Sentence examples for proved difficult to cut from inspiring English sources

The book was long — it's 622 pages in the published edition — and proved difficult to cut, so Ms. Medina finally went to the production department and asked if it could be printed on thinner paper.

Dr. Marburger said the treatment the reactor explored, called boron neutron capture therapy, had proved difficult to put into practice, which prompted the Department of Energy to cut financing.

After dismissing the argument that we need a tax cut to fend off a recession now, and conceding that tax cuts have historically "proved difficult to implement in the time frame in which recessions have developed and ended," he waffled: "Should current economic weakness spread beyond what now seems likely, having a tax cut in place may, in fact, do noticeable good".

Neutrality proved difficult to maintain, though.

Alas, it proved difficult to find.

Genocide has proved difficult to prosecute.

The effect proved difficult to measure.

Yet reform proved difficult to implement.

The furlough plan proved difficult to enforce.

The advice proved difficult to follow.

The latter aim proved difficult to enforce.