Sentences with phrase «high hurdles for»

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

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.

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

Unfortunately, despite middling volume, the RETL frequently has massive spreads that will pose a high hurdle for efficient trading.

A-round funding is often the highest hurdle for start - ups and is more difficult in smaller jurisdictions — often firms will need to travel to either London or Berlin to access the right people;

The crucial question is whether such a high hurdle for unity is God - ordained or a «human construct.»

That was a high hurdle for members to get over, but the votes provided regular ammunition for the press to talk about how chaotic and left - wing Labour was.

«It's gonna be a high hurdle for him to prevail in the mayors race given some of the things he's done.

«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.

That's a high hurdle for a still nascent technology to clear, but the payoff could be historic: delivering the first image of an alien Earth is an event that can happen only once.

That's too high a hurdle for new technologies.

That's been a high hurdle for devices called solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) that convert fuels — such as methane and hydrogen — directly to electricity without burning them.

Similarly, such accountability systems have posed a high hurdle for suing principals.

The returns from a globally diversified all - ETF portfolio with an expense ratio of 0.15 % represents a high hurdle for investors of all stripes to overcome.

Previous COPs typically end with a series of «decisions» that are accepted by unanimous consensus of the delegates (majority vote does not apply to the climate convention), which sets a high hurdle for what can be accomplished.

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.

The constitutional requirement in this jurisdiction that justice must be administered in public would be a high hurdle for an applicant to overcome; though maybe we just don't have the right celebrities!

«Target is spending a lot of money in Canada and they have set a high hurdle for success.

Not exact matches

The hurdles were high, however, and the rules were arcane, making the technique impractical for most businesses.

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.

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).

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.

In the past, the most difficult hurdle for holding high - level official meetings between China and Taiwan has been Taiwan's status.

In Canada, even if it is found that companies have worked with the NSA to exploit or create vulnerabilities in software, the higher standard for bringing legal action could prove a significant hurdle (although he says Quebec has slightly different laws that make such action more likely to succeed).

Naturally, the stakes are great for French companies that could be looking at higher trade costs, along with additional bureaucratic hurdles.

The impact of a stronger dollar is likely to remain a hurdle for earnings, but U.S. equities are also contending with high relative valuations and a likely increase in interest rates by the Federal Reserve (Fed) in the second half of this year.

«The self - employed don't have an HR department taking care of the setup and logistics of a retirement plan, and some of these plans have special considerations, so the hurdle is a little higher for them.

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.

The sale of nearly $ 2 million in corporate stock by high - level Equifax executives shortly after the company learned of a major data breach has sparked public outrage that could turn into another hurdle for the credit rating agency.

The hurdles for permits, social licenses, host - government approvals, engineering and construction, and most importantly, financing, are high and going higher.

Investors may be on to something: It will be more difficult for companies to achieve the same EPS growth in the second half, as the earnings recovery in the second half of 2016 is a higher hurdle.

For reasons that we will discuss later, that might well prove a hurdle to high for Murray GoulbuFor reasons that we will discuss later, that might well prove a hurdle to high for Murray Goulbufor Murray Goulburn.

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

Toronto is dangerous because it has ace righthander Roy Halladay (9 - 2, 3.07 ERA) and a high - powered offense (first in the majors in sluggingpercentage), but assuming the AL wild - card winner comes out of the Central, where the White Sox and the Tigers each were on pace for more than 105 wins, the Blue Jays would have to hurdle the Yankees and the Red Sox, who havefinished one - two in the East every year since 1998, to reach thepostseason.

The same goes for Carleton (High) Hurdle of Oral Roberts, Napoleon Gaither of Drake, Notie Pate of New Mexico State, Turono Anderson of Detroit, Soup Campbell of Providence and that old favorite, Lafayette Threatt of Oklahoma State.

Imagine that your first day on the job was in 1957 in Little Rock, where you're assigned to search lockers for bombs while busloads of white people prevent nine black children from walking through the doors of your high school, requiring the 101st Airborne to occupy the school for the rest of the year to prevent violence... and to burn your high hurdles at night to stay warm.

May placed first in the 120 - yard high hurdles, the 440 - yard run and the 440 - yard hurdles and, for good measure, ran legs on three winning relay teams.

1932 Against a bristling backdrop of oil derricks at Long Beach, Calif., Germany (left) defeated Italy in four - oared shells with cox for gold medal Meanwhile, in the Los Angeles Coliseum, Mildred (Babe) Didrikson (right), then just 18, won 80 - meter hurdles and javelin throw, finished second in the high jump.

The aspiring screenwriter penned a thrilling finish to the second act of her high school track and field career, winning her second CIF State Track & Field Championships medal with a second - place finish in the 300 - meter hurdles and being named SportStars Female Athlete of the Year for spring.

This is a 16 week progression, and just the beginning for a high school athlete, as the athlete gets stronger we continually progress to higher boxes and hurdles starting over with the same 16 week progression as long as the athlete continues to show proficiency.

It's a fixture that has been repeating itself for the past few campaigns, and one that may prove a hurdle to high for Guus Hiddink's side who are riding high after a 5 - 1 victory over Newcastle at the weekend.

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.

High - March 9th: Policing devolution clears NI Assembly - The final hurdle for policing and justice devolution was cleared, to the huge relief of the powersharing executive.

Plans for two new state - funded Catholic schools with discriminatory admissions policies have cleared a further hurdle today, after Mr Justice Sales in the High Court dismissed a judicial review of Richmond - upon - Thames council's decision to approve them.

Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

While in Syracuse Monday, Schumer also announced that plans for a new Dunkin' Donuts at the site of a gas station abandoned by Sunoco at a high profile intersection in Syracuse, have cleared their final hurdles.