Her situation is made more difficult by her unfamiliar surroundings.
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That path is made more difficult by the threat facing Sen.
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That could be blocked, or at least made more difficult, by Sen.
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Navigation in icy waters is made more difficult by poor satellite imagery.
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And it is all made more difficult by the problems of race. ■
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When it was, I was expecting my clues to be made more difficult.
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The monumental task of policing these areas has been made more difficult by corruption.
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However, achieving their goals is made more difficult because of their documentation, Gomez wrote.
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And they made more difficult decisions, like cutting jobs and changing their business plans.
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Their efforts to win new customers are being made more difficult by consumer resistance.
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Science made more difficult by the compromised rich uterine blood supply in a deceased donor.
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Balancing its books has been made more difficult by recalculations to the country's outstanding debt.
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It was a vexing problem made more difficult by a lack of resources to solve it.
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His job is made more difficult by the fact that the auto industry is struggling worldwide.
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But that's made more difficult in a city with inadequate resources and without a grocery store.
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This theme is made more difficult by the fact that the theme clues are not starred.
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This augurs trying times, made more difficult by the belligerent stance of President Trump toward Iran.
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She said the talks were made more difficult by the UK parliament's unclear position on Brexit.
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Everything from applying to jobs to accessing student financial aid is made more difficult or impossible.
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The process is made more difficult, Butte County Sheriff and Coroner Kory Honea said, by communications difficulties.
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We also know that law enforcement's job is made more difficult by the availability of assault weapons.
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It is made more difficult by a singular reality: There are no more "home" markets, not really.
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The tree-lined course was made more difficult with thick rough, tighter fairways and some lengthened holes.
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Every one of the very real challenges Iran poses in the world would be made more difficult to manage if Iran were freed of the nuclear limits agreed in the JCPOA, and every one of them would be made more difficult if the U.S. isolates itself from its partners.
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Companies like Teespring and Fanjoy have helped personalities get something that YouTube has seemingly made more difficult — paid.
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Under Trump, that's been made more difficult by bilateral tension and Trump's own unorthodox way of doing politics.
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Its foreign policy will be made more difficult by the growing wariness of China's power in other countries.
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This was made more difficult by new allegations of graft and undemocratic behaviour by her Popular Force party.
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But there is debate, struggle, made more difficult by the fact that there is none remaining on the right.
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If California decides not to join, regional coordination would inevitably be diminished and regional transmission coordination made more difficult.
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Now, some of these choices may be made more difficult as they may not want to be dealt in.
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That task is made more difficult thanks to interventionists eager to place all non-interventionists into the "fringe" category.
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Developing this one is made more difficult because there has never been a vaccine for any type of coronavirus.
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Sadly, this task is made more difficult, because the commonwealth is already facing a massive, $120 billion debt crisis.
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The second, the growing illicit market, is made more difficult as the sources and types of illegal drugs proliferate.
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The prospects of a grand reconciliation are made more difficult by various factions within the Taliban and the Afghan government.
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Effectively peering into those haystacks is made more difficult because almost 90 percent of the plots involved a single individual.
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He is now seeking asylum, which the Trump administration has made more difficult to obtain for targets of gang violence.
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"Where there is confusion — where decision-making is made more difficult — people will tend to avoid making decisions," she said.
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However, the difficult COO search — made more difficult by the possibility of the CEO stepping away — has yet to be completed.
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North Carolina's bid will be made more difficult by the fact that there are currently only eight justices on the bench.
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And it could be made more difficult by Trump's comments disputing the conversation with McGahn about firing Mueller had ever happened.
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It is made more difficult because it requires dealings with foreign nations that have largely benefited from current international trade practices.
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An investment decision that has been made more difficult by Congo's tougher tax regime and the potential for more changes ahead.
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When it comes to building new units, the mayor's task has been made more difficult by his tense relationship with Gov.
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The situation was made more difficult by Mr. Sharif's constant friction with the powerful military, elements of which favor Mr. Khan.
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Ultimately I escaped, crawling to a nearby village on my hands and knees — a task made more difficult given my blindness.
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My task of make-believe was made more difficult by the fact that I could hear Nick, downstairs, rooting for the Diamondbacks.
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Congolese officials said the situation was made more difficult as the priest had used several fake names as he traveled to Goma.
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Talking about her depression with her daughter is hard, and is only made more difficult by her status as a creative professional.
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That prospect has been made more difficult by recent electoral gains by a right-wing, populist and euroskeptic party, Alternative for Germany.
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But efforts by the F.B.I. to investigate and prosecute right-wing extremists have been made more difficult because of First Amendment concerns.
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How to analyse them is not obvious and is made more difficult still by the fact that what is popular changes over time.
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Body dysmorphia is made more difficult by the fact that the cause is biopsychosocial, a complex cocktail of genetics, upbringing, and thought patterns.
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Their jobs are never easy, especially in crisis situations, and should not be made more difficult by politicized second-guessing from federal officials.
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The former president is headlining fund-raisers for Republican senators whose re-election bids have been made more difficult by Donald J. Trump.
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Their jobs are never easy, especially in crisis situations, and should not be made more difficult by political second-guessing from federal officials.
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She describes a suffocating religious community made more difficult by a mother who abandoned her as a toddler and a mentally ill father.
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The Australian Transport Safety Bureau and the police were investigating the crash, a challenge made more difficult by active fires in the area.
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That will be made more difficult by the fact that the House is scheduled to depart for a two-week recess on Friday.
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And like many object recognition problems, it's made more difficult by the nature of prediction-clouding complex environments, such as those imposed by weather.
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A Ugandan farmer and grandmother, Constance Okollet, said that the changes — farming made more difficult by flooding and drought — in her village were unprecedented.
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The part is made more difficult by the legacy of Marlon Brando, who originated the role and whose anguished cries of "Stella!" still echo.
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The journey has been made more difficult by recent heavy rain, which has affected the very basic roads in the area around Punggye-ri.
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The prospect of Warren and Sanders and their supporters coming together could be made more difficult by the realities of the rocky primary, however.
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A compromise is also made more difficult by plans to make EU funding conditional on upholding the bloc's values, including the rule of law.
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"The renegotiation of external debt is underway, but it has been made more difficult by U.S. sanctions," foreign minister Jorge Arreaza told reporters in Geneva.
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Rider said reaching the 10 percent goal has been made more difficult because the company's equity has been increasing due to the disposal of operations.
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The donors, in turn, can feel the joy of giving and possibly get a tax deduction (though that's made more difficult with new tax laws).
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But that mission has been made more difficult because many states, including New York, have cut spending on public higher education as tuition has increased.
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He said Georgia's university students already enjoyed the protection of well-trained police forces, whose jobs could be made more difficult if the bill becomes law.
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That competition for supply and demand is made more difficult — and expensive — by how easily the companies can game marketshare by rolling out subsidies and discounts.
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It is a huge enough task on its own made more difficult not just by Twitter and cable news hyperbole, but by a major transparency problem.
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The episodes usually revolved around Wilbur's clumsy attempts to undo Ed's mischief, situations made more difficult by the fact that Ed would speak only to Wilbur.
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The task could be made more difficult by a reshuffle in the BOJ's decision-making policy board this month, when two skeptics of huge stimulus leave.
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"The rescue mission was hazardous, with poor or zero visibility, debris and constrictive passageways, variable air quality, and made more difficult with further rainfalls predicted," they added.
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Bridging that gap has been made more difficult because the State Department under President Donald Trump has yet to fill many important diplomatic positions, the officials said.
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Drafting a document that will win 51 GOP votes — a task made more difficult by projections of rising deficit numbers over the next decade — is hard enough.
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Crafting a legislative solution to the border crisis is made more difficult by the complicated logistics of the situation and the overlapping jurisdictions of several federal agencies.
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In New Jersey, that is often made more difficult by a male-dominated system of county leaders, many of whom rule with tight fists and reward loyalty.
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They say shopping and even getting married is made more difficult by the restrictions of Israel, which has fought three wars with Hamas over the past decade.
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The choice was made more difficult because the US withdrawal made it less likely that the Kyoto Protocol would ever come into force as a legally binding agreement.
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That struggle is going to have to go on, made more difficult by the fact that we've betrayed the Kurds and withdrawn our forces from part of Syria.
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Whether it's getting to zero waste or reaching 100 percent renewable energy, these are herculean tasks, made more difficult by recalcitrant and regressive federal and sometimes state governments.
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Ms. Swaraj said the struggle to obtain documents from employers that would free workers to return to India was frequently made more difficult by the worsening economic situation.
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Dissection is also made more difficult when a cadaver carries more fat—the dissector has to cut through the layers of fatty tissue to reach the body's organs.
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The task is made more difficult because "bad activity" is often in the eye of the beholder and humans, let alone machines, cannot agree on what that is.
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The investigation will be made more difficult by where the crash took place, just outside Tehran, in the midst of rising tensions between Iran and the United States.
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For now, they have to clear the way forward on a spending bill, tax reform and an infrastructure plan, all made more difficult by failing on health care.
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Post-adoption I needed to figure out how to start from scratch with new peers, though, a task made more difficult given the difference in our respective cultural upbringings.
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RELATED - McConnell: Government shutdown won't happen this month On tax reform, Schumer was asked the if issue is made more difficult by Trump's refusal to release his tax returns.
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Building the answer to consumers' long-distance travel woes is no easy task, but for Arrivo it's made more difficult by the momentum its competitor Hyperloop One has seen.
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Now their job is going to be made more difficult by the increasingly hard line that Democrats are taking against Mr. Trump by opposing his cabinet nominees en masse.
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It's a challenge made more difficult by lurking guerrillas who last year detonated a homemade bomb as army engineers were working on the road, killing five people and injuring several.
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Nothing. The part of government that deals in classified information will continue to function in a setting where the job is made more difficult because people just don't care enough.
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The decision was made more difficult by a recent surprise: Their expected contribution for junior year jumped by $10,000 because of John's overtime pay in the year covered by FAFSA.
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In the case of the mudslides, evacuation is made more difficult by the complexities of geology, said Lucy Jones, one of California's top experts on earthquakes and other natural disasters.
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Graduates of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) like Morehouse have historically faced higher debt burdens, a burden whose repayment is made more difficult by income disparities faced by black Americans.
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But its job is being made more difficult by the tax cuts and by government-spending increases that took effect earlier this year, which are essentially acting as a fiscal stimulus.
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They reflect a nearly two-decade-long project by President Vladimir V. Putin to put information flow under state control, a push made more difficult by the growth of the internet.
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Medical investigators are scrambling to find the cause of the illnesses, a task made more difficult by the booming market in vaping products, some legal and many not, from sources unknown.
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Others said they were actively looking for their next jobs — a task made more difficult because of the taint of failure that potential employers sometimes associate with anyone at the struggling company.
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Gulden has managed to revive sales growth, but improving profitability has been made more difficult by the strong U.S. dollar, the currency in which the sportswear industry sources most products in Asia.
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She also said the situation has been made more difficult by Trump's tendency to speak carelessly or allege false information, which has weakened American leadership around the world and undermined the presidency.
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Or, secondly, classic common law tort cases, such as nuisance and trespass suits, which are made more difficult by the right-to-farm laws that have been passed in almost every state.
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Judging Mr. de Blasio's record is made more difficult because one of his main goals — addressing inequality in health care — requires multiagency cooperation and the programs can take years to show results.
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The goal is made more difficult by one problem that cities have in common — multi-tenant residences (like apartments, condos, and coops) have a hard time organizing waste for recycling and landfills.
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At first, Jacob said, the writing was made more difficult by her anger at having to write it, but the group pushed her to go deeper: Who was the anger directed toward?
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Now think about what an outrage it is when that work is made more difficult because deficient rural roads right outside of the farm gate lead to costly delays or dangerous accidents.
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Heavy downpours hit the region on Saturday, prompting fears that the work of rescue crews and efforts by locals to salvage what they can from the fire could be made more difficult.
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The EU's border agency Frontex has said it is monitoring the situation and that people smugglers might be looking for alternative entries to the bloc after the Mediterranean crossings were made more difficult.
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Following the meeting, Trump and his team left for his speech in North Dakota on tax reform, now an issue that at least one aide said was made more difficult by Trump's move.
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Christie said on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" that the tough political conversations Trump has to have with his administration members are made more difficult by the fact that family is involved.
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Now it has been made more difficult by Trump and Rudy Giuliani's setting back of Ukraine's efforts to stamp out corruption and subordinating an aid relationship to dirt-digging for domestic political reasons.
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Further compounding these tremendous challenges was the constant need to secure childcare, but this was made more difficult by the stress of their situation, which caused her children to become unpredictably physically ill.
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Those finance conversations "are made more difficult because the US is not able to lead in the way it did," Jonathan Pershing, the top climate negotiator under former president Barack Obama, told BuzzFeed News.
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Investigating the crime, and calibrating a response, will be made more difficult by the blurred distinction between acts carried out by the Russian state and those carried out by people acting in its name.
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Duterte has expressed frustration at the country's anti-money laundering body for lack of progress in tracking the proceeds of illegal drugs trafficking, a task made more difficult by its tough bank secrecy laws.
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" The situation in Turkey has been made more difficult by the economic policies of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who caused the lira to weaken on Thursday by describing interest rates as "tools of exploitation.
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However, senior US military and defense officials have said that assisting the Syrian Democratic Forces in their battle against the remnants of ISIS will be made more difficult without having troops on the ground.
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That path, which companies like Google and Apple have reportedly steered away from after realizing building a car is not easy, is made more difficult by the lofty expectations and ambitions the company has set.
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It is a challenge, tugboat captains say, made more difficult because so many of them have not been fully trained in the new system, said Iván de la Guardia, who heads the tugboat captains' union.
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Promises by a local police commander to look into adding tower lights at the playground, made more difficult by the fact that those he had — just two — were being used in other high-risk spots.
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A common complaint among space companies is that there aren't adequate regulations, an issue that is made more difficult by the fact that no one country can dictate rules that apply to satellites deployed abroad.
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EU tax overhauls are made more difficult by provisions that require unanimous support from all member states to carry them out and similar ambitions to reform the energy taxation system were struck down in 2015.
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Untangling the operations of HNA, already complicated by its murky ownership and a complex array of affiliates, is made more difficult by a web of interconnected deals with friends and family members of top executives.
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The task has been made more difficult by a loose commitment it keeps to buy government bonds at the current pace, so that the balance of holdings increase at 80 trillion yen ($696 billion) per year.
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That's not an impossible task, but it's a difficult one since they need to pick up a number of suburban seats trending hard away from their party — and one that's made more difficult by Hurd's retirement.
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Their task is made more difficult by the delayed release of key economic data due to the recent 35-day partial shutdown of the U.S. government, including important reports on retail sales and gross domestic product.
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He said that Americans were living in a time of "great opportunity, but also great uncertainty and inequality," made more difficult because of the political discord in Washington and the anger among citizens throughout the country.
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The problem is made more difficult because of the way that such benefit schemes were established and marketed to the public—as insurance schemes in which what you receive in benefits relates to what you put in.
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The former secretary of State said Bush frequently surprised his friends by fighting back from serious illnesses in his old age, which was made more difficult by a form of Parkinson's he had suffered from for years.
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Trump has said he wants to find ways to work with Putin, a goal made more difficult by sharp differences over Russia's actions in Syria and Ukraine, and allegations Moscow meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Should the facts warrant impeachment, that case will be made more difficult politically if part of the country feels that removing Mr. Trump is the result that some of their fellow Americans were wishing for all along.
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"Should the facts warrant impeachment, that case will be made more difficult politically if part of the country feels that removing Mr. Trump was the result that some of their fellow Americans were wishing for all along."
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This means that price assessments such as those from CRU and Macquarie rely first and foremost on published trade volumes and trade values, a statistical sleuthing exercise made more difficult by the complexity of the lithium product chain.
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But the task will be made more difficult because Pakistan has sandwiched itself between two financial powers: China, from which it has borrowed heavily, and the Western-dominated International Monetary Fund, which might be its short-term savior.
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Policymaking is made more difficult when the issue is clouded with false claims and fear-mongering, as it is when Trump ties immigrants to crime, although the rates of crime among immigrants are lower than among native-born Americans.
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Estimating ISIS' strength in Raqqa has been made more difficult by reports that some of the group's factions have already left the city -- heading out across the desert towards Palmyra or east along the Euphrates river towards Deir Ezzor.
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Ikem-Obih said the so-called direct sale, direct purchase deals that enable NNPC to exchange crude for imported fuels were keeping the country running, but that it was a "very painful task", made more difficult by limited access to oil.
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Scott McLean of the California Department of Forestry and Fire protection said the job of hand crews and bulldozer operators trying to cut containment lines was made more difficult by high winds, which were blowing embers and starting new spot fires.
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"Included in the huge volume of search queries Yelp receives are some very rare, atypical ones that computer-generated models still try to match ... which is made more difficult by the rarity of this search occurrence," the Yelp spokesperson said.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE (I-Vt.) has made more difficult.
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The already challenging work of the American intelligence and law enforcement communities was made more difficult in late July 2016, however, when Mr. Trump, then a presidential candidate, publicly called upon Russia to find the missing emails of Mrs. Clinton.
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The job of hand crews and bulldozer operators trying to cut containment lines was made more difficult by high winds, which were blowing embers and starting new fires, Scott McLean of the California Department of Forestry and Fire protection said.
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Ryan would need 22019 votes on the floor to keep his hold on the Speaker's gavel, a feat made more difficult with Democrats projected to pick up a dozen or more seats this November and cut into GOP's massive majority.
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His sister, Kate, spoke to The Project on Wednesday night about the "incredibly emotional" experience of watching the documentary for the first time — made more difficult by the fact that it was the family's first time seeing much of the collected footage.
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And even Cruz still needs to consolidate Ben Carson's voters (a task made more difficult by their post-Iowa spat) and peel off a few more from the rest, in order to run the table in the South — his key to victory.
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The questions people have around vaccinations is a "direct result of the negative content you have on social media", he said, adding the issue is made more difficult to control because such content is often in local languages not spoken by outsiders.
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Not only do the fields produce very little oil or natural gas compared to other Petrobras assets, the sources said, their age will require substantial investment to maintain commercially viable output, a situation made more difficult by oil prices near decade lows.
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The White House is trying to spur momentum this week by highlighting policy plans — a task made more difficult with the spotlight on testimony by James Comey, the FBI director fired last month by Trump, to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.
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Virgin Media, one of Britain's two main providers, said certain commercial criteria had to be met before it would undertake the cost of building the infrastructure, made more difficult by the need to navigate conservation areas and secure access to private land.
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Figuring out why some cases result in criminal charges is made more difficult by the fact that prosecutors have broad discretion in deciding whether — and when — to file charges, and need not explain why one set of circumstances results in a criminal action.
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That task is also made more difficult when high-level officials weigh in on important competition issues in an ad hoc manner — whether it be Obama on the open internet order or Trump on the AT&T-Time Warner merger and drug prices.
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The White House is trying to spur momentum this week by highlighting policy plans - a task made more difficult with the spotlight on testimony by James Comey, the FBI director fired last month by Trump, to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.
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Kalanick is also still considering taking a temporary leave of absence, a decision that would force the company to find someone to replace him in the interim, and would be made more difficult by the vacancies in top positions including CMO, COO and CFO.
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"Government prosecutors and agents have a difficult job investigating crime, and one that is made more difficult by the fact that some of the investigative techniques they must rely on can backfire by alerting criminals to the fact of the investigation," Judge Orenstein wrote.
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For federal employees, therefore, the biggest concern was usually whether they had enough cash in the bank to make their next payments before the government reopened, a situation made more difficult by prolonged shutdowns such as the one that began in December of last year.
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A member of the RTUK board from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) said the licensing process had been made more difficult by a recent decree that requires the approval of the license by the National Intelligence Agency (MIT) and the Security General Directorate (EGM).
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However reaching agreement is made more difficult by the fact that the Dehravud gauging station on the Kajaki dam, the point agreed in the 1973 treaty for measuring the annual flow, is currently under Taliban control and no official has been able to visit since 2015.
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After her parents (and household) are murdered, it's up Amicia to save her strange, sick little brother Hugo from the world of death and chaos they now suddenly live in — made more difficult by the fact that he is somehow the mysterious key to the occult conflict.
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But managing that relationship has been made more difficult by more lost time, by the added tension and hostility that Trump's policies have caused, and by the Trump administration's efforts to make some of the measures through which it has waged economic warfare difficult to reverse.
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" Giuliani also said that scheduling a potential interview with Mueller was made more difficult due to Trump's schedule—specifically the high-profile, much anticipated summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "How can we take three, four hours, three, four days out of that schedule?
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That evidence suggests that elite schools need to be doing a lot more to solicit applications from low-income students, a task made more difficult by the fact that these students are too geographically dispersed for college admissions departments to do traditional recruitment through high school visits.
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And it was made more difficult still by the latest firestorm, ignited just two days earlier with the revelation of Donald Trump junior's apparent willingness last year to receive "very high-level and sensitive information" from the Russians about Hillary Clinton, Trump senior's rival in the presidential election.
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The journey from Cairo to Abu Dhabi was also made more difficult by severe turbulence, forcing Piccard to keep a grip on the controls as he ascended to 29,000 feet during the day, and back down to 5,000 feet at night, when the plane's solar cells weren't being charged.
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After eight years of largely abstaining from politics, former President George W. Bush is throwing himself into an effort to save his party's most vulnerable senators, including several whose re-election campaigns have been made more difficult by Donald J. Trump's presence at the top of the ticket.
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The effort has to be bold, transparent and long-term Insiders will still try to game the system, but this can be made more difficult (as it was in the more sophisticated parts of post-communist eastern Europe) by holding competitive auctions that are open to all, including foreign investors.
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The modelers in Europe say a similar arc is likely in the United States, but anticipating the spread is made more difficult by the lack of widespread testing … 'Italy is about two weeks ahead of Britain and the rest of Europe,' said Francois Balloux, director of the Genetics Institute at University College London.
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Republican lawmakers, who have been calling for years for a budget that would balance over the decade if not sooner, are now faced with the need to find $6.7 trillion in savings in the budget to achieve that goal — an already incredibly difficult task they just made more difficult by moving more than $2 trillion in the wrong direction.
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Mr. Schumer predicted a Democratic victory, but he said that the possibility of a win for his side had been made more difficult by an influx of money behind Senate Republican candidates from the political network headed by the conservatives Charles G. and David H. Koch, who are focusing more on the Capitol than on the White House.
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Christopher CoonsChristopher (Chris) Andrew CoonsThe United States broken patent system is getting worse Biden faces scrutiny for his age from other Democrats Democrats press FBI for details on Kavanaugh investigation MORE (D-Del.) said during an interview early Monday that bipartisanship on Capitol Hill is made more difficult by a president who "inflames" disagreements instead of tamping them down.
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How WhatsApp, FaceTime and other encryption apps shaped the outcome of the Mueller report Craig Timberg and Drew Harwell have a piece on how the special counsel's investigation was made more difficult by encrypted messaging apps that serves as a nice preview of something we are going to be talking about a lot as Facebook pivots to privacy: Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III detailed multiple contacts among Russian operatives and associates of President Trump in the report made public Thursday.
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To think that pulling back will go well for America requires confidence that many other important things would work out right: that global oil prices will always quickly stabilize if a conflict emerges in major oil-producing region; that maintaining the openness of the sea lanes will not be made more difficult and perilous; that abandoning alliances with the world's leading economies will not sap the US ability to prevent the global economic order it constructed after World War II from being changed in ways damaging to America's interests; that inter-state cooperation on all sorts of other issues, from terrorism to global crime to the environment, will work just as well without the leverage the United States gains from its alliances.
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