The effect of Mr Donaldson's tenure is hard to disentangle from that of Mr Spitzer's.
It is hard to disentangle diversification from desertion since each feeds on the other.
Second, it is hard to disentangle the effects of regulation from the state of the economy.
It's hard to disentangle the initial shock of price liberalisation from ongoing inflationary pressure.
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It is always hard to disentangle the weeds from the plants in such a large field.
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Over the past 20 years, successive governments have been trying to disentangle the state from the economy.
CDU-led coalition might push through a constitutional amendment to disentangle the powers of federal and state governments.
Nor is it easy to disentangle the effects of climate change from those of avoidable failures in policy.
Next year more banks, insurers and asset managers are likely to disentangle themselves.
Kerry promised to disentangle the various proposals, iron out a straightforward plan and get both sides of the aisle to reach consensus.
As with physical stockbuilding, it is hard to disentangle what is millennial from normal responses to the underlying economy.
Its trading in Japan has proven particularly difficult to disentangle (see article).
In July 2002 America's Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley act to disentangle conflicts of interest at (among other places) accounting firms.
"It's very difficult to disentangle the precise effect of Hips, " said Peter Bolton-King of the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA).
It would take an extraordinary law that could disentangle, in every case, the motives of mercy from those of easy disposal.
Researchers are still struggling to disentangle the effects of man-made emissions of carbon dioxide from the natural variability of the climate.
As our visions diverged and I wanted to go my own way I realized how difficult it would be to disentangle myself.
Even at the best of times, Britons tend to be uncomfortable with patriotism, finding it hard to disentangle from nationalism and xenophobia.
From the complex web of factors that have fostered intolerance and violence in Pakistan, it is possible to disentangle four main strands.
It now falls to Mr Sullivan to disentangle AIG from its legal problems and restore some shine to the company's share price.
It is proving hard, however, to disentangle the commercial from the political.
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He stressed that there are so many pressures on the ocean that it is difficult to disentangle them from the effects of climate change.
The trouble is that it is hard to disentangle the bits of a dual-currency bond the interest payments in yen and the principal in dollars.
For journalists trying to disentangle the claims and counter-claims of politicians against hourly and daily deadlines, it has become an indispensable source of anti-spin.
Only a Freudian analyst instructed in the supposedly universal conflicts of human sexuality and domestic life (the Oedipal complex, etc.) could decode and disentangle them.
Instead, Dr Lahdenpera was able to disentangle a range of beneficial phenomena which, when added together, resulted in the increased reproductive success that she observed.
The argument is hard to disprove, or to disentangle from other factors, most notably a broad loss of influence for Europe and Mr Sarkozy's mercurial diplomatic style.
This is not to say that there are not other issues that need to be resolved, and Lewis is very careful to disentangle cybercrime, cyberespionage, and cyberwar.
But it may sometimes be difficult to disentangle the results of espionage from the advances produced by legitimate scientific research, declassified material, and scientific journals and conferences.
The challenge is for ruling parties to disentangle their short-term partisan objectives from their obligations as arbiters -- on behalf of the whole country -- of once-in-a-lifetime political transformations.
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