There could be a psychological element, too, rooted in the motives for devoting oneself to a documentary subject for years, and the extraordinary duration of production (and pre-production, and post-production, and distribution — in which filmmakers themselves are increasingly involved) is also a matter of difficulties in finding financing.
When the commonalty ratified this law, and gave him power to select those of the knights whom he approved of, to be judges, he was invested with a sort of a kingly power, and the senate itself submitted to receive his advice in matters of difficulty; nor did he advise anything that might derogate from the honour of that body.
We use the term apparently undifferentiated advisedly, since, as has been often pointed out, it is sometimes a matter of extreme difficulty to know whether, when dealing with the infinitely simple, we are not really dealing with the infinitely complex.
THE detailed classification of the Tunicata, and especially of the so-called "Compound Ascidians," has usually been found a matter of special difficulty by systematists, and each successive Investigator has discovered grounds for modifying in important respects the grouping of genera and families established by his predecessors.
Deciding which norms should be counted as human rights is a matter of considerable difficulty.
Its proper interpretation has been a matter of some difficulty from the time of his death in 1274.
It seems as if the definition of gentiles was a matter of some difficulty; for while the possession of a common name was the simplest general characteristic of gentilitas, there were other conditions which were equally essential.
How now (quoth I then) are you minded thus to leave your first disputation of Oracles, as if it were fully finished and ended, and to enter upon another matter of such difficulty?
It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover [cognoscere], and effectually to distinguish [actu discriminare], the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent; because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses [incurrent in sensus].
He also received some of his father's lands, but since he was not the family heir it was a matter of some difficulty to find a suitable estate for his intended peerage.
