Sentences with phrase «few years of uncertainty»

After a few years of uncertainty and indecision, I racked up debt just shy of $ 150,000.

Not exact matches

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

Although US Treasuries have been sliding since the beginning of the year, the uncertainty and volatility that we have seen in the past few weeks have pushed yields back down, forcing 10 - year Treasuries to close last week at 2.77 % — a level far away from the psychological 3 % level many have been waiting for.

After a few years of being hit by financial and political uncertainty, demand by Russian investors for international property is strengthening, says Mr Urumov.

Instead, the next few months and years will be filled with hard work, decision making, problem solving, time commitments, financial commitments, faith commitments, vulnerability, uncertainty, and all the messy and beautiful things that go along with spending a lot of time with people.

It has been hard for me in this few years and I will do my best to hang on there until I reach my goal.I am not sure how long would it be for me to stay in the insurance business since there is many uncertainty about this kind of job.

Even if things get better for one, or two, or three years, a ration of six years of recession and economic uncertainty followed by a few years of something close to economic security should not be what anyone hopes for from our economy.

If this is the uncertainty over a period of a few years, what is the case with purported periods of centuries, millennia, or millions of years?

«Russia is less exciting because there are a lot of market uncertainties that are expected to persist in the next few years,» Deglise commented.

I agree with you that AW has done some astounding things for the club, but he has also made some reall balls ups and week in week out it seems he is not able to offer up a tactical plan B or utilise key players in key positions against the relevant sides we play, (not starting with Rosicky and Walcott on Saturday was one such instance) I realise that no team wins all their games and I know that we have been under the cosh for quiet a few years now, but what annoys me more than anything else is the lack of Visible ambition, we spent three weeks messing around with Beliek and only just managed to get Paulista who was an uncertainty due to a work visa.

But, that would be their only defeat in the Premier League, fifteen weeks in, shows how far this team from North London have come since the days of uncertainty under a catalog of managers handpicked by Daniel Levy in these past few years, tossing them around for fun at the slightest sight of implosion.

SEATTLE — Apparently ending several years of uncertainty, an official of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) revealed here today that the government intends to grant patents on expressed sequence tags (ESTs), human DNA sequences of up to a few hundred base pairs in length that can be used to identify and detect the expression of specific genes.

The director of the UN population division Hania Zlotnik defends her data but agrees that «an interval of a few months or even a year would be a reasonable range of uncertainty».

And while 2017 hasn't ended yet and there's still a bit of uncertainty about the projections, Le Quéré noted that the last few years» projections have been accurate within about a half a percent or so.

Over the course of the past few years, I've experienced a high volume of personal transition and uncertainty.

In a few years, you won't even remember what the piece of paper said as life has a great way of working out and sometimes the uncertainty of life leads to your biggest adventures.

However, it is important to realize there is uncertainty in VA measures, which are estimates that may be based on only a few classrooms of students, so the gains from removing teachers identified as ineffective based on a limited number of years of data are smaller.

Declining prices are just one indication that the e-reader market is young and likely to remain in a state of uncertainty for a few more years, they said.

But it can also bring a lot of financial uncertainty with it, especially after the first few years.

The adjustable rates may prove to be a good choice for those who are looking for low monthly mortgage payments for the initial few years, but they must also be ready to deal with the uncertainties of the future.

First, the past few years have been full of global economic uncertainty, and some emerging markets have been hit particularly hard after a period of rapid growth.

Still, as a homeowner, you need to make sure you're well positioned to weather the uncertainty of the next few years.

The three destinations» tourism industries have been hit hard by a combination of political uncertainty and terrorist attacks over the past few years, prompting many travel companies to withdraw from or severely limit their presence.

The pitfalls of producing statistical judgements are endless, however I just want to note that it is only right at the very, very end (within just a few years of 1980) that the instrumental record or any of the proxies, first emerge above any of the possible projected lines that can be drawn through the uncertainty envelope.

While the overall opinion of the panel was that WAIS most likely will not collapse in the next few centuries, their uncertainty retains a 5 % probability of WAIS causing sea level rise at least 10 mm / year within 200 years.»

In this case, the committee might have discovered more than a few papers by one of them on the subject, such as Risbey and Kandlikar (2002) «Expert Assessment of Uncertainties in Detection and Attribution of Climate Change» in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, or that Prof. Risbey was a faculty member in Granger Morgan's Engineering and Public Policy department at CMU for five years, a place awash in expert elicitation of climate (I sent my abstract to Prof. Morgan — who I know from my AGU uncertainty quantification days — for his opinion before submitting it to the conference).

There are other factors involved in cooling, of course (e.g., recent La Nina's), but aerosols are probably the most significant source of uncertainty on timescales longer than a few years..

«uncertainty» equals no consensus but consensus is not proof this is just one classic example of just more humans trying to justify their existence and no the IPCC Judith Curry and everyone else involved continue dancing on the head of a pin whilst Mr Ordinary gets his wealth sequestrated in order to pay for these guys to indulge in their pet hobby when the person who is making their life possible derives no benefit whatsoever except higher and higher energy bills, more restrictions on their ability to travel whilst again the lauded few get to travel across the planet 1st class to tout their jaded theories of how what and where and all I hope and pray is that we get another five years of flat temperatures then you are all toast and in a great need of having to work for a living or get another hobby.

Meanwhile, the good news (if further research bears it out) that the world's warming has been slowed, at least for a few years, needs to be leavened with the realisation, yet again, that there are significant uncertainties in science's understanding of the climate — and thus unquantifiable risks ahead.

That means the uncertainty in temperature measurements can be larger than the difference between individual years, which typically comes down to just a few hundredths of a degree.

A lot of people have different positions in the AGW debate, and with so many people and so much uncertainty particularly about the mechanisms and rate constants of all of the kinetic processes involved, I find it implausible that people would waste time on the simple comparisons, making much sound and fury, when it starts out with a short term comparison of CO2 and temperature over the same last few years.

All Republicans will have accomplished is a few more years of delay (and, ahem, regulatory uncertainty) the US can ill afford.

For those of you with any uncertainty over the correct answer to this question, the damage Gleick's transgressions will cause to his»cause» over the next few months and even years will perhaps settle any doubts.

We know what works when it comes to American energy because in just a few short years our nation has emerged from decades of energy scarcity, dependency and uncertainty into this new era of American energy abundance and leadership.

So, if you look at a short time period of just a few years, the uncertainty is always higher than the underlying trend.

While the window for global decisive action is rapidly closing, climate scientists should not make careless promises about their ability to reduce uncertainties in climate scenarios over the next few years, and thereby provide our governments with excuses to shun their responsabilities until they know more detail about how fast and adverse their regional impacts of global warming will be (compared to those in other countries).

The expansion of the Argo program over the next few years will add even more floats that go deeper more consistently, reducing uncertainty even further and filling in the details at even abyssal depths.

The big issue with any election is uncertainty, which is not good for business and, following the global political turmoil of the past few years, the public are less certain on opinion polls, so may be nervous of the outcome.

I suppose it is because of the inherent uncertainty with the trickier cases in insolvency law in Scotland, and partly because of the significant costs associated with the formal insolvency processes available to an individual or company, that the number of cases has significantly decreased over the last few years.

Over the last few years there has been a degree of uncertainty whether cell phone records are producible in the face of a party's denial at discovery that they were using their cell phone.

In a year of conflict and uncertainty, the price of Bitcoin has remained remarkably steady with a few upticks and downturns, but overall steadily climbing to today's value of approximately $ 450 USD.

The recessionary economy of the past few months, projected to continue for the next couple of years, has created a high degree of investor uncertainty.

Assistant Secretary Trasviña told Realtors ® that for the housing market and struggling home owners, the past few years have been filled with uncertainty and adversity, and that work needed to be done to restore faith in the value of owning a home, which helps shapes communities and strengthens the nation's economy.

With QM and BASEL III released, there's much less of the regulatory uncertainty that lenders have been concerned about since the big Wall Street reform bill, Dodd - Frank, was enacted a few years ago.