Sentence examples for it difficult to overcome from inspiring English sources

The states of the South find it difficult to overcome their mistrust of the North.

But he plainly found it difficult to overcome, most seriously, by his own admission, in his reluctance as president to take up the issue of AIDS.

We will not win this struggle if I give you food.' " After the Price sisters forced the British government to bend to their aims, they found it difficult to overcome the profound resistance they had developed to eating.

But despite a spirited defense of the Obama administration's plan, he found it difficult to overcome the doubts among lawmakers and struggled to explain why help for distressed homeowners was still weeks away.

Do women with gynecological cancers still find it difficult to overcome modesty about difficult-to-discuss body parts, even in this current age when such body parts seem weirdly chatty?

"If you want to criticise us collectively perhaps we should have done something but … I'm afraid, for me, despite everything and if Gordon's listening to this he may find it difficult to believe, but I had a residual loyalty which I found it difficult to overcome.

Perceived barriers were measured with two statements measuring the respondent's ability to overcome emotional barriers: "It is difficult to overcome the disgust related to the stool test" and "it is difficult to overcome the embarrassment related to the stool test".

It turns out that fat prejudice differs from other forms in ways that make it especially difficult to overcome.

And it's difficult to overcome".

It was difficult to overcome," he said.

"It was difficult to overcome that deficit, especially when you're 17".