Bedfordshire Police said it had been "a difficult case" because it had taken time to encourage key witnesses to make formal statements.
With weak evidence and a difficult case, they pressured KPMG in effect to indict itself, go into deferred prosecution mode, and participate in the case against individual defendants.
"It's a tremendously difficult case, " said Emily A. Collins, a professor and supervising attorney with the University of Pittsburgh Environmental Law Clinic.
He was told on Tuesday that it was a "difficult case" and the tribunal would not be able to make a decision that day.
The spokesman for the Welsh Assembly Government said it had been a "difficult case" for all involved.
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"I know this has been a very difficult case for all of Brooklyn, and I appreciate the patience, " she said.
Plus, he said, it would be a very difficult case to win, because it would be tough to show the injury was the result of the doctor's negligence.
Unless Europe mandates use of the American identifier, and that is confirmed by legislation in the 27 member countries, banks will have a difficult business case to undertake the expensive conversion to a single global standard.
Even if police were able to make an arrest, prosecutors said it was difficult to build a case against the men.
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It's difficult to imagine a worse case of driving while over the limit.
Ms. CHAPMAN: This was an incredibly difficult case for a lot of reasons, and not the least of which was Mr. Moussaoui himself.
It is thought that prosecutors decided against this because insider trading would have been too difficult to prove in a criminal case.
That a question is difficult, and in this case super-controversial, are certainly powerful incentives not to make judgments.
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When that is the case, they have a difficult time becoming involved or viewed as a significant corporate player.
Mr Abhisit has faced a difficult dilemma over Mr Bout's case, says the BBC's Vaudine England in Bangkok - whether to co-operate with long-standing ally the United States or to appease Russia, which has a growing tourist and business presence in Thailand.
And persuading a jury to give the benefit of the doubt to a multi-millionaire banker is exceedingly difficult, making it easy for the government to win a case on thin evidence.
The judge praised the jury for their careful consideration in a case which he said was very difficult.
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Richard Scheff, a former consultant to the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Law Enforcement in the Clinton administration and chairman of Montgomery McCracken law firm, says selecting a jury in case like this might be difficult since its been widely covered in the press.
"Now is a more complicated and a more difficult challenge for the prosecution, and a chance for the defense to really put on a case, " CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said.
Performance has recovered somewhat. (In any case, hedge funds have had a difficult year.) On July 7th GLG hired Driss Ben-Brahim, a Goldman Sachs bigwig.
It is difficult to link cause and effect definitively in a medical case.
One difficult case was that of Ronald Bucca, a fire marshal with the New York City Fire Department who was among the first responders and one of hundreds of them killed.
The Spanish case shows how difficult it was for a young democracy to deal with terrorist activities perpetrated by the Basque separatist group, ETA. History clearly shows that no country in the process of state formation or nation building escapes violence.
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Apple made the case for a game-based social network more difficult by adding new features to its Game Center service.
The retailer denies it discriminated against women and says the case should not be granted class-action status because the plaintiffs' claims are too varied to proceed together, making it difficult for the company to mount a defense in a single case.
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The Internet is, in any case, set up in a way that makes it difficult for computers to distinguish friend from foe.
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McPhee, like any good defense attorney, is trying to make a case for her client but the government is making it difficult and did not provide an answer to which texts they found most offensive.
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To make this case in any courtroom would be very difficult for a prosecutor -- who point out that it is difficult, if not impossible, to put on a successful prosecution if the chief witness is deemed by the prosecutors to be unreliable on some issues, but presented as totally truthful on others.
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