The study had been ongoing since the twins' birth, in the nineteen eighties, and had already yielded vast amounts of data on impulsivity, such as whether or not subjects had trouble initiating difficult tasks.
Doctors, on the other hand, can and should initiate this difficult discussion before a crisis occurs, so that the patient can have time to consider the alternatives and make decisions for himself, rather than leaving it to his spouse or children while he lies in the intensive-care unit or nursing home bed.
Mr. Morsi's failure to initiate the difficult process of reform of Mubarak era institutions, foremost among which law enforcement and the judiciary, is at the core of mass protests in the past month that have cost the life of more than 60 people.
The most preferable way to manage stress, according to psychologists, is to initiate, in difficult and stressful situations, activities concentrating on task performance and problem solving.
Large trials are difficult to initiate and their results difficult to interpret and compare.
She initiated a difficult conversation with her supervisor at her non-profit development job, in which she described why she was thinking of leaving.
However, the systemic toxicity of this compound precluded its use in vivo, making an assessment of its effect on 'tumor initiating' capacity difficult.
Conclusion This suggests that the decision to initiate ECMO is difficult.
He said, "Policymakers have become all too aware that government spending programs and tax preferences can be easy to initiate but extraordinarily difficult to shut down once constituencies develop that have a stake in maintaining the status quo".
A plethora of regulatory and ethics requirements around clinical trials has made them slower to initiate and more difficult and expensive to conduct.
