That is making it unexpectedly difficult for the fashion industry to predict its costs and to maintain a reliable supply network.

But making the bamboo cooperate with their design proved unexpectedly difficult.

I sheered off what seemed to be an unexpectedly difficult subject for her, and we went walking down the garden in the evening light.

Getting back to the cause of the trouble was unexpectedly difficult.

Another problem with judicial security is that it is unexpectedly difficult to define.

He says his skills translate to other professions, but "I'm finding that unexpectedly difficult."

Now, faced with alternatives, he finds decision-making unexpectedly difficult.

Jen found it unexpectedly difficult to emit that last word.

Unisys said its earnings for the quarter were essentially flat in the face of a year the company called unexpectedly difficult.

It was proving unexpectedly difficult to cast them into speech.