Sentence examples for more difficult to engage from inspiring English sources

Having a laptop open would be rude in such circumstances, he argued – and he would find it more difficult to engage.

Although many dismissed it as "turning the other cheek," even cowardly, it should be seen as an expression of manhood built on the power of self-respect and self-control, behavior more difficult to engage in than aggression and violence.

The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed the political climate and made it more difficult to engage in protest politics, according to Daniel Hofnung, president of Attac, an anti-globalization group.

Yale found that it was more difficult to engage faculty, students and programmatic staff than those in charge of finance and operations, who worked with energy use and cost on a regular basis.

"When you don't have a brick-and-mortar experience, it's more difficult to engage the consumer," said Harry Cocciolo, creative director at the San Francisco office of Leagas Delaney, an agency that is producing Valentine's Day ads for dot-coms like Bluenile.com, which sells jewelry, and RedEnvelope.com, for gifts.

The apparent failure to hold Regeni's killer accountable has cast such a long shadow over Italy's relationship with Egypt that it has made it more difficult to engage with Cairo on stability in Libya, which is Rome's single most important foreign policy objective.

The mental habits that help us navigate the local, practical demands of day-to-day life, they say, make it difficult to engage with the more abstract, global dangers posed by climate change.

Media is so fragmented, and nowhere more so than in broadcast television, that it is difficult to engage peoples' attention.

Consequently, it has proven difficult to engage sedentary patients with type 2 diabetes in more intense exercise intervention programmes [ 25].

Patient was difficult to engage (even though depression was mild and perhaps more appropriate for counselling) (Self-help coach 1, Patient pre BDI 14, post BDI 15).

Given that the play's form has been called cold and objective, it is all the more difficult to be engaged in their lives.