It put the blame partly on "difficult capital markets", which hurt its financial-services business.
This has grown increasingly difficult, partly because of the recession and partly because stricter governance and accounting rules, such as those included in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, make it much costlier to become a public company.In 2008 and 2009 there were fewer initial public offerings of firms backed by venture capitalists than in any year since 1985.
Effectively pursuing bridge cheaters used to be difficult, partly because the governing bodies were fearful of being sued, and partly because cheating could be extremely difficult to prove.
Resolution of this issue has been difficult, partly because of a lack of high quality data from sufficiently large studies, and partly because of the difficulty in identifying underlying biologic phenomena from statistical models.
The task of emulating collagen matrix formation in vitro has been surprisingly difficult, partly due to the omission of important cofactors and partially because of intrinsic properties of contemporary cell culture conditions that still are largely unknown.
In practice, Sweetman says, actually using the switch to divert an electric current would be hugely complex and difficult, partly because the extreme delicacy of the mechanical switching process would be very difficult to industrialize and partly because an applied electric current might flip the dimer back again.
Backing away from that distinction has been difficult partly because of Mr. Franzen's 1996 essay.
Reducing congestion is difficult, partly because antitrust laws bar the airlines from meeting to coordinate schedules.
It is insanely difficult, partly because she makes it look easy.
US relations with Syria have been difficult, partly because of the increasing ties between Damascus and Iran.
