Sentences with phrase «challenging than in years»

Phone calling in today's marketplace is much more challenging than in years past, but fortunately the basics never change.

That made compiling this year's best - of list a little more challenging than in years past, especially with so many popular choices relegated to honorable mentions or missing entirely.

Not exact matches

Another challenge for Jolly Time: Consumers have also gravitated more toward pre-popped, bagged popcorns in recent years rather than microwave popcorn.

More than once in the intervening years, Minhas has faced challenges she describes as anything but fair: regulatory hurdles slowing her products» spread, retail monopolies denying access to their store shelves and larger competitors muscling in on her turf.

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.

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.

It's a tougher challenge in every way: He's a year older — he'll turn 40 in less than three weeks — and, as the reigning champion, other top runners will be eyeing his every move.

Over the past 8 years, more than 100,000 people from over 100 countries have participated in Google's Online Marketing Challenge.

But investors concluded that Zuckerberg responded to the challenge better than expected, sending the company's shares up 4.5 % to $ 165, their biggest one - day gain in nearly two years.

Tesla's biggest challenge, going forward, is to avoid being such a disruptive upstart in a 100 - year - old business that it gets clobbered by the big, slow carmakers that just happen to be able to flip a switch and build hundreds of thousands of Tesla - like vehicles much faster than Tesla can build actual its cars.

With Republican efforts to «repeal and replace» Obamacare in legislative limbo, and with potentially enormous changes in federal budget outlays on the horizon, the outlook for healthcare policy is cloudier than it has been in years — adding yet another challenge to those who want to invest and innovate in this area.

Product returns are both a challenge and an opportunity for most retailers, since more than US$ 640 billion in revenue is lost each year because of preventable...

«Hiring has been more challenging in the last two years than probably the previous 10,» Ms. Kennedy said.

Other analysts are challenging that perspective, which they said was colored, in part, by the severe downturn that hit the global economy more than five years ago.

Most notably, we won the Pure Madness Challenge a mere seven months after being open, with more than 130 clients hitting the 100 club in year one and over 25 clients joining the 250 club!

It has been a challenge for me to find a retirement calculator that takes into account that we have a high savings rate, live on a lot less than our income, will have significant expenses drop off next year, and we have a large passive income investment in rental real estate.

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).

Today's challenges are different than those in 2005, and our priorities reflect the changes that are needed after ten years of Harper's Conservative government.

When she is asked what she hopes for in her life, Ms. Xiao, an upwardly mobile member of a two career family making about 60,000 RMB / year (approximately $ 10,000), wants the same things we all want: good health for her family, a steady and challenging job, a better life for her 16 - month old baby than she had.

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».

So an «upside - down out of the gates» January is more than inauspicious — it's an outright «non-starter» for risk managers in light of the performance - challenged era of the past few years.

In terms of fixed - income markets, this year is turning out to be more challenging than 2017.

My hope is that, before the current speculative episode predictably unwinds in another catastrophe, investors will learn something from my own successes and challenges over more than 30 years as a professional investor.

«Even before this crisis started to gain a foothold and grow in our province more than three years ago, individual and families afflicted with substance abuse challenges struggled to gain access to treatment.

Their better - safe - than - sorry attitude can be chalked up in part to the economic turmoil of the last few years and the unique financial challenges they face.

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

For all the challenges it faces, the Church in the U.S. is in far better condition to withstand the turbulence of the moment than it was forty years ago.

Even more than the Roman Catholic Church, Protestantism rose to the challenge and came to the year 1914 with improved morale in Western Europe, with a mounting effect on civilization, and with relatively a more extensive geographic expansion than any other branch of Christianity.

This is the mission that drives the executive team at Trust Transparency, who with more than 60 years collective experience has been through highs and lows in the supplement industry, understanding its challenges and spearheading collaborative opportunities.

Brownes proved a challenging acquisition for Archer in its early years, however the firm has spent more than $ 40 million on the business under new chief executive and turnaround veteran Tony Girgis to reframe the business for returns and growth.

«Clean label» has been a rallying cry for years, but in the Instagram age — where trends and preferences change more quickly than ever — it's difficult to pin down exactly how location, culture, age and other factors are shaping the clean label movement and creating unique challenges and opportunities.

We have a very privileged industry position, over the years we have unfortunately been privy to a number of technical / quality challenges (none more so than bottled wine but different in their occurrence).

Headquartered in La Mirada, Calif., its specialized market segments encompass six distinct distribution business units: FoodTech, Nutraceuticals, Animal Wellness, Advanced Materials, Coatings and Building Materials and Care Elements For more than 50 years, HORN's entrepreneurial approach to customer service embraces challenge and opens opportunities to reinvent and improve on traditional business models.

In a great year like 2015, the big challenge was selecting the final blend from more than 60 000 litres of very good quality wines, all of them worthy of great Vintage Port status.

When he took the job after being told that there was no chance the team would ever play.500 ball, he accepted the challenge of molding a better - than -.500 ball club — which we feel he has done in less than four years.

now wengers absurd transfer policy «is down to you people»... seriously krish n`chips... the acolytes of the delusional one are beginning to sound even more of a parody than the master himself... walcott is a very very average player with one good season in 12 years at the club... the fact that wenger hasnt sold him is part of the sorry state of our club and the idea that this can be blamed on fans who want to see us back challenging for top trophies is frankly offensive

First of all we need to assume that the people in charge behind the scenes at Arsenal FC are actually thinking about putting a new manager in charge, rather than the usual default setting of letting Arsene Wenger having yet another crack at the Premier League despite the Gunners slipping further and further away from mounting any sort of challenge in recent years.

Arsenal have now started the short run of pre-season games in preparation for the tough start to a crucial Premier League season in which the pressure on Arsene Wenger and the players to mount a serious title challenge is greater than ever after blowing what appeared to be a golden chance last time around and with the gap since our last successful campaign now more than 12 years.

This year Arsenal's squad depth is far greater than in past campaigns, but it shall still be possibly the most challenging month for Arsenal this season, at least so far.

They are certainly a lot closer than Arsenal this season, and they were last season too in fact, but they are a very long way from challenging Man City just yet, and it is still ten years since they won a trophy of any kind, so they can hardly start bragging about being a bigger team than Arsenal just yet.

Although Januzaj would be much more suited to Mourinho tactics than he was to Louis van Gaal's slow system, the 21 - year - old winger doesn't seem particularly well - placed to mount a challenge to get in United's team.

Wenger has outstayed his welcome by years and no one within the club is man enough to challenge him or put him out of his misery his tactics is non existent he dithers in the transfer market won't and refuses to budge on a transfer fee that's higher than his estimation, refuses to let his players be coached refuses to bench underperforming players, blindly overlooks the obvious time and time again, says the same thing every time we lose — «I didn't see it.

FSU's out - of - conference schedule will be much more challenging next year than it was this year, with a marquee opener in Dallas against Oklahoma State followed by semi-ACC team Notre Dame, plus annual rival Florida.

OK we have the resources and we don't spend as much, but surely now would be the best time to go out spend the dough on the players we really need and have the ability to challenge rather than stay financially cautious yet again and allow our opposition to improve again and outstrip us in the coming years.

Why the media got it for Arsenal, we bottle some games we are expected to win, proving some pundits that hates the club right time after time, games are not comfortably won, last season we had a better away record than home, We have an overall poor result against the big teams for the past 5 years, we haven't won the league for 12 years now, we haven't made a proper challenge in Europe for 10 years and on top of it we have an Owner who doesn't care about football, just the money he makes, so many reasons.

«Given the losses we had over the winter and a cut in payroll, the challenge to build a championship - caliber team was more daunting than in past years,» says general manager John Schuerholz, who was ordered in the off - season by owner Time Warner (also SI's parent company) to slash last season's $ 95 million payroll by $ 15 million.

It's come to feel like Cyborg was treading water for the last 5 - 7 years waiting for a suitable challenge to show up, with more action regarding ethics, weight, twitter meats, org politics and the occasional #runningmanchallenge than actual in - ring beyond - the - asswhooping interestingness.

I get the feeling the board would be happy to avoid relegation every year rather than challenge for the top 4 trophy and save the hundreds of millions in player purchases and wages

Ohio State has earned the impressive reputation of being «one of the teams with the best chance to challenge Alabama this year», but before they get there they'll (likely) have to establish themselves as the best team in the Big Ten, a feat perhaps easier said than done.

We have stuck with too many average players for long time.we have not won a premier league trophy for a decade now we should be more hungry to win the league than man city, they have enough resources to challenge every year and win the trophy once in a while.