Sentences with phrase «biggest hurdle at»

The biggest hurdle at this point was that only one observatory, Parkes, had ever seen the flashes.

It was her view that the biggest hurdle at this time was getting companies investor ready and through their due diligence process.

The company advertised their system as easy to use — which was a big hurdle at the time.

He admits one of the bigger hurdles at the moment is how the company would go about monetizing the game.

The company wants to make real estate investing as easy as investing in stocks, a common industry refrain, but a big hurdle at present is that only accredited investors - those with at least $ 1 million in assets excluding their home - can invest in the online marketplaces that connect borrowers with investors.

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And the bigger hurdle might be luring customers who don't have insurance at all.

Though Portugal is one of the fastest growing euro zone economies, problems with non-performing loans and high debt among businesses, individuals and government are a big hurdle - mainly at a time when the government's strategy is focused on consumer spending.

But the first three months of the year could be the biggest hurdle for the small companies to clear, Abhishek Deshpande, an oil markets analyst at Natixis, explained.

The younger Ertz is indicative of perhaps the biggest hurdle facing Vicis at this point: NFL players are free to choose their own helmet brands and, like a lot of top athletes, are also creatures of habit.

The biggest hurdle, of course, is what is seen as the future of investing: a dramatic turn toward complex computer algorithms and artificial intelligence - and away from the human touch, the instincts and the judgment honed over decades that once put Miller at the top of the heap.

So someone from Chicago can drive across the border — to Indiana or to other places with lax gun laws — and buy a gun without any of the big legal hurdles he would face at home.

The biggest hurdle I've noticed in theological discussions is at the least one party comes to the table with the mindset that they are elect / saved and the other party is reprobate.

Arsene Wenger himself has a big hurdle to overcome with his managerial record against Jose Mourinho, but the team themselves also have an awful record with games at Old Trafford, in fact we have to go back ten years for the last time we walked away with all three points in the League.

At the moment, he's one of our biggest hurdles.

The draw for the hurling qualifiers takes place on Monday, June 26 — and with some of the biggest teams in the country having fallen at the provincial hurdle, it seems as if we could be looking at the most wide - open championship in years.

Manu had lost Tevez and Ronaldo, the dippers were totally reliant on the fitness of Gerrard and Torres and the chavs, well that one was always going to be the biggest hurdle to get over but nevertheless, I put my faith in my optimism and arrived at the conclusion that we were going to win the league.

One big hurdle that it often throws at me is hospitalization, and I'm facing that right now.

Luckily those were my biggest hurdles and we overcame them one day at time.

I suppose the biggest hurdle to overcome, is the fact that she can now get out of bed and come out of the room or play in her room (in fact, I have a friend whose four year old boy used to get up at 3 am and do puzzles and play games in his room!)

(At the time, the two Democrats who flew the coup, Hiram Monserrate and Pedro Espada Jr., cited the majority leader, Malcolm Smith, as part of their motivation for leaving the conference, and also a big hurdle preventing their return).

The bigger hurdle to realizing the study's vision of a national grid, however, may be persuading policymakers, utilities investors, and landowners that it's a good idea, says Susan Tierney, a former U.S. assistant secretary of energy under President Clinton who's currently an energy consultant at the Analysis Group in Boston.

«That's one of the biggest hurdles faced by the mitochondria - first scenario,» said Eugene Koonin, an evolutionary biologist at the National Center for Biotechnology Information in Bethesda, Md..

«The biggest hurdle is cost,» said Arumugam Manthiram, director of the Texas Materials Institute at the University of Texas, Austin.

The two biggest hurdles in developing the Vulture are choosing the best energy source to power the vehicle and well - constructed sturdy components that will last at least five years.

The biggest hurdle is cost: At present, electricity from fuel cells costs four times more than the juice from your wall outlet.

Stiff competition for a stiff material «The biggest hurdles are cost, throughput and recycling,» said Ross Kozarsky, senior analyst at Lux Research, a technology research and advisory firm.

The most advanced candidate vaccine for malaria has cleared another major hurdle and is now ready for its last and biggest test: a phase III trial of 12,000 to 16,000 children at 11 locations in seven African countries.

The biggest hurdle, she said, is understanding what the grid operators need, and making sure the right people get the information at the right time.

«The biggest hurdle will be conducting safety trials in the most important target population — women who are pregnant or planning pregnancies,» said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute.

However, the biggest hurdle with people trying to adopt a real food style of cooking at home is actually using a liberal amount of saturated fat to really round out their recipes.

Unfortunately, the biggest hurdle in obtaining helpful feedback on your thyroid is usually your doctor, who will declare your thyroid status normal usually by just looking only at TSH and seeing whether it is in the «reference range» quoted by the laboratory — if he / she even bothers to check it at all.

However, that splashy debut is being met with a big hurdle that might cut short the streaming platform's future at the festival.

Law, not tech, has always been the single biggest barrier to autonomous vehicles gaining approval for use on public roads, but it seems that even that hurdle has been at least partially removed.

One of the reasons manga doesn't have the same broad reach in the west as it does in Japan is the difference in how series garner eyeballs — few in any market have time to look at every single manga coming out in a given month, so putting a large faction of people into a place where they will try a series out for one chapter is a big - ass hurdle.

One of the biggest criticisms thrown the way of its Star Wars - themed multiplayer shooter, and one of the biggest hurdles it's faced since its announcement, is that it didn't feel very much like Battlefront at all.

On such efforts at climate management, I see the big questions mainly relating to the diplomatic hurdles.

One of the biggest hurdles to covering the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was actually getting a good look at the oil.

One of those steps, ensuring that efficiency goals are effectively communicated at every level of the organization, is precisely what Jack is suggesting is such a big hurdle for lawyers.

In the US, at least, the Apple ecosystem platform lock - in is real and a big hurdle to jump.

Giving people a reason to do that is arguably just as big of a hurdle, but it could at least explain away some of Amazon's absurd process here.

If Apple can overcome these technical hurdles and make wireless charging easy to use at home and on the go, it could give the iPhone a big advantage in the next stage of the smartphone wars.

Online job postings yield the lowest ROI and one of the biggest job search hurdles is the dreaded Applicant Tracking System (ATS) that employers use to screen candidates.

«The consumer is driving the home search process, so the biggest hurdle is inspiring engaged consumers to view listings of interest,» says Mele, who explains that once a consumer looking at a Homes.com search result wants more information, they simply click through to the listing detail page where the listing agent displays prominently and Local Connect displays up to three additional advertisers, as well as photos, pricing and local information.

One of the big hurdles for Matt was the fact that we live out of state, this did not phase him at all.

«NAR research shows that saving for a down payment is the biggest hurdle to homeownership for many first - time buyers, who have been entering the market at lower than normal rates.