Sentence examples for proved a difficult sell from inspiring English sources

It proved a difficult sell.

This is a population least likely to have the high medical costs that make health insurance most valuable, and has proved a difficult sell.

"Heroes from Germany, Scandinavia, and the former Soviet Union and its current descendant states have all proven a difficult sell," it warns.

Its intuitive controls and gyroscopic balancing systems may have appealed to technology fans but the Segway, which can be difficult to operate, initially proved a hard sell to the public and was for long dismissed as little more than a rich geek's toy.

"It has proved a difficult task trying to sell as the club hasn't been in the best condition for a few seasons now".

This proved a difficult promise to keep.

But Seoul proved a difficult research subject.

It has proved a difficult assignment.

For Winer, success proved a difficult pill to swallow.

In the current economic climate it has, to an extent, proved to be a difficult sell.

With history as a teacher, musical parodies have proved to be a difficult sell for a general audience, as is the case with this one.