Sentence examples for hard to contend from inspiring English sources

To be without more than 10 first-choice players is very hard to contend with.

"When sales are falling as sharply as they have, it is very hard to contend with," said Lancaster.

The focus on China is "myopic", he says, but even there it is hard to contend that new imports would affect energy policy.

Mr Harris finds it hard to contend with the fact that many of those who attended Mr Bebenin's funeral are now in prison following the latest crackdown.

On the other hand, it would be hard to contend that the picture was undersold at £6.2 million, a gigantic amount for a work done in Picasso's angry spoofy manner.

Club officials believe it will be hard to contend without another bat, and the team could probably get by with Dicky Gonzalez or Bobby Jones plugging Rusch's spot in the rotation.

But growth may soon slow as engineers find it harder to contend with the heat produced and power consumed by transistor-crammed chips (see "Parallel Universe").

While it might be difficult to digest that, come the new decade, Steps fans would once again be braying for "One For Sorrow" and doing that dance to "Tragedy" in matching pink Stetsons, it may be harder to contend with the fact that they are leading a second wave of B-list pop reunions.

It is far harder to contend in the U.S. that American-ness has a legitimate racial or ethnic definition.

It's a hard thing to contend with, because with your own children, I want to be honest, but I also know the limitations of honesty.

I think we're a very hard team to contend with because you never know when we're going to be on.