Early on, the Web site was having difficulty convincing gallery owners and artists to agree to allow it to display their art online.
"They had difficulty convincing publishers to buy the data," said Oren Teicher, chief operating officer at the Tarrytown-based American Booksellers Associatrade a trade organization representing independent booksellers.
It now appears to no longer be the strange hybrid that it was only a year ago, when it had difficulty convincing people that it could really do justice to the Lotus name.
EDF, a French group part-owned by the state, has high debt levels and has had difficulty convincing some of its own board members to support Hinkley despite the French government's efforts to help it financially.
The I.A.A.F. made clear again yesterday that, even with a legitimate medical reason for taking modafinil, White would have difficulty convincing the world track body that she did not deserve a warning and the loss of her medals.
The paper quoted experts saying that Russia would have difficulty convincing the world otherwise and that in defending Syria, Moscow risked bruising its image of being involved militarily in Syria to help end the conflict.
However, I think it might worth pointing out that this whole line of thought began with this paper (pdf), which declares early on that a liquidity trap fundamentally involves a credibility problem-but it is the inverse of the usual one, in which central bankers have difficulty convincing private agents of their commitment to price stability.
Unlike Google, which has had difficulty convincing regulators in its home state, California, that self-driving cars are ready for the road, Baidu already has the regulatory and infrastructure support of a number of local Chinese governments, which it will use to introduce small autonomous buses that will run set routes.
