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Example sentences for "difficult for"

  • It may be remarked that Byron's popularity made it difficult for him to indulge sentiments of envy.

  • But it is difficult for me to withstand the thousand provocations on that subject, which both friends and foes have for seven years been throwing in the way of a man whose feelings were once quick, and whose temper was never patient.

  • If Catholicism, after all, suggests difficulties of a nature which it is difficult for reason to get over, are these less great than those which Protestantism creates?

  • In fact, the temptations are great; and it must be difficult for a young man to withstand them.

  • The task is difficult for we can see that this institution has undergone many changes in the course of a long history and yet can not tell how much has remained unchanged.

  • Our doubt about the food of the oxen makes it difficult for us to state even the outlines of another important problem.

  • This makes it difficult for us to construe the second great aberration from the general rule that the number of the teamlands in a county will slightly exceed the number of teams.

  • It is difficult for us to realize the exact meaning that 'sake and soke' would bear when ascribed to a prelate or thegn who had but two or three houses within the town.

  • Here again the modern Anglo-Saxon habit makes it difficult for us to appreciate his conduct as it deserves.

  • It is difficult for us of the modern western world to appreciate such teaching.

  • To be turned to his ultimate beatitude is difficult for man, both because it is beyond his nature, and because he has a hindrance from the corruption of the body and infection of sin.

  • But it is difficult for an angel, only because it is supernatural.

  • It is difficult for us to withhold our assent from what is painted out to us in all the colours of eloquence; and the vivacity produced by the fancy is in many cases greater than that which arises from custom and experience.

  • A new inclination to the present good springs up, and makes it difficult for me to adhere inflexibly to my first purpose and resolution.

  • Foolishness is defined as "a slowness and darkness of mind that is due to some moral defect, and that makes it difficult for one to judge rightly about the Last End of things and the Chief Good.

  • These virtues are not the same, for, while faith makes us cling to God as the giver of truth and assent to what is obscure to us, hope makes up turn to Him as the author of beatitude and strive for that which is difficult for us.

  • Why is it so difficult for all of us to know what to do?

  • It is so difficult for a bachelor to entertain, Mr. Braden.

  • It may be difficult for you to understand a father's feelings.

  • I've tried to find out what they think, but it is so difficult for a woman to understand.

  • They have shewn again, by their own example, that it is not so difficult for men to live peaceably together, as has been usually believed; and they have exhibited the means by which they have effected this desirable end in life.

  • And may not these be so incorporated into the inner man in a course of time, that it may be as difficult for parents to eradicate them, as for the Ethiopian to change his colour, or the leopard his spots?

  • I wanted to see you, but it is difficult for me to do so without the others knowing.

  • I have seen so little of him since he returned from the front that it is difficult for me to answer you," said the girl, after a pause.

  • I'm well aware of that, sir, but it's difficult for a man like me to make a shift once he gets into a place.

  • The greater part of the citizens had no land; and without it the manners and customs of those times rendered it difficult for a freeman to maintain his independency.

  • It is as difficult for me to decide to continue the war as to accept these terms before us.

  • It is difficult for us to find out what course God wishes us to pursue in this matter.

  • It is difficult for us, who have had the good fortune to be born amongst men like ourselves by nature, and equal to ourselves by law, to conceive the irreconcilable differences which separate the negro from the European in America.

  • So that he did not know, he could not cite an instance where his application had made it difficult for him in his work.

  • Was it difficult for you to understand him because of this accent?

  • Since I had made the incision directly through the wound in the neck, it made it difficult for them to ascertain the exact nature of this wound.

  • It is, of course, difficult for Englishmen to believe.

  • Zamoyski continued: "It would be difficult for her to live in camp, in the tent of the voevoda of Vityebsk; but she might stay with his daughters.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    above referred; before starting; deliver them; difficult breathing; difficult for; difficult matter; difficult position; difficult question; difficult task; difficult thing; difficulty about; difficulty whatever; each period; guilty conscience; human representative; looking away; made mention; nature must; place himself; pure thought; should imagine; since they; tablespoon vinegar; threw themselves; would sooner; year terms