Word Finder - problem

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A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with.

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She's leaving because she faced numerous problems to do with racism.

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A question to be answered, schoolwork exercise.

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A puzzling circumstance.

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Objection.

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You got a problem with that?

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A set of moves required to complete a climb

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(of a person or an animal) Difficult to train or guide; unruly.

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Causing a problem; problematic; troublesome.

The problem wasn't Dulce or his father.

To discover and define those laws is the problem of history.

The problem is that the poor don't have enough money to afford the food.

I had hoped that you would resolve your problem, but it seems to have no end.

Neither of them lawyers had a problem with me either.

Maybe his problem was a girlfriend.

To me, that's problem number one.

He knows the problem.

She does have a problem with my keeping secrets from Julie.

She had created this problem and now it was hers to face alone.

What's the problem with this jury business?

This was Howie's problem, not ours.

Of course, a stream running through, or an island in the pond, would make the problem much more complicated.

I want to know what the problem is.

The father had some health problem, if I remember.

The woman has a serious problem.

When we consider the costs of all the wrong decisions ever made—a calculation I don't even know how to approach—we will think of it as a diminishing problem receding into the past.

I want to be able to focus on solving this problem, not worrying about what might be said or done to you.

No, that wasn't the only problem.

What is this problem you speak of?

A bright idea, however, shot into my mind, and the problem was solved.

Problem is, it's a big state.

Poland is another case of the difficulty of managing a population which speaks a language not that of the governing majority, and Russia, in trying to solve one problem by absorbing Finland into the national system, is burdening herself with another which may work out in centuries of unrest, if not in domestic violence.

During the final stages of the German treaty the Adriatic problem was once more shelved, until on June 29 and July 6 armed conflicts took place in the streets of Fiume between Italian and French soldiers, resulting in several deaths.

Taking up the idea of a divine education of the human race, which Lessing and Herder had made so familiar to the modern mind, and firmly believing that to each of the leading nations of antiquity a special task had been providentially assigned, Ewald felt no difficulty about Israel's place in universal history, or about the problem which that race had been called upon to solve.

This made the problem of deciphering Persian inscriptions a relatively easy one.

In one of his early investigations he gave an ingenious though indirect demonstration of the problem of the parallelogram of forces.

The problem of the cause of these striking and novel phenomena at first produced considerable perplexity.

The problem of the stresses in rarefied gaseous media arising from inequalities of temperature, which is thereby opened out, involves some of the most delicate considerations in molecular physics.

On this ground Maxwell inferred that the forces acting in the radiometer are connected with gliding of the gas along the unequally heated boundaries; and as the laws of this slipping, as well as the constitution of the adjacent layer, are uncertain, the problem becomes very intricate.

The problem which was to be settled by a century of strife was now posed.

This correlative numerical problem and the two purely geometrical problems are inseparably connected historically.

The problem he set himself was the exact converse of that of Archimedes.

For in such a construction every point of the figure is obtained by the intersection of two straight lines, a straight line and a circle, or two circles; and as this implies that, when a unit of length is introduced, numbers employed, and the problem transformed into one of algebraic geometry, the equations to be solved can only be of the first or second degree, it follows that the equation to which we must be finally led is a rational equation of even degree.

De Spatii Sectione discussed the similar problem which requires the rectangle contained by the two intercepts to be equal to a given rectangle.

This problem, which is sometimes known as the Apollonian Problem, was proposed by Vieta in the 16th century to Adrianus Romanus, who gave a solution by means of a hyperbola.

The First Problem Which The Construction Of The Calendar Presents Is To Connect The Week With The Year, Or To Find The Day Of The Week Corresponding To A Given Day Of Any Year Of The Era.

Hence, when the number of any proposed year in each of the cycles is known, its number in the Julian period can be determined by the resolution of a very simple problem of the indeterminate analysis.

It is unnecessary, however, in the present case to exhibit the general solution of the problem, because when the number in the period corre sponding to any one year in the era has been ascertained, it is.

But this advantage is only procured by the sacrifice of some accuracy; for notwithstanding the cumbersome apparatus employed, the conditions of the problem are not always exactly satisfied, nor is it possible that they can be always satisfied by any similar method of proceeding.

At the same time, the possibility of a confusion between Ninib and Nergal must be admitted, and perhaps we are to see the solution of the problem in the recognition of two diverse schools of theological speculation, the one assigning to Ninib the role of the spring-tide solar deity, the other identifying him with the sun of the summer solstice.

The Indian problem was important.

Knowledge being limited to the ideas produced could never extend to the unperceived matter, or substance, or cause which produced them, and it became a problem for speculative science to determine the grounds for the very belief in its existence.

Now Berkeley put this whole problem in a new light by pointing out a preliminary question.

But this is by no means the whole or even the principal part of Berkeley's philosophy; it is essentially a theory of causality, and this is brought out gradually under the pressure of difficulties in the first solution of the early problem.

He once for all lifted the problem of metaphysics to a higher level, and, in conjunction with his successor, Hume, determined the form into which later metaphysical questions have been thrown.

The problem is complicated by the fact that, from the Egyptian evidence, not only was there at this time no remarkable emigration of oppressed Hebrews, but Bedouin tribes were then receiving permission to enter Egypt and to feed their flocks upon Egyptian soil.

Thus, whatever evidence may be supplied by archaeological research, the problem of the Exodus must always be studied in the light of the biblical narratives.

A month after the inauguration the murder of Lincoln left him president, with the great problem to solve of reconstruction of the Union.

In the solution of this problem the common sense of Wellington and of Castlereagh, with whom the duke worked throughout in complete harmony, played a determining part; it was mainly owing to their influence that France escaped the dismemberment for which the German powers clamoured, and which was advocated for a while by Lord Liverpool and the majority of the British cabinet.