Sentence examples for tough to recognize from inspiring English sources

In recent years, the effect of widespread joblessness on consumption patterns in the United States has been tough to recognize, largely because so many people, employed as well as unemployed, have relied heavily upon credit cards, mortgage refinancings and other loans to sustain spending that might otherwise have been unaffordable.

Experts say, though, that the crossover-type vehicle will survive even if it's tough to recognize.

This is tough to recognize, particularly when the incumbent CEO is very strong, very well liked or has produced very superior results.

June 27 , 1987 The 'Toughness' Candidate in 1988 "To be tough today is to recognize that while America will always need an adequate military defense, most of the dangers and opportunities that confront us are economic, political, diplomatic and moral".

One has to look no further than the opposite cases of Facebook, which had a disastrous IPO but whose stock has since rocketed, and Twitter, which had a white-hot IPO and a very tough stock chart since, to recognize that a company's long-term stock-price trajectory has everything to do with results and almost nothing to do with initial public market perceptions.

Even some of the government's toughest critics said they had to recognize the legislation as a positive development.

Clearly, times were tough, though the owners were slow to recognize what was to come.

Even many tough-on-crime conservatives have come to recognize the futility (and vast expense) of the drug war.

It's time for President Obama to recognize that, and get tough.

At the same time, we have to recognize that these are tough times for those of us who are passionate about fighting HIV.

But it's tough for a teen or young adult to recognize those patterns in themselves.