Sentence examples for hard to assert from inspiring English sources

And it is hard to assert that there is an interconnected group of wireless Web sites that are easily accessible.

Smaller parts of the state apparatus find it hard to assert themselves against some of the big and powerful ones, such as the customs service.

Mr. Franken, 56, who left Minnesota to go to Harvard and moved back three decades later, has worked hard to assert his Minnesota roots.

It is not hard to assert a Congressional role; but, given the structure of the American system, it is very hard to see how the Congress can restrain the presidential drive toward the enlargement of the war.

Most western nations will not put boots on the ground as frontline peacekeepers and so the UN is dependent on the goodwill of those countries prepared to deploy troops such as India, Bangladesh, Rwanda and Nigeria, making it hard to assert its authority.

Gareth Peirce, Abu Qatada's lawyer, said: "It has always been astonishing that this country has fought long and hard to assert that a violation of such a fundamental legal principle should take place.

If the participation rate is below 80%, the monarchy's motto of "unanimous popular support" will become harder to assert.

Differences in our personalities - Paula was thoughtful, unconventional, self-possessed; I was scatty, compliant and impressionable - were swallowed up under the banner of 'The Twins' and we had to try harder and harder to assert ourselves.

While that may stand up in comment section arguments, it's harder to assert that Sophir, an expert in the field who evaluates such situations for her profession, failed to closely read the memo.

By collecting such disparate strands into one vision, she defiantly embraces a cosmopolitanism that is hard put to assert itself in our dark age.

And if you believe it is the highest virtue for a person to remain for ever himself, it is hard then to assert that the highest virtue is for a person to be for ever someone else.