90 years old, were asked to perform tests in which they estimated the amount of time needed to draw a clock and the duration of a neurophysical evaluation they underwent.
First, the difficulty of devising and implementing an effective system of uniform costing, given the technical frailty of what was being attempted, and the unwillingness of companies to change established accounting procedures.
Despite the importance of software testing, many companies face difficulties in devising a software testing process and customising it to their reality.
