That does not mean the automakers face a lethal threat, Mr. Brickman added, but it does show the difficulty of gauging the danger.
Critics say it would make little or no difference.The disagreement reflects the difficulty of gauging the impact of free-trade agreements.
The difficulty of gauging the extent of this popular support is increased by the factionalism in the Communist movement and by the fact that the motivations of its particpants ra nge from outright gangsterism to a form of Maoist ideology.
Campaigners and medical ethics experts say the case illustrates two key points in the debate over assisted dying: the difficulty of gauging informed consent, and the messy legal compromise over who, if anyone, is prosecuted for helping people to die.
Both Maugham and Murphy believe this could cut the amount raised to around £1bn a year — but that is inevitably a highly uncertain estimate owing to the difficulty of gauging how super-rich individuals will respond.
When my co-author Rachelle Peterson and I wrote Sustainability: Higher Education's New Fundamentalism we were confronted with the difficulty of gauging the relative size of these competing factions.
The report acknowledged the difficulty of accurately gauging the stimulus program's economic impact when it is impossible to know what would have happened without such action.
In particular, attempts made to derive friction coefficients using conventional electrical resistance strain gauges do not seem to lead to reliable results, mainly due to the damage of sensors and lead wires during the insertion of strands into a sheath and during tensioning as well as the difficulty of gauge installation on a strand.
But the opposition is continuing its offensive, and clearly thinks that an increase in poverty, unemployment and overall hardship will turn voters against the government.One of the difficulties in gauging this possibility is that nobody really knows how much impact the crisis has had on Thais outside Bangkok.
However, NFPs described having difficulties in gauging the severity of certain types of public health events, given the absence of evidence-based thresholds (e.g. contamination of food and water, infectious diseases among animals and chemical contamination of products or the environment).
