1. According to Mlodinow, we give "unwarranted importance to memories that are the most vivid and hence most available for retrieval ─ our memory makes it easy to remember the events that are unusual and striking not the many events that are normal and dull."::2403-38

  2. Restricted time and the requirement to report may be perceived as obstacles that make it impossible to deliver the service that is needed.::2432-37

  3. Artists often find it difficult to know when to stop painting, and it can be tempting to keep on adding more to your work.::2431-24

  4. In late 2020, one social media platform made it impossible for users to share a controversial article containing allegations of corruption about a public figure's son, on the basis that it violated the platform's rules against sharing hacked material.::25yd-303

  5. Restricted time and the requirement to report may be perceived as obstacles that make it impossible to deliver the service that is needed.::2432-37

  6. They make you more responsive to anxiety-provoking situations, making it harder to detect safety signals in the environment.::25yd-408

  7. Also, they considered it likely that policy reforms associated with economic liberalisation and related adjustment increase the pressure on forests.::25yd-502

  8. If we've invested in something that hasn't repaid us — be it money in a failing venture, or time in an unhappy relationship — we find it very difficult to walk away.::2462-32

  9. Many states that might wish to use it for education and information may not only find it too expensive but also simply unavailable to them.::2493-32

  10. Samuel Koenig states that in his attempt to observe physical phenomena, man was able quite early to develop a measure of detachment, but he found it very difficult to do so regarding social phenomena.::25yd-8011

  11. Centuries ago, people found it difficult to imagine how someone could see an object without seeing what color it is.::2213-24

  12. Social networking sites make it easier for us to stay connected to our friends, but make it more difficult to maintain our privacy (especially from advertisers).::25yd-T112

  13. Caller identification, which is standard on most mobile phones, makes it easier for us to screen our calls, but it also makes it easier for calls that we make to be screened by others.::25yd-T112

  14. Even today, you might find it surprising to learn about people who see an object without seeing where it is, or see it without seeing whether it is moving.::2213-24

  15. Fashion is among the simplest and cheapest methods of self-expression: clothes can be inexpensively purchased while making it easy to convey notions of wealth, intellectual stature, relaxation or environmental consciousness, even if none of these is true.::2213-29

  16. For a cell, this makes it harder for the surface to keep the flow of nutrients high enough to sustain the ever-larger interior.::25yd-T215

  17. It helps them report ─ and hence catch and correct ─ errors to avoid worse outcomes, and it makes it possible to experiment in thoughtful ways to generate new discoveries.::25yd-T217

  18. This is also why speakers of French find it so natural that "fifteen days" means "two weeks," although the exact number should be 14.::24sw-1101

  19. In the words of one UK publishing executive, 'brands make it easier for the customer to make choices as the world gets more complicated'.::25ss-603

  20. Water and energy made it possible to process a wide range of goods, creating value along the way.::24yd-208

  21. If a long time has elapsed since experiencing a particular event, and if you have experienced similar events several times since the original experience, chances are you would find it difficult to recollect the original event exactly as it happened; your memory of the original event may get mixed up with memories of related events.::25ss-1103

  22. If they make it hard or impossible to do something, we do less of it.::24yd-2012

  23. It is inherent in this approach that freedoms, both the negative freedoms ─ being free from unjustified coercion, and freedoms of speech and expression, of association, and of movement ─ and the positive freedoms, which have to do with what makes it possible for people actually to enjoy their freedom (including the material [commodity] means for this), are of fundamental importance.::24yd-4011

  24. They maintain that increased oil prices and new technology will make it possible to make use of deposits that are too low grade for today's market.::25ss-T218

  25. This new perspective will make it easier to accept what is more immediately important (the crisis) and make peace with what isn't (your life goals).::25ss-T303

  26. We all have an intuitive sense of what politics means, but may find it harder to define the term precisely.::24yd-503

  27. Her troubled marriage, divorce, and life as a single mother made it even harder for her to write.::esh1-102

  28. This makes it impossible to accurately calculate the aggregate time spent in different activities.::24yd-701

  29. Moreover, the digital camera has made it astonishingly easy to take photographs by making all the shooting processes automatic.::esh1-203

  30. The smartphone has also made it easier to share our photographs with others since smartphones come with a wireless Internet connection and social networking apps.::esh1-204

  31. However, the smartphone made it so convenient and popular that taking a photograph of oneself, or a selfie, is now one of the most common types of photography on the Internet.::esh1-204