Sentences with phrase «much challenged by»

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Transportation policy experts say that high - speed transit in the United States has been stymied not so much by technological challenges as by the challenges of acquiring rights of way and getting enough money for the required infrastructure.

And even though Jim had just spent 36 days alone becoming the first person to cross the mountainous Ungava Peninsula in northern Quebec in winter (the peninsula itself has been crossed in a single season by canoe much further to the south)... we decided this was too big a challenge for us to miss out on.

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.

Tesla's biggest challenge, going forward, is to avoid being such a disruptive upstart in a 100 - year - old business that it gets clobbered by the big, slow carmakers that just happen to be able to flip a switch and build hundreds of thousands of Tesla - like vehicles much faster than Tesla can build actual its cars.

For black men, though, the challenges of the corporate life are daunting at least in part because they are sometimes hard to pin down — influenced as much by age - old prejudice as by cultural preconceptions, the subtleties of psychology, and the weight of human history (more on that soon).

In this campaign, Always is doing much more than selling sanitary products — they're asking every girl to challenge stereotypes and participate in their campaign by telling their own unique stories.

As much as Skylanders might have been seen by the outside world as Infinity's foremost competitor, it was another Star Wars game that added yet another challenge to Disney franchise.

Banks are relying on the short end of the curve for much of their funding, which has been facilitated by the influxes of liquidity provided by the central banks, but challenges remain in the mid - to longer end.

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.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

I didn't get into martech shock (too much tech), difficulty in finding qualified marketing candidates, measurement challenges or the implications of the lockdown on data represented by GDPR in the EU and recent attention being given Facebook by lawmakers.

We're also keeping an eye on the Democratic primary in Illinois's 3rd congressional district, where seven - term Representative Dan Lipinski, a conservative Democrat, is being challenged by the much more progressive political newbie Marie Newman.

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.

A slowdown in China's economic growth and, by extension, much tamer global commodity demand, presents Canada with both a challenge and an opportunity.

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One of the most dramatic changes in my own denomination is the shift away from the adult midnight service on Christmas Eve to a wildly popular «family» service at an earlier hour, which by its very nature can not offer much in the way of a sermon or more challenging music.

When three children at Fatima reported a series of visions, they were interrogated and challenged by both the Church and the public authorities without much sympathy: they stuck resolutely to their accounts of what they had seen and heard.

Some find that men are attracted to them simply because their aura of specialness as ministers» wives is a challenge, in much the way some men are tempted by virgins.

Even his most complex theory which seems to involve matter in the universe disappearing permanently in various places, which he even challenged to his opponents to prove wrong, was pretty much proven wrong by a group of determined scientists.

The second recent book to advance the response of process theology to liberation theology significantly is Delwin Brown's To Set at Liberty.7 This is not so much a critical response to the challenge of the liberation theologies as a reflection on freedom stimulated by this literature.

This broad, liberal creed supported by a set of idealistic categories that never questioned seriously the progressive revelation of the mind of God in the existing personal and social relationships of man has been too much at home in this prosperous world to need to call out a rebellious Danish religious prophet who challenged the very categories of its thought.

Further, the relativism in much of academia should also be challenged by a certainty guaranteed by a rational, creator God.

Karl Stephan raises the objection that my conception of a machine as a physical system constrained entirely by its constitution, dynamics, and interrelationships of parts is just as much an abstraction as the Enlightenment conception of matter that I challenge.

Christians will find this aspect of the book especially challenging and, in general, there is much to disagree with in Goodman's argument by both Christians and Jews.

Tim: I think there is always of course the danger that if you are challenging too much of non-Christian faiths, particularly faiths that are held mostly by members of ethnic minorities, that you might conflate criticisms of their faith with criticism of them as individuals and therefore be seen as racist, so people are nervous of that.

What worldwide Islam faces is not so much a crisis, but a series of challenges presented by quite different political and social environments.

If I ever had reason to be occasionally surprised or challenged by how much we can agree, no longer.

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.

I remember being challenged by his books, but they apparently didn't make a lasting impression on me, because I can't remember much about them.

In this connection, I have been particularly struck by Gustavo Gutiérrez's observation that, whereas much contemporary theology seeks to respond to the challenge of the «nonbeliever» who questions our «religious world» as Christians, in a continent like Latin America the primary challenge comes to us rather from the «nonperson» who questions us about our «economic, social, political and cultural world.»

Much Christian theology still has overtones of this apologetic approach, but it is being challenged by a more ecumenically minded sensitivity to the revelatory possibilities in all the religions.

For the same reason, Griffin is misguided when he believes he has offered a serious challenge to free - will theism by pointing out that «much of the suffering in the world produces not virtue but its opposite» (ER 16).

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Unless, that is, our essentially middle - class life style is challenged by the poverty and oppression which is the lot of most of humankind, and we confront the hard truth that the issue is not reform of the welfare system, no matter how much that is needed, but the end of a capitalist economic order which increasingly divides the world into those who have and those who have not.

No other criticism, even the profound analysis by feminists of the patriarchy in which we all participate, has challenged my thinking as much as this.

As members and pastors of congregations that encourage each other in faithful stewardship each autumn, we are challenged by this idea that we are stewards of much and owners of nothing.

I have learned so much from you, been so profoundly challenged and encouraged by you, and found myself so richly blessed by you, it's hard to find the right words with which to express my gratitude.

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.»

Given the challenges it faced over the centuries» most notably the rise, in the seventh century, of Islam, which deprived the empire of much of its wealthiest territory, and the brutal occupation of Constantinople by the Crusaders in the thirteenth century» its longevity as well as its brilliance is remarkable.

By facing feminism's challenge to tradition, the church stands to gain much more than it conceivably could lose.

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There is much to be said, for instance, on behalf of Justice Kennedy's complaint that the decision deprives the people of California of the right to govern themselves by referenda, if the losers of a plebiscite can challenge the outcome and, with the collusion of friendly state officials unwilling to defend the people's will, win in court what they can not win at the ballot box.

The problem is, though, that by making themselves financially dependent on the very people to whom they are speaking they have removed much of their freedom to challenge this tendency.

I think we need to listen to more apparently «heretical» views because I personally believe that much of what is popularly held as true is in fact false and needs to be challenged by opposing views.

What was exciting him as much as what Luther was actually saying, was that it was challenging all the old assumptions, and that it was being said with great intellectual confidence and conviction, backed evidently by deep emotion.

, I mean came «into existence» (mysteriously popped out of nowhere); rather, it will challenge intellectual thinkers to look at life as not just a compilation of atoms / cells; rather a universe that is controlled by powers much more awesome than the natural forces we all experience on a daily basis.

Those who have read the book know that Tickle goes into much greater detail about the questions and challenges raised by cognitive science, literary deconstruction, higher criticism, Freud, Jung, Campbell, Einstein, Heisenbuerg, and many other philosophical / scientific / cultural movements.

I learned so much from this experience, and am humbled and challenged by how little I knew about the unique challenges facing families just down the road from me.

She explained the importance of local context, stating that the extent to which this can be achieved by standards in China depends very much on different perspectives, risks and challenges.

Faced by challenges such as the rising cost of food, the company knows it must continue to look for ways to work with its management team to control costs as much as possible.