Sentences with phrase «is up to the challenge by»

Bhula added that the Board of Bokpoort CSP have placed significant pressure on the management team to raise the bar regarding overall performance expectations and clearly, the team is up to the challenge by consistently setting new standards not only in production but also through their positive socioeconomic impact and responsible environmental management.

Not exact matches

Moving forward, seed rounds will be increasingly challenging as many angel and seed investors close up shop and capital becomes a little bit harder to come by.

Scorpio and co-founder Sam Zaid were members of Singularity's first class, in 2009; they were challenged by Google co-founder Larry Page to come up with a plan that would, in 10 years, impact a billion people.

One co-founder of a startup with a multibillion - dollar valuation told me he's so inspired by the Facebook CEO and his annual personal challenges, he listens to the soundtrack of The Social Network to psych himself up for board meetings and presentations.

«Playing fields can be leveled, barriers removed, the benefits opened up to all... The challenges posed by protectionism are all too clear.»

Noting the fall in print circulation and the failure for online revenues to catch up, the review will look at the overall health of print media, looking at the range of news available and how the press is adapting to the challenges presented by digital.

The more challenging task was an «additive cancellation» task where each row of digits was preceded by a target number that the participant was asked to circle and then proceed to cross of any two adjacent numbers that «added up» to their target number.

Staples is setting an example by setting its own company goal of recruiting one million small businesses to sign up for the Challenge, and they are working closely with the Association of Small Business Development Centers (ASBDC) to achieve their objective.

A flurry of White House meetings ensued, with participation by representatives of the Defense Department, to translate Trump's announcement into guidance that could be implemented and would stand up to expected legal challenges.

That raises the possibility of court challenges by First Nations, blockades along the pipeline route between Edmonton and Kitimat, B.C., and rallies in major cities during the run - up to a federal election that must be called by October 2015.

Although upstart mattress companies are challenging brick - and - mortar incumbents like Sleep Country by offering lower prices and a hassle - free experience, the company plans to open up to 12 locations annually for the next five to seven years.

BlackBerry, for example, gave up on BB10 because, chief executive John Chen hinted, it cost too much to write drivers for different chips; by going to Android, that challenge is abstracted away to Google.

Rather, it is just a clear challenge to be met (Region X), and you are framing it in a somewhat positive light by suggesting that you are going to lift Region X up to that level, instead of making it sound like a thorn in the side of the overall success.

«Though there are thousands of professional investment managers who have amassed staggering fortunes by touting their stock - selecting prowess, only one man — Ted Seides — stepped up to my challenge,» Buffet said in his letter, signed Feb. 25.

Small business owners are often so caught up by securing new customers, completing projects, dealing with employee issues and a myriad of other day - to - day challenges that they neglect to issue invoices in a timely manner.

Perhaps traditional grocery stores will be forced to confront the challenge posed by big box stores and delivery companies like FreshDirect by playing up the community aspect of the shopping experience — just as some of the most successful bookstores have become more like coffee shops and community centers in order to stay in business.

It is up to leaders to create a work environment that faces challenges head - on by building a strong culture from the very beginning with great talent who will push the status quo.

I recently read an opinion piece by Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini in which he extolls the virtues of greeting the sun just as it's rising each morning: «Every day I get up at 5:30 for my own yoga and meditation practice because I know I'm going to head into a chaotic world where I will be challenged.»

Companies like Paradigm and Textio, for example, are helping major tech companies overcome this challenge by offering trainings and workshops on implicit bias and opening up their hiring practices to more diverse candidates.

What's more, shopper traffic was up again, a notable achievement given the challenges faced by rivals from Target (tgt) to Macy's (m) to get people to come into stores over the holidays.

Finance Friday's gets off the ground with today's post by introducing you to an imaginary startup, the entrepreneurs that we'll being following throughout the series, and their first challenges: splitting up the founders» equity and addressing the case where one of the founders provides the initial seed capital for the business.

But BuzzFeed is facing challenges similar to those faced by both traditional and start - up media companies.

If you are up to the challenge, our comprehensive step - by - step curriculum will give you the structure, mentor support, and global network you need to start an enduring company.

By showing humility, exhibiting confidence without appearing cocky, being kind, and remaining realistic, a leader forges a clear path to the envisioned destination and doesn't give up despite challenges that arise on the way.

The genome prize was conceived by geneticist J. Craig Venter, a kindred spirit who left the National Institutes of Health (NIH), frustrated by its bureaucracy, and then set up a company to challenge it in a race to decode the genome.

Knee - jerk loyalty to American regime change projects drove both, but they were nevertheless strange policies to be taken up by a country that has its own challenges with national unity.

START Hack is an entrepreneurial hackathon, a coding competition where over 350 computer scientists, engineers and programmers yearly find their way to St. Gallen to work on challenges provided by corporate and start - up partners.

The challenge of judging how much response was necessary has been complicated by the global credit turmoil, which has had the effect of pushing up actual borrowing costs relative to the cash rate the Reserve Bank sets.

Krauthammer challenges his readers by asking if they would hesitate to hang a man by his thumbs if doing so were necessary to defuse a ticking bomb that would blow up New York City.

But fired up as I was about porn culture and sexual violence, and questioning attitudes towards women in the Church, I felt bombarded by messages about conservative «biblical womanhood» that I couldn't identify with and that didn't seem to do anything to challenge the injustice I saw.

In fact, dogmatic theology can make us more resistent to Grace, «knowledge, when it is not transformed by love, «puffs up», feeds instead of challenging the narcissistic ego.

The claim, «You don't believe the Bible is true» is nothing more than a smokescreen put up by manipulative religion to discredit or ignore a challenging teaching or idea about the Bible which disagrees or contradicts what that religion teaches.

Since what I hear over an amplified PA system (kind of hard to «ignore» 70 db invocations in a mid size room, tbh) are things in the prayer I passionately disagree with, yet barred by prayer protocol to challenge the assertions of the prayperson (which such challenges to ideas are encouraged at public meetings) it sets up a «I'm not going to get anything accomplished unless I pretend I am one of them.»

My hope is that the polling industry will take up the serious challenges it currently faces by doing all it can to produce better information before polling reaches the point where its results generate no confidence at all.

Religion News Service: Sultans of Satire aims to bridge gaps with Muslims, Arabs through comedy Produced by the Levantine Cultural Center, which is dedicated to highlighting Middle Eastern and Arab culture, the Sultans of Satire stand - up show aims to challenge stereotypes and sensitivities while bringing people together with a few laughs.

Yes, many aspects of Christendom are not so reasonable, and can be safely discarded, but the core beliefs of Christianity as founded by Jesus and centered upon Him can stand up to any and all challenges.

Since 1806 Mexico has suffered military intervention at least ten times by U.S. troops, and if there are no interventions in the offing now, perhaps it is largely because the U.S. has been shoring up the rule of one party, which wins rigged elections and then fails to challenge U.S. investment and business practices that increase human suffering for campesinos and urban poor there.

The main objectives of this Consultation were to analyze globalization and its impact on human rights; to study ethical and theological considerations with regard to globalization; to search for alternative development paradigms; to study the policies of developed nations on development and trade policies in the context of globalization; to gain inputs on the experiences of indigenous people, workers and farmers who are affected by globalization; to consider the response of the Churches to the challenges posed by globalization and to study and identify concerns that the Asian churches can take up in order to address the adverse impact of globalization in the Asian context.

In doing so he challenges the unfortunate notion that metaphysics is nothing to do with physics and finally resolves the impasse concerning objective knowledge thrown up by Immanuel Kant.

And we will be challenged by King's dream to continue the work of living up to our highest values and deepest convictions.

For example, business leaders in the aftermath of the popular protests that challenged U.S. involvement in Vietnam complained about too much democracy in the United States.6 In a similar way, free elections are held up by U.S. leaders as essential for democracy unless political parties opposed to U.S. interests win.

By affirming the importance of surrounding and supporting communities to poor children and children whose home life is in disarray, the Kauai study challenges us to reflect on what might be done to shore up, or at least to avoid damaging, these structures.

Before we close this part of our discussion, let us sketch a few of the tasks which will have to be faced if Bultmann's challenge is to be taken up seriously by the theologians.

Only the Catholic Church, weakened though she is by many attacks from outside and in, is going to be able to face up to the great challenges of today.

Luther was correct when he challenged the Medieval Catholic Scholastics over their teaching that * sin * was man turned down toward the things of earth rather than up towards the things of heaven by teaching that * sin * was actually man turned in upon himself or, as modern mental health professions state «narcissistic egoism, a disorder that closes us off from others rather than opening us up to them.

The challenge before us is to navigate the hyphen and be prepared to explore our varied histories, discover the outside forces, question the economic compulsions, be astounded by the cultural diversity, empathise with the experience of marginality, marvel at the memories that have shaped all these various selves, and offered, and continue to offer us, an identity or identities across the hyphen, as the various embodied selves that make up the assorted group of people who are called Indian - Christians.

The karate instructor tells Randall, «We are your community... when things get hard, we will be the ones to hold you up,» pointing to the responsibility of every dad in the room to showcase their strength and love to their sons by carrying them through life's challenges.

Berkouwer rightly sees that the challenge of the nouvelle théologie was taken up by John XXIII in his opening address to the Second Vatican Council in a much - discussed statement: «The deposit or the truths of faith, contained in our sacred teaching, are one thing, while the mode in which they are enunciated, keeping the same meaning and the same judgment, is another.»

A positioning statement elicits a reaction and is met by a challenge, a cycle that often goes through several iterations before one or both sides gives up out of frustration, explodes into ad - hominem attacks or «agrees to disagree.»

Nonetheless, if we are to stand up to the challenge presented by this kind of» technology, it will take more than coalitions and petitions.