Sentences with phrase «of funding difficulties»

Astronomer Jill Tarter, the subject of the new book Making Contact worked to construct the telescope in the face of funding difficulties.

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Even so, the sheer volume of headlines announcing a VC - backed startup's overnight success paints an unrealistic picture for entrepreneurs about the true level of difficulty in securing investor funding.

Their declining currencies against the dollar (8 - 9 percent over the past 12 months), falling stock market values since the beginning of the year and high (India) and rising (Brazil) bond yields are reflecting their funding difficulties.

Although women are creating 40 % of new businesses — in 2014 they created an estimated 470,000 — many have difficulty growing past $ 1 million in revenue without generous funding from investors, who are typically men.

Even so, many entrepreneurs don't pursue the strategy because of difficulty locating funding sources, which can include states, municipalities and nonprofit groups that dole out public funds.

In order to increase the supply of ICT specialists, the European Commission has launched a Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs, an EU - wide partnership that seeks to use European structural and investment funds to alleviate difficulties related to the recruitment of ICT specialists.

Among the things that prompted the creation of the inquiries were: financial difficulties facing DB pension plans and related concerns about DB funding rules; long simmering and unresolved legal issues, the most prominent of which revolve around the use of surpluses in DB plans; ambiguity about how EPP regulations apply to new hybrid plans; a lack of harmonization among Canadian regulatory laws; and declining coverage by EPPs in general and DB plans in particular.

Many high quality hedge funds have difficulty raising assets because they do a poor job of articulating their message to the marketplace and their strengths are underappreciated or unnoticed.

During periods of difficult market conditions or slowdowns in these sectors or geographic regions, decreased revenue, difficulty in obtaining access to financing and increased funding costs experienced by our funds may be exacerbated by this concentration of investments, which would result in lower investment returns for our funds.

But construction of Russia's portion of the bridge, however, stalled for several years due to funding issues, questions over the recipients of construction contracts and ownership structures, as well as permit difficulties.

Stein thinks the bank loan funds are more risky than people realize because a person might try to get money out of a fund and have difficulty.

And with his new fund, Arrington's aiming to take all the difficulty out of the crypto process for clients.

This might leave cryptocurrency investors in the dark in the event of «[thefts] of vast sums of virtual currency from customer accounts, sudden and poorly explained trading outages, possible market manipulation, and difficulties when withdrawing funds from accounts.»

The Bank also increased the maturities of the repos it conducted in response to the difficulties faced for longer term funding.

Now, the average Monevator reader would probably not have too much difficulty in constructing a portfolio of passive index funds and ETFs — or even shares or investment trusts.

In a recent speech, Julie M. Riewe, Co-Chief of the AMU, discussed the AMU's collaboration with other SEC divisions; detailed the AMU's 2015 enforcement priorities with respect to registered investment companies, hedge funds, private equity funds and separately managed accounts; and discussed the AMU's focus on conflicts — their ubiquity, the difficulty or impossibility of eliminating them, the limited extent to which disclosure can cure conflicts, the salience of conflicts when an investment adviser and broker - dealer are affiliated, and related considerations.

Aside from the difficulty of finding family offices that are allocating into venture funds (most do not publish investing strategies publicly), the bar for meaningful allocations ($ 2MM +) has dramatically moved upward in recent quarters.

Therefore, given the difficulty in amassing such processing power, six confirmations is an often - cited standard for the validity of transferred funds.

Funding these programs will be a contentious issue because of the difficulty of identifying and then compelling beneficiaries (e.g., firms and consumers) to give up some of their gains from outsourcing.

She added: «We recognize that there are difficulties women face with pregnancies, especially in cases where the unborn child may be born with a life - limiting disease, but we do not believe that abortion is the answer, and that funding for a free abortion in another country is short - sighted as it neglects any mention of an offer of counselling or care for the woman.»

Bush even draws attention to the unique difficulties that present itself to the federal government as a democratic body that represents a constituency with diverse moral worldviews and that therefore has a «duty to exercise responsible stewardship of taxpayer funds».

I have no difficulty in applauding the campaign of the World Wildlife Fund to save the chimpanzees of Africa.

A typical response from a grant giving trust is: «We have every sympathy with the cause and fully appreciate the difficulty of the funding environment.

INFACT Canada urges Health Canada to provide the necessary funding and programme leadership to improve support systems for the establishment of lactation in the early weeks and months to help mothers overcome difficulties they may encounter.

Concerns or barriers to father engagement included: mothers and grandmothers acting as gatekeepers; concerns about safety because of domestic violence; reluctance of home visitors to work with fathers; scheduling and logistics; funding constraints; and difficulty engaging young fathers.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

After the report of Gov. Cuomo's difficulties with the Senate Democrats, hedge funder Dan Loeb made what the New York Times delicately described as a «racial remark.»

«However, under the circumstances, the States Judiciaries continue to encounter a further burden of facing difficulties in accessing these paltry funds from their Executives in order to function.

The world's first Green Investment Bank putting millions into green jobs and growth; our youth contract to get every young person out of work earning or learning; more apprenticeships than this country has ever had before; major investment in areas facing difficulties from the Regional Growth Fund and greater freedom to boost jobs in our great cities; and we will take further steps to make our tax system fairer too.

If so, the Handbook of Political Party Funding will provide a valuable resource for discussions of how the current situation may be changed — not least of all the difficulties that any attempted resolution is likely to encounter.

«Leaving England out of the devolution settlement may create difficulties that need to be addressed - particularly funding and the West Lothian question - but it may still be the best way of reflecting and respecting public opinion across the UK.»

MMcahon predicts Cuomo will have difficulty hitting his spending targets «if you don't have some sort of marvelous infusion of new funds from the outside.»

He says to expect another one - shot revenue source to materialize and predicts Cuomo will have difficulty hitting his spending targets unless there is some sort of marvelous infusion of new funds from the outside.

According to the Daily News, another juror sent a different, slightly more passive - aggressive note shortly after, complaining that «One of the jurors is having difficulty distinguishing whether or not exchanging state funds for something in return is illegal.»

The genesis of the amendments was Singh's difficulty in obtaining financing to fund the improvements he agreed to make to the Town's facilities as part of his concession agreements,» the town said in its response.

Moreover, whenever such arguments have been advanced, well - known counter-arguments have been rehearsed, including the difficulties in disentangling «English» from «UK» legislation; the knock - on effects for the allocation of funding across the UK; and risk of an in - built bias in favour of the Conservatives.

David Cameron has accused the Labour party of having its «head in the sand» over party funding difficulties.

A second note came shortly afterward, apparently from a different unidentified juror, stating that one of the jurors — the note did not specify which one — was having difficulty distinguishing whether or not giving New York State funds for «something in return is illegal.»

Paul Broadhead, BSA Head of Mortgage Policy, took the opportunity to re-iterate it is not merely the shortage of mortgage funding that is causing difficulties in the housing market for first time buyers.

Funding, both the availability and cost of it, continues to cause difficulty for mortgage lenders.

Late presentation, limited number of equipment and infrastructure, difficulty in accessing specialist care, inability of the nation to fund childhood cancer treatment are some of the important barriers.

The fund was administered by the Roads Board, which had considerable difficulty spending the money it raised, until it was replaced by the new Ministry of Transport in 1919, which abolished petrol duties and increased vehicle duties.

McMahon predicts Cuomo will have difficulty hitting his spending targets «if you don't have some sort of marvelous infusion of new funds from the outside».

Then came another juror note, informing Caproni, «One of the Juror's is having difficulty distinguishing whether exchanging NYS funds for something in return is illegal» and asking if an Assembly ethics code «clearly outlines... this is the case.»

He indicated that it does not make sense for the country to be going through such difficulties whiles an amount of $ 120million as Heritage Fund is kept in a foreign country.

The single biggest users of the fund are people who have difficulty seeing and hearing.

«These are huge funds that provide for the retirement of millions of New Yorkers,» Lawsky said in his letter, adding that difficulties in Detroit, which has declared bankruptcy in part due to its pension costs, «serve as a stern wake - up call» regarding the need for oversight.

«The Commission is concerned that over-reliance on international offsets — given the practical difficulty of assuring that emissions reductions claimed in other countries are real, permanent, additional, and verifiable — could undermine program goals and political support, especially if substantial U.S. funds are leaving the country to support abatement efforts abroad rather than at home,» it states.

The JDF Center for Islet Cell Transplantation will fund 32 researchers to focus on four main goals: Reversing the overactive immune response that kills islet cells; finding new sources for islet cell transplants, such as pigs or genetically engineered cells; persuading the body to accept the transplanted cells without immunosuppressive drugs that often trigger worse side effects than the disease; and overcoming the technical difficulties of transplantation.

«The industry is not ready today,» says Tanti Tulsi, Suzlon CEO, although he also notes that part of that is difficulties in securing permits as well as a lack of grid investment and available funds.