Even so, the deadline of 2014 was always going to be difficult to meet.
Without the right culture, it will be progressively more difficult to meet customer demand in these areas.
Angela Knight gives two reasons: EU directives on emissions are difficult to meet with so many coal-fired stations.
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If Shah recommends additional measures in the regulations, Martens said it will be difficult to meet a key deadline.
It is going to be difficult to meet this target straight away this year particularly after last year's experience.
In most states, there are statutes that permit a court to order dissolution, but these standards are difficult to meet.
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This is partly, they say, because it is difficult to meet all the bureaucratic requirements covering their activities under Brazilian legislation.
The one answer I will not settle for is the idea that this challenge is too big and too difficult to meet.
The one answer I will not settle for is the idea that this challenge is somehow too big and too difficult to meet.
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But Ford is in the same boat as many corporate pension funds that are finding it more difficult to meet their obligations to future retirees.
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Sales at the pit are down by more than 20% and the colliery is finding it difficult to meet the demands of all its customers.
In fact, forces are working against us influencing our decisions that we are blind to making it difficult to meet our goals and change our behaviors.
Given how competitive insurance rates are, insurance companies depend heavily on these investment returns and many find it difficult to meet its liabilities and remain profitable otherwise.
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The European Central Bank (ECB) has been much slower to cut interest rates, in part because the tough inflation target it was set has proved difficult to meet.
Juve's status and financial backing dictates they are treated with respect but even they would find it difficult to meet the asking price for the Premier League's top stars.
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We live all over Scotland so it's difficult to meet up but we have vowed to have a 10-year anniversary - so we've got two years left to plan it!
Against this backdrop, emerging and other fast-growth markets continue to be bright spots, offering attractive opportunities for US private companies that are finding it difficult to meet their growth objectives through domestic sales alone.
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Why should Turkey implement difficult reforms to meet European standards, some ask plaintively, if EU membership will not be forthcoming in return?
The home can be a difficult place to meet customers or clients, especially if you don't have an extra room or an appropriate place for a business discussion.
Nor can a contractor tear up a signed document merely because it's difficult or unprofitable to meet the terms.
To accommodate his new lifestyle, Drury now works 50 hours a week rather than 70, and it's sometimes difficult to make ends meet.
The price of a permit is thus not the incentive: that price is rather telling you how difficult it is to meet the cap.
Mr Cameron said he realised families were finding it "difficult to make ends meet" and growth in the economy was much harder to come by than anticipated.
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Frustrated with how difficult it is to meet new people, and how the Internet has been a barrier instead of a gateway, we set out to create a platform that gets us offline.
Additionally, Symbian is proving to be an increasingly difficult environment in which to develop to meet the continuously expanding consumer requirements, leading to slowness in product development and also creating a disadvantage when we seek to take advantage of new hardware platforms.
This, in turn, would make it difficult for the council to meet its current level of commitments.
With people continually on the run, it is wrenchingly difficult for aid workers to meet their needs.
To stay out of the pokey and hold on to their goods, collectors have to meet difficult legal standards.
Banks are having a difficult time raising capital to meet these new Basel III requirements, and they have created a series of proccesses to meet the requirements.
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