Meanings of render difficult in English

It is the work of genius to render difficult matters plain, abstruse thoughts clear.

The machinery of the Act was so defective as to render difficult the successful prosecution of offenders.

There is nothing that will sooner render difficult easy explanations and embroil the best of friends than delay and maintaining silence.

Stables and stock pens are invariably so close to the farmhouse as to render difficult the protection of the dwelling against flies and mosquitoes.

They must be regarded as approximate, since several disturbing factors and some secondary reactions render difficult their exact application under the conditions of analysis.

His task was rendered difficult by the waistband of her dress.

At four hours from it is a descent, rendered difficult by the deep sand.

Naturally, had Eugène de Canaples and I crossed swords, matters would have been rendered difficult.

Notably, available evidence shows considerable variability in participants' selection and assessment methods, rendering difficult direct comparisons.

The overcrowding so common in tenement districts renders difficult or impossible the maintenance of high moral standards.

It was necessary to cross a ford, which was rendered difficult by the swelling of the stream.

A gale blew, my fingers ached with the cold, breathing was rendered difficult by the rarefied air.

The comparison of cranial indexes is rendered difficult by intentional flattening of the occiput by the hard cradle-board.

The scattered condition of the population rendered difficult and greatly retarded the progress of free schools in the south.

Selection is sometimes rendered difficult, or even impossible, by the conditions being opposed to the desired character or quality.

Small vessels only can enter the harbour, which is shelterless, and rendered difficult of access by a sunken reef.