difficult terrain

collocation in English

meaningsofdifficultandterrain

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difficult
adjective
uk
/ˈdɪf.ɪ.kəlt/us
/ˈdɪf.ə.kəlt/
needing skill ...
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terrain
noun[U]
uk
/təˈreɪn/us
/təˈreɪn/
an area of land, when considering its ...
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(Definition ofdifficultandterrainfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdifficult terrain

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Both these works make invaluable inroads into this highly rich anddifficultterrain.
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The editor is a skilful guide acrossdifficultterrain, conducting her readers with enviable assurance through tangled clumps of textual thickets.
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This book addresses the ways in which heritage-oriented urban development projects have been conceived, planned, funded, implemented and sustained on thisdifficultterrain.
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When it comes to choice/quality for the care provider, there are questions about how well this kind of measure negotiates thedifficultterrainbetween right and obligation.
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Thedifficultterrainand the many islands constitute a major problem in organizing health service delivery and easy access to healthcare facilities to the whole population.
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The objective of traction control is to optimize torque distribution of the robot motors to obtain proper traction in various cases anddifficultterrainconditions.
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Curtin, closing his long career as a sage, knows how to navigatedifficultterrain, overcome obstacles and pick up broken pieces, making them into a whole.
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Wales' modest population and perceived underdeveloped urban economy in this pre-industrial period have been explained in terms of itsdifficultterrainand resulting poor communications.
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I am not asking for anything difficult to be constructed throughdifficultterrain.
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I certainly cannot hope to match their expertise in finding my way through thisdifficultterrain.
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It was built on the mostdifficultterrainover a very wide estuary.
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I know how difficult that is because energy policy is really adifficultterrain.
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The last 17 or 20 miles is through verydifficultterrain, indeed.
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They are also trained to be able to manoeuvre quickly acrossdifficultterrain.
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They are particularly effective when operating in tropical countries and countries withdifficultterrain.
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Olive groves might well flourish in some, although not all, of thisdifficultterrain.
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It is also some of the mostdifficultterrainon which to engineer and construct.
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However, the remoteness,difficultterrainand poor weather conditions are making aid deliveries extremely difficult.
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Many of his constituents are on low incomes and work hard indifficultterrain.
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Here there is conflict on many sides, and in verydifficultterrain.
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