The fact that the company is tight-lipped about its plan to switch to antibiotics-free beef makes it difficult to figure out the likely cost.
Every syllable is accented equally, making it difficult to figure out where one word ends and the next begins.
But it is a problem for ordinary readers, because the barrage of attacks actually makes it difficult to figure out exactly what went wrong.
Like, Burt Bacharach's stuff is amazing and has a lot of things going on that make it difficult to figure out.
"But the federal process of getting us money is taking far longer than anyone originally thought, which makes it difficult to figure out what we are going to have to live on".
In truth, the ups and downs of the debates, and the tendency of both men to become entangled in lawyerly arcana on matters long forgotten, often make it difficult to figure out which candidate was getting the upper hand.
The volleyball game play was abysmal; the player you were controlling would often be off camera when she had to hit the ball, making it difficult to figure out what you were doing.
In others, however, the distinction may be necessary because the variants compared may be quite similar, making it difficult to figure out which traits enhance fitness.
On their journey through space they are deflected this way and that by magnetic fields, making it difficult to figure out where they've come from.
That makes it difficult to figure out exactly how much money is being spent.
