with/without difficulty• Other nations stumbled, slidbackward, moved forward again with difficulty.• The process of admitting nations just now coming to democracy and capitalism has not been without difficulties.• It is this lack of codifiedcertainty that makes a study of it so fraughtwith difficulty.• He stands up and comes over, asking me something or other, walk-ing with difficulty.• This last point is not without difficulty.• Some were loose, some went on only with difficulty.• Only with difficulty was she able to hold back the tears, forcing herself to smile.• She will be 76 next month and walks with difficulty, using a cane.
the difficulty of (doing) something• If they are already your customers, the difficulties of changing their preferences become an asset and not a liability.• We do not minimizethe depth of the problem, nor the difficulty of solving it.• All would be aware of the difficulty of finding ideologically acceptable forms of fun.• Is this perhaps a comment on the inadequacy of the law and the difficulty of policing and getting convictions?• I knew nothing about the Ober Gabelhornr's history or the difficulty of the route, or even what it looked like.• Rents did not, however, necessarily solve the difficulties oftownfinance.• Second, and more fundamentally, they drewattention to the difficulties of finding a satisfactorymeasure of performance in statisticalterms.• Yet I think you underestimatethe difficulties ofraising such capital.
Origindifficulty
(1300-1400)Latindifficultas, from difficilis“difficult”, from facilis“easy”