Sentence examples for ought to be difficult from inspiring English sources

It ought to be difficult, and something you want to stay away from.

Foreign policy was to be McCain's strength, the mere fact that he failed to blow Obama out of the water--a standard that ought to be difficult for any presidential candidate to achieve--meant advantage Obama.

Death ought to be hard to sell.

The French-led force is supposed to be different: 1,400 well-armed soldiers with clear orders to stop the militias from murdering civilians.It ought not to be difficult for the French to make Bunia safe again.

It ought not to be difficult to condemn Israel's murder of civilians and bombing of civilian infrastructure including hundreds of private homes, universities, schools, mosques, civil police stations and ministries, and the building housing the only freely-elected Arab parliament.

The transition from computer-generated racing to hard, cold, dangerous steel ought to be both difficult and potentially terrifying, yet for Mardenborough it was instinctive: "It felt completely normal," he says.

As well as offering much higher capacities than today's high-definition disc formats (Blu-ray and HD-DVD), holographic discs ought to be more difficult to counterfeit, which should appeal to the film industry.

(That ought to be a difficult Christmas this coming December).

Determining what the priorities ought to be is not difficult: militancy, the economy and relations with India and Afghanistan need to be addressed urgently.

But all of the talk about legal and illegal weapons, automatic and semi-automatic — as about the treatment of the psychologically troubled — evades the simple, central point: it ought to be very, very difficult, as it is in every other civilized country, to get your hands on a weapon whose only purpose is to kill people quickly.

However, it ought to be acknowledged that leadership issues are difficult to ascertain as there are no fixed criteria to measure the facilitators and barriers to effective leadership.