Sentence examples for find it difficult to admit from inspiring English sources

European leaders will find it difficult to admit that their approach is failing.

Drug companies must decide early to cancel a failing research project to avoid wasting money, but find it difficult to admit they have made a mistake.

Others, such as Coca-Cola and McDonald's, complacent from past success, find it difficult to admit that their customers are drifting away to newer offerings.

We also find it difficult to admit that we are wrong, to resist our own biases and to accept that truth as we understand it is ever changing as new empirical data are gathered and tested – all staples of science.

"I think we find it difficult to admit that we don't know," says Stephen Barclay, who researches palliative care at the University of Cambridge, "because patients come to us, and we look to ourselves to be people who investigate, make decisions, make a diagnosis and have an action plan".

Parents may find it difficult to admit to feeling under stress from fear of losing the child and also feelings of guilt.

" I found it difficult to admit to myself that I needed help, and even more difficult to ask for it"[ 15] The same woman described hiding a fold-up walking stick in a bag as " such was my pride I tried desperately hard not to use it".

Bowler said most people would find it difficult to take a month off and admitted even the nine-day programme, which offers bed, board, instruction and sightseeing for £600, could have limited appeal.

Still, Olli Rehn, the union's commissioner for enlargement, told Agence France-Presse on Monday that Iceland would not find it difficult to be admitted to the union.

There is, I think, a very real sense that the Schools have identified a gap in the teaching of English and History [and] are also challenging the fashionable view that teachers should not impart bodies of knowledge, but should instead act as "facilitators" or "coaches", a notion which I find it difficult to understand, I must admit.

They find it difficult to 'read' us," she admitted in confidence.