Sentence examples for difficulties of ice from inspiring English sources

The morning usually begins with an exasperated conversation about Chelsea's latest episode of over-spending and the evening usually ends with another about the difficulties of ice hockey's Montreal Canadiens, our two shared sporting obsessions.

An extended search for an anchorage at King Edward VII Land proved equally fruitless, so Shackleton was forced to break his undertaking to Scott and set sail for McMurdo Sound, a decision which, according to second officer Arthur Harbord, was "dictated by common sense" in view of the difficulties of ice pressure, coal shortage and the lack of any nearer known base.

The consortium paid a fine to delay the start until 2008, then 2010, citing the difficulty of ice floes in winter, the high levels of lethal hydrogen sulfide gas in the oil and the intense geological pressure of the deposit.

Freezing is theoretically more efficient than distillation, and scaling as well as corrosion problems are lessened at the lower operating temperatures, but the mechanical difficulties of handling mixtures of ice and water prevent the construction of large-scale commercial plants.

The difficulties of life support are considerable.

His break came on YouTube, he said, with a video skit that parodied the difficulties of signing rap music, using the Vanilla Ice song "Ice Ice Baby" as his comedic vehicle.

That was an extreme version of the difficulties faced by Ice Theater of New York, an ensemble dedicated to dancing on ice.

Meanwhile, the best of today's younger performers, more than a few of whom fill the ranks of ICE, find no difficulties in this music; whether they have studied Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians" by day or danced to hip-hop by night, they are inheritors of Stravinsky's rhythmic DNA.

But the state resources department contended that BP had difficulty even where there were trace amounts of ice in the water, based on what its monitors had witnessed.

And the difficulties of drilling through more than two miles of ice and keeping the roughly five-inch bore hole from freezing over have been extraordinary.

Strengthening community life is hampered by the difficulty of breaking the ice between people, but greater inequality amplifies the impression that some people are worth so much more than others, making us all more anxious about how we are seen and judged.