Sentence examples for tricky to teach from inspiring English sources

Houston Astros General Manager Jeff Luhnow, who will field an extremely young team this year, said plate discipline was tricky to teach.

Though he says it's tricky to teach the arcane aesthetic subtleties of Chinese calligraphy to a computer, a Chinglish font is in the works.

Undoubtedly the use of the word "nigger" – surely the most inflammatory word in the English language – makes Huckleberry Finn a tricky novel to teach.

(Volunteering can be a tricky one to teach -- make it fun and teaching them the real value in the results that their time brings to a community).

Parents.com notes that, "Gratitude is one of the trickiest concepts to teach toddlers and preschoolers -- who are by nature self-centered -- but one of the most important". When you can teach your kids gratitude, they will become more sensitive to the feelings of others and begin to learn the important life skill of really listening and becoming empathetic to others.

An MSNBC cable news anchor once interrupted a Clinton speech to complain about her voice, telling his co-host "one of the trickier things to teach people about public speaking is that the microphone works, you don't have to actually yell".

A new grant program will help teams led by Johns Hopkins University faculty use technology to teach tricky surgery skills, hold a music-oriented hackathon, help high schoolers get a handle on chemistry, and more.

Rather than teaching lessons in tolerance, they show how tricky such lessons can be, to teach or to learn.

Johnny Marr of The Smiths, Roger McGuinn of The Byrds, Davy Graham and Jansch himself are among those that have shown me how to combine the minor-key melody of "Anji" with its insistent bass-line, and Michael Tyack of the psychedelic folk band Circulus spent some increasingly fraught evenings trying to teach me the tricky run in the middle.

Puberty and sex are tricky subjects that often no one really wants to teach soon-to-be teenagers.

Critics are troubled by the bills, arguing that teaching religion and the Bible is tricky -- and teachers are often not sufficiently or properly trained to teach the subject effectively.