The group has had difficulty assessing how a degree earned in China or India stacks up against a similar degree from a university in Canada or the United States.
Nick Cafardo, the national baseball writer for The Boston Globe, said he had difficulty assessing a player's career amid the cloud steroids cast over the game.
In fact, the most risk-averse external investors have difficulty assessing the financial viability of an innovative project because of a lack of historical data both regarding the proposing firm, which is often newly established, and the trend of the product it intends to sell, as the latter is not on the market yet.
Even if we have difficulty assessing what architectural objects or products are, we can point to thousands of architects over several millennia around the world engaged in one or another sets of activities that conventionally have been associated with architectural practice, and generate a long disjunctive claim about what architects do.
The bilingual/bicultural workers had difficulty assessing how many potential participants refused to participate in the survey.
For example: "... students have this overall difficulty... if they have difficulty assessing their peers, they will also have difficulty assessing their tutors... so, if they are giving high grades to their tutors, they might be giving high grades to their peers as well... .....
First, managers and policy-makers often have difficulty assessing whether necessary human resources, capabilities and processes are in place for the successful development and implementation of strategy, change or innovation.
Patients may also have difficulty assessing probabilities, and as a result are often overly optimistic about their own outcome when faced with the probabilities of survival with treatment options [ 36] and overestimate their risk of disease.
