They even contend growth will be much
more difficult this year.
Of the small - business owners who responded to a recent Inc.com survey about collections, 61 % said getting paid was
more difficult this year than it was last year.
Even deciding whether to continue home schooling for another year can be a big decision, especially if you have had
a more difficult year (which often happens in the first or second year of home schooling).
Their jobs only get
more difficult each year, and no praise is worthy enough for them.
In our school district, this becomes
more difficult each year as we struggle with issues that, being rooted in racial factors, become ever more complex.
ANTONIO GARCIA, NO. 63 MOBIL 1 / SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R: «This race will be even
more difficult this year with more brands and new cars in our category.
Chagall: Love, War & Exile will be opening on September 15, 2013, at the Jewish Museum with artworks created by the artist during
the more difficult years of his life.
The only thing I regret is not being entrusted with more of his works at that time — just one would have represented two years of turnover for me during
the more difficult years.
Making partner in any discipline is becoming
more difficult each year.
With the images we currently see every day on our TV screens, of refugees desperately struggling across oceans and fields to escape the horrors of war, it may be slightly
more difficult this year than most for people to find further compassion for those who are homeless this winter.
That's getting
more difficult every year, it seems, because everyone has not only pretty much everything they NEED, but most of us have way more than we WANT... and lots of us are trying to minimize the amount of unnecessary stuff in our homes.
Not exact matches
It is
difficult to walk
more than 10 feet without stepping over at least one pair of the iconic American creation, responsible for a global market that researcher Euromonitor predicts will be worth nearly $ 143 billion next
year.
He added that he was concerned over whether that could become
more difficult in the coming
years.
Securing a small - business loan has become
more difficult in recent
years.
Sobeys bought the Western Canadian chain in 2013 for $ 5.8 billion; it took just under $ 3 billion in impairment charges last
year after digesting the purchase proved
more difficult than anticipated.
The second quarter of last
year was the company's best ever, making it
more difficult to top this
year, the executives warned analysts.
The second -
year quarterback Paxton Lynch looks set to start for Denver on Sunday, giving the Broncos one
more opportunity to see what he has before the franchise begins to make some
difficult roster decisions.
Look for other established brands to enter the recycled apparel segment in the
years ahead, making it
more difficult for fledgling labels like Outerknown to compete.
But without a majority decision on Halo, it could be
more difficult for district courts to award attorneys» fees to prevailing parties in patent troll cases, which every
year sap billions of dollars in such fees.
This
year we will see this debate unfold as the rental industry becomes
more difficult to navigate.
«With fewer bargain - priced properties to choose from and a growing number of traditional buyers, finding a home for vacation purposes became
more difficult and less affordable last
year,» he said.
Attracting attention at the big tech show last
year proved to be
more far
more difficult than one startup expected.
45 % of digital marketers plan to hire
more social media personnel this
year, which may prove
difficult, as 80 % say it is
difficult to find qualified social marketing candidates.
Seasonal adjustments tend to be
more difficult around holidays, and claims remain near a 45 -
year low, indicating a persistent shortage of qualified workers is keeping employers reluctant to fire staff.
Interest rates will inevitably rise, as the Bank of Canada keeps pointing out, and the federal government has instituted numerous changes over the past few
years that will make a home purchase
more difficult for first - time buyers.
Leaders of global firms operating in China say doing business there has become far
more difficult in the five
years since Xi became president.
But that changed two
years ago when Canada's exports plunged and companies suddenly found borrowing
more difficult.
That July 1996 survey of 838 company owners found that 56 % believe it's
more difficult today to find qualified employees than it was five
years ago.
I would guess that there is a much sharper drop in the chance of your business surviving for 2
years during a recession caused by a financial crisis where it is much
more difficult to raise funding.
China is a
more difficult proposition, though the company has said it will launch there next
year.
An analysis by Fortune estimates that they have
more than accomplished their simple but often
difficult mandate to beat the S&P 500, the benchmark their pay is tied to over a three
year period.
I suspect the Fed's job will be much
more difficult over the next few
years.
There are generally
more than 800 changes on average to the tax code each
year, which means that even full - time CPAs have a
difficult time keeping up with them.
Until
more details are provided by the Department of Finance and / or contained in the upcoming Public Accounts, it is
difficult to assess what impact the higher - than - expected deficit outcome for 2011 - 12 will have on the deficit outcome for 2012 - 13 and future
years.
The
more interesting and
difficult case is the one - time price level rise, which takes place over a
year or two (or three or four).
The decrease in ad revenue at ESPN was due to a
difficult comparison with the Men's World Cup in Q3 last
year, which
more than offset the benefit of an additional game of the NBA Finals in Q3 this
year.
Lower
year - over-
year increases in gas prices, as well as
more difficult comps resulted in slightly lower card sales growth than in the prior quarter
year - over-
year increase.
Borrowing just a quarter of a person's balance during these early income
years makes it all the
more difficult to stay on track with retirement savings if they reduce or stop saving.
Will probably last for three
more years until the government shuts down or makes
difficult more on - demand firms like Uber, Lyft, TaskRabbit, etc from operating.
Making needed fixes to Obamacare before next
year may be
more difficult — and expensive — than Senate leaders think, state insurance commissioners suggested at a Senate hearing Wednesday.
As for myself I have hit all of my goals thus far this
year which leads me to think that I made it to easy on myself and need to make it
more difficult next
year, or better yet upgrade this
year's goals.
The toxic culture, fostered for 20
years by former CEO Roger Ailes, is proving far
more difficult to remedy.
Although we've experienced double - digit gains in previous
years, the sheer volume of transactions makes achieving such high levels of growth
more difficult.
Academics spend considerable effort attempting to explain these market tendencies, yet the past two
years will only make their job
more difficult: in both
years the September quarters have been quite rewarding to investors.
Transaction Activity One
year ago we wrote that stock market strength meant that
more of the Fund's holdings were approaching their sell targets while it was becoming
more difficult to identify dominant investing opportunities suitable for the Fund.
Family income splitting, costing $ 2 billion this
year in lost revenues, will proceed as planned, again primarily benefitting the most affluent while making it much
more difficult to balance the budget.
It will become
more difficult for them to impress investors later in the
year.
So aside from the fact that the gold sector has started a new cycle, the fundamental scarce nature of gold and the fact that it will become
more difficult to access a steady supply in coming
years, argues a compelling case for gold exposure now.
I have not seen this confirmed but it makes the coming
year more difficult for Draghi if the rumor is true.
But given that strong labour markets have been one of the hallmarks of the past few
years of U.S. expansion, any persistent slowing in this area would certainly make raising rates much
more difficult for the Fed.