Sentences with phrase «difficult points in»

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Being a teenager is one of the most difficult points in any person's life.

They have experienced more trials and difficult points in their life and can parent with more empathy often towards their children.

My only point is that I would almost rather have a coach that isn't as tested, with a good track record as an assistant or an AHL coach and a affable demeanor; than to go with a retread coach, with a history of an abrasive personality, that seems to wear down his team when it gets to the most difficult point in the process.

But sometimes it can be hard to feel gratitude, especially if you're struggling through a difficult point in your research or experiencing other career challenges.

I'm recommending this book to my daughter who is just starting a job hunt, and to anyone else at that difficult point in life.

I would get the By Grace Alone necklace, and I would get a custom sign with a quote from Donald Miller that a dear friend gave me at a really difficult point in my life.

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On what the bull market needs to stay alive: «I think you need a catalyst because valuations are at the point now where, in my opinion, where it's going to be difficult to get sustainable earnings growth without capital spending,» said Trennert.

But as Dirker pointed out in his presentation Wednesday, the more difficult task was in changing Siemens» corporate culture.

In a dynamic, fast growth, bi-coastal, multi-site business, it can be difficult to maintain your connection to the front line, the critical point at which your business either succeeds or fails.

The many experts we interviewed also pointed to two other contributing factors: an improving economy and changes to bankruptcy laws in 2005 that made it more difficult and costly to file.

But finding new prospects for Ebsta is difficult and, as vice president of sales Bernhard Peters points out, expensive — especially for a company with roughly $ 1 million in annual revenue.

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.

The problem in this case has been that Comcast has been slowing down Netflix for some time, to the point where the service has been difficult if not impossible to use for some subscribers.

As observers have pointed out, Microsoft is nowhere in this area — at last month's Consumer Electronics Show, it was very difficult to find any of the connected home or wearable gadgets with apps for Windows devices.

You might be finding it difficult to come up with the right idea at given point of time, but there might be an idea sitting in the heads of a person who isn't a marketer, but still has immense knowledge about the business, its target audience and the operational niche.

You can still find analog scales with a single needle that points to your weight, but none of these are included in our guide because they are difficult to read and imprecise.

During Virgin's early years, one difficult decision we had to make involved Virgin Records, which at one point was in desperate need of cash to sign bigger artists.

But her underlying point isn't totally invalid — the furor over drug price hikes like Mylan's is forcing legislators and private companies alike to finally confront the issue head - on, and highlighting just how difficult the disparate and largely opaque American medical financing system makes it to address these problems in a serious way.

Facebook said the employment of up to 150 staff in Vancouver from around the world is only short - term, and points to the obstructive U.S. immigration system that «makes it difficult, and sometimes impossible,» to bring talented engineers to its Menlo Park headquarters, south of San Francisco.

Duarte pointed to her group's efforts to get Facebook to crack down on affinity targeting in ads, for example, routing ads related to homebuying away from minority groups — a social media ad version of the unfair mortgage and real estate industry practices that made homebuying for African Americans difficult for much of the 20th century.

Of course, with debt in 2016 rising by roughly 40 — 45 percentage points of GDP while nominal GDP grew by less than 8 percent, it isn't easy to explain how the real value of assets in China grew by roughly 40 — 45 percentage points of GDP, nor why it is proving so difficult to rein in credit growth without a sharp slowdown in GDP growth.

In this environment, credit spreads have a more difficult time getting back to and staying at their lowest points in the cycle despite positive fundamentalIn this environment, credit spreads have a more difficult time getting back to and staying at their lowest points in the cycle despite positive fundamentalin the cycle despite positive fundamentals.

In fact there is a regular pattern that we see when debt levels rise in a country to the point at which either we suffer from a debt crisis or from a lost decade of difficult adjustmenIn fact there is a regular pattern that we see when debt levels rise in a country to the point at which either we suffer from a debt crisis or from a lost decade of difficult adjustmenin a country to the point at which either we suffer from a debt crisis or from a lost decade of difficult adjustment.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- U.S. retailers enter the holiday season vowing to control discounting that has wreaked havoc on their results in the past, but competition between stores, consumers trained to expect discounts and a still - recovering economy point to a difficult year.

Turning points in the economic cycle are also difficult to forecast.

It also reflects just how big and complex Facebook's many moving parts are and how difficult regulation would be at this point in the company's growth.

Last point: as I stress in the WaPo piece, the inflation target is too low — at 2 %, it invokes possible zero - lower - bound problems the next time we hit a downturn, and especially with a... um... difficult Congress (meaning adequate countercyclical fiscal policy may well not be forthcoming), that's a really serious problem.

It's very difficult to predict when volatility will rear its ugly head, but it will happen at some point in the future.

Steve Ketchum, executive director of Sound Point, told Bloomberg that in Puerto Rico, «there are no obvious great economic difficult situations... We are comparing Puerto Rico with some of the worst situations of sovereign debt in history and it simply does not make sense to us, especially since Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States.»

It can be difficult to have the correct perspective when you are following the markets on a daily basis, but most average investors don't have to worry about this type of lump - sum, point - in - time investment performance.

Which tools to use at each point in the marketing lifecycle, how to integrate disparate technologies, and how to build an effective end - to - end marketing stack are difficult questions that are becoming more challenging with more choices.

Search volume is obviously a good trait for a niche to have but generally, the higher the volume, the more difficult it is to rank in search engines — almost to the point where it can become unachievable.

While for developers credit remains quite difficult to access, it looks like we have seen a turning point in approvals for multi-unit construction.

It would be difficult for GFI to quantitatively estimate most of their programs» cost effectiveness at this point in their development.

And it is this second point that seemed particularly difficult to digest in 2017.

Augustine points out how difficult it is even for the wisest and most detached humans to discover the truth among lies — and how even husbands and wives in the closest of human bonds misunderstand each other so often.

The remarks Badian made some time ago in connection with the study of the deification of Alexander the Great are apposite in this respect: «Modern Jews and Christians, or modern rationalists, from their different points of view, have always found it difficult to believe that the ancient Greeks took their religion seriously since it seems so patently absurd.»

This cold snap would have made life difficult for our African ancestors, and the genetic evidence points to a sharp reduction in population size around this time.

It is possible that if we were able to arrange all creatures on the direct ancestry of humans in line we would find it difficult, if not impossible, to draw a line and say from that point human beings began.

Obviously it is much more difficult for us to imagine the first appearance of reflective thought at some point in the history of a phylum or race made up of different individuals than at some point in the series of states making up the life of one and the same embryo.

Personally i think those specific prayers are a distraction most of the times we pray these prayers because its what we think we need and often thats not the case.The better way is to just trust the holy spirit let him lead i think we miss the awesomeness of doing it Gods way its easy not difficult.The struggle is difficult when we are walking by the flesh and trying to do it our way.When i got to the point where i said to the God i am not going to do it my way anymore and i submit to you because know whats best for me.Change me and when i feel the wrong desires or temptation to walk by the flesh i just say Lord you know i am weak and i can not live a christian life without you help me.As soon as i do that it is effortless theres no struggle thats how we should grow.I am excited with what God is doing in my life he has opened his word i am seeing the fruit of his life impacting mine and i am changing day by day.I am walking by faith and not slipping back into my old desires i know what it means to be an overcomer sin does not have dominion over me anymore.In myself i can not boast because it is the power of God at work in my life and i give all the praise back to God.brentnz

Immigration policy at this point in history, it seems to me, is a classic case in which not only will the insistence on the best defeat the better, but in which it is very difficult to get agreement on what might be better.

This is the point of view of an elitist from the first world with total disregard to the circu.mstances of lots and lots of people in much more difficult circ.umstances in the rest of the world who have neither the leisure time, education, literacy, or resources to «study» any religion, let alone choose yours to study.

True, if the road is heading toward that nebulous region of «tolerance» that has become so difficult to locate in American society, we should all be willing to walk a ways with each other, but eventually we will reach departure points that can and should be respected.

And perhaps it is in these vital areas that it will be most difficult to find new writers to communicate the issues from a religious point of view.

It just gets difficult in blog comments to respond properly to all the points each person is making.

From the vantage point of Whitehead's final theory, it is very difficult to see how the original datum as conceived in the Giffords draft could ever be significantly modified by the ensuing concrescence.

More important and more difficult to deal with than such differences in teaching on will and freedom, however, is a wall known only too well by those of us who have worked with Omega to help it make its Point: the wall of what Catholics are tempted pridefully to call pietistic faith and what Protestants are tempted cynically to call superstition.

The discussion, I hope, illustrates my major point that when you ask the meaning of a doctrine or, in other words, what was the insight or truth of experience that those who formulated these doctrines wanted to safeguard, you find yourself grappling with them with concepts almost too difficult for words.