Sentences with phrase «faced by millions»

As a person raised in the harsh inner city, I know firsthand the terror, pain, desperation, and extreme poverty faced by millions of struggling people.

After 10 months in this environment, similar to those faced by millions of people daily, mice showed signs of depression, anxiety, and learning difficulties.

After spending a wonderful day with all the animals at the sanctuary, and then seeing the harsh realities faced by millions of farmed animals each year, he felt his eyes were opened.

Surely this is a challenge faced by millions...

This is a dilemma faced by millions of Americans across the country.

This is the reality faced by millions of women who consider abortions each year, and the sad irony is the same pro-life politicians who want to force them to have their babies typically oppose raising the minimum wage, ensuring paid sick leave and parental leave for all American workers, and protecting the 20 million people who can finally afford health insurance thanks to the Affordable Care Act.

Creating wealth by developing a product that solves a common problem faced by millions sounds great, but the prospect of enduring the long process of registering patents, manufacturing product and convincing brick - and - mortar stores to distribute your items may sound painful.

Not exact matches

Although Breaux Capital faces steep competition in the personal finance sector — including from apps such as Mint, which sold to Intuit in 2009 and now counts more than 20 million customers — CTO Quarles says he's convinced that his community, by virtue of being by and for black men, is unique.

The company, officially acknowledged by the SEC, focuses heavily on quality of investments, returns and trust with their investors, which flies in the face of the worrying statement by Fortune that «now anybody can try being a venture capitalist» under the new rules set by Title III of the JOBS act, allowing anyone to raise up to $ 1 million through crowdfunding.

McKinsey predicts that by 2018, the United States my face a shortage of up to 190,000 data scientists as well as 1.5 million managers with the skills to translate data science into business decisions.

And because most of the Senate bill's individual tax breaks expire by 2027, more than 20 million households with income below $ 200,000 would face tax increases by then.

That was the challenge faced by Steve and Diane Warren, co-owners of Katzinger's Delicatessen, a $ 2 million deli in Columbus, Ohio.

Mark Pincus, the founder of video game company Zynga Inc, must face a lawsuit alleging he unfairly benefited by selling $ 192 million of stock in 2012 when other early investors were under a lockup agreement, according to a court ruling.

As a result, America will face a shortfall of 5 million STEM workers by 2020.

Super earners, or those making more than $ 10 million in 2015, faced by far the highest audit rates.

The company had faced a delisting warning in October by Nasdaq because its market value had fallen below $ 35 million.

The company is facing questions from lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic about how it handles personal user data after a pair of weekend reports by The Observer newspaper in the U.K. and The New York Times alleged research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to the data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

In fact, Fjord predicts that by 2025, the developed world will face a skilled labor shortage of 56 million people.

According to filings, Coury made roughly $ 98 million in 2016, the same year in which the company faced criticism for the price of the EpiPen and the stock fell by almost 30 %, according to company filings.

The company claims its Face ID feature is so secure that there's a one in a million chance that someone could spoof you — not only does it require a measure of the user's attention to unlock the phone, but Apple also says it trained the feature on realistic - looking 3 - D masks so it would not be tricked by them.

Analysts at Morgan Stanley project that a combined company would devalue VMware by $ 28 billion — considerably more than the $ 500 million - 600 million annual taxes Dell will face if it continues to operate under its existing structure.

Despite the fact that there are an estimated 10 million LGBTQ - identified Americans and 62 % of Americans are in favor of marriage equality, LGBTQ people are not protected from workplace discrimination, face growing numbers of violent hate crimes, including harassment on public transportation, and have been called the cause for «societal collapse» by the sitting Vice President.

ICBC is facing a financial loss of $ 1.3 billion by the end of the fiscal year, an astronomical increase from an amount that the previous government estimated at $ 11 million.

In an appearance on CBS's «Face the Nation» on Earth Day, Bloomberg said he would give $ 4.5 million of his personal fortune towards the U.S.'s pledge of up to $ 3 billion by 2020 to support climate change initiatives.

Facebook has for months faced an uproar among users whose complaints range from the spread of fake news to the use of the network to manipulate elections and the harvesting of 50 million people's Facebook data by the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

Millions of Puerto Ricans are again without power after a high - voltage transmission line that had been repaired by Whitefish Energy, a Montana contractor now facing an FBI investigation, failed again Wednesday.

Even if the Trans Mountain proposal gets bogged down — by a antagonistic new provincial government, or by the 19 lawsuits it faces, or by the massive civil disobedience opponents promise — if Kinder Morgan can entice enough investors to hand over $ 1.75 billion in an initial public offering, the company will walk away with hundreds of millions even if the proposal dies and investors lose their shirt.

Spending millions to revitalize a struggling portion of the city might seem like a good bet, but the current effort led by a billionaire CEO is facing major challenges.

«For anyone driven crazy by the faux warm and fuzzy PR of the so - called sharing economy Steven Hill's Raw Deal: How the «Uber Economy» and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers should be required reading... Hill is an extremely well - informed skeptic who presents a satisfyingly blistering critique of high tech's disingenuous equating of sharing with profiteering... Hill includes two chapters listing potential solutions for the crises facing U.S. workers... Hill stresses the need for movement organizing to create a safety net strong enough to save the millions of workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.»

Small Business Majority is a national small business advocacy organization, founded and run by small business owners to focus on solving the biggest problems facing America's 28 million small businesses today.

Alwaleed, the chairman of the Kingdom Holding Company, is one of the faces of Saudi tech investing: As of last year he owned 35 million shares of Twitter and with his company owned 5.3 percent of the ride - hail startup Lyft, a stake he acquired in part by purchasing existing shares from Andreessen Horowitz and Founders Fund.

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

In the face of this «orgy of speculation,» editors argued, religion must «protest a social or industrial order in which men wallow in sudden wealth which they have not created while their fellows by the million face want» (March 22, 1928).

Dr. Boerma earlier warned that if help did not reach Bangladesh by Christmas 1974, 1 million persons would face imminent death.

I will celebrate beauty where I find it, in a million faces uniquely handcrafted by a generous God with a big tent of glorious womanhood.

The educational opportunity created by the churches» direct face - to - face contact with 120 million adults and youth is immense!

A Christian charity is calling on the international community to respond to the crisis in Somalia, where more than 5 million people face hunger caused by drought and conflict.

Michelle Williams has celebrated a decision by Christian actor Mark Wahlberg to donate his 1.5 million dollar (# 1.1 million) pay cheque for reshoots of All The Money In The World to the Time's Up campaign in the face of criticism.

A few of the obvious drives that pack us off, daily or weekly or episodically or, for some, in hope, permanently, are fear or even terror in the particular given set of circumstances; the sheer discouragement and exhaustion of facing questions without answer; profound disillusionment — it takes many forms — with the pertinent, prevailing system or systems; deep and bitter contempt for one's own society, bred of the abysmal failure to attain in consistent practice even a semblance of the justice professed and acclaimed; despair — so it was with the college generation of the late sixties — over the formidable obduracy of a political establishment in going its merciless way quite apparently deaf to the cries of anguish of its empathetic and real victims, victims by the tens of millions here and around the world.

Looking past that fact is spitting in the face of the millions of people who were tortured and killed by his orders, as well as the thousands of American and Ally soldiers who laid down their lives to stop him.

They could even have protested, in the face of Catholic attacks, that they were and are still major donors to a large third - world charity founded by Catholics, Mary's Meals (yes, it's that Mary), which feeds about half a million third - world children every day.

But no other preachers face the overwhelming pressures faced by television preachers, who have no leisure to reflect on the integrity of changes being called for by advisers, and for whom the continued existence of one's whole $ l - million - a-week organization virtually hangs on each decision.

When faced with the reality of meeting expenses of $ 1 million each week or else beginning the downward spiral of reducing the syndication of one's program, a broadcaster becomes very sensitive to the audience feedback provided by one's mailroom.

This year's event was co-sponsored by BevForce / FoodForce, the only hiring strategy agency specializing in staffing for the beverage industry, Giannuzzi Group LLP, a boutique New York City - based law firm with significant experience in consumer brands, and City Harvest, the world's first food rescue organization, which rescues food for the nearly two million New Yorkers facing hunger each year.

Pernod chief executive Pierre Pringuet said although sales of Jacob's Creek in Britain had suffered from a price increase to # 6 ($ A8.80) from # 4.50 a bottle, with volumes dropping by 1 million cases over three years, sales in Australia had so far proved stable in the face of a price lift here.

Sales of jams and preserves are falling by about 5 per cent a year, according to Euromonitor, and the sector, worth about $ 120 million a year, is facing increased competition from imports, private label and niche brands.

The Maggie Beer Products gourmet food business has sunk into the red by up to $ 600,000 and the ASX company, which bought 48 per cent of it, is facing a big write - down of up to $ 10 million as the value of its investment sinks.

While the Gunners had been expected to face competition from Chelsea for the signing the Argentinian international, Arsene Wenger's side have been linked with making an improved offer after initially having a # 28.8 million bid rejected by the Nerazzurri, as reported by the Metro.

One answer is that as part of the deal, the Penguins received exclusive merchandising rights — valued by the team at $ 10 million for the life of the contract — to Lemieux and his face.

If he keeps Alexis, he'll have to explain why we lost 70 million for nothing, by keeping an unsettled player that doesn't care about the club and if Wenger sells, fans (who are already increasingly angrier) will lose it and I'm really expecting Arsene to face the kind of abuse he could never image.