Sentences with phrase «making difficult»

According to CoreLogic, more than one out of four homeowners with a mortgage are «underwater,» making it difficult for the borrowers to either refinance or sell.

I plan to keep adding these dividend growth stocks to grow my passive dividend income to a point where all my expenses are covered by passive income generated by them, although, my pace is going to moderate due to stock market getting over-valued, making it difficult to find good values.

Many women who take refuge in shelters, often with their children, lose their jobs or have limited education, making it difficult to secure a job and become independent.

Another common factor here is that many of the places that suffered long blackouts have remote populations or have cities strewn across islands, making it difficult and tedious to get the necessary repair supplies in place.

I have noticed that some used cars have really held their value over the past 5 model years, making it difficult for used cars buyers like ourselves to get good deals.

However, she was born with no left hand, making it difficult to play the instrument.

The monthlong reprieve prolongs the state of uncertainty hanging over the global economy, making it difficult for businesses to plan and discouraging them from investing in new factories or hiring more workers.

Small businessmen and private individuals, who never understood that the Chrysler bail - out would squeeze $ 1.2 billion out of the credit market, making it difficult and more costly for them to raise business capital or finance a mortgage on a new house, all of which would have created new jobs

Don't jump around from file to file, or open new programs, if possible, or flip from page to page or move your cursor quickly around, making it difficult to follow.

An HTTPS website is a regular website that is protected by an SSL security system that encrypts data, making it difficult for hackers to steal information, such as email addresses and credit card numbers.

Narration leaves much to be desired - very robotic and distracting to listen to making it difficult to extract key takeaways from the audio version alone.

«Even with more money in their pocket from tax refunds, the strain of major and unexpected medical costs are hitting families hard and making it difficult for them to recover,» Diana Farrell, president and chief executive officer of the JPMorgan Chase Institute, said in the press release.

Cohn argues that it's difficult for exit polls to be accurate because pollers don't typically ask a respondent's race, age or income — though they do estimate the former two — making it difficult to control for these factors when using such surveys to predict a result.

As many as 30 percent of them, according to the Institute for Veterans and Military Families, will leave the service with an enduring physical or mental injury, making it difficult to find and hold traditional jobs.

Stirring a few new microbes into the already - colonized pot doesn't always have the desired effect, making it difficult to use them to our advantage.

And while the insurance lobby is lauding the rule, it's also expressed deep concerns about the uncertainty still swirling around the health law, which is making it difficult for insurers to effectively set their rates for next year.

An anonymous blog post in November 2014 purporting to be from the developer claims ByLock had attracted around 1 million users, making it difficult to maintain, in part because the app had come under attack from unnamed «Middle East countries».

Trump didn't release his tax returns during his campaign for president and still doesn't plan to while under audit (despite the fact it is legally possible), making it difficult to judge how wealthy he really is.

But most trials in China are closed to to the public, making it difficult for the media or human rights groups to investigate.

In a statement, Representative Nydia Velazquez described it as a «meat cleaver» and said it would «create a permanent state of regulatory uncertainty, making it difficult for businesses to plan ahead.»

«The current environment is making things uncertain, so H - 1B holders are afraid to leave their jobs, making it difficult for smaller companies [like mine] to attract talent,» Medina says.

That disables the power - assisted steering and brakes, making it difficult to control the car, and deactivates the air bags.

It can take months for a new habit to stick, making it difficult to trade your old bad behaviors in for new, healthier ones.

One of the stumbling blocks has been the low - fee nature of ETFs, he said, making it difficult for asset managers to make money off of them.

True, farmland prices could fall if interest rates rise and if crop prices decline in big ways, making it difficult for farmers to repay loans.

And many millennial parents are still paying off their own student loans, making it difficult to put money away for their kids» college education.

It retains a 1980s - style, command - driven interface, making it difficult to learn and clunky - looking.

Wandering off of a trail damages the ground around it, obscuring the real path and making it difficult for future visitors to find and follow.

Analysts say Skype needs to aggressively expand to secure more loyal users, making it difficult for Google to win market share.

Today, he adds, stocks are trading as one giant mass, making it difficult to determine whether one company is better than another.

But technology is creeping into the offline world, making it difficult to go anywhere without leaving a trace.

The company also maintains an unwritten policy of rewarding employees who work late over those who arrive early and leave at the end of a normal work - day, making it difficult for women with children, according to the complaint.

It sometimes seems like «business as usual» is still making it difficult for people to really feel like they are collaborating and communicating to get things done.

If not done correctly, presentations can come off as dull and flat — making them difficult to sit through.

The mermaid tail binds swimmers» legs together, making it difficult to kick, and YouTube videos of kids struggling to stay afloat terrified parents worldwide.

They can be easily concealed and bolted down making them difficult to remove.

Galloway says Amazon's move into pharmaceuticals is going to drive down prices, making it difficult for anyone else to compete.

These days, the key to making the difficult process of business growth easier is to maximize your ability to connect with potential customers and to automate tasks that don't need your full attention, so you can focus on the ones that do.

Indeed, monetary policy is hyper - expansionary, making it difficult to see any kind of a Canadian housing crash on the horizon.

Early symptoms of an Ebola infection can be non-specific, making it difficult to diagnose which can include red eyes and rash.

But as my experience demonstrates, democratization quickly can devolve into anarchy — making it difficult for learners to find advice from a true expert.

The process of determining which goods to send to these rented facilities was haphazard, making it difficult to track things down later.

As a result, outsize price swings can hamper liquidity, making it difficult for markets to function properly when it's most crucial, says Kolanovic, JPMorgan's global head of quantitative and derivatives strategy.

Voices often sounded airy and tinny, making them difficult to hear in louder environments.

Many companies restrict Internet activity so heavily that it makes it difficult for people to do online research.

My daughter worked part time as a server at a local restaurant and made difficult decisions all the time, like how to deal with a regular customer whose behavior constituted borderline harassment.

Those tensions would make it difficult for a US airline to even test child - free seating without creating controversy.

Realities such as these have made it difficult to apply game theory to the global oil market.

But the FCC seems to be trying to impose conditions that will make it difficult, according to comments made by chairman Tom Wheeler.

This automatically put me in work mode, which made it difficult to focus on my wife and children for the brief time I have with them before heading to the office.