Sentence examples for difficulties of the ground from inspiring English sources

Owing to the difficulties of the ground, the Servian artillery was unable to develop its full force, but the infantry covered itself with glory, especially the 5th Regiment, which stormed the Turkish positions at the point of the bayonet in face of a hail of bullets and shrapnel.

Discrepancies were observed between the EC fluxes, the measured surface available energy, and the evaporation estimates from a lysimeter also present at the station, illustrating also the difficulties of the ground observations to provide accurate heat fluxes for satellite evaluation.

Because of difficulties on the ground and mounting casualties in the war, the debate over the American presence in Afghanistan has begun earlier than expected.

The Independent has been told that despite difficulties on the ground of obtaining accurate intelligence aimed at limiting civilian casualties, the US-led air operations command at Udeid in Qatar have already identified specific Syrian targets that the RAF would be expected to hit within days.

But there is another critical role the media could play simply by continuing to follow the situation, look forward and keep the public informed of the reality and difficulties on the ground, often for years to come.

We do not think that music genre classification is an interesting example for deriving more complex features, because current systems (including our own approach) already achieve about 80% performance; the remaining error is mostly due to the difficulty of defining the "ground truth" precisely.

To overcome the difficulties of current ground measurement instruments in automatically collecting plant LAI, we have designed a continuous LAI measurement system: LAINet.

In the early 1960s Eunice began providing sports for children with learning difficulties in the grounds of the family estate, and out of this grew the Special Olympics.

Part of this no doubt reflects the fog of war, and the difficulty of troops on the ground making sense of messy situations.

THE difficulty of visiting ground zero is more than emotional and spiritual, though it is certainly that.

Showing the difficulty of finding common ground, a senior aide to the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, issued a quick statement questioning the Democrats' lack of job specifics.