Sentence examples for it harder to devise from inspiring English sources

This points to a problem with the Clean Air Act: it separates acid rain, smog and other effects of nitrogen oxide pollution, making it harder to devise good environmental laws and harder to gain political support for them.

A big hurdle: Using silicon (which requires a clean room) is expensive; its rigidity makes it hard to devise microscopic valves that won't leak.

That uncertainty makes it hard to devise a public-health message that strikes a balance between comfort and terror.

The difficulty in choosing a model for heritability H makes it hard to devise an unambiguous definition for H. Thus, any estimate of predictive accuracy should be taken only as a rough indication of precision.

QUOTATION OF THE WEEK 'Before you really have a lot of the scars, you don't really know what's that dangerous.' Tampa Bay Coach GREG SCHIANO, when asked whether it was harder to devise a game plan against a quarterback making his first N.F.L. start like the Jets' Geno Smith.

It was also the delicate and outrageous humanity (a thing much harder to devise) of a handful of characters who set themselves up in pacific and explosive resistance.

Members of Congress say it is hard to devise a new department without knowing the strategy it is meant to pursue.

So it is hard to devise accurate models.

The problem is that it's hard to devise experiments to test this, said Eric J. Johnson, a psychologist at the Columbia Business School who was not involved in the study.

Our main concern is that it is hard to devise an appropriate control here.

As the professor of dance history and criticism Mindy Aloff recently put it, "it's very hard to devise the step-by-step logic to tell a story coherently.