In recent years, this has proved increasingly difficult.

...proved to be more difficult than I had anticipated...

However, numerous other conflicts have proved very difficult to solve.

Taking his head would have been difficult enough, but taking only his topknot proved more difficult still.

Difficult decisions had been required but the efforts made had proved worthwhile.

But quot democracy quot proved difficult for some Member States to accept.

(b) Conversion of data from existing systems proved more difficult than probably anticipated.

The recruitment and retention of qualified, motivated and disciplined civilian peacekeeping staff have proved difficult.

These have proved more and more difficult to contain within national or even regional boundaries.

These issues, which lay at the heart of the consultations, proved most difficult to resolve.

The rainy season has proved to be as difficult a factor for operations as was feared.

It had, moreover, proved difficult to recruit women for project posts, particularly in hardship rural locations.

Given the huge financial stakes involved, achieving global consensus will be difficult, as the Copenhagen climate change fiasco proved.

The diseases caused by viruses such as HIV and influenza virus have proved to be more difficult to control.

Unfortunately, resettlement has proved difficult, since a large part of Cambodia was mined during the decade long armed conflict.

In the past, meetings in some LDCs proved to be difficult because of the high travel costs or visa problems.

However, it crashed twice, and proved to generate a disappointing amount of lift, and was difficult to transition to horizontal flight.

More importantly still, those flows proved increasingly difficult to manage in a way consistent with faster and more inclusive economic growth.

During the 35 years since its entry into force, the Treaty has proved its viability and has withstood many difficult tests.

Guyana has itself only recently emerged from a difficult electoral process that, under international vigilance, proved to be free and fair.

8. However, the redeployment, redirection or conversion of resources into non military uses has proved more difficult than was previously thought.

quot has proved difficult, in particular in regard to the time of submission and eventual issuance of reports in all official languages.

While the Government has taken important initiatives to reform civil administration at the central level, reforms below that level have proved more difficult.

It enabled Cambodia to implement the Paris Agreements in conditions which proved to be very difficult as indeed they had promised to be.

The unprecedented nature of the challenges emanating from moving rapidly towards a market based economy in a pluralistic political setting proved difficult to cope with.

That proved decisive.

We've proved it.

Nobody proved otherwise.

They proved it.

Not only had it been difficult to implement the special measures for recruitment of women during that period, but it had also proved difficult, given the limited exceptions to the freeze, to enhance the rate of women recruits.

But cooperation has proved to be difficult, if only because each participating institution has rules and constraints that are not easy to reconcile with the others .

OIOS is concerned that information and communication activities are still considered subsidiary activities and, in the first year, it proved difficult to mobilize the necessary funds.

Yet reaching a consensus has proved to be a very difficult task indeed, as many of us have approached these proposals from quite radically different viewpoints.

For the new leaders of the countries in transition it has proved relatively easy to dismantle the old structures but extremely difficult to build the new.

It also proved to be difficult to find a close match between the broadened parameters of the scheme and the 50 per cent phase out target.

109. The second unforeseen development is that the transition from a centrally planned to a market based system has proved considerably more difficult than originally envisaged.

16. It has also proved quite difficult to obtain the same level of coordination for post election and democratic consolidation assistance as that achieved for electoral assistance.

Russia s calculations proved correct.

Their predictions proved correct.

We just proved that.

We just proved that.

He's proved that much.

Excluded from this table are organizations that either did not provide data on the staffing of their procurement services or that provided data which proved difficult to verify.

That hope soon proved illusory.

Sadly, his prediction proved correct.