It used to be that the cost and sheer difficulty of communications increased geometrically with a company's size.

There is, finally, the sheer difficulty of seeing the work.

In addition, the sheer difficulty of the climb forced the two mountaineers to use fixed ropes.

The sheer difficulty of insinuating himself into an alien lifestyle was impossibly great.

Petrenko, a 22-year-old from Odessa, came closest on the sheer difficulty of his program.

The sheer difficulty of manually flying such a device.

He said the sheer difficulty of being a director had surprised him, and that was why it took him so long to take over another project.

Blockbusters have always varied in scale, scholarly ambition and sheer difficulty.

Chabaneau realized that the sheer difficulty of working with platinum would lend value to objects made from it.

Disease and the sheer difficulty of building a sea-level canal were ultimately insurmountable.