Sentence examples for have difficulty applying from inspiring English sources

"Senior management told us they are very serious about safety, but we observed that they haven't translated their words into safe working procedures and practices, and they have difficulty applying the lessons learned from refinery to refinery or even from within refineries," said Mr. Michaels, the OSHA administrator.

The ARC provides learning and information processing training for students who often 'understand' course material but have difficulty applying it on exams, as well as workshops on time and task management, stress management, and test preparation strategies.

However, given the difficulty some students experience with visualizing water level (Liben, Christensen, & Kastens, 2010), students may well have difficulty applying the lesson to visualize an imaginary waterline on topography in the field.

Despite the proven effectiveness of intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs), studies indicate that some students only gain shallow knowledge which they then have difficulty applying to new and different problems (Aleven et al. 1999).

Even the Hutchins Commission, which labeled 1940s mass communication as the "most powerful single influence on society," would likely have difficulty applying its requirements to today's media.

Evidence that physicians know the preventive services they should apply, but have difficulty applying them with the appropriate frequency.

Although he has skills in basic engineering, Carlos said, he has difficulty applying for jobs because he does not have a Social Security number and cannot get a driver's license.

Aguilera came up with the texting idea when he realized that many of his patients had difficulty applying the skills they learned in therapy to their daily lives, possibly because of the many stressors they routinely faced.

Through their prior training in Biochemistry (a course prerequisite), they were able to understand how each technique worked, and had a basic understanding of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; but they had difficulty applying these techniques to design their own controlled experiments targeted at answering very specific immunological questions.

However, some students were confused about the components of the model and had difficulty applying it to the activity.

Students did well in this applied EBM exercise, averaging 3.7 4.0 on a scale of 1 (poor) to 5 (superior) for each task as evaluated by faculty and librarians[ 9] In summary, after a non-clinical EBM course, graduating students demonstrated EBM knowledge but had difficulty applying EBM information in the clinical setting.