Sentence examples for keen difficulty from inspiring English sources

She is able to illustrate the keen difficulty of poverty in short anecdotes: "I think people really don't understand how little things get to you as a person when you've got a child that's two years old, their feet grow, and they're walking along and they are telling you that their shoes are hurting them and you know you haven't got the money to go get a new pair of shoes".

Naturally enough, the country finds herself in great difficulty when presented with those who seem keen to resist definition.

Besides the obvious one that it is easier to observe something if you do not need a microscope, even keen microbiologists have difficulty growing the objects of their study in the laboratory so that they can put them under the microscope in the first place.

Instead he seemed keen to calibrate the difficulty level.

Another is keen on events management.The difficulty with most prisons' attempts to prepare inmates for work is that job offers outside are scarce.

Bondeson, a British rheumatologist with an engaging sideline in the more sensational byways of history, sifts evidence with a keen understanding of the difficulty of establishing truth: "Kings and queens are mere mortals, but it is difficult to kill off a good story".

He lightens the narrative with wit (he describes a garish hotel carpet as "the war of the Roses") and we get a keen insight into the difficulties of being gay in that era.

I don't know [if he'll play on Saturday]." Mourinho was keen to stress the difficulties of travelling to the Ukraine in midweek and returning to face an in-form side in West Ham, who sit in fourth position in the Premier league table – eight places ahead of the Blues.

In an essay about the work of the Nobel prize-winning Hungarian author Imre Kertész, his English translator Tim Wilkinson quotes a letter from a publisher, politely refusing Wilkinson's offer of a translation: "It's certainly not a question of the merit of the work being insufficient, but simply a keen awareness of the difficulties involved in introducing a new European writer to the UK market".

Osborne is keen to exploit the current difficulties of the Labour party by contrasting his plan for City regulation with the cumbersome tripartite system created by Gordon Brown.

The former Newcastle United manager guided Birmingham to fourth place in the Championship last season amid serious financial difficulties and is keen on resuming his career in the top flight.