difficult condition
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdifficultandcondition
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difficult
adjective
uk/ˈdɪf.ɪ.kəlt/us/ˈdɪf.ə.kəlt/
needing skill ...
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condition
noun
uk/kənˈdɪʃ.ən/us/kənˈdɪʃ.ən/
the particular state that something or someone ...
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(Definition ofdifficultandconditionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is adifficultconditionto treat, often requiring excision of bone.
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Most importantly, however, thedifficultconditionof terminal delirium is particularly well addressed in the book.
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Therefore, the deficit of pursuit maintenance in patients with affective disorder might become visible only under the moredifficultcondition.
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They have to deal with adifficultcondition.
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That is a verydifficultconditionto interpret.
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This is an extremelydifficultconditionto diagnose.
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This country, in its international setting, is in a verydifficultcondition.
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The fact remains, however, that our manufacturing base is in adifficultcondition.
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There is a lot of publicity at the moment about meningitis, which is a notoriouslydifficultconditionto diagnose.
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A much more widely drafted anddifficultconditionis that relating to causes necessitating an abstention from fishing.
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There is no agreed diagnostic criteria at the moment which makes it adifficultconditionto combat.
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If it were possible to leave them outside party politics, it would be much better, especially under the present verydifficultcondition.
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It is such adifficultcondition, requiring such prolonged treatment, that it would hardly be practicable to retain the term "chronic dyslexia".
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That seems subsequently to have lapsed, and now there seems to be a suggestion that that may not be such adifficultconditionafter all.
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In the lace industry which was in such adifficultcondition, production and sale in this country have gone up from a low figure to a remarkable figure.
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When it comes down to it, eventually there is a parental responsibility which parents must accept and share with others in curing thisdifficultconditionfor their children.
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It is clear that at the moment our economic affairs are in adifficultconditionand that there is a paucity of money available for capital investment.
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It is important first to say something about the wider background, which is, of course, thedifficultconditionof the world shipbuilding market over a long period.
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Secondly—and this is the important anddifficultcondition—there is the provision that collection and processing shall be done with the minimum of danger of spreading animal diseases.
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To "kludge around something" is to avoid a bug or somedifficultconditionby building a kludge, perhaps relying on properties of the bug itself to assure proper operation.
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