Even so, the deadline of 2014 was always going to be difficult to meet.
It is going to be difficult to meet this target straight away this year particularly after last year's experience.
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.
To stay out of the pokey and hold on to their goods, collectors have to meet difficult legal standards.
In most states, there are statutes that permit a court to order dissolution, but these standards are difficult to meet.
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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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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.
Those who worry today whether we have what it takes to meet the challenges of this new and difficult century need to look at the people who continue to join their fates to ours.
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.
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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My government see this as a substantial set of measures, addressing its priorities and seeking to meet the important and difficult challenges before us.
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.
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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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!
This made it harder to meet ordinary Iraqis and meant it became more difficult and more expensive to move around.
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.
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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