Sentences with phrase «at challenging this year»

A Christmas advert's been produced by a spectrum of Christian organisations including Premier as part of a coordinated effort aimed at challenging this year's secular based festive supermarket ads.

The KS3 schemes are aimed at challenging years 7 and 8 while An Inspector Calls can be used for a high ability year 9 group or mixed ability year 10 with revision activities for year 11 at the end of the scheme.

Not exact matches

The tariffs, which have increased frictions with U.S. trading partners worldwide and have prompted several challenges before the World Trade Organization, are aimed at allowing the two U.S. metals industries to increase their capacity utilization rates above 80 percent for the first time in years.

Potdevin's years at Burton were dominated by two interrelated challenges that will sound familiar to Lululemon watchers: he had to grow the business.

«This year, a different challenge has sharpened: People across Europe and the U.S. have risen up and said, «We don't feel we belong, and we don't feel we're being heard,» explained Ngaire Woods, dean of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University, who moderated a panel discussion on the «Fourth Industrial Revolution» on Tuesday.

For the nine years I've spent so far at NHPF, I've found it both challenging and rewarding overseeing an organization providing quality housing for those in need.

Less than two years later however, AirAsia had turned itself around, having repaid its debt — even with the challenging travel environment it was in at the time.

MONTREAL — Valeant Pharmaceuticals faces years of legal challenges despite cutting ties with a U.S. mail - order pharmacy at the centre of a controversy about how Canada's largest publicly traded drug firm conducts its business, say industry observers and the company's second - largest shareholder.

Two years ago, at the Venture Capital Challenge organized by the famous Silicon Valley VC Draper Fischer Jurveston, the hands - down winner of the $ 250,000 prize was a new sleep - monitoring gizmo called NeuroVigil.

We're very good at launching Mario Party - type games — that's one franchise that does better in Canada than other markets, for example — but when it comes to launching new IP it's a huge challenge in today's world, where consumers are just bombarded with entertainment options that didn't exist when we first launched Mario 30 years ago.

I don't care if you've been in the same industry for years — you still do not know his unique challenges at the moment.

While working as a server, stability has frequently been a challenge for Ottawa resident Aaron Quinn, who spent seven years at a restaurant which expected him to work at least one «on - call» shift each week.

Adam Benforado (Professor of Law at Drexel University): «I think that that's one of the biggest challenges we face in the coming years is actually from the trial consulting industry.»

The Marketing Director at Braintree, the fast - growing payments platform, Leyden is a technology and fintech marketing pro who, over the past year, has also taken on the challenge of establishing marketing at Venmo, the peer to peer payments platform, where she is working on brand positioning and marketing.

But as Virgin grew through the years, so did our ideas about how to treat employees well, and how to take environmental impact into account, and by 2004, I had come to realize that we at the Virgin Group had a chance to tackle the challenges our society faces in a new, entrepreneurial way.

Last year, a team of four students from New York University's Abu Dhabi campus and I presented in front of a panel of judges at the Hult Prize, which awards $ 1 million in seed funding to innovative startup ideas that address a global social challenge.

This year, Kent declined a $ 2.5 million bonus, calling the past year at Coke «challenging.»

Everyone wants to be more global, to infuse ethics and integrity into the curriculum, to teach students to be more entrepreneurial and innovative, and to put more of a challenge into MBA programs that, at some places, have become little more than a two - year search for a better job.

Earlier this year, in his most direct comments on the issue, President Obama said in a speech at the National Cybersecurity Communications Integration Center that cyber threats pose «one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation,» and acknowledged that hacking is ongoing.

2017 will be the most challenging year yet for online marketers, as technology continues to advance at a breakneck pace.

Despite its flaws, however, the program has paid off — at least according to a 2010 study by Queen's University economics professor Roger Ware, which concluded it contributed roughly $ 2 billion a year to Canada's economy and helped ease economic challenges.

Flying with a two - year - old is challenging at the best of times.

That isn't to say they won't continue to nag at you as the years go on, or that new and varied challenges won't arise to take their place, but you'll be prepared to handle yourself in those most volatile and impactful first few months — and that puts you far ahead of the competition.

«With the modest economic recovery of the past few years, finance functions are preparing the enterprise for challenges that could materialize at any time by working to preserve margins and by sustaining a strong focus on working capital management,» said a Protiviti managing director in a release.

Apple has been at a challenging crossroads this year with sales of its flagship iPhone X disappointing many observers.

Before another Veterans Day passes, I challenge my CEO colleagues to take up the cause and mentor at least one transitioning veteran a year.

At this year's Brainstorm Tech conference, July 16 - 18 in Aspen, Colorado, we will be staging The Pitch, a contest designed to put a spotlight on the private sector's freshest and smartest solutions to the world's biggest social challenges.

When I interviewed for my flight attendant position at Pinnacle Airlines in 2010, the hiring manager slid a piece of paper across the table and told me, as if issuing challenge, «That's how much you'll make in your first year» — a fairly cinematic way of telling someone their salary is $ 15,500, though at least she was candid.

This year's Summit is shaping up to be our best to date, as we have a full slate of sessions aimed at overcoming your top challenges with actionable training, grounded in rigorous research and science.

Apple, which has been at a challenging crossroads this year with sales of its flagship iPhone X disappointing many observers, sees a revenue range of US$ 51.5 billion to US$ 53.5 billion...

«The biggest challenge is delevering, but it presents the opportunity of borrowing at a lower rate of interest,» Gross said, noting that investors must be sure that the assets they're buying this year are creditworthy and present low risk exposure.

This budget makes a substantial investment in upgrading away from diesel: $ 220 million (over 11 years) for communities south of the 60th parallel and $ 21.4 million (over four years, starting next year) for continuing an existing northern program, and a portion of a new $ 75 million «challenge» fund aimed at solving clean tech problems through innovation.

«He has done an outstanding job at Treasury and the IMF and is admirably equipped to confront the unique domestic and international challenges that will face our financial system over the coming years.»

At a higher, almost philosophical level, the government wants to disrupt the long - standing mechanics that enable a small business to both get through challenging times without resorting to layoffs or bankruptcy, and then reap their rewards during those precious, and often short, «good years.»

Given these challenging criteria, it is not terribly surprising that we have spent nearly two years at August Capital looking for just the right person.

This year's shareholder proposals filed or coordinated by NCPPR ask companies «to protect political free speech rights, but all those that have been challenged at the SEC have been omitted,» Proxy Preview elaborates.

Schwarzman Scholars is a highly selective, one - year master's program at Tsinghua University in Beijing that is designed to prepare the next generation of global leaders for the challenges of the future.

Our Grower's Technology Roundtable, which took place at Cisco's headquarters this year is another example of how we bring key stakeholders to the table to define the industry's most pressing challenges and generate field deployment opportunities in order to get new technologies to market faster.

And now there's a new challenge: Canada's inflation is rising at the fastest pace in seven years, while at the same time, the jobless rate is at the lowest in four decades and the expansion is running up against capacity.

«We have been working with our legal counsel at Dentons LLP for almost a year to ensure we are compliant with the existing securities regulations in Canada,» Pastoll said, adding that Lending Loop doesn't intend to challenge the regulatory interpretation that extending peer - to - peer loans could constitute dealing in securities.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

The winning proposal at this year's Challenge will help communities in Southeast Asia prepare for extreme weather events in the region.

This challenge is part of a year - long campaign to make 2013 the Year of Saving Money at Walmyear - long campaign to make 2013 the Year of Saving Money at WalmYear of Saving Money at Walmart.

Fighting back from that challenge is what the company was all about at this year's North American International Auto Show.

Isaacson noted Da Vinci's «willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature that foreshadowed the scientific method developed more than century later... His method was rooted in experiment, curiosity, and the ability to marvel at phenomena that the rest of us rarely pause to ponder after we've outgrown our wonder years».

«Our Steering Committee members had a challenging job of reviewing the hundreds of nominations against our Award criteria to arrive at the ballot of 166 Finalists, an unprecedented number in our 28 year history.»

And now at election time, she wants us to believe she cares about fixing the health care challenges people in Kamloops have been facing for years.»

Najib is grappling with a multi-billion-dollar scandal at state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and popular anger over rising living costs, which have given momentum to the challenge from his 92 - year - old mentor - turned - foe, Mahathir.

To call this past year challenging for the PSAC would be an understatement that our members would shake their heads at.

With five years of experience as a solicitor at commercial and property law firm M.A. Legal, Yu now manages his own firm, J2 Legal, which has a particular focus on new and emerging technology, digital, and internet - based businesses and the unique legal challenges they encounter.