Sentences with phrase «difficult year in»

The most difficult year in retail real estate's history is at an end.

2011 was a volatile and difficult year in which most forecasts proved wrong.

(CNN)-- In a letter released Wednesday, Jenny Sanford, the wife of embattled South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, said she and her family are persevering after a difficult year in which her husband admitted to an extramarital affair.

Nick Clegg acknowledged his party's difficult year in government in a speech to assembled Liberal Democrats as the financial crisis continued to provide a stark backdrop to party conference season.

He had a difficult year in the job and was headhunted by Boris Johnson last summer.

Jarno had a fairly difficult year in 2003, especially considering the meteoric rise of his young teammate, Fernando Alonso.

The book came during a difficult year in his own life — both of Keller's parents passed away while it was being written, an experience he modestly describes as the «garden variety» of suffering.

We recently spoke with Lecrae about the collaboration, his difficult year in 2016, what to expect from the new album and how he's finally free to speak his mind.

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

Bobby had some really difficult years in the final years of his life, but I saw him and I'll tell you: he was a trooper.

After a couple difficult years in 2014 and 2015, MLPs have gotten their leverage under control and started funding their growth projects with internally generated cash flow rather than new debt.

Trinity Junior College faced one of it's most difficult years in 1967, causing Calvin Hanson to call it «The Year of the Great Panic.»

After several difficult years in the construction sector, the big graduate recruiters are back in the market, and their lead is being followed by some of the smaller players.

«For home buyers, this is shaping up to be one of the most difficult years in recent memory,» says Ralph McLaughlin, chief economist of Veritas Urbis Economics, a firm that researches the housing market.

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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.

That's why their cookies are an $ 800 million a year business in the U.S. (Such a shame that pesky child labour laws make it difficult for profit - seeking entities to exploit the selling power of Girl Scouts.

But this year, engineering hires came in second in the «difficult - to - hire» rankings, with 24 percent of entrepreneurs citing them.

Like some other hedge funds betting on economic trends in developed markets, a lack of volatility amid years of central - bank stimulus made it difficult to make money.

He added that he was concerned over whether that could become more difficult in the coming years.

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.

Securing a small - business loan has become more difficult in recent years.

«In the next five to 10 years, it's going to be very difficult to see any data - oriented piece of the world not fundamentally transformed by this technology,» predicts Shivon Zilis, an investor at Bloomberg Beta, based in San Francisco and New YorIn the next five to 10 years, it's going to be very difficult to see any data - oriented piece of the world not fundamentally transformed by this technology,» predicts Shivon Zilis, an investor at Bloomberg Beta, based in San Francisco and New Yorin San Francisco and New York.

Since taking Coach's reins in 2014, the 50 - year - old executive has done what few retail CEOs have been able to do: tapped into his company's successful past to help it compete in a difficult present.

The potential investment comes after a difficult few years for Yum in China, its biggest market by sales, where a series of food - safety scandals and management mis - steps has dented its reputation with diners.

Sobeys bought the Western Canadian chain in 2013 for $ 5.8 billion; it took just under $ 3 billion in impairment charges last year after digesting the purchase proved more difficult than anticipated.

The logic: The past two years Middle Tennessee has played bowl games in Hawaii and the Bahamas — no doubt fun destinations for the players to take an expenses paid trip, but difficult for the MTSU faithful to get to and show their support.

«I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit,» Ladar Levinson, the company's founder, said in a letter to users.

Keeping the planes in service past the 30 - year mark isn't recommended because the technology becomes obsolete and difficult to maintain.

Look for other established brands to enter the recycled apparel segment in the years ahead, making it more difficult for fledgling labels like Outerknown to compete.

Because the case was tied up in court for years, he said, the narrative from the Democratic side ended up being about how unfair and difficult the law made it for many to vote.

Lance said it's been difficult over the past year in the stock market.

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.

That number has barely budged in ten years, and we wanted to find a way to shake up this culture and economy that has made it very difficult for women entrepreneurs to access capital.

When you have $ 1 billion in revenue, it's very difficult to grow 25 % year over year because you have to invent huge new revenue lines to move the needle.

But without a majority decision on Halo, it could be more difficult for district courts to award attorneys» fees to prevailing parties in patent troll cases, which every year sap billions of dollars in such fees.

«Assuming the U.S. didn't government didn't give itself a monopoly on 5G, then it's difficult to see how their network would be the preferred network for consumers in a few years» time.

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.

With an aging bull market in the U.S. nearing the end of its seventh year at press time, it's difficult to find safety in cheap stocks; even formerly stodgy dividend payers now trade at dangerously expensive valuations.

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.

Small - business owners can have a particularly difficult time getting capital from a bank if they've been in business fewer than two years, if their credit score is less than 640 or if they need less than $ 250,000.

This line of thinking is especially difficult to adapt in the consumer tech world, where every company does their best to convince you that this year's Thing is constantly superior than last year's Whatever.

In this question - and - answer interview, Wilson discusses retirement, Tumblr's exit and getting over a difficult year.

Even so, Arnold started out by cutting expenses — most prominently by moving back in with his parents, which he said was difficult after having been out on his own at college for four years.

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.

Ken Wisnefski, founder of WebiMax, an online marketing company in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, had to have a difficult talk with a manager at his previous company, which he sold last year.

In most of these countries, China may be difficult to dislodge because it has been operating development programs there for many years and decades.

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.

Schachter writes that while Yahoo's mobile monetization was up 36 percent year over year in 2015, it might be difficult for Yahoo to gain or maintain share, especially when just days ago, behemoths Facebook and Google showed investors they can do just that, Victor Anthony, Internet media equity research at Axiom Capital Management, told CNBC's «Squawk Box» on Wednesday.

In a way, all the things that have made Snapchat such a viral hit over the past couple of years are the same things that could make it difficult for it to succeed with a larger mass - media strategy.