It was for them, as it is for us, difficult, in the dead of winter, to sometimes see spring coming.

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Corbett said it may be difficult to get out a dead-bolt door, or some doors might be blocked by equipment or boxes.

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The remains of the dead were too difficult to separate and identify.

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That this game is less difficult and less frightening than the original Dead Space is without question.

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Even though New Orleans has been pumped dry of the floodwaters that once submerged 80 percent of the city, the work of recovering the dead is still dangerous and difficult, Cataldie said.

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However, they found this difficult to answer because their mice kept dropping dead.

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The motivations of about half the attackers are difficult to classify because the perpetrator is either dead or has fled.

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Dr Jel Coward, a GP in Tywyn, north Wales, and an expert on wilderness medicine, said people suffering from extreme hypothermia often gave the impression of being dead, particularly as it can be difficult to detect breathing or a pulse.

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Hivin Kako, a volunteer with the Observatory, says the reporting process is difficult given the situation, but that it has never had a case where it has listed someone as dead who was later found out not to be.

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The numbers of injured and dead are still relatively low compared to the number of vehicles affected, but public perception will be very difficult to overcome if any of them could have been avoided.

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