The transport sector in particular is finding it difficult to reduce CO2 emissions.
But Holbrooke also found it difficult to reduce the government's reliance on large contractors: U.S.A.I.D. simply didn't have the staff.
In this region and elsewhere, culturally entrenched patterns of early arranged marriage and childbearing make it difficult to reduce fertility.
Moreover, inadequate resources made it difficult to reduce class sizes, increase the number of qualified teachers, promote better teacher training or enhance academic curricula.
Security officials here say laws that are lax on minors, who carry out many of the attacks, make it difficult to reduce the killings.
The paper argues that when the financial crisis hit, employers found it difficult to reduce the cash value of the wages paid to their staff.
We also consider the effect of the asymmetry γ of the DES in the GIS that is limited by the manufacturing technology of the sensor and hence making it difficult to reduce further.
And the poor and disadvantaged absolutely ought to be asking that question too". Acknowledging that the war in Iraq would make it difficult to reduce the deficit much in the coming year, Bolten said the budget sets a path to slicing it to $233 billion by 2009, or 1.7percentt of the gross domestic product, lower than the average proportion of the economy in modern history.
It is perhaps no surprise that governments today find it difficult to reduce their large deficits.
As the value of β increases, the number of nodes that the TA needs to directly compute increases, making it difficult to reduce the computational complexity.
However, because the most part of the PHS is covered with ocean, the insufficiency of precise geodetic observations makes it difficult to reduce the indeterminacy of the velocities.
