This would make it difficult to focus on California's biggest long-term problem: the budget.
But it will become increasingly difficult to focus intensely on one or two issues while blocking out the rest of the noise.
It is equally difficult to focus on such aftereffects of betrayals as flashbacks, depression, anxiety, sexual dysfunction, addiction and compulsion, and painful interpersonal relationships.
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By the age of 40 or 50 most people are finding it difficult to focus on printed material in front of them, leaving them requiring reading glasses.
It was also difficult to focus on both images at the same time, she said, with a camera in one hand and the photograph in the other.
It was difficult to focus on the details of setting up the foundation while my mother was in the hospital, but it gave purpose and structure to a time that otherwise would have been more brutal.
This hoax issue will likely make it more difficult for him to focus on football during his final exam to pass the NFL tests.
In dark or low-contrast scenes, it can be difficult for the auto focus to operate properly.
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In a general sense, vocal cord paralysis can be more difficult to treat since the main focus is to make the folds further apart to improve the airway, but not so much as to affect the quality of the voice.
Third, for lead generation to be effective, the lead generation company has to focus on an industry in which it is difficult for consumers to get information, either because it is fragmented, localized, difficult to understand, difficult to gather data or inefficient.
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It can be very difficult to get children with autism to focus.
The Dartmouth study was commissioned by the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, which then invited the AP as a partner to explore through focus groups it organized what happens at the hospital level that makes readmissions so difficult to solve.
The bravery and courage of our men and women in uniform has been astounding throughout, and they continue to focus on that mission in very difficult circumstances.
John Gunn, head of AIMS, said it was difficult to stop the storms and bleaching but researchers could focus their short-term efforts on the crown-of-thorns starfish, which feasts on coral polyps and can devastate reef cover.
This has had some support from watchdog Consumer Focus, which said it could prove difficult to put an accurate price of the cheapest deals on annual statements.
So I think, yeah, they're aware that the celebrity is out there, trying to grab their attention in certain ways, but I think some of it is helping to focus attention in ways that would be difficult otherwise.
Yes, executive education may help attract and retain key employees, as well as serve to focus them on the future rather than the difficult and demoralizing present.
With the focus shifting disproportionately to growth, CMOs face a more difficult environment than they did before the economic downturn of 2007 and 2008.
What can be difficult for victims to come to terms with is that they often become the focus of any investigation to start with.
Segment four is not yet published but will focus on copy-protection and the reasons it will be difficult to circumvent.
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The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) probe will focus on emergency doors, which some passengers said were "difficult to operate".
And they can focus their overseas aid on the issue that is most difficult for poor countries to deal with themselves: disease.
Asked about how he kept his focus after deciding to compete with cancer, Shanteau said it wasn't difficult.
None of that has changed--in fact, the latest evidence is that China is again mopping up Treasury notes--but what's coming into clearer focus is that the Chinese have their own internal imbalances that are no less difficult to correct.
"Despite uncertainties in Europe and concerns over the U.S. fiscal cliff creating a difficult business environment, we did our best this quarter to achieve strong earnings based on a strategic focus on differentiated and high value-added products as well as our technological competitiveness, " said Robert Yi, Senior Vice President and Head of Investor Relations.
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"In difficult times, it's comforting to know that the company is not overly leveraged and that it can focus on growing the business and not on survival, " says Hare.
It was difficult to convince shareholders that change was needed when the firm seemed healthy, particularly in a country where investors focus on the short term and firms have to report earnings every month.
"Working together with his colleagues in the squadron, he will be in a difficult and demanding job, and I ask that he be left to get on with his duties and allowed to focus on delivering support to the coalition troops on the ground, " he said, in remarks quoted by the Press Association news agency.
Bruce Leslie, who worked with the White House on per-capita caps as a Senate staffer in 1997 and is now the head of First Focus, said per-person caps are better than block grants, but the policy is unusually difficult to write into law.
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