The lengthy and often chaotic negotiations illustrated the growing difficulty of securing cooperation among the G-20, whose leaders, including President Obama, will gather next month in Seoul, South Korea.
According to the interview transcript, the president brought up "Planet of the Apes" after mentioning that his experience of living for some time in Los Angeles — where he earned a Ph.D in engineering from the University of Southern California in 1982 — had made him aware of the difficulty of multicultural cooperation, both inside and between countries.
Our results highlight the importance of corruption in decreasing trust and social capital and show the difficulty of promoting cooperation when corruption is prevalent.
It is difficult to perform cataract surgery on an elderly patient owing to additional difficulties like coexisting systemic disorders, the difficulty of patient cooperation during surgery, higher incidence of hard nucleus, smaller pupil size and high rate of pseudoexfoliation syndrome.
El Saadi et al [ 89] alluded to the difficulty of gaining the cooperation of medical practitioners, as they approached practices in 11 towns along the Murray River, yet those in three towns presumably refused to participate in their study.
Of these, one subject was excluded because of difficulty in cooperation during the image acquisition.
The idea of a community initiative carries a somewhat different meaning in Denmark: where in the Netherlands, these initiatives often have difficulties finding a mode of cooperation with the local government, in Denmark the local government works closely together with local companies and (groups of) citizens.
Medication event monitoring system (MEMS) use is difficult to implement because of high cost and patient resistance/lack of cooperation and difficulty to monitor MEMS devices and data retrieval when study visits are as long as 6 months apart.
Tonight, a senior Bush administration official said that a new approach was needed because of the difficulty of obtaining the necessary cooperation among the F.B.I., C.I.A. and other intelligence agencies.
The divergence between the mounting anxieties over Chinese policy and the cautious official response was a striking display of the difficulty of securing international economic cooperation, two years after the financial crisis began.
