Sentences with phrase «began as a challenge»

It had begun as a challenge match — the boys of East 32nd Street, where I lived, against the boys of East 33rd.

Volta began as a challenge to what an art fair could be, but what happens when its challenge succeeds?

What began as a challenge to ZECs could likely prove the first skirmish in a lengthy battle, one that may reach its final resolve in the Supreme Court.

Not exact matches

Stephens faced challenges as well, including taking on a product - architecture design that was larger in scale and complexity than what was envisioned at the beginning, and growing a culture that fits today's needs in a highly competitive marketplace for talent.

But with this news also comes a challenge, as this only marks the beginning of our journey, not the end.

Many workers, who are just beginning their careers and work multiple part - time jobs, face this challenge as well.

As a result of what Daniels calls The Corporate Wellness Challenge, employees can afford a personal trainer and learn how to begin living a healthier life.

From beginning my career on the manufacturing floor of Mars Drinks in the UK to taking the reins as president of Mars Chocolate North America, each role I've held has differed from the last — and has challenged me in new and exciting ways.

She began working as soon as she was old enough, as a babysitter, waitress, table busser and switch - board operator — «name a crappy job [and] I've done it,» she jokes — and when her grades remained near - perfect despite all those extracurricular activities, she switched to a more challenging private school.

I thus began to long for a life as something other than a business owner, looking to sate my appetite for a new kind of challenge.

As Lal, Alvarez, and Greenberg point out in Retail Revolution, PetSmart faced a challenge when pet food suppliers began selling their products on various e-commerce sites, not to mention at Walmart, supermarkets, and other non-pet-specific places.

As I begin another chapter in my life, I leave feeling fulfilled with what we have accomplished as a government and a country during one of the most challenging economic periods in our country's historAs I begin another chapter in my life, I leave feeling fulfilled with what we have accomplished as a government and a country during one of the most challenging economic periods in our country's historas a government and a country during one of the most challenging economic periods in our country's history.

Finance Minister Philip Hammond welcomed the rate cut and said he and Carney had «the tools we need to support the economy as we begin this new chapter and address the challenges ahead.»

Concerns the banking sector is headed towards more challenging times didn't appear to be quite as evident as some analysts had anticipated before the quarterly reports began earlier this week.

After the decision, the Baltimore office of the public defender began reviewing hundreds of cases which hinged on StingRay technology, all of which could potentially be challenged as a result of the Maryland court ruling.

When taken together, it's clear Netflix is beginning to acknowledge the challenging economics of producing original content, just as we warned in April 2016.

In fact, Xi has begun to cast China as a defender of economic globalization and inclusivity, as well as a leader in combating global challenges, like climate change.14 Unlike Russia's willingness to take large risks, China's approach is generally cautious, reflecting its desire to safeguard its economic interests.

Over the past few years, countries such as China, Russia, Iran, and Brazile, Russia, India, and China, and South Africa (the BRICS nations) have begun to pose a challenge to the current system, forming pacts to transact oil in local currencies, bypassing the petro - dollar.

Affordability may only have recently begun to hit a pinch point, though, as a recent stronger increase in mortgage rates seems certain to provide additional challenges to homebuyers this spring.

Adding to the challenges, volatility is likely to rise as the Fed begins to normalize monetary conditions.

One big challenge for swing traders right now is that volume levels in the broad market will likely begin heavily receding next week, as we approach the Christmas holiday.

The trials and tribulations that have tested the retail market, like over-retailing sparking more competition and the rise of e-commerce such as with online ordering — are beginning to present complex challenges for restaurants trying to turn tables.

We think these are more temporary effects, and over the course of the next month or so, the market trends may begin to reverse course as people realize this is a long - term challenge for the eurozone.

By challenging ride - sharing pioneers like Uber and Lyft Inc., as well as traditional taxis, Google is providing the clearest indication yet how it plans to make money from self - driving automotive technologies that it began testing in 2009.

What began last March as a high - profile challenge has ended with Tesla winning a contract to deliver the world's biggest grid - scale battery within 100...

As the financial crisis waned and the emergency lending programs were wound down, the Fed chairman faced a new challenge: A recovery hobbled by tight credit, a lackluster housing market and financial turmoil in Europe that left the unemployment rate at 9.1 percent two years after the expansion began.

If I may be allowed a rejoinder, as per the usual debating protocol, I would begin by commenting that the authority of the Church's Magisterium can hardly be challenged by an article in L'Osservatore Romano.

But in the last three years, as I have begun to question and challenge certain elements of how we «do church,» I decided to seriously examine Isaiah 28:10 - 13 for the first time in my life.

Anyhoo, as I stated at the beginning of this post, it certainly is an interesting subject about which to speculate as the scientific data continues to challenge our traditional understanding on this highly personal as well as socially important subject.

The transition comes in the midst of a time of reinvention for InterVarsity, as campuses across the country begin to challenge the faith groups» belief requirements for leaders.

From the personal interviews at the beginning to internships to feedback through the year, we were constantly challenged to look at how God wired us as leaders.

The idea that Catholic just war teaching begins with a «presumption against war,» more recently phrased as «a strong presumption against the use of force,» first appears in the United States bishops» widely read 1983 pastoral letter, The Challenge of Peace.

Though many quarters within the churches are only beginning to catch on, the structures, assumptions of patriarchy and rote responses have long ago fallen away - of necessity - in secular life, and I write this as a post-Christian-christian, a post-Anglican-anglican, which can be a pretty raw and challenging if interesting place to be at times.

When government officials begin to say such things, as ours clearly have, then that is the time for challenge, because when a government does that, it is beginning to play God over our lives, and the taste of such identification is a very heady thing.

Connie discovered her inner strength as she became more aware of her limited life, and Steve discovered his as she began to challenge their lifestyle.

has already been seriously challenged by speculations about how the Big Bang might have begun, by thinkers such as Hawkin.

Most of these lectures aim at bringing the insights of Hinduism and Buddhism closer to Indian and Western Christians as well as philosophers, to deepen their understanding of faith and expand it to other forms of belief.43 His anthology «The Vedic Experience» which has been accepted and respected by many Hindus, tries to present texts from the Veda and the Upanishads in such a way that they become open towards other beliefs and transparent for the depth of faith.44 An important aspect of his literary production, already central at the beginning, but gaining prominence again lately, has been to address a Western public that faces the challenge of having to seek its religious identity and not being able to take it for granted.

The challenge of our day is for the pastor to see his job as enabler and to begin to train laymen for the more challenging task of community mental health workers.

Ever since the scientific revolution and the age of reason began to dominate the intellectual life of the West there have been important thinkers who have challenged as unscientific and irrational both the idea of God and the notion of revelation.

Earliest Christianity began as a renewal movement within Judaism brought into being through Jesus.22 The examples of Jesus, his radical and revolutionary action against the Jewish social and religious norms, indeed became a challenge to women and for women in their ministry.23 His attitude to women is one that is radical particularly when viewed in the light of his historical context.

After explaining how Elijah (the captain calls him Isaac), as «the only Presbyterian», challenged all the prophets of Baal to a contest to see whose God could cause an altar to ignite, the captain turns to the contest itself, beginning with the prophets of Baal:

When the American tradition of evangelism insists on using this metaphor for the entrance to faith, it tends to misrepresent that entrance, to malign people who have already begun the journey of faith as disciples, and to deprive the church of the challenge to mature which the original thrust of the metaphor offers.

God began to nudge me toward writing on this topic as a ministry to others and a challenge and encouragement to the church.

As we as human kind begin to find out more about the universe, both areas continue to be challengeAs we as human kind begin to find out more about the universe, both areas continue to be challengeas human kind begin to find out more about the universe, both areas continue to be challenged.

Each will examine the beginnings, aims and accomplishments of this informal ecumenical endeavor as well as revisit ECT's central focus in light of more deeply entrenched and aggressive cultural challenges to Christianity.

The challenge of our day, however, is for the pastor to see his job as enabler and to begin to train laymen for the more challenging task of community mental health workers.

As the Palestinian peasant, after sowing, trusts to God and waits for the moment of harvest, so the man who recognizes the challenge of the activity of God in the ministry of Jesus must learn the lesson of patient waiting, in sure confidence that what has been sown will be reaped, that what God has begun he will bring to a triumphant conclusion.

I am beginning a new life as a widow and cooking healthfully for one is a challenge.

I write you because this diet began as a personal challenge.

Though Reno has begun to take off, the memories of the Great Recession remain fresh for Moritz, who believes those challenging times serve as motivation to outperform its competition.