Sentences with phrase «difficult every year as»

With astonishing candor and grace, Jillian chronicles how her first difficult years as a mother allowed her to shine a more empathetic and compassionate light on her relationship her own estranged father.

In our school district, this becomes more difficult each year as we struggle with issues that, being rooted in racial factors, become ever more complex.

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«For most of the last 80 years, venture as an asset class has been really difficult for the average investor to get in, unless you are a high net worth individual, unless you get the deal flow, you are part of an angel group or you invest into VCs, you just didn't have access into this asset class,» Wang says.

But while history may also be on the Democrats» side — the party in power often loses Congressional seats after a President's first two years in office, even when that President is not as controversial as the current occupant — they actually face a very difficult Senate map.

«It became too difficult to turn a profit last year, so I closed the canteen and went to find work as a cook,» said Zhang, who left Bianqiang village 14 years ago.

But, don't forget that narrative thread: When you have spent years devoting energy to creating, developing and finally launching a new product or service, you may find it difficult to turn past your company's «page» and look at its story as a whole.

That could prove a difficult task, as tax - writing committees have not yet introduced a bill and lawmakers face multiple other deadlines before the end of the year.

Sobolewski, who has been in the police about 14 years, said progress was being made but it was a difficult as traffickers often target the most vulnerable people who are lured with false promises of well - paid jobs.

«I worked at Google for 3 years and it was very difficult to leave but there was one major factor that helped me make the decision - the impact I could ever have on the business as an individual was minimal.

However, altering the minimum wage every year based on average wages or realized inflation rates is difficult in practice, as there is a lag in collecting that data.

This year we will see this debate unfold as the rental industry becomes more difficult to navigate.

An additional day's vacation comes as an rare bright spot for Heinz Kraft employees, who've endured a difficult few years.

The world's biggest smartphone maker kept its full - year investment plan conservative and warned it would be difficult to increase earnings in the first quarter as demand pulls back from the year - end holiday period.

45 % of digital marketers plan to hire more social media personnel this year, which may prove difficult, as 80 % say it is difficult to find qualified social marketing candidates.

Likening critical CEO capabilities, such as giving difficult feedback, to learning the unnatural motion of lifting your back foot first in boxing, he claims «it generally takes years for a founder to develop the CEO skill set.»

As Harvard Law professor Jack Goldsmith pointed out in an essay earlier this year on the Lawfare site, it is extremely difficult — and perhaps even impossible — to draw a meaningful distinction between what the New York Times does and what WikiLeaks does.

It is difficult to integrate people back into the workplace after they have been unemployed for a year or longer, so ideally we want to ensure that unemployment durations are as short as possible.

This year brought the franchise industry some impressive highs, like the increasing growth of new jobs, and some difficult lows, such as the ongoing fast - food worker strikes.

Revenue forecasting can be especially difficult in your first few years of business because you don't have past sales figures or as much experience to draw from.

Interest rates will inevitably rise, as the Bank of Canada keeps pointing out, and the federal government has instituted numerous changes over the past few years that will make a home purchase more difficult for first - time buyers.

Raitt's three - year timeline to fully dispose of older DOT - 111A tankers (and immediate phase - out of 5,000 of the most vulnerable cars) is going to be a difficult one to meet given the existing capacity for suppliers to build new tankers, as well as the desire of oil and gas companies to continue the exponential increases in oil - by - rail shipments into the future.

Modi is coming to China as efforts at rapprochement gather pace following a difficult year in ties between the two neighbors.

It started as a print publication in 1988 and then successfully moved to the web, but it has found it difficult to generate revenue as the online advertising market has changed over the past few years.

We deliberately built them out to make sure that we've got a diversified business, because when I set my budgets every year — or when my budgets are set — it is pretty difficult to prognosticate with 100 % accuracy as to which industries it is going to come from.

These economic factors, as well as the rapidly evolving retail landscape, make it difficult to forecast accurately over a three - year period.

However, attempting to hit a single year deficit / surplus target is extremely difficult, as it is influenced by many factors outside the control of the government, most notably by economic developments.

Product development last year was muted as low interest rates made it difficult for companies to tweak lifetime guarantee withdrawals, step up benefits and the adjust fees charged by insurers.

However, this year three Edison Awards finalists are looking to help parents with this difficult task as well as promoting the health and wellness of your tiny mini-me.

It is difficult to model the many ways credit intensivity of growth can change, but if we simply assume that there is no improvement except as growth slows, so that the ratio between credit growth and GDP growth stays constant, the table below shows debt levels at the end of ten years at different GDP growth rates:

Lower year - over-year increases in gas prices, as well as more difficult comps resulted in slightly lower card sales growth than in the prior quarter year - over-year increase.

That is difficult to say, but my view is that the data we have seen so far most likely reflect a temporary pause in this quarter, following unexpectedly strong growth in the fourth quarter of 2017 — and as a consequence, we will probably continue to see solid consumption growth over the balance of this year.

An awesome performance this year and, as difficult as it may have been, it must have been a cool experience to have over $ 2M to invest at one time.

As for myself I have hit all of my goals thus far this year which leads me to think that I made it to easy on myself and need to make it more difficult next year, or better yet upgrade this year's goals.

2016.03.11 Canadian Economy Faces Challenges and Opportunities in 2016: RBC Economics 2015 marked a difficult year for the Canadian economy and the challenges are expected to continue in 2016, as energy companies retrench and business investment...

As with any home business, the initial task of finding clients might be difficult, but once you do you can likely retain them for years.

Family income splitting, costing $ 2 billion this year in lost revenues, will proceed as planned, again primarily benefitting the most affluent while making it much more difficult to balance the budget.

But, as we've seen from Chipotle's troubles over the past 20 years, it seems, now — I guess it hasn't been that long — it's just really difficult to actually marry the fast food side of things with high quality, locally sourced ingredients.

The industry as a whole will face difficult times for the remainder of the year because it's difficult to raise capital in the sector.

She was named as one of Nova Scotia's top 10 young entrepreneurs in 2012, she sold her first business in 2014, she was named as a Forbes Influencer in 2016, and, in 2017, she made the difficult decision to close down her venture - backed tech startup after 3 years in operation.

The words of wisdom are timeless and are especially appropriate at the start of a new year as investors grapple with the difficult juncture at which stock markets find themselves at this stage.

On the whole, it's been a difficult year for the floundering retail market, which had been referred to as «fucked» by one prominent investor as recently as the spring.

As the Federal Reserve considers a possible hike in interest rates next month, he says normalizing rates following years of a zero - rate environment will be difficult.

The rising popularity of dividend - focused investing in recent years serves as a good example of how truly passive investing is made difficult, if not impossible, by the number of options and the wide variations among them.

Although both parties want to avoid the fiscal cliff, compromise is seen as being difficult to achieve — particularly in an election year.

Credit market conditions are still very difficult in the aftermath of the events of the last year, and pressure remains on key institutions — as shown clearly over the past week.

While it would be difficult to take a lack of fresh credit strains as evidence of restored health in the banking and lending system, we can't rule out the possibility that the Rube Goldberg machine created by the Fed and the Treasury will be enough to take us through a period of years (or if we follow Japan's example, decades) where we will gradually bury the losses of the banking system, trading a short - lived period of adjustment instead for a long - term period of stagnant credit.

Though uncertain as to exactly what the president will do, they anticipate a difficult year ahead.

March is always a difficult month for trading YEN as the JAPANESE CALENDAR YEAR ENDS MARCH 31 so repatriation of corporate profits is always a wildcard for any short YEN positions.

The first, and as I noted above, is that value stocks and strategies are having a difficult year.

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..