Sentences with phrase «last years challenge»

I already liked last years challenge result, but this dress tops it.

I had over the last year challenged God to do certain things, like moving an object or other such silly things... which He did not.

I don't understand why you are so quick to announce our team as Europa League bound when last year we challenged in every competition.

This likely sends Republicans back to the drawing board for a candidate to run against Schneiderman, who has in the last year challenged policies backed by President Donald Trump's administration.

This time last year a challenge to the bedroom tax was defeated.

The plaintiff in the Supreme Court case is a familiar name in New York political circles: Shaun McCutcheon, an Alabama businessman and Republican activist who last year challenged New York's contribution limit to independent expenditure - only committees.

Last year I challenged myself to try and learn two of the traditional skills that our great - grandparents used in everyday life; soap making and making homemade vinegars.

Not exact matches

«In order to meet the growing challenge of a tough market last year, I was forced to consider alternative options to keep my business viable,» said Dr. Alan Glazier, the company's founder and CEO.

«We did face supply chain challenges last year, but the full - price channels in North America are now clean,» Edwards said in emailed answers to questions from Reuters, referring to new stock that would not have to be discounted.

I find this fascinating, because one of the biggest challenges I've confronted as a founder over the last few years has been changing my mind, when I have a realization and I become inconsistent on a thought I previously had.

«The last couple of years I've been trying to learn percussion a bit, which has been challenging,» he said.

Despite these challenges, Nakanishi is confident of surpassing last year's earnings result, noting that the direction the company is heading remains «very appropriate.»

«I don't want to set it aside and explain it,» she told Fortune's Geoff Colvin last year, «because I think it has uncovered some things in our company that it's critical we challenge ourselves to change and to fix.»

Think about this scenario: A five - minute outage of all of Google's services last year due to internal network challenges cost the company a whopping $ 108,000 every minute.

After navigating the company through its first substantial challenges (the U.S. authorities investigated Alibaba's accounting practices last year, concerned about data from its blockbuster annual sale), Tsai is making more positive headlines of late.

«Firstly, he has questioned the usefulness of stationing American troops in Japan and South Korea, thus challenging the pillars of US military power in East Asia for the last 70 years (the US maintains 40,000 troops in Japan and 28,000 troops in South Korea).

Last year, a team of four students from New York University's Abu Dhabi campus and I presented in front of a panel of judges at the Hult Prize, which awards $ 1 million in seed funding to innovative startup ideas that address a global social challenge.

But the company was also contending with other challenges: the takeover of its pharmacy business by CVS Health (cvs) last year has not gone smoothly and the retailer's grocery strategy is confused, two ongoing problems that have hit store traffic.

«That's not to say that there aren't going to be some concerns and antitrust issues of you know, one distributor owning various content and it might somehow impact other distributors, but it doesn't raise the same challenges as some of those other transitions have brought,» Delrahim said last year.

(Last year's challenge was visiting all the states he'd never been to and meeting people there.)

The La Pietra Coalition, a group of leaders advocating for women's advancement that last year launched The Third Billion campaign to support the scores of women entering the workforce, identifies four challenges that stand between women and equal opportunity.

«Cloudera has built its partner strategy out very well over the last year, and this is a key win, challenging the exclusivity Hortonworks seemed to have achieved in the nascent Hadoop - on - Windows world — one that is untapped so far but will become very large,» says Gartner analyst Merv Adrian, addressing Cloudera's pacts with Microsoft.

The last vestiges of 2013's legislative wrangling behind him, Obama's attention turns now to major challenges and potential bright spots in the year ahead.

But, given the Security and Exchange Commission's lifting last week of an 80 year ban on «general solicitation,» which prohibited entrepreneurs from publicly discussing private investment offerings, these two archetypal entrepreneurs shed light on the challenges entrepreneurs seeking funds face and how, for some of them, the ban's lifting might be transformative.

Dell unveiled the deal in October last year, the largest ever in the technology industry sector, and designed to enable it to better challenge rivals Cisco Systems, IBM and Hewlett - Packard in cloud computing, mobility and cyber security.

Its U.S. sales were up a staggering 23 % last year, driven by newly aggressive advertising and, perhaps, neophyte drinkers» desire for lighter, less challenging whiskey.

So when Moment heard last year about an opportunity to work on an airport that could calm its passengers, they were intrigued by the challenge.

Even national brands face a daunting challenge: last year, just 20 % of High Liner's wild - caught seafood came from certified fisheries — a level that exposes the company to considerable commercial risk.

As advertisers leveraged this trend last year, their challenge was to provide a real insight about the female audience that could also be tied to the product or company in a meaningful way.

It's true that the 235,826 immigrants Canada accepted last year represent important challenges in terms of their economic and social integration with the rest of the country.

The ice bucket challenge has raised more than $ 22 million over the past three weeks, compared to $ 1.9 million during the same period last year.

Over the last four years, despite a challenging global economy, we added almost 3,000 full - time jobs in Canada.

But last year, when a new set of growth challenges confronted the company, he began to ask those questions with even greater concern.

Beyond Charney's proclivity for attracting lawsuits, the other big challenge for the company is to deal with its debt — $ 175 million as of the end of last year.

Such bans are a challenge for every drive - thru - based business, but the stakes are especially high for Tim Hortons — last year, 50 % of its $ 2 billion revenue came in via the drive - thru.

But department stores aren't just competing with one another: They have the challenge of competing with online retailers. Shop.org forecasts that online holiday sales this year will climb 11 percent over last season's, to $ 105 billion.

These are a few challenges I have faced over the last few years, but the joy I get from running this company far outweighs the challenges that are occasionally encountered (except maybe the license fees).

«Last year, we delivered higher revenue and stronger pre-tax margins despite a challenging environment for our market - making businesses,» Lloyd C. Blankfein, Goldman's chairman and CEO, said in a statement.

Ted Leonsis, co-founder of Revolution Growth, which invested in Optoro last year as well as in the current round, said in an announcement that the company is transforming the way mainstream retailers handle the costly challenge of managing returned inventory.

She officially took MacArthur's helm last year after over a decade as a top exec there, and has moved with bold decisiveness to streamline the foundation and focus its resources on some of the biggest challenges of our time, including climate change and mass incarceration.

«Hiring has been more challenging in the last two years than probably the previous 10,» Ms. Kennedy said.

«Last year I chose to help out with Tough Mudder because I personally enjoy participating in obstacle races that challenge both your body and mind.

A federally commissioned report last year warned the government was «simply not up to the overall challenge» of fending off cyberthreats on its own and must partner with the private sector and the United States to tackle the problem.

For a decade it has been seeking to develop half a dozen new «economic cities»; most have grown much more slowly than hoped, and Riyadh complained last year that some faced «challenges that threaten their viability».

The Middle East has faced numerous economic and political challenges in the last few years, but to its credit, it has weathered them reasonably well.

«My feeling is that really since the latter part of last year, a number of challenges have raised up for the stock market,» Paulsen said, noting that stock valuations are higher, interest rates are rising, the labor market is tightening, and it appears inflation could finally be on the horizon.

«Last year they were somewhat challenged by the outflow story, so they underperformed peers, but we continue to be very positive on them long - term.»

While there are some signs of recognition such as the Fed's reduction in its estimated neutral rate from 4.5 percent to 3.0 percent during the last 2 years, the IMF's explicit use of the term secular stagnation in its World Economic Outlook, ECB president Mario Draghi's call for global coordination and greater use of fiscal policy, and Japan's indicated interest in fiscal - monetary cooperation, policymakers still have not made sufficiently radical adjustments in their world view to reflect this new reality of a world where generating adequate nominal GDP growth is likely to be the primary macroeconomic policy challenge for the next decade.

This was highlighted in a worldwide «challenges and opportunities» process in which I participated late last year that led to the creation of the Global Opportunity Report 2015.

Last year's men's singles defending champion and # 1 seed Georgie Jecminek will have his title defense challenging by 19 year old Kyryll Kryvchun of West Vancouver.