Sentences with phrase «challenging year on»

By any measure, 2016 has been a challenging year on all fronts and the UK legal sector has been affected like any other.

«Last year was kind of a unique and challenging year on a lot of different levels including looking at and reviewing the Regents,» said Senate education committee chair John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican and prominent member of his conference.

My team were never challenging for the Premier League title when I began to follow them, and the joy I would experience when they would reach an unlikely cup final was immense, so I'm sorry if I don't feel any remorse for a fan who only followed a team when they were one of only two top sides challenging year on year, before enjoying an unbeatable Invincibles campaign in only his third term of supporting the side.

Not exact matches

I was working on creating an indoor, year - round space for a farmer's market, and through that I heard about the challenges wholesale buyers face in sourcing local food.

In the key swing state of Ohio, Ted Strickland was elected governor as a pro-gun Democrats in 2006, but largely reversed his views on guns before challenging incumbent Sen. Rob Portman this year.

As to the question of when he and his party will develop a broad and substantive legislative platform to tackle the critical challenges America faces, McConnell has a ready answer as well: «If we're in the majority,» he says, «we'll be sitting down, intensely, a year from now on the very issue you've raised.»

«This year, a different challenge has sharpened: People across Europe and the U.S. have risen up and said, «We don't feel we belong, and we don't feel we're being heard,» explained Ngaire Woods, dean of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University, who moderated a panel discussion on the «Fourth Industrial Revolution» on Tuesday.

As he puts it: «I'd like to CHALLENGE every woman in tech who's a) got a nice care, b) owns a nice house, or c) is making over $ 125K a year to start thinking of themselves as the next Ron Conway or Esther Dyson in the making and commit to investing in startups...» I'll forgive him for the poor grammar, ditto for the wisecrack a couple of paragraphs later about how some of us might have spent $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 on our MBAs... or our wardrobes.

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.

For many years while I worked for Exxon Mobil their slogan was, «Taking on the World's Toughest Energy Challenges».

(DHX now produces 22 Minutes, which is in its 21st season; Donovan has previously said he'd like 22 Minutes to break Front Page Challenge's on - air record of 37 years.)

In June 2014, however, Target Canada released its apology on YouTube, which featured employees and executives reflecting on the challenges of the first year and confessing to their sins.

If you're one of them, and you have expertise in, say, one or two areas, the broad range of questions you must answer — with little or no prior experience to draw on — burdens those first few years of running a business with challenges.

On a full - year basis, 2013 same - store sales growth of 1.1 % in the Canadian segment was below our original target range of 2 % to 4 %; we believe this was due to ongoing challenging economic conditions and increased competitive intensity in our industry.

But on Monday, McDonald's reported a comparable sales decline of 1.3 % in the U.S., which the company said reflected «the challenging comparison against the prior year launch of the very successful All - Day Breakfast.»

My challenge was that I got bored about every three years and wanted to move on to something different.

I find this fascinating, because one of the biggest challenges I've confronted as a founder over the last few years has been changing my mind, when I have a realization and I become inconsistent on a thought I previously had.

«While March proved challenging, we remain focused on taking the necessary steps to improve results across the portfolio throughout the year,» Gap CFO Sabrina Simmons said.

Sure, living in a confined space for a year, missing your family, and dealing with giant urine - acid balls has to be challenging, but on the other hand Kelly was in space!

For years different groups of Native Americans have challenged the continued registration of the trademark on the grounds that it is, effectively, a derogatory racial slur.

While working as a server, stability has frequently been a challenge for Ottawa resident Aaron Quinn, who spent seven years at a restaurant which expected him to work at least one «on - call» shift each week.

The precious metals group also stated that it expected 2018 to be «a challenging year,» with comment on costs and inflationary pressures.

A Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has ruled that a challenge to the state's 145 - year - old ban on prostitution may proceed, saying a 2003 Supreme Court ruling opened the door for closer scrutiny of the law.

The Marketing Director at Braintree, the fast - growing payments platform, Leyden is a technology and fintech marketing pro who, over the past year, has also taken on the challenge of establishing marketing at Venmo, the peer to peer payments platform, where she is working on brand positioning and marketing.

«It may take Las Vegas or Austin 25 years to challenge northern California as an incubator of new technology, but they are working on it.

This will offset the impact of market conditions which remain challenging in the near term, contributing to lower (year - on - year) underlying revenue.

However, to highlight the challenges in bringing new copper production on quickly, consider the project's timeline: Constancia has been almost 20 years in the making.

And the NTSB has listed distracted driving — everything from cell phones to in - dash systems and other hands - free devices — on its 2014 «Most Wanted» list, which identifies the year's biggest transportation challenges.

Fortune spoke with 25 - year pharmaceutical vet Ramona Sequeira, president of Takeda's U.S. business unit since 2015, on the challenges of adapting an international pharma company to the U.S. healthcare and reimbursement system and the firm's America - centric business plans.

With the national spotlight finally on them in a New Year's Day bowl game, look for the Tigers to step up to the challenge.

On Monday the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) put out a call to innovators for its annual Grand Challenge, and this year, the theme of the challenge is «Securing Water for FooChallenge, and this year, the theme of the challenge is «Securing Water for Foochallenge is «Securing Water for Food.»

«Cloudera has built its partner strategy out very well over the last year, and this is a key win, challenging the exclusivity Hortonworks seemed to have achieved in the nascent Hadoop - on - Windows world — one that is untapped so far but will become very large,» says Gartner analyst Merv Adrian, addressing Cloudera's pacts with Microsoft.

Earlier this year, in his most direct comments on the issue, President Obama said in a speech at the National Cybersecurity Communications Integration Center that cyber threats pose «one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation,» and acknowledged that hacking is ongoing.

But, given the Security and Exchange Commission's lifting last week of an 80 year ban on «general solicitation,» which prohibited entrepreneurs from publicly discussing private investment offerings, these two archetypal entrepreneurs shed light on the challenges entrepreneurs seeking funds face and how, for some of them, the ban's lifting might be transformative.

«[Companies] used to be able to do the same thing for years on end, but today if you do the same thing, you're going to be faced with significant business challenges,» he says.

This year, DentsuBos in Toronto is creating an all - nighter event on Friday to combat mental illness dubbed the Darkness to Light challenge.

Some of Pershing's challenges over the past three years included a $ 4 billion loss on its stake in Valeant Pharmaceuticals.

As we close the book on the silver anniversary of CNBC, the company's digital arm is looking ahead to the next 25 years and the trends, challenges and innovations that will define that era.

So when Moment heard last year about an opportunity to work on an airport that could calm its passengers, they were intrigued by the challenge.

That isn't to say they won't continue to nag at you as the years go on, or that new and varied challenges won't arise to take their place, but you'll be prepared to handle yourself in those most volatile and impactful first few months — and that puts you far ahead of the competition.

The experience of launching one of your first businesses reminds me of the stunts and challenges I have embarked on over the years to promote Virgin and put our businesses on the map.

The end of the year is a great time to reflect on the company's performance, talk about challenges and accomplishments and plan for the year ahead.

Their «No Ceilings Full Participation Report» identifies the significant gains women have made and the challenges that remain in the 20 years since the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing — where then - first lady Clinton called on the international community to ensure «women's rights are human rights.»

The year ahead will pose new challenges for them, not just on technological fronts, but also because of the new geo - political order dawning.

«With the modest economic recovery of the past few years, finance functions are preparing the enterprise for challenges that could materialize at any time by working to preserve margins and by sustaining a strong focus on working capital management,» said a Protiviti managing director in a release.

After spending 10 years behind the camera watching survivalist Bear Grylls overcome challenging conditions and teach crucial survival skills on shows like «Man vs. Wild» and «Running Wild with Bear Grylls,» Paul Mungeam, who goes by «Mungo,» has learned how to stay alive in the wilderness.

At this year's Brainstorm Tech conference, July 16 - 18 in Aspen, Colorado, we will be staging The Pitch, a contest designed to put a spotlight on the private sector's freshest and smartest solutions to the world's biggest social challenges.

Once a year, there is also an optional six - week fitness challenge led by a personal trainer, whereby participants don FitBits and report their eating regimens on a private Facebook page.

He sees Transcontinental growing Coveris» business, which had been hurt by the challenges of spending US$ 140 million of capital spending on new equipment over three years.

Nate Kontny, an entrepreneur, discusses the importance of luck in his success: «I got lucky a writer with a lot of clout took interest in my project — interest that started because he once worked on a similar project seven years prior, so he understood the challenges I was addressing.