Sentence examples for efforts more difficult from inspiring English sources

The military withdrawal has made British training and monitoring efforts more difficult, Mr. Ratel said.

Salting in the United States became increasingly common in the 1980s, when legislation made other organizing efforts more difficult.

Still, open hardware would at a minimum make the N.S.A.'s Internet surveillance efforts more difficult and less effective.

The global nature of the modern apparel industry makes coördinating such efforts more difficult, and everyone agrees that the problems in Bangladesh, including corruption and lax enforcement of local laws, will be difficult to uproot.

"The effort is to restore wild bison to the grassland on a landscape level," said Tom France, a wildlife advocate with the National Wildlife Federation, who opposes the Montana legislation because it would make their efforts more difficult.

Rain is expected in the region later, leading to fears that this will make rescue efforts more difficult, or cause more landslides.

"These latest developments will obviously make the humanitarian effort more difficult," said Red Cross spokesman Francis Markus.

There are only about 170,000 registered Conservative Party voters, out of more than 10 million voters statewide, making the effort more difficult.

McChrystal said the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq less than two years after entering Afghanistan made the Afghan effort more difficult.

Some Congressional Republicans, under pressure from President Bush to hold down spending, say the president himself has made that effort more difficult by criticizing the Republican-controlled Congress on domestic security financing.

That, in turn, could make the effort more difficult that Obama will have to mount in the early spring to get U.S. lawmakers on board for an agreement.