Sentence examples for looked more difficult from inspiring English sources

Had the Americans finished second in Group C, their path would have looked more difficult.

Making the case towards the International Olympic Committee that male golf should continue in the Games beyond the existing point of 2020 has never looked more difficult.

Sadly for the Barnsley striker Kayode Odejayi he will forever be remembered in FA Cup lore as the man who buried the ball in the side-netting of the Cardiff goal when it looked more difficult to miss than to score the equaliser.

It looks more difficult than it is, they say.

That, however, looks more difficult now that Mr Wahid has been welcomed by so many of the world's leaders.

Nida Ali, an economic adviser at Ernst & Young, said that the data made the government's goal of reducing borrowing by £30 billion in the current fiscal year look more difficult to achieve, "especially with economic growth looking likely to disappoint".

So you have an economic context in which upward mobility looks more difficult and optimism more unwarranted, and a political context in which anxious white voters are already feeling alienated from the G.O.P.'s economic message (or lack thereof).

The bank's losses have now hit £52bn since its bailout and Ross McEwan, its chief executive, admitted the share price slide meant a further sale of the taxpayer stake was looking more difficult.

The National Housing Federation, which represents housing associations, argues that the government's green targets may now look more difficult to achieve, but says that is no reason to ease up.

The Spanish economy could shrink by 1.7% this year, squeezing tax revenues and forcing up benefit costs as unemployment hits 24%.Some in Brussels and Berlin suspect the government has exaggerated last year's figures to make its job this year look more difficult.

Performing without a net, he did all the circus tricks that were expected — the forward and backward somersaults and the unicycle and the stick-and-ball balanced on his forehead — but he refused to play to the audience in the "vulgar" way that a circus walker does, by making the tricks look more difficult than they are, or pretending to lose his balance so the crowd will scream.