difficult challenge

collocation in English

meaningsofdifficultandchallenge

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difficult
adjective
uk
/ˈdɪf.ɪ.kəlt/us
/ˈdɪf.ə.kəlt/
needing skill ...
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challenge
noun
uk
/ˈtʃæl.ɪndʒ/us
/ˈtʃæl.ɪndʒ/
(the situation of being faced with) something that needs great mental or physical effort in order to be done successfully and therefore tests a ...
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(Definition ofdifficultandchallengefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdifficult challenge

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He also states that pure, strict legal moralism represents the mostdifficultchallengefor the liberal.
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But establishing the required robustness is adifficultchallenge.
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For example, separation from primary caregivers in the context of placement with unfamiliar adults may pose an especiallydifficultchallengefor very young children.
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The task of identifying the specific purinergic receptors and separate functions they regulate in glial cells is adifficultchallenge.
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Finding platforms proved to be adifficultchallenge.
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In thisdifficultchallengetwo things can be said.
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Measuring the nature of change, of course, is adifficultchallengein any study.
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Also, obtaining homogeneity of the sample is adifficultchallengeto meet.
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Though the mechanisms by which these processes operate are not completely understood, current findings suggest that they may pose a particularlydifficultchallengeto people with dementia.
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This is adifficultchallenge.
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We now have to address a far moredifficultchallenge, namely, to account for the most complex aspects of behavior on which contemporary cognitive science focuses.
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The weight of spoken dialogue and the fact that some characters do not have any music represent the mostdifficultchallengefor a modern reconstruction and recording of this zarzuela.
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This is adifficultchallenge, and in order to manage it, burden-sharing is essential.
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This is a verydifficultchallengeindeed, particularly in the case of developing economies and of those undergoing change.
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The mostdifficultchallengeis the rapidly increasing volume of transport, which is predicted to double between 1990 and 2006.
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The much moredifficultchallengeis to raise the status of the profession.
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It is adifficultchallengethat they face.
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To show that something which purports to do that is not doing so is adifficultchallengeto undertake.
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It is a complex anddifficultchallenge, but one that can be achieved and that cannot be put off.
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We know that this is adifficultchallenge.
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