Sentence examples for is difficult to uphold from inspiring English sources

The popular distinction between vegetable and fruit is difficult to uphold.

The suggestion that is associated with this distinction, however, that rational scrutiny only applies in the context of justification, is difficult to uphold for technological design.

"Making a big change to your diet that is difficult to uphold is, by its very nature, going to attract a certain type of person," Eve says.

Renal physicians may be tempted to ascribe all itching in their patients to uraemic pruritus, although it is difficult to uphold that assumption in the case under discussion, i.e. in a patient 9 months after successful renal transplantation: in our experience, uraemic pruritus settles quite quickly after transplant, as long as the graft function is good.

Philippe Brun, a law professor at Savoy University, said the decision was unprecedented and would be difficult to uphold on appeal.

But with about 850,000 child labourers in Bolivia and only 78 inspectors, it will be difficult to uphold these protections.

But, she said, those plans are difficult to uphold when something like this happens.

An apolitical military was an American tradition, but one that was difficult to uphold in an era when American forces were employed overseas in large numbers.

Quantile regression provides estimates of how risk factors may alter an outcome within each quantile of the population distribution of a disease risk factor, but it requires parametric assumptions that are difficult to uphold for many empirical distributions (9).

As labour standards are supposed to be applied universally all member states to the International Labour Organisation are committed by their very membership of the body to uphold them it is difficult to see how they could be protectionist.

The current swing vote, of course, is Anthony Kennedy, and it is difficult to imagine health care being upheld without his support.