Sentence examples for thus difficult to determine from inspiring English sources

It is thus difficult to determine who exactly is perpetrating the violence, and with whom the government should negotiate, especially as many of the rebels are not interested in dialogue but prefer to make sporadic attempts at seizing power by force.In this situation Mr Bozize's government has relied on the support of Mr Deby and the French government to hold onto power.

In HDSS, maternal mortality is rare and, thus, difficult to determine in small sample sizes (27).

However, no statistical analyses were conducted in those studies, and it is thus difficult to determine which hypothesis is better supported by the data.

In both studies, however, 10 to 20% of patients had a neoplasm and the responsibility of the catheter is thus difficult to determine.

It is thus difficult to determine whether the genetic effect at SLC2A9 is caused by a single genetic variant with very strong effect that drives the widespread association owing to extensive intermarker 'linkage disequilibrium'.

8 Unlike the countries mentioned above, due to the absence in Korea of a poisoning information management centre, it is hard to accurately perform an epidemiological statistical analysis, and thus difficult to determine the frequency of and substances involved in poisonings in Korea.

It was therefore difficult to determine the proportion of patients experiencing operative morbidity and thus its overall impact on patients in the majority of studies.

It becomes thus very difficult to determine the presence of a norm, much less to assess its effect on choice as distinct from the individual strategies of the players.