Sentence examples for difficulty of assuming from inspiring English sources

I should explain that I was not only the sole audience member at the performance, I was also the instrument and the acoustic chamber: hence the difficulty of assuming critical distance.

Atheistic existentialists (Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty), on the contrary, do not ground freedom in faith and the hope of accessing the transcendent; instead they emphasise the difficulty of assuming that freedom, since nothing can ensure that our attempts at finding meaning in the world will actually yield something objectively present in it.

Paris has given the world new hope in the possibilities of pragmatic diplomacy, at a time when France's own politics illustrate the difficulties of assuming solidarity extends beyond national borders.

When the pair arrived, worn and footsore, in Quito, Humboldt, the experienced mountaineer and indefatigable collector of scientific data, had no difficulty in assuming the role of courtier and man of the world when he was received by the Viceroy and the leaders of Spanish society.

Darwin (1872) found a way out of this difficulty by assuming a very simple prototypic eye consisting of just two cells, a photoreceptor cell ("nerve") and a pigment cell, shielding the light from one side, thus allowing the animal to detect the direction of the incoming light which confers a great selective advantage.

Despite the qualifications being a similar level of difficulty, Alsbury assumed that Oxford would not take applicants who had studied a BTec.

RSM allows items to vary in their level of difficulty but assumes that all items are equally discriminant and share the same rating scale structure [ 44].

Bolot E. Sherniyazov, the interior minister, acknowledged difficulties assuming command of the police, but he asserted in an interview on Saturday that he was now largely in control.

Intellectuals may have difficulty assuming a blank expression.

To overcome this difficulty we assume that the connections of a heteroclinic cycle between periodic orbits consist of unstable manifolds of periodic orbits and these are contained in the stable manifold of the next periodic orbit.

Given that the instances were presented in order of difficulty (see Methods and Materials for details), we used the instance presentation order (i.e., from 0 to 27) as a proxy for its difficulty and assumed that difficulty increased linearly.