Sentences with phrase «challenging than in years past»

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

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

During Biel's appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert this past fall, Colbert — in true Colbert form — warned her that 3 - year - olds can be even more of a challenge than 2 - year - olds.

This New Year, while unique in the challenges that we face in the aftermath of an economic downturn, is not unlike years past when we set goals and hope that it is better than the year we leYear, while unique in the challenges that we face in the aftermath of an economic downturn, is not unlike years past when we set goals and hope that it is better than the year we leyear we leave.

Pan: You know we have a total number — I think more than a dozen different environmental activists have been imprisoned in China over the past several years for challenging local officials who were polluting.

The suit — filed by more than 40 plaintiffs on May 12 in Pensacola, Fla. — challenges several actions taken over the past year by the local school board and the district's superintendent, Leonard Hall.

While more than 13 schools have either launched or expanded school voucher and tax credit programs in the past two years, efforts by National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers affiliates to shut them down, either by voter referendums (as in Florida) or through lawsuits, are reminders of the challenges to expanding choice that remain.

Despite slow revenue growth in a challenging IT environment, the company's earnings have more than doubled over the past five years.

Joyce said that the key takeaway for investors is that it's not too late to take steps to shape your portfolio in preparation for a period where the markets will be more challenging than they have been over the past few years.

HUD has tightened FHA loan requirements with stricter FHA guidelines that have made qualifying with FHA for challenging for borrower than it was in the past few years.

I will admit that practice management is a challenge and that my practice has really grown in the past year, and I want more people to retain me fully than to pay me one hour at a time.

A great AMOLED screen, the latest processor from Qualcomm, some of the fastest connectivity in the business, and a consistently excellent camera will surely challenge the iPhone 5s in the right places, but more so than in years past the Galaxy S5 sees Samsung playing catch up.

To obtain a challenging posistion, utilizing abilities developed through my experience and past training, with the opportunity for growth based on performance.Dependable and hard - working with more than 18 years in the construction industry and oil and gas industry.

While we can't change difficult situations of the past, as a qualified Marriage and Family Therapist with more than 20 years of experience, I work with you to better understand and resolve the challenges you face, and create more love and peace in your life.

Challenges: 1 - wholesale prices are higher than in the past 4 years.