Sentences with phrase «faced challenge this year»

Stefanik faces challenges this year from Mike Derrick, a retired army colonel from Peru, Clinton County, and Matt Funiciello, the Green Party candidate, from Glens Falls in Warren County.

Sen. Charles Schumer, who easily won re-election last time out, could face a challenge this year from CNBC commentator Larry Kudlow.

The conference faced a challenging year as divisions between upstate and downstate members appeared to boil over during budget negotiations, a rarity for the generally lockstep conference.

The animal welfare community can be proud of how we faced challenge this year.

The legal sector faces a challenging year as the worsening economic diffi culties begin to affect practices, according to a survey of the UK's top 100 law firms.

Not exact matches

I was working on creating an indoor, year - round space for a farmer's market, and through that I heard about the challenges wholesale buyers face in sourcing local food.

As to the question of when he and his party will develop a broad and substantive legislative platform to tackle the critical challenges America faces, McConnell has a ready answer as well: «If we're in the majority,» he says, «we'll be sitting down, intensely, a year from now on the very issue you've raised.»

More than once in the intervening years, Minhas has faced challenges she describes as anything but fair: regulatory hurdles slowing her products» spread, retail monopolies denying access to their store shelves and larger competitors muscling in on her turf.

The path forward may be complex but the challenge Ontario faces today is clear: It can no longer ignore the reality that the conditions for much greater financial pain are beginning to emerge and poised to take hold over the next several years.

He spoke about accomplishments like deregulation and the Republican tax bill, but mostly emphasized the challenges he's faced during his first year.

MONTREAL — Valeant Pharmaceuticals faces years of legal challenges despite cutting ties with a U.S. mail - order pharmacy at the centre of a controversy about how Canada's largest publicly traded drug firm conducts its business, say industry observers and the company's second - largest shareholder.

All of which means that as Bouchard prepares to hand over the reins of the company to a new CEO later this year, the empire he's built could face some daunting new challenges.

«We did face supply chain challenges last year, but the full - price channels in North America are now clean,» Edwards said in emailed answers to questions from Reuters, referring to new stock that would not have to be discounted.

So although the air travel industry faces two huge challenges — the rising price of oil, and the environmental impact of the roughly 1.5 billion barrels of jet fuel that the airline industry burns through each year — the solutions are likely to be all but invisible.

The Trump administration could seek to use eminent domain to seize land needed for a border barrier, as well as support roads and other infrastructure, though it would likely face costly legal challenges that could delay construction for years.

Los Angeles, for instance, faces one of the nation's toughest challenges with homelessness, seeing an 11 % year - over-year increase as of January.

After years of strong German leadership in the EU, Chancellor Angela Merkel now faces various political and economic challenges including ongoing domestic dissatisfaction with the refugee crisis, corporate crises such as Deutsche Bank, and the rise of populism.

Adam Benforado (Professor of Law at Drexel University): «I think that that's one of the biggest challenges we face in the coming years is actually from the trial consulting industry.»

MMA Offshore has reported a dramatic slide in half - year profit as the marine services company faces challenging conditions in the offshore oil and gas industry.

«The internet was designed to survive a nuclear war, but even so, I think there are a lot of regulatory challenges that Silicon Valley will be facing from Western Europe and elsewhere in the years ahead,» he said.

But as Virgin grew through the years, so did our ideas about how to treat employees well, and how to take environmental impact into account, and by 2004, I had come to realize that we at the Virgin Group had a chance to tackle the challenges our society faces in a new, entrepreneurial way.

This year's World Economic Forum in Davos, a sort of brain spa for the world's movers and shakers, named rising income inequality as the biggest challenge now facing the world economy.

If you think you face challenges today landing great people for your organization, just wait until next year — especially if you haven't established a greater purpose for where you're going.

Over the past few years we have faced some unprecedented economic challenges and we surmounted.»

2017 was the year challenges facing retailers began to bleed into the consumer goods and food industries.

Earlier this year, in his most direct comments on the issue, President Obama said in a speech at the National Cybersecurity Communications Integration Center that cyber threats pose «one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation,» and acknowledged that hacking is ongoing.

But, given the Security and Exchange Commission's lifting last week of an 80 year ban on «general solicitation,» which prohibited entrepreneurs from publicly discussing private investment offerings, these two archetypal entrepreneurs shed light on the challenges entrepreneurs seeking funds face and how, for some of them, the ban's lifting might be transformative.

«[Companies] used to be able to do the same thing for years on end, but today if you do the same thing, you're going to be faced with significant business challenges,» he says.

Dunkin' Donuts CEO Nigel Travis said the inability to retain employees is the biggest challenge facing his industry this year.

Besides facing that challenge from Apple, Samsung also has been losing ground to upstart Chinese manufacturers after several years of headlong growth, according to IDC.

Some years back, a small Colorado goat - cheese maker called Haystack Mountain faced its version of a classic growth challenge: National demand was growing for its chèvres and other cheeses, and the company was struggling to find enough local goat farmers to produce milk.

I don't know what challenges you face, but if your challenge is less than a marathon and you're physically more able than a 66 - year - old grandmother, you can probably get that value too.

Still, Donohue insisted that, «Given the unprecedented challenges facing our economy, the Campaign for Free Enterprise is one of the most important and necessary initiatives in the Chamber's nearly 100 - year history.»

Even national brands face a daunting challenge: last year, just 20 % of High Liner's wild - caught seafood came from certified fisheries — a level that exposes the company to considerable commercial risk.

That said, there are also clues that Americans are growing more prepared for the challenges they'll face in their golden years.

Wet Seal and other mall - based, teen - focused peers such as Abercrombie & Fitch and American Eagle have faced challenges as mall traffic has weakened in recent years.

The past year has had its share of stressful moments, however, and Murphy and Ryan are both frank about the challenges facing businesses in their Alberta home.

Years ago, when Mass Design was in the early stages of planning and designing Butaro Hospital in the Burera District of Rwanda, it faced a serious design challenge: To reduce the transmission of airborne diseases like TB.

Then there are those of us representing Parkland: Fellow Stoneman Douglas student Nick Joseph lost one of his best friends, Joaquin Oliver, on February 14, and is speaking out in his name by organizing and marching, rising to a challenge no 16 - year - old in mourning should have to face.

These are a few challenges I have faced over the last few years, but the joy I get from running this company far outweighs the challenges that are occasionally encountered (except maybe the license fees).

For a decade it has been seeking to develop half a dozen new «economic cities»; most have grown much more slowly than hoped, and Riyadh complained last year that some faced «challenges that threaten their viability».

The Middle East has faced numerous economic and political challenges in the last few years, but to its credit, it has weathered them reasonably well.

Faced with the challenge of living off their assets for 30 - plus years after their working lives are over, it is not surprising that for most people around the world, retirement security is a significant, if not the most significant, financial goal.

I don't have to tell you that the Canadian economy has faced its share of challenges these past few years.

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As a divorcing Baby Boomer (between 47 and 65 years old), you may face the intricate retirement planning challenge of partitioning your...

Consumers may have spent more this year but retailers face challenges in the new year to keep that momentum going.

«He has done an outstanding job at Treasury and the IMF and is admirably equipped to confront the unique domestic and international challenges that will face our financial system over the coming years.»

Earlier this year, both the World Economic Forum and the Global Opportunity Network have pointed to this challenge as respectively the biggest risk and opportunity that we face.

The report was developed over the past year, after the Greater Vancouver Economic Scorecard 2016 revealed that affordability is one of the biggest challenges facing our region's economy.