Sentences with phrase «high hurdle»

At the very least, these trends argue in favor of higher hurdles for new investment.

One of the weapons used by defenders of the status quo is to set high hurdles for innovations.

But for me, I've given myself a much higher hurdle rate, 25 % (see my blog What's wrong with my Portfolio).

That's a pretty high hurdle for many taxpayers.

That's too high a hurdle for new technologies.

Simply, investors set an increasingly higher hurdle that is harder to clear.

The prospective writer usually had a very high hurdle to clear.

Portfolio Strategies: Until recently, high minimum commissions and limited access to information were high hurdles for small investors who wanted to build diversified stock portfolios.

Studies of primary prevention, because they start with healthy populations, have a much higher hurdle to show a reduction in mortality.

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.

Hayes Jones completed his sweep of all indoor hurdle races this season, taking the 50 - yard high hurdles in 6.1.

At the All - Eastern Games in Baltimore, Tennessee freshman RICHMOND FLOWERS JR. took the 60 - yard high hurdles in 6.9, only [1/10] of a second off the world record, and BILL GAINES, a 17 - year - old from Mullica Hill, N.J., missed the world 60 - yard - dash record by [1/10] of a second, with a six - second clocking.

As a pedestrian, bicyclist, or motorcycle rider, you can face even higher hurdles when you file your no - fault claim.

They are rigorous and unsentimental in their diligence, and they force themselves to clear high hurdles before they commit to a deal.

And while it's difficult for U.S. companies that are new to the scene to jump in on the game, international businesses have an even higher hurdle to overcome.

Marquis Morris — The De La Salle track star won the 110 - meter high hurdles at state with a personal - best time of 13.90.

Because of such high hurdles, it feels like there is a wasteland of investment and innovation.

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.

«We wanted to clear a very high hurdle first with that offer,» says Charles Landry, Syniverse's senior vice president of global messaging.

Glenbard South senior Katelyn Hill won a state championship in the 100 - meter high hurdles with a run of 14.84 seconds at the Illinois High School Association Class 2A State Track and Field Meet, which concluded over the weekend in Charleston, Ill..

We see high hurdles to SBBS implementation and several uncertainties as to how they would operate.

Bart Friedman, a corporate lawyer at Cahill Gordon & Reindel, said he viewed Benchmark's case as weak, given the «extraordinarily high hurdle» they must clear to show that they were defrauded, one of their most potent allegations.

A little higher hurdle to overcome.

# 16 Lew Roney LARAMIE Three - time all - state in football and basketball at Laramie High, held state 120 - yard high hurdles mark; coached Cheyenne Central to five Class 4A state titles in basketball from 1973 to» 89.

I lobby for the Beer Racewalk, Beer Dressage, Beer Table Tennis (NOT Beer Pong) and the Beer High Hurdles would really be something else.

Lords reform is closer than Nick Clegg thinks — provided he can jump over the series of ten - foot high hurdles that blocks his path to the finish line.

Compared to many US jurisdictions, this is a fairly high hurdle to clear.

But unlike his experience on the campaign, Trump will have to clear several high hurdles to turn his ideas into law.

But, given his rather prominent role in the authorship process, he has a rather high hurdle to clear to get off the hook for this.

Currently for such an error to amount to a criminal offence by the trust, there is the need to surmount the exceptionally high hurdle of requiring an employee to have a «controlling mind».

This clearly amounted to a significant movement away from the overly high hurdle established by Conn when approaching the question of compensation for harassment.

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.

Using Pandora on the Ionic features a particularly high hurdle for use: A Plus or Premium membership.

He adds, «Unfortunately, there are just as many high hurdles slowing first - time buyers down.

He then showed point - getting versatility: winning the 60 - yard high hurdles in 6.6 seconds, placing second twice, with a 45 - foot 9 3/4 - inch shotput and a 21 - foot 11 - inch broad jump, in a Boston University - Dartmouth meet, in Hanover, N.H. Despite Thomas» efforts, Dartmouth won 58 - 51.

And while mental health issues occur with relative stability across racial and ethnic lines, when adjusted for socioeconomic status, low - income individuals face higher hurdles and higher risks of their existing issues transitioning into crisis.

I will mention below an even higher hurdle.

But startups based on the continent are up against one especially high hurdle that Maelle Gavet, executive vice president of global operations for The Priceline Group, laid out in stark terms on Tuesday.

However the affiant bears the burden of convincing the court that the DA abused his descretion in declining to prosecute, which is a pretty high hurdle.

In other events at Albuquerque, LEE EVANS of San Jose took the 600 yards in 1:09.6, and Willie Davenport suffered his second straight defeat in the 60 - yard high hurdles when GARY POWER of the Southern California Striders won with a meet - tying 6.9 seconds.

And cognizant of how much higher the hurdles must be for women who have to carry that societal nonsense around and how much stronger their biceps have to be to fight through those messages and claim their beauty.

McInturff dismissed recent musings in the media that Trump will cross the aisle and pick a Democrat, because party rules make that too high a hurdle to make it work without a disruptive floor fight.

It «raised an unnecessary and very high hurdle for any advocate to clear, «says Lee Petro, another attorney for the intervenors and of counsel at Drinker Biddle & Reath's Washington, D.C., office.

Although gaining local approval is not legally required, Edano's comments indicate that the national government might support the stance of local officials, which puts a very high hurdle in front of the utilities.

In a federal trademark infringement case, for instance, a plaintiff seeking a quick injunction would encounter at the threshold the high hurdle of showing «irreparable harm» — a standard that won't be met if money damages will provide the plaintiff with adequate recompense for any damages incurred — and it might also have to post an expensive bond (a major hurdle for a nonprofit).

Restivo said getting the federal government to approve a deal would be a high hurdle for any foreign company and perhaps in particular a Chinese company.

A high hurdle for approval means a small minority can derail the deal.