It was a complex portfolio with many levels of assets and difficult-to-quantify upsides.

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As a non-sales, non-marketing, non-manager, I find it difficult to quantify my achievements.

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While Iran in recent years has claimed more than 12 million in the ranks of the group, Middle East experts put the figure closer to 300, 000 -- though they concede it's difficult to quantify a sprawling militia that has full-time and reservist cadres.

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But the damage done -- bad morale, poor teamwork, ineffective execution of strategy -- can be difficult to quantify on corporate bottomlines, unless the psychopath veers into actual crime.

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Audit Scotland said a number of factors would affect prescribing and its associated spending in coming years, and it is difficult to forecast and quantify their long-term impact.

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The Moroccan representative suggested the reason was technical: education was a long-term investment and its results difficult to quantify quickly and efficiently.

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How it affected us on a, kind of, more human and more emotional level, that's difficult to quantify, but I remember when I - in my school, we had a French teacher who was actually an English woman.

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In a field where outcomes are difficult to quantify, Morgan insists on showing results beyond spruced-up buildings.

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While acknowledging that a CDO's results can be difficult to quantify, Ms. Moats, who is Mexican-American, credits her predecessors with the recent increase in female leaders at the firm.

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