Sentence examples for replies the difficulty from inspiring English sources

When a pretty socialite whom he has had a crush on for years suggests that they leave Shanghai and run away to Macao, Christopher replies: "The difficulty is my work here.

He replied 'The bishops are not pleased'.

There was, the airman gravely replied, no difficulty.

Replies to this objection emphasize the difficulty of conceiving of the non-existence of God.

I asked a simple question about Pirandello, and got in reply - as Zeffirelli explained the difficulty of translating him - a rapid tour of European civilisation, extending back from nineteenth-century Sicily with its demotic dialect through the Holy Roman Empire to the universal reign of Latin and its decadent collapse into a vulgar Babel of tongues.

Kristina Keneally, the former New South Wales premier and the patron of the foundation, publicised the journalist's reply to illustrate the difficulties in raising awareness.

He grinned, and replied, "Ah, with difficulty".

The difficulty with this reply is that to secure it Ross has to contend that the implied contract stipulates that we are to tell each other the whole truth or all of the truth, and it is not clear that this requirement is one to which the plain man subscribes.

In reply, note that this only moves the difficulty one level up.

The difficulty with such a reply is that there could be a non-omnipotent agent who essentially lacks the power to overrule any law of nature, and hence that not even an omnipotent agent could give this non-omnipotent agent that power.

But it makes little sense not to at least reply, given the number of competing properties in most places and the difficulty lately in getting mortgages.