These issues are challenging for any family and doubly challenging when a child is being raised between two households.
Students with behavioral
issues are challenging for teachers and classmates alike.
The bed
issue is challenging for me, mostly because I feel so strongly that my family sleep on something non-toxic and also because of a back issue that makes it hard for me to get comfortable — especially with squirmy kids around.
Not exact matches
I realize the
issues we
're talking about today aren't just
issues for Facebook and our community — they
're challenges for all of us as Americans.
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issues are two major
challenges for farmers with moves afoot to provide relief on both fronts.
If anything has gotten easier
for Barkan despite the physical and emotional
challenges that comes with his illness, it
's that the
issues he
is now advocating
for are much simpler to explain to people than US interest rate policy, which has
been his focus at the Center
for Popular Democracy.
Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2)
challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities
for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to
be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may
be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which
is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies
being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement
is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to
be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may
be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.
Identifying and recruiting talent
is a
challenge for large businesses, and even more of an
issue for small businesses, where a future employee needs to demonstrate a high level of resilience and entrepreneurial spirit in order to develop with the business and adapt to unexpected.
The Internet presents
challenges for companies around
issues like trust and identity — determining that a person with whom you
are transacting
is indeed who they say they
are requires some kind of independent verification.
That account
was questioned in 2013 and 2014 by investigators working
for the Senate Intelligence Committee, which also
issued a lengthy report in December that
challenged the CIA's assertions on the effectiveness of torture.
Abigail Bozarth, a spokeswoman
for AstraZeneca, said «AstraZeneca believes it
is important to engage with policymakers, key partners, and the public — across all states in the United States — about the very
challenging issues we face as we all work to strengthen our nation's health care system.»
Sexism in the workplace, equal pay
issues, and a heavy saturation of men in an office — especially if there
's a lingering Old Boy
's Club mentality — can make it a
challenge for a woman to achieve her maximum potential.
While these teams, along with larger companies such as Hyperloop One and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies,
are working on solving the technical
issues of the hyperloop, other
challenges exist ahead
for the transportations system.
Who hasn't faced the
challenge of
being asked
for a document, looking fruitlessly across several shared drives, and then searching
for clues among email and team messaging streams — only to
be caught up in a fresh breaking
issue that makes us lose track of whatever we
were looking
for in the first place?
It
's doubtful that Flipboard, which has its own user - growth
challenges, will solve this particular
issue for Twitter (although Periscope just might).
When I interviewed
for my flight attendant position at Pinnacle Airlines in 2010, the hiring manager slid a piece of paper across the table and told me, as if
issuing challenge, «That
's how much you'll make in your first year» — a fairly cinematic way of telling someone their salary
is $ 15,500, though at least she
was candid.
Despite ongoing business
challenges and employment
issues that
are clearly ripe
for improvement, according to the American Psychological Association some employers have seized the opportunity to create a healthy culture where employees and the organization can thrive.
While the new 4 - in - One's 10X lens suffers from the same key
issue as before — the
challenge of stabilization
for a roughly postage stamp - sized focus area at a several - inch distance — the results we achieved
were superior in contrast and apparently a little sharper, as well.
Other
issues raised by the committee included why Facebook does not provide an overall control or opt - out
for political advertising; why it does not offer a separate feed
for ads but chooses to embed them into the Newsfeed; how and why it gathers data on non-users; the addictiveness engineered into its product; what it does about fake accounts; why it hasn't recruited more humans to help with the «
challenges» of managing content on a platform that
's scaled so large; and aspects of its approach to GDPR compliance.
While the benefits of distributed ledgers have
been much discussed, Bain concluded that actual tools using blockchain
for international payments and trade finance remain in their early stages as banks remain
challenged by scaling the technology, along with uncertainties surrounding digital currencies and privacy
issues.
«My personal
challenge for 2018
is to focus on fixing these important
issues.
Beyond that, this blog
is for you, the reader at large, and I hope that I can
challenge and engage you to think about
issues in different ways or at least get you to argue about my thinking on them.
Negotiating such a deal will
be challenging given the complexity of the
issues at hand and the need to secure Canadian public support
for closer economic ties.
«His reaction invariably
was that a few bad employees
were causing
issues... he
was too late and too slow to call
for inspection or critical
challenge to (Wells») basic business model,» the board said.
The elimination of European tariffs
is «the single most
challenging issue»
for the American lobster industry, said Annie Tselikis, the executive director of the Maine Lobster Dealers» Association, which represents companies that buy lobster from Maine fishermen.
The meetings, which
were organized by Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters and the Canadian Manufacturing Coalition, focused on raising the profile of
issues critical to driving investment in manufacturing and growing the sector that accounts
for $ 287 billion in provincial GDP and 81 per cent of exports in 2014 despite
challenges stemming from the economic downturn.
Bitcoin tumbled probably the most since July after China's central financial institution mentioned preliminary coin offerings
are illegal and asked all related fundraising activity to
be halted immediately,
issuing the strongest regulatory
challenge to this point to the burgeoning marketplace
for digital token sales.
It
is counter intuitive, but a move by Barclays to ditch its «zombie» Isas and reduce rates
for one.six million will pay out dividends in the long - term, says James Daley Photo: PA It
is challenging not to think that
issues really
are modifying at Barclays.
Our throne speech http://www.alberta.ca/throne-speech.cfm
was delivered on March 8 and outlined our plan to both overcome these
challenging issues now and create a more resilient economy
for the future:
Content,
for example,
is produced with a basic generic understanding of
challenges and
issues.
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This
issue has
been a pressing
challenge for small business owners over the last year: Small business owners responding to the survey also listed hiring as their top
challenge in July and October 2017 surveys.
Attendees will have the opportunity to gain insight into specific
challenges they
are having within their business and receive valuable targeted advice
for those
issues.
It
is precisely the sort of
challenge for which the commission exists — to act on a vital
issue when the Legislature
is incapable or unwilling.
Their high - stakes, two - day summit
is being closely watched
for signs of how the leaders of the world's two biggest economies will
be able to cooperate on
issues from North Korea to trade to cybersecurity amid mounting
challenges in the Asia - Pacific.
We see churches who pick one or two
issues and prove they
are challenging culture, while not living a life that shows people who we want to live like, and who we live
for.
Atheists
are spiritually
challenged individuals which
is the primary cause
for their tendency to
be intellectually dishonest on
issues of faith.
This
issue is about the power the church has had in this country
for decades without
being questioned or
challenged.
Pinning down Hauerwas» theology
is a
challenge for students studying his work, primarily because his thoughts cover a swathe of theological
issues — from pacifism to abortion, politics to disability.
Mr Deighan will have read in these pages «something very close» to the idea that Thomistic epistemology tends to emphasise «immutable essences» and static forms, and that this emphasis has
been powerfully
challenged by the success of modern science (
for example Jaeger's article in our last
issue and in our September 2006
issue the editorial and the quotes from Ronald Knox's God and the Atom).
When they deign to reply to a woman, which
is itself far more rare than their replying to men who
issue identical
challenges, it almost invariably
is for the purposes of condescension and dismissal.
Earlier this year, bosses named the roll out of Universal Credit as a key factor fuelling the growing demand
for foodbank use - a claim the Government
challenged, saying it
was unfair to attribute the trend to a single
issue.
Even among Christians,
for whom scripture should
be a guide to life's
challenges, many cling to the idea that
issues such as abortion and the end of life
are so complex that only a simple - minded person, unable to see two sides of an argument, could possibly take a firm stance.
A
Challenge for Process Theology,» George Pixley has put decisively before all process thinkers a host of
issues arising from the struggle
for justice and humanization which
are at the heart of the conflict within the world today.
But the real term
for the American bishops who have
issued a
challenge similar to Francis Parkman's
is another that could
be applied to Augustine, Borromeo, and Wojtyla: «confessor» — a synonym
for defenders of the faith.
When my wife and I moved to Pasadena, California, we joined a group of well - educated couples who
were meeting in a local Baptist church on Sunday mornings
for a freewheeling discussion of life, social
issues and various cultural
challenges to the Christian faith.
A strategy
for meeting
challenges such as these, however, can not
be based on a theoretically premature moralization of the
issues.
The point
is not that the preaching
is to
be a discussion of moral
issues, such as might
be entirely appropriate in a lecture or discussion - group; rather, the preaching
is both a
challenge to and a demand
for a response which will represent in act that requirement of love in action in the world.
For that reason, we can count on the fact that there will
be someone, somewhere, ready to press this
issue by raising a
challenge in the court and testing the limits even further.
Relational theology
challenges typical theology to face this
issue directly, to reexamine its motives and arguments
for subjective immortality, and to insure that God
is primary.