Sentences with phrase «of a rocky start in»

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The company recorded a net loss of $ 93 million in the first quarter, but Toutant believes it'll make up for the rocky start as the company continues its big push to expand in the United States.

See, the gap - toothed goal scorer got off to a rocky start in the ad game — perhaps following Mario Lemieux's lead with a bizarre local car dealer commercial — but quickly turned things around last year with a series of quirky spots for Reebok CCM that featured his decapitated head's crazy - person / evil genius laugh, and a turn for ESPN's SportsCenter that pegged him as a Russian spy.

It's not clear why Amazon and Tencent are investing in the company which has had a rocky start, losing its vice president of marketing, head of user experience and head of communications all before the smartphone's debut.

Target has been plagued with difficulties since its launch in April 2013 — check out our timeline of Target's first year in Canada, and it's clear that it was a rocky start.

With the unification of the two brands complete, and a rocky 2017 behind them, can the airline operator start to right the ship in 2018?

The event on the grounds of St. Joseph's Seminary got off to a rocky start in more ways than one.

After a terrific 2011 - 12 season in which our NFL Marketwatch posted a record of 12 - 5 (70.6 %), we got off to a rocky start in week 1 when the Dolphins were unable to pull off a back door cover against the Houston Texans.

We got off to a rocky start in the last edition of marketwatch, but we'll look to even the score with a win this week.

he then returned to Barcelona and despite a rocky start, he went on to win the ultimate treble of the Champions League, La Liga and the Copa Del Rey in his first year and the domestic double in his second.

The field at the PGA Championship is loaded with 97 of the top 100 players in the world, but many of the best got off to a very rocky start.

It's not all been bad news for the Reds though, as Liverpool also signed Virgil van Dijk from Southampton in what should prove a good piece of business despite his slightly rocky start.

Bayern Munich got off to a rocky start in the first leg of its Champions League quarterfinal against Sevilla, conceding a surprising opener.

Following a rocky start, Everton got back into the swing of things against the Ukrainian giants, and came away with an all important lead in preparation for the return leg next week.

Well after a rocky start, Liverpool have conceded a total of three goals (one of which was erroneous penalty) in the past six matches that world record defender, Virgil Van Dijk has started for the Reds.

The video of the Honda start - up was met with the usual jokes given the Japanese manufacturer's rocky years with McLaren, but Toro Rosso took them all in good spirit and posted a comical article in response.

With a Squawka Performance Score of 490, Firmino ranks as the Reds» joint - best player alongside Coutinho in the Premier League this term and, despite a rocky start, few could argue that he's since seamlessly adjusted to the pace of the English game.

Obviously getting off to a good start just as in breastfeeding sometimes when women exclusively pump they may have started with breastfeeding and then it may have been challenges with breastfeeding and those can sometimes get them off to a bit of a rocky start with lactation.

Reuben had a rocky start but we got there in the end, Eva latched on without a second thought and is still going... definitely easier the second time, but it might just be the kind of baby you get as well...

I had a lactation consultant come to my house the day we got home since we had kind of a rocky start with breastfeeding (due to them comping him with bottles in the NICU), and she has been terrific!

Cuomo initially supported the state's fast track start - up of Common Core, but in recent months has blamed Education Commissioner John King and the state Board of Regents for the rocky start up.

Counting today, there are 15 days remaining in the 2015 legislative session, and things are heating up, with the Senate and Assembly and Gov. Andrew Cuomo starting to lay out their respective agendas for the mad dash to the finish of what has been a very rocky year in Albany.

The chancellor acknowledged «that Breakfast in the Classroom has had a little bit of a rocky start» and promised that those concerns would be addressed before the pilot program was expanded across the city.

And there's also the chance that the state ethics commission, created by Cuomo and the legislature in 2011, which had somewhat of a rocky start, could be revisited for improvements.

The field had a rocky start after companies overhyped its potential, but with advances in genetic sequencing, and a slew of new studies, the concept is in for a reboot.

But the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN), part of a 10 - year, half - billion - dollar initiative launched in 2014 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to enhance the diversity of the biomedical workforce, has gotten off to a rocky start.

If there's gas around and the bodies get large enough, perhaps something on the order of 10 Earth masses or so, then you can start pulling some gas in on top of your rocky core and make something that looks like a gas giant planet, like Jupiter.

A new model suggests that most young planetary systems start with several close - in, rocky planets, which later destroy each other in a cascade of collisions.

Lagrange says the finding is consistent with a planet formation model known as core accretion in which the planet starts out as a rocky core that gravitationally acquires more matter from the surrounding swarm of dust and gas.

Despite a rocky start, Hubble has in its two decades of operation revolutionized astrophysics and cosmology

But in many instances, the simulations show, even planets starting with rocky cores as little as 1.5 Earth's mass may trap and hold atmospheres containing between 100 and 1000 times the amount of hydrogen found in the water in Earth's oceans — thick, dense envelopes exerting pressures so hellish that life on the planets» surfaces might be almost impossible.

It has been a rocky start to the new year with a member of my family being in hospital, spending days sat in a hospital is physically and mentally draining for all concerned.

The brainchild of Steve Ross (a passionate soccer fan who was also a major executive at Warner Communications) and Ahmet Ertegun and Nesuhi Ertegun (the founders of Atlantic Records), the Cosmos got off to a rocky start in 1971 (no one was especially happy with the playing field at Randall's Island, and some rowdy fans were known to throw broken glass onto the grass), but things changed in 1975 when the world's most celebrated soccer star, the Brazilian champion Pele, signed with the Cosmos for a five - million - dollar payday.

The hard - working actress has made a career of choosing diverse and challenging projects both in film and television, starting with her acting debut in the movie JOE, which she soon followed with the 1975 cult classic THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.

Deadpool 2 got off to a rocky start in October 2016 when Deadpool director Tim Miller pulled out of the sequel.

After a rocky start at the beginning of the previous season, Capaldi and Coleman have hit their stride as a partnership, especially now that they've both come clean about the lies they told in the season finale — that Danny is alive and Gallifrey is found.

Of the remaining two stories, there's indisputable entertainment value in the expressionistic «Christmas: Impossible» (if only because it subversively casts Donald's nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie in a fiendish light), but things get off to a rocky start with the thoroughly ill - conceived «Belles on Ice,» wherein Minnie Mouse and the equally moth - eaten Daisy Duck square off in an impromptu figure - skating competition, destined to learn some inapplicable teamwork moral.

Things get off to a rocky start right from the beginning with an opening credit sequence that looks like it was done in the 1950s instead of 1987.

The journey gets off to a rocky start when they find themselves locked in the brig of a ship under Spanish explorer Cortes» command.

Admittedly, An Evening with Kevin Smith gets off to a rocky start: the parameters of the special have yet to be defined when Smith is asked his first question, and although pre-show interviews with waiting audience members provide a nice segue between the venues (Kent State, Indiana University, Cornell University, Clark University, and the University of Wyoming), it's an editing technique soon discarded in favour of straight, jarring cuts from one auditorium to another and back again.

I have to give credit to The Brothers Solomon for making a mild comeback after such a shaky start and rocky follow - through, and the tolerable version of the Solomons is worth a few chuckles in addition to the bigger jokes that start to work.

They include a rocky start at Barringer (after great progress last year) and initially inadequate acknowledgement of the transportation challenge implicit in «universal enrollment.»

Amazon posted the publishing journey of author Vincent Zandri, who admittedly had a rocky start in what was almost an illustrious traditionally published career.

With a rocky start to Q1, the S&P 500 has certainly shown some volatility in recent months, as evidenced by the orange line of the S&P 500 Composite against its moving averages over the last 18 months, below:

But the market also got off to a rocky start last year when jitters about emerging economies and a weak manufacturing report in China sent stocks on a slide that left the Standard & Poor's 500 index down roughly 6 % as of early February.

Camera (en) Trap (ment) Project September got off to a rocky start with readers (myself included) responding to news of camera traps being used in Florida's National Key Deer Refuge «to document the number of cats stalking prey in the refuge.»

After breakfast we hike to The Juan Pablo II falls, crossing the river in a full adrenaline andarivel, (iron cable) after this we return to our camp, check out our equipment and start our descending with many rocky rapids (class 3, 4), after 3 hours rafting we reach the confluence of the Mamacocha River where the volume of the Colca River doubles.

Villa Uma Nina at Jimbaran Bay enjoys excellent views as it is found on the rocky cliffs which make the start of the limestone and craggy Bukit Peninsular that has become some of Bali's priciest real estate in recent years.

Despite somewhat of a rocky start, the Aliens vs. Predator PC / 360 / PS3 multiplayer demo that was released early last month has ended up racking up a rather impressive figure of 4.1 million downloads, Sega writes on their European blog, making it the most successful demo release in the company's history.

Lourlo One of three rookies to join Team Liquid's roster, Sam «Lourlo» Jackson found himself in a rocky start in the top lane during the outset of the 2016 Spring season.

After the first three years of release, Gen 8 consoles are still vastly underperforming in sales compared to Gen 7, with the Wii U being comparitively underpowered and the Xbox One having a rocky start.