Sentence examples for hard to specify from inspiring English sources

"I find it hard to specify when not to split an infinitive".

A standard response would be that it does in principle, though in practice the forces operating would be exceedingly hard to specify.

At what point we realize that disaster awaits, and that these contented lives, like all lives, can be caught in a riptide, is hard to specify.

"It's hard to specify a single source for the opposition," says Rev Wendell Griffin, a Baptist pastor and judge in Arkansas.

Finally, in many cases a quantifier naturally floats leftward away from the verb, unsplitting the infinitive: "I find it hard to specify when to not split an infinitive".

It's very hard to specify why it's not prose but you would have to be deaf blind and dumb not to recognise it as poetry.

The appeal of those Apple gadgets — so sleek and logical, so cool and friendly and flattering to whoever picks them up — is obvious enough, but the exact nature of Mr. Jobs's contribution has been harder to specify.

It is harder to specify what this policy should be.The Clinton administration, fingering the Iranian regime as an unreformed international terrorist, cut off all dealings in 1995; the following year it slapped sanctions on any non-American firm that invested in Iranian oil or gas.

A characteristic speed is harder to specify because it depends on the governing process.

The tricky thing about unconscious biases is that it's harder to specify who's responsible for countering them.

The evolution of the PAPS2/PAPS4 family of plant poly(A) polymerases is more interesting, and harder to specify with certainty.