But Beck often had difficulty reconciling the sublime with the ridiculous.
While antismoking activists have long had difficulty reconciling the relationship between cigarettes and the civic-minded Tisches, the anti-Newport flare-up has added heat to the controversy.
But the government would have difficulty reconciling such a sharp positive change in the economic outlook with its latest economic stimulus package, which it formally announced today.
Voters, moreover, may have difficulty reconciling the positions the candidate is advancing with their impressions of what it means to be a Democrat or Republican on Capitol Hill.
A1 A BALANCING ACT -- The administration is having difficulty reconciling the demands of the war in Afghanistan with its pre-Sept.
I really don't like people from other regions of the country demanding we in New York ban a mosque … but I have difficulty reconciling this.
By late in the decade, the F.B.I. recognized the need to improve its intelligence collection and analysis, but the report said that Mr. Freeh had difficulty reconciling that with its continuing agenda, including the war on drugs.
If Democrats concentrate on winning and manage to take control of both chambers — which is what really ought to happen, based on the Republicans' disgraceful performance — they will have difficulty reconciling the views of progressives and centrists.
Just yesterday morning the boy had danced with his mother at the graduation ceremony, said Mr. Guzman, who was having difficulty reconciling the fresh memory with the knowledge of Travis's death just hours later.
Matt D. Salo, a health policy expert at the National Governors Associationn, said caseworkers had difficulty reconciling two contradictory messages implicit in the 1996 law: "Medicaid is good; everyone should stay on Medicaid.
