Sentence examples for is a difficult standard from inspiring English sources

It is a difficult standard to meet.

That is a difficult standard to meet, because there is quite often little doubt about a defendant's guilt and therefore little chance of proving that a better lawyer would have achieved an acquittal.

The individual component of Rice's escalator/incentive is a difficult standard to meet.

According to one commentary, this is "a difficult standard that excludes almost all ivory objects, including antique American objects from sale".

They're hermetic, timeless-seeming, and that's a difficult standard to live up to; not even the most ardent lovers, or the most dedicated filmmakers, can make time stand still forever.

That's a difficult standard to define, but if we're talking about S.U.V.'s in excess of $70,000, the Range Rover is definitely capable of delivering patrician passengers, or a trailer load of their steeds, most anywhere from Scarsdale to the Sahara.

This should not be a difficult standard, but at least three of the party's major candidates for the nomination, Cain, Bachmann and Perry did not meet this standard.

This is a difficult task with standard fluorophores because their relatively narrow excitation and broad emission spectra often result in spectra overlap.

Here, (beta=0.1), it is a difficult problem for computation by standard FEM.

In that song, everything is exactly as I want it.' 'Cue', though, even by Scott Walker's recent standards, is a difficult song.

To regain the democratic initiative in the region and to help prevent future conflagrations, the United States must make clear to Tbilisi that — while it understands that Russia is a difficult neighbor — Washington has higher standards for its allies and will no longer accept empty promises of democratic advancement.