Sentences with phrase «face high hurdles»

That notwithstanding, South Carolina residents and businesses continue to face high hurdles when it comes to investing to take advantage of local solar energy resources.

The lawyers» effort to convince Caproni to dismiss the case before trial faces a high hurdle.

«At this point, Scott Brown is not facing a high hurdle for the GOP nomination to oppose incumbent Senator Shaheen,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

«A defendant challenging the sufficiency of an indictment on a motion to dismiss faces a high hurdle,» Caproni wrote.

Jennifer Cohn, medical director of the drug - access program for the charity Médecins Sans Frontières in Geneva, notes that middle - income countries face the highest hurdles.

Daniel Nazer, a lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Fortune that applications to patent the blockchain - which is a form of software - face a high hurdle due to a Supreme Court case called Alice.

A steep increase in out - of - pocket costs for seeing the doctor and getting prescribed medicines would entrench a two class health system in which the well - off access preferential care from their doctors while uninsured patients face higher hurdles and financial barriers to care.

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As a whole, young adults in America are faced with two major financial hurdles that prevent them from having a lot of extra wealth to invest for retirement: high housing costs and student - loan debt.

Young entrepreneurs can face especially high hurdles when approaching investors or applying for loans: they usually have few assets, no credit history, and rarely any business experience that they can point to.

Although affordability improved in Vancouver for the first time in more than three years (to 84.8 per cent, from 90.0 per cent in the third quarter), buyers in Vancouver still face the highest affordability hurdle in Canada, by a long shot.

However, Ether buyers may face hurdles near the 50 percent Fibonacci retracement level of the last decline from the $ 981.64 high to $ 359.33 low at $ 670.00.

Trump again insisted on funding for his promised border wall, making clear the high hurdle faced by a bipartisan pair of senators who are backing an immigration plan that leaves out wall funding and other of his demands.

The hurdles facing young scientists seeking grant funding are growing increasingly higher, as, it appears, are the hurdles in the tenure process.

The investigators determined that the department «was less supportive of women» and that Kalonji faced «a higher hurdle than some males.»

We also came to realize that independent charter schools faced almost insurmountable hurdles in delivering high - quality academic instruction while running these small businesses on tight margins.

But turnaround high schools have yet to make significant inroads with academics and face hurdles such as declining enrollment, lack of rigorous curricula and a disproportionate number of students with special needs.

Higher Education Seeks Answers to Leaner Years (New York Times) Jim Antony discusses how the amount of resources institutions of higher education have can vary widely, and what that means for the challenges and hurdles theyHigher Education Seeks Answers to Leaner Years (New York Times) Jim Antony discusses how the amount of resources institutions of higher education have can vary widely, and what that means for the challenges and hurdles theyhigher education have can vary widely, and what that means for the challenges and hurdles they face.

What qualities do leaders in higher ed need to navigate the many hurdles they and their institutions will face?

Applying to College as a Wheelchair User (Inside Higher Ed) Master's student Valerie Piro shares her personal story about the challenges and hurdles she faced when applying to colleges as a wheelchair user.

Washington — Although more students with disabilities than ever are included in state testing programs, the task of giving these students high - quality assessments in the future that measure how adept they are at mastering the Common Core State Standards seems to have an endless number of hurdles to overcome before students face these new assessments in the 2014 - 15 school year.

A school that enrolls a heavily middle - class population faces a far lower hurdle in getting its children to reach high reading levels than does a counterpart school enrolling a heavily low - income population.

MarylandCAN chose to focus on Baltimore, a district that arguably faces the biggest hurdles in the state: high concentrations of low - income students and a history of poor academic performance.

Life in the wilderness — exiled from civilization as a punishment for his violent behavior — had its own set of hurdles, but for fifteen - year - old Cole Matthews, it's returning home and facing high school that he's not sure he can handle.

For Sarah Renee, 14 - year - old author of three young adult / middle grade novels, her attempts at publishing were met with less than an enthusiastic response due to the fact that her status as a minor made the legal ramifications of publishing a higher hurdle to overcome than most authors face.

Writing nursing assignment is not an easy nut to crack for most of the nursing students as it has been found that students face many hurdles while writing High - quality Nursing Assignments.

Those lucky enough to find or keep jobs in a contracted market may have faced other hurdles — like paying down historically high levels of debt.

Partially inflating to do it, and borrowing to make interest payments would face a similar hurdle, because the borrowing would likely be at higher rates due to inflation.

This consideration is important for all P / B bargain stocks, if you are faced with negative net income / cashflow situations you need to more aggressively discount your Fair Value to reflect this, and of course realize this creates a much higher hurdle to closing any perceived valuation gap.

At the same time, the political turmoil over high energy prices has created a new hurdle facing those — including both presidential candidates — who say they want to blunt the unabated climb in emissions of greenhouse gases with a cap or tax.

I observe traditional silicon solar cell start - ups may face an even higher funding hurdle than thin film technologies.

The hurdles facing global coordination are extremely high.

For the four design patents Samsung claimed to be indefinite (D'677, D'087, D'305, D'889) it faced a very high hurdle.

If it is now dissolved, Apple's Rule 50 motion will, not legally but practically, face an even higher hurdle than such motions generally do.

Drysdale is also instructive of how incredible high a hurdle employers now face if they hope to successfully argue that a dismissed employee's notice period should be reduced because the employee failed to take reasonable steps to look for new employment to mitigate his or her damages.

The battery life is one of the biggest hurdles high - end smartphones face today.

We must do more to improve reading proficiency among all kids while focusing attention on children in lower - income families who face additional hurdles of attending schools that have high concentrations of kids living in poverty.»

But making the leap into homeownership is facing bigger hurdles as the market sees higher home prices and a shortage of homes for sale, according to the National Association of REALTORS ®» newly released Aspiring Home Buyers Profile, which is based on findings from a survey of more than 10,000 households» attitudes about the real estate market.

When faced with hurdles of high prices and a limited number of less expensive homes on the market, many renters aren't financially qualified to buy.