Identifying the world's greatest male athlete turned out to be easy to argue but difficult to answer empirically.
This axiomatic principle is easy to state but can be difficult to apply in the context of fictional characters because a properly copyrighted work does not mean every element of the work is protected.
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The biggest supply-side obstacle to future growth may no longer be (if it ever was) excessive regulation or inflexible labour markets, but a corporate culture that finds it easy to tolerate low returns and difficult to tolerate outright failure.
Software is easy to copy and difficult to patent, but relationships, culture and customer loyalty are difficult to take away.
"Offences of this nature are easy to commit but very difficult and very expensive to detect, " he said.
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They don't want a confrontation with Iran or North Korea, or Venezuela or Turkey for that matter, because they don't want to deal with difficult situations with no easy answers or silver bullets to make problems disappear.
Poor investment decisions are easy to make but far more difficult to resolve.
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Easy to tap reserves are very difficult to come by these days, especially in countries like Chile which has been the largest producer of copper for long.
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But the new lending standards, which have gone from an easy extreme to a much more difficult one, have left small businesses stranded at a time when they need loans the most.
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Though it is relatively easy to mock up a website, it is much more difficult to mask exactly where that website sits in cyberspace.
Jobs shared with Obama as to how easy it was to build a factory in China and how difficult it was to build a similar factory in America.
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And persuading a jury to give the benefit of the doubt to a multi-millionaire banker is exceedingly difficult, making it easy for the government to win a case on thin evidence.
Fixing the QR code shortcomings will not be easy as it is always difficult to change the philosophies of marketers that have been using the same strategies for years.
Graeme Hyslop said some funds were easy to apply for and some were difficult, but it was easier for larger colleges to spend the time and resources working on applications.
But while it's easy to become an open-source distributor, it's more difficult to become expert enough with the stuff to make a living supporting it.
Some segments of the market are not as easy to invest in using index funds or ETFs because the indexes are difficult to replicate in a real portfolio.
Finally, though it is easy to call for banks to be carved up, it would be hellishly difficult in practice.
She knows that's easy to say but in this case, difficult to accomplish.
It is still there, somewhere out in the bush of what was once Zululand, difficult to find, easy to miss.
The information helps bidders estimate how easy or difficult the transition from TV to their own planned services might be, says Laura Fontaine, a Comsearch director.
He buys players to make a difficult job as easy as he possibly can for himself.
It is always easy for politicians to promise lavish future benefits and difficult to cut them back.
It was aimed at young women and provided an easy path to get help from trusted friends in difficult situations, from risky sexual encounters to actual assaults.
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This means that HP must follow the difficult rather than the easy path to success, stop trying to acquire other technology companies, as previous leaderships did, and as Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) has been doing.
Oh, and finding another job is not going to be easy with getting your CRD cleared because those procedures have become time consuming, complicated and difficult to navigate without the help of an attorney.
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His experience shows how difficult it is to create an easy-to-use personal health record that will allow patients to control all their health information online.
In difficult times it's always easy to retreat into survival mode.
The probable meeting between Mr Siew and Mr Hu in the tropical city of Boao would be an easy first step in what is likely to be a difficult journey.
She said the set of guidelines had ended up being overly bureaucratic because of a fear of civil litigation, cost-cutting and because it was an easy way to avoid work that was regarded as more difficult.
Not that it's ever difficult, but it's extra easy to find a party in New Orleans the next few days.
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