Examples of using It was difficult to understand how in English and their translations into Russian
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It was difficult to understand how such events could take place in a country with Yugoslavia's heritage.
At a time when the task of decolonization was only half completed, it was difficult to understand how that subject could be omitted from the medium-term plan.
It was difficult to understand how police officers responsible for unlawfully denying access to counsel could escape all punishment.
In the absence of planned objectives andof measurement of progress compared with objectives, it was difficult to understand how UNHCR could assess whether the Office was adequately staffed.
It was difficult to understand how a process that was compulsory for only one party to a relationship could result in progress for all parties.
As to the children on death row,whose age appeared to be unknown, it was difficult to understand how judgement could have been passed until it was clear they were not minors;it was up to the State party to establish their status first.
It was difficult to understand how the Committee could at one and the same time recommend national dialogue in paragraph 1 and call for punishment in paragraph 3.
With reference to the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Debt Initiative, it was difficult to understand how developing countries, particularly those in Africa, would pursue a programme of debt sustainability if commodity prices in the world market continued to fluctuate, and at the same time debt servicing had to be attended to. .
It was difficult to understand how the Convention could be promoted and publicized if it had not yet been translated into the national language.
As the Advisory Committee stated, it was difficult to understand how additional resources could be required for communications and information technology at a time when the Mission was in the process of downsizing its activities.
It was difficult to understand how the Office's long-term strategic vision could be put into effect if the problems the Committee faced were not resolved.
It was difficult to understand how the goal of national unity was being advanced, given the Government's reluctance to disaggregate information in the census.
It was difficult to understand how a unified standing body could be established without amending the human rights treaties, which was not advisable since that would take years.
It was difficult to understand how the Convention was compatible with the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the constitutions of its constituent entities which had resulted from the Dayton Peace Agreement.
It was difficult to understand how certain delegations could criticize the Committee for its failure to agree on recommendations, yet refuse to grant it extra time to conclude its work.
It was difficult to understand how countries whose contributions had been substantially reduced under the new scale could still be in arrears, while other countries that were experiencing financial difficulties fulfilled their obligations.
It was difficult to understand how the United States of America could have fought for its own struggle for independence and self-determination against its colonizing power on the one hand, and yet justified repressing other peoples in Puerto Rico, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere on the other.
Mr. AMIR said that it was difficult to understand how Guatemala had managed to create such widespread poverty among its people, and particularly the indigenous population and persons of African descent, who were still living in slavery-like conditions and being subjected to racism.
In retrospect it is difficult to understand how the policy of territorial conquests,“ethnic cleansing” and obscurantist intolerance have managed to prevail over the oft-repeated will of the United Nations.
It is difficult to understand how the procedural implantation of a previous policy decision has led to this current impasse.
It is difficult to understand how institutionalized racism was allowed to exist for so long in the aftermath of the victory of democracy over Nazism and fascism.
It is difficult to understand how one UN resolution adopted on March 14, 2008 suddenly was quadruplicated?
It is difficult to understand how all these summons and recommendations could be presented to this Assembly by the Albanian Foreign Minister as a source of satisfaction with his Government's achievements in the process of democratization.
Similarly, it is difficult to understand how it is possible to silent the fact that the resolution was denied by the world leading countries including three co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group: Russia, the USA and France?
It is difficult to understand how the Committee completely overlooked the detailed and lengthy replies and figures provided by the Israeli delegation concerning the extensive work carried out in this regard regarding Israel's Bedouin community.
In fact, UNMIS was clearly against the creation of parallel structures, and it is difficult to understand how OIOS reached the conclusion that UNMIS has not done enough to try to resolve this issue.
Leyla Aliyeva has in fact a lot of projects- films, charity events, campaigns for the rights of animals, youth actions,and sometimes it is difficult to understand how a mother of two children manage to cope with such a multi-faceted activity.
We would also like to remind thatRussia has a law, which bans recognizing the scriptures of the four world religions and their fragments as extremist, although it is difficult to understand how it should be applied to translations, which believers tend to use most frequently.
In spite of Israel's withdrawal from Gaza andthe dismantling of some settlements in the northern West Bank, it is difficult to understand how the peace process can move forward as long as Israeli settlements remain, especially in areas critical to the final status negotiations, such as Jerusalem.
In the view of the Working Group, it is difficult to understand how the peaceful exercise of the right afforded by article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights could at all induce or provoke violence, which could be attributed to them, or how such conduct could amount to a criminal offence.