«Lower oil prices continue to
be a significant challenge across the business, and the outlook remains uncertain,» van Beurden said.
«It appears there
are significant challenges to ensuring that Bitcoin's growth minimizes environmental impacts,» offered Jeremy McDaniels, a financial system sustainability expert with the UNEP.
Data from the National Skills Coalition found that «skill gaps among U.S. service sector workers
are a significant challenge that often prevents people from achieving their full potential.
Developing sustainable packaging solutions can
be a significant challenge for organic beauty brands.
Meller told The Australian Financial Review that while life insurance has
been a significant challenge, its wealth management business had grown 9 per cent, investment management 10 per cent, the New Zealand business 14 per cent and AMP Bank 17 per cent.
Gender inequality
is a significant challenge within the cocoa sector.
It's a significant challenge.
Also, the Spaniard's contract will expire at the end of the 2013 - 14 season, and finding other expiring deals would
be a significant challenge.
Trustee selection is really proving to
be a significant challenge for families who are trying to set up trusts.
Once your child reaches 8 - months - old and is crawling all over the living room, it will
be a significant challenge to shower or fold laundry, and you might run to the store to research exersaucers.
There
are significant challenges to raising multiples, some of which have been recently discussed in this ASRM publication raising multiples.pdf
Teething
is a significant challenge not only for the little one, but also for the whole family.
For example, in the case of Heathrow, there have
been significant challenges to creating an appropriate rail link to the west of Heathrow airport so currently all freight to and from Heathrow is by road.
Graham acknowledges that there
are significant challenges to overcome when it comes to doing something in the mould of Aaron Sorkin's acclaimed political drama over here.
It is a significant challenge for investigators to build a picture of the system as it was.
«While there
are significant challenges ahead, we're eager to open a productive dialogue to steer to the county toward a structurally sound and balanced budget,» NIFA Chairman Adam Barsky said.
«This report demonstrates that there is, ah, there
are significant challenges for the City of Albany because of the fact that we don't get our fair share of aid.
Getting seniors to come forward
is a significant challenge.
«A patchwork of spin - ups and one - time one - shots has really helped to maintain our solvency from year to year,» Sheehan said, «but at this point the structural deficit of $ 12.5 million is real, and
it is a significant challenge to the City of Albany.»
Still, there
are significant challenges ahead.
The community college system represents a potential source of student diversity for medical schools and physicians who will serve poor communities; however, there
are significant challenges to enhancing the pipeline from community colleges to four - year universities to medical schools.
Solving this puzzle
was a significant challenge and also involved the team of Nikolaus Grigorieff at HHMI's Janelia campus.
While proof - of - concept experiments have been promising, there have
been significant challenges to printing highly integrated circuits using silver nanowires.
Dr Stephen Simpson, director research and programmes at the charity Arthritis Research UK said: «We know that for some people with chronic low back pain psychological stress is a major factor, and therefore there
is a significant challenge to find effective treatments.
«Their high transparency facilitates observation of the biochemistry process, which
is a significant challenge for liquid marbles,» says Li.
Building a sensor that could detect such small signals
was a significant challenge, says University of Colorado, Boulder's Viliam Klein, who worked on the balloon project.
«But for now, there
are some significant challenges.»
The increasing use of the internet by wildlife traders, especially those involved in illegal trade,
is a significant challenge to conservation of traded species especially those in niche markets.
«Tuning the optical properties of metamaterials
is a significant challenge, and our study achieves one of the highest tunability ranges achieved to date in optical metamaterials,» said Aydin, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at McCormick.
Creating nanoscale heat sources
was a significant challenge: Lasers can only be focused to a spot the size of the light's wavelength, about one micron — more than 10 times the length of the mean free path in some phonons.
Interpretation of genome sequencing data
is a significant challenge because of the volume of genomic data to sift through, as well as the large, growing body of research on molecular drivers of cancer and potential targeted therapies.
Considering that today's electric vehicle batteries are in the 170 - 200 watt - hours per kilogram range,
this is a significant challenge.
The detected dust is more massive and often hotter than our own zodiacal dust which
is a significant challenge to explain its presence.
Given that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has a total sea level equivalent of 3.3 m1, with 1.5 m from Pine Island Glacier alone4, marine ice sheet collapse could
be a significant challenge for future generations, with major changes in rates of sea level rise being possible within just the next couple of hundred years.
Maintaining data quality (DQ) for an organization with the size and complexity of the ARM Climate Research Facility
is a significant challenge, and is managed by the ARM Data Quality Office.
A technology to produce fuels from sunlight would be transformative, but there
are significant challenges which need to be overcome in making the transition from current laboratory prototypes to commercial systems.
This is not to discourage the prospective swimmer - it is indeed possible to have a strong bench press and swim long distances, however
it is a significant challenge to manage and can require very careful planning and routine modification.
Some gay, bi, or curious men aren't out, loud, and proud, so dating can
be a significant challenge for them.
Portraying a character from age 25 to 45
was a significant challenge, Cumberbatch says — as was capturing the attitude and vocal mannerisms specific to Patrick's class: «I went to a very posh public school, second to Eton, yet I had only one friend from the landed gentry.
Challenges included: Measures for exemption needed; There
is a significant challenge in selecting an appropriate test at the outset; A single test measuring a single skill will not be valuable or productive, not flexible enough to meet the needs of teachers or students; Don't want to overtest students; Parents / teachers may be sceptical or unhappy with additional testing.
However there
is a significant challenge to make sure that the quality of provision for young learners is paramount.
For many learning designers like Georgia, Online Project Producer at the Open University, there
are significant challenges when it comes to working with others on an eLearning project:
Depending on a school's position before they enter academy status for some, managing their own finances and meeting the demands of legislation may
be a significant challenge.
Those would
be significant challenges were there no competition, but ACT has made no secret of its intention to seek states» Common Core assessment contracts — and Alabama may turn out to be the first of many to sign up.
For those colleagues in particular, there may
be significant challenges in getting to grips with all that the reform agenda will introduce from September 2014
Like many who grow up in urban centers, navigating the educational system can
be a significant challenge.
«Reaching a million Welsh speakers by 2050
is a significant challenge.
This is not a significant issue in a large district like the Jackson Public School District, but
this is a significant challenge for those communities in lesser populated areas who want to create a charter school.
The limits inherent in field experiences
are significant challenges to teacher educators in preservice teachers» preparation.
We've done some good work individualizing data by student so we can adjust instruction to meet individual needs, but finding this time during contract hours has
been a significant challenge.