Sentence examples for difficulty of thinking from inspiring English sources

In his first book, Gaia, he observed mildly that the difficulty of thinking about the nature of life was probably due to the division of science into separate disciplines, "with each specialist assuming that someone else has done the job".

Shibley Telhami of the Brookings Institution concludes that al-Qaeda is more likely to continue planning its attacks without regard to America's electoral timetable or outcome.Given the difficulty of thinking straight about the impact of any attack, or even whether there might be one, it is not surprising that reactions to the threat of "another 9/11" have been mixed.

The difficulty of thinking in terms of populations instead of individuals is a recurring impediment to student understanding of evolutionary principles and processes (Bishop and Anderson 1990; Shtulman 2006; Gregory 2009), and one of the strongest features of Avida-ED is its ability to provide a dynamic visual representation of population-level processes.

Perhaps the difficulty of thinking of sleep experiences as owned by subjects, when they neither are cognitively aware of them at the time nor remember them later, counts decisively for Locke against such pleasure in sleep being anyone's pleasure and therefore against its being pleasure at all.

Now, a large part of the difficulty of thinking of Western philosophy as one tradition among others has to do with the fact that many if not most of its practitioners reject the idea that what they do is essentially bound to the discipline's past.

The case for explicit health care rationing in the United States starts with the difficulty of thinking of any other way in which we can continue to provide adequate health care to people on Medicaid and Medicare, let alone extend coverage to those who do not now have it.

(FG3F5) Practitioners' accounts of the constraints of the systems they had to work in illustrate the difficulties of thinking beyond the day to day practicalities of carrying out care.

Stories like these led Cantacuzino to fresh reflection on the difficulty – but vital importance – of thinking about forgiveness in ordinary life, and the charity is now broadening its work to look at more diverse, daily stories including those of medical mishaps and workplace conflict.

The first law of thermodynamics, also known as the law of conservation of energy, has in effect controlled the concepts for the basis of weight loss for over a century—resulting in a difficulty in accepting other ways of thinking.

The mathematics students had difficulties with the fluid way of thinking in constructing the theoretical models.

Within the five criteria, the TAS-20 consists of 3 factors: difficulty identifying feelings (DIF); difficulty describing feelings (DDF); externally oriented cognitive style of thinking (EOT).