Sentence examples for long difficulty from inspiring English sources

The 85-year-old Pontiff, the first to voluntarily resign since 1294 AD, cited health concerns as well a long, difficulty journey to atheism as reasons behind his decision, using an all-Latin press conference at Vatican City to catalogue the doubts that had plagued him since assuming the Papacy in 2005.

He testified that General Hartmann referred to the long difficulties the Pentagon had had in operating the military commissions and said, "If we don't get some cases going before the election, this thing's going to implode".

Writing of her grandmother in 1944, Porter noted, "The long difficulties of her life she regarded as temporary, an unnatural interruption to her normal fate, which required simply a firmness, a good deal of will power and energy and the proper aims to re-establish finally once more".

Long distances, difficulty with travel, and difficulties with the re-identification of sample persons make reporting of centralized testing very difficult.

The Russian military has long had difficulty attracting qualified personnel.

Mr. Long's difficulty out on the Long Island a month or so ago, the Pen.

"It is troublesome how long the difficulty stays with people," he said.

NAFA has long had difficulty in drawing students to its fine art courses.

While antismoking activists have long had difficulty reconciling the relationship between cigarettes and the civic-minded Tisches, the anti-Newport flare-up has added heat to the controversy.

The class had energized him, and he had been a vigorous participant — earning an A. His final paper was about learning to really be with his friends, going into flow with them, something he had long had difficulty doing.

Biologists have long had difficulty determining how much evolutionary change comes from new species being formed and how much from gradual changes that accumulate within species over time.