The difficulty, of course, is that live shows can appear excruciatingly dull when transferred to television or video.

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The difficulty, of course, is industry-wide acceptance and adoption.

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The difficulty, of course, is that the very nature of public cloud services means there are few barriers to stop employees from simply using a credit card to self-provision a useful new capability.

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Nevertheless, the inflation outlook remains highly uncertain, not least because of the difficulty of predicting the future course of commodity prices, and we will continue to monitor inflation and inflation expectations closely.

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Yes, of course: the difficulty of measuring productivity in services, now most of the economy, is well-known.

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After all, what senator would believe that, if confirmed, Mr. Lake will be forthcoming and candid with Congress about evidence that casts Clinton policies in an unfavorable light, when he has had such difficulty doing so in the course of his confirmation hearings?

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Had she testified, of course, chances are good that she would have difficulty explaining all of her complex and doubtless subtle motives.

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On a conventional golf course, the degree of difficulty is often dictated by which tee the player chooses to play from.

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The first step might be to better coordinate course ratings, so that handicaps established on courses of differing difficulty can be made comparable.

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Lord Archer's other difficulty is that the details of his alibi for Monday September 8th only surfaced in the course of the trial.

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