Sentences with phrase «increasing numbers of factors»

And you were supposed to be in charge of this at a time where increasing numbers of factors were going against you.

There are an increasing number of factors built into the MLS infrastructure that have and will increasingly eroded the respect of the REALTOR brand.

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.

Realized compensation is not a substitute for reported compensation in evaluating our compensation structure, but we believe that realized compensation is an important factor in understanding that the value of compensation that Mr. Musk ultimately realizes is dependent on a number of additional factors, including: (i) the vesting of certain of his option awards only upon the successful achievement of a number of market capitalization increase and operational milestone targets, including milestones that have not

Many factors can be attributed to the depletion of the fund, including longer life expectancies, an increased in the number of retirees and a smaller working - age population.

A.T. Kearney's report cites San Francisco's strong start - up ecosystem, emphasis on technology and willingness to take risks as contributing factors to the city's rapid increases in the number of U.S. patents.

The very nature or face of the industry as we know it is changing due to a number of factors including technological evolution, increasing global competition and changing customer demands.

The aviation industry might no longer be as lucrative as it used to be — no thanks to factors such as bad economy, huge number of employees, increased terrorism and fear, higher insurance costs, and increasing preference for private jet flights.

Growth has been underpinned by a number of factors, including a high level of consumer confidence, a decline in the unemployment rate, favourable financial conditions and increases in wealth, fostered by rising housing prices.

This is due to a number of factors: a main one being an increased focused on higher education for women (hooray!)

There are two wonderful things that give me a positive wow factor every day — the increasing number of people I discover doing fantastically brilliant stuff, quietly and without fuss, living out the Gospel of Christ in gentle, caring, loving ways, most of which the church institution hasn't got a clue about because it's too dam busy running itself.

The Association of Christian Counsellors warned that a significant increase in the number of families where both parents work is one factor behind a rise in mental health issues linked to home and work pressures.

At present, the best available data indicate that the worldwide impact of religious switching alone, absent any other factors, would be a relatively small increase in the number of Muslims, a substantial increase in the number of unaffiliated people, and a substantial decrease in the number of Christians in coming decades.

«Value is increased by increasing the degree to which factors support one another and also by increasing the number of different factors which enter into mutual support» (CC46: 227).

The audience of cable programs in the United States is still a relatively unknown factor, and with an increase in the number of religious syndicators moving into cable the claim is made that a large number of additional viewers are attracted by cable religious programs.

In his book, «God is Alive and Well: The Future of Religion in America,» Newport argues that a number of factors, including baby boomers reaching senior ages, migration to more religious states, recognition of health and well being of religion and an increase in a Hispanic population, are all reasons that «we are going to continue to have a quite religious nation going forward.»

«You put those factors together, it doesn't surprise me, if I can put it that way, that there are an increased number of killings.»

This has been driven by a number of factors, the first being the increased consumer awareness of food miles and sustainability; secondly the return to a patriotic view of supporting British trade, manufacturing and produce (which in part drove the desire to leave the EU as well); and thirdly the resurgence of the craft phenomenon which has seen a number of small producers and brands gain popularity.

There's been an increase in the number of children suffering dental decay, and bottled water may be one of the contributing factors.»

A wide variety of mulches has been used with peppers, and determining the one that is right for the home garden depends upon a number of factors, including climate, decomposition of the mulch, and the use of colored mulches to increase yield.

The Gunners are on course for their 12th consecutive season without winning the Premier League title, which has led to increased frustration, but there a number of factors that need to be considered when analysing the manager's job.

Whatever other factors were involved, the trouble between rival elements at Rangers - Celtic matches definitely increased in the»30s, culminating in the record number of 120 arrests in 1936.

There are a number of factors that appear to have influenced this untimely downfall and it's most likely due to increasing competition from European counterparts and the rise in the quality and standards of other Euro - based teams, particularly in the style of possession football even the supposed «weaker» teams are now adopting.

Likewise, as the number of risk factors for exertional heat illness increases, the maximum environmental heat and humidity level for safe exercise, sports participation, or other physical activities will decrease.

However, we are also seeing another trend — increasing numbers of children who are fatherless for much of the time because of factors such as migrant labour, fragile relationships and divorce.»

The economic downturn in recent years, which led to higher unemployment levels among fathers; the re-entry of mothers into the labor force; a growing number of parents working different schedules; and the escalating costs of child care are all cited as factors that have made fathers» increased child - rearing role more feasible and more necessary.

A number of lifestyle and medical factors increase a person's risk for nosebleeds.

We may be able to increase the numbers of women who do not develop PTSD if we can identify those who have pre-existing risk factors for PTSD, and recognize when risk factors occur during labor.

Breast cancer survival rates have increased, and the number of deaths associated with this disease is steadily declining, largely due to factors such as earlier detection, a new personalized approach to treatment and a better understanding of the disease.

This brings us to red flag number two — the studies that have found an increase in SIDS associated with bedsharing have failed to control for all of the known safety factors that affect safe bedsharing [8][9].

Officials with the Jefferson County Economic Development organization attribute that to a number of factors, including a rise in the number of soldiers and their families who are staying in the area because of an increase in local housing.

«We chose the basal ganglia because they are primary targets of inflammation in the brain,» says lead author Andrew Miller, MD. «Results from a number of previous studies suggest that increased inflammation may be a contributing factor to fatigue in CFS patients, and may even be the cause in some patients.»

In the United Kingdom, «a major factor in the increase in both numbers and professionalization [of knowledge brokers] is the recent inclusion of «research impact» as a measure [used] to rank U.K. universities and determine funding, so investing in staff to promote research impact has become a priority,» Knight explains.

The number of grants that will be reviewed face - to - face will be increased «by a factor of 10,» Beaudet said, adding that he believes the hybrid system will «improve the quality of peer review.»

Many factors are taken into account when assessing the conservation status of a species: not simply the number remaining, but the overall increase or decrease in the population over time, breeding success rates, known threats, and so on.

In a bottom - line result, the researchers concluded that protection increased the number of breeding pairs at Voyageurs by 37 percent; other factors accounted for the rest of the increase.

After adjusting for a number of factors — including age, gender, surgery type, baseline cognition, presence of a vascular comorbidity and the presence of a genetic variant that has been associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease — the authors used a three - stage approach to examine the association between inflammatory cytokines and delirium.

Kimbro said she and her fellow authors are uncertain whether this shift is because higher - income families moved into high - poverty neighborhoods due to home foreclosure or other factors, or families within moderate - poverty neighborhoods losing income and becoming poorer (thus increasing the number of poor residents).

The number of people affected by droughts could increase by a factor of seven and coastal damage, due to sea - level rise, could more than triple.

One factor is that researchers have found warmer temperatures increase the number of young produced by the gloomy scale insect — a significant tree pest — by 300 percent, which in turn leads to 200 times more adult gloomy scales on urban trees.

The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.

«With increasing numbers of blacks entering professional and management roles in numerous industries, it is important to investigate and address the social factors contributing to the short sleep disparities in blacks compared with whites in general, and particularly in professional settings,» said lead author Chandra Jackson, Yerby postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Nutrition at HSPH.

A number of factors were associated with an increased risk of developing heart failure after a first myocardial infarction.

Her first study on the topic reported that, in biological and physical sciences departments, a collegial climate — an environment where faculty members feel included in the department's informal network and feel that their colleagues value their research, among other factors — increased the number of papers that faculty members produced.

Tonsor says several factors are contributing to the increased prices, such as the drought, the historically low number of cattle and recent animal health diseases.

There has been a needle exchange in Norfolk for four years, Sheppard says, but «There is no indication that it is a factor which has increased the number of addicts.»

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For example, a general increase in some of the fruity - smelling lactones as well as a curry - like smelling lactone (sotolone); a moderate increase in the flavor dilution factors of a number of esters and alcohols (which might explain the increase of liquor - like / toasty notes), and highly elevated levels of flavor dilution factors of vanillin.

The number of people who suffer from celiac disease has been steadily increasing in the past decade, and some researchers feel it may be blamed on environmental factors.

In high cirrus clouds, which consist purely of ice crystals, the researchers, however, came across a surprisingly strong reaction to laser irradiation: As described in PNAS, the laser pulses increase the number of ice particles by up to a factor of 100 within only a few seconds.