Sentences with phrase «of increasing the difficulty with»

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Shulman recommends connecting with your employees and being aware if they are going through financial difficulties or experiencing high levels of stress, which can increase the impulse to steal.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

These risks include, in no particular order, the following: the trends toward more high - definition, on - demand and anytime, anywhere video will not continue to develop at its current pace or will expire; the possibility that our products will not generate sales that are commensurate with our expectations or that our cost of revenue or operating expenses may exceed our expectations; the mix of products and services sold in various geographies and the effect it has on gross margins; delays or decreases in capital spending in the cable, satellite, telco, broadcast and media industries; customer concentration and consolidation; the impact of general economic conditions on our sales and operations; our ability to develop new and enhanced products in a timely manner and market acceptance of our new or existing products; losses of one or more key customers; risks associated with our international operations; exchange rate fluctuations of the currencies in which we conduct business; risks associated with our CableOS ™ and VOS ™ product solutions; dependence on market acceptance of various types of broadband services, on the adoption of new broadband technologies and on broadband industry trends; inventory management; the lack of timely availability of parts or raw materials necessary to produce our products; the impact of increases in the prices of raw materials and oil; the effect of competition, on both revenue and gross margins; difficulties associated with rapid technological changes in our markets; risks associated with unpredictable sales cycles; our dependence on contract manufacturers and sole or limited source suppliers; and the effect on our business of natural disasters.

With the large number of houses on the market in Michigan right now and the difficulty in selling a house, the number of rental units on the market is increasing — probably faster than the pool of potential tenants.

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

Given these difficulties in interpretation in the texts that seem most appropriate, the plain descriptions of Jesus» interaction with women and the stylized but readily interpreted accounts of woman's creation in Genesis take on increased significance.54

Often out - of - touch with adult and adolescent needs, it experiences increasing difficulty in finding and motivating volunteers, faces general disinterest among its «clients,» and employs models and procedures that have changed little over time.1

The intellectual difficulties that some Christians have with intercessory prayer may partly explain the increased contemporary interest in contemplative prayer or the prayer of silence.

He is realistic about the difficulties of our era, and of tougher times ahead, especially with the increasing attempts to impose a secular ideology.

These painful feelings make them defensive and increase the difficulty of establishing rapport with them.

«While the British Embassy in Moscow is not aware of any increased difficulties for British people travelling in Russia at this time, you should follow the security and political situation closely and keep up to date with this travel advice.»

He then proceeded to build talent throughout the roster seeing how far that QB could go with a talented cast around him before deciding to spend a high pick on a QB as he knows he wants a rookie QB to have time to learn and a rookie QB needs a good situation to come into the NFL to lower the difficulty and increase the chances of that QB not being a bust.

And Calvert - Lewin has been reassured by some sage words from Rooney as he fights to reclaim his spot in the Toffees» frontline — a task which increased in difficulty with the January signings of impressive attacking pair Cenk Tosun and Theo Walcott, who have directly contributed to eight goals between them in their fledgling Everton careers.

These qualities pay off in big dividends by increasing self - esteem, social skills and a sense of connectedness that helps kids and teens use good judgment when confronted with difficulties and temptations.

There seems to be an increase in the world and it may have something to do with our digitalized universe that we're now immersed in but it basically is mild form of autism is or Asperger's syndrome is people are not be involved with others, that they feel comfortable on their own, that they have difficulty picking up social cues, emotional cues from others, that they have a harder time imagining what the other person might feel and they oftentimes just need to be trained or especially early that this is what's going on so that they can begin to compensate and learn about the other person and how they might be feeling.

Therefore, implementation of the Cap - Score ™ SFT can potentially increase the clinical and economic value propositions for older couples with difficulty conceiving.

However, a reduction in the final CA surge may contribute to the difficulty that women laboring with an epidural can experience in pushing out their babies, and the increased risk of instrumental delivery (forceps and vacuum) that accompanies the use of an epidural (see below).

This pump was made to initiate, increase and maintain a milk supply over a long period of time, for moms with premature babies, latch difficulties, etc..

The increased risk for these populations is due to low levels of consumption and difficulty with vitamin absorption.

The psychosocial outcome receiving the most attention from researchers is problem behaviour, with most studies finding perceived negative reactivity in infancy to predict problem behaviour in childhood33, 34 and adolescent.35 Specifically, infants prone to high levels of fear, frustration, and sadness, as well as difficulty recovering from such distress, were found to be at increased risk for internalizing and externalizing problem behaviours according to parental and / or teacher report.

Painful urination is often caused by a urinary tract infection and, if left untreated, may increase the risk of premature labor and of having a baby with mental or developmental difficulties or low birth weight.

Some warning signs of aspiration and swallowing difficulties include: increased and excessive congestion and coughing, wet sounds with breathing, signs of discomfort with feeding, refusal to eat, choking during feedings, turning blue around the lips while feeding, watering eyes with a red face during feeding, and / or frequent infections like pneumonia.

Other problems include an increased risk of jaundice, more difficulty with feeding, digestive difficulties, and perhaps even more serious issues.

But, one need look no further than the current debate in the UK over the EU referendum to find other parallels with Repeal — e.g., an internal split in the Conservative party over British identity (particularly in a world with increasing trade linkages); the difficulty in ascertaining the winners and losers from a fundamental reorientation of trade policy, amidst inherent uncertainty; the existence of tensions between different sectors and regions, stemming from trade exposure; and so on.

Puerto Rico faces many challenges in the coming months and years of storm recovery, with its pre-Maria financial crisis and infrastructure issues deepening those challenges and increasing the cost and difficulty of long term rebuilding.

Commenting on the publication by the Department for Education (DfE) of «National Standards of Excellence for Headteachers», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «With increasing difficulties in recruiting new headteachers, and with record numbers of teachers wanting to leave the profession, the Coalition Government has failed to recognise the damaging effect of its policies on the morale and confidence of teachers and school leadWith increasing difficulties in recruiting new headteachers, and with record numbers of teachers wanting to leave the profession, the Coalition Government has failed to recognise the damaging effect of its policies on the morale and confidence of teachers and school leadwith record numbers of teachers wanting to leave the profession, the Coalition Government has failed to recognise the damaging effect of its policies on the morale and confidence of teachers and school leaders.

«The difficulty with the Chancellor's position though is that he is not bringing in those increases in wages in time for the pulling of the rug from underneath hundreds of thousands of working people with the introduction of what is effectively a work penalty into the tax system,» he said.

Comes with six levels of increasing difficulty.

«The increases in prevalence reported herein are important because such youth with diabetes will enter adulthood with several years of disease duration, difficulty in treatment, an increased risk of early complications, and increased frequency of diabetes during reproductive years, which may further increase diabetes in the next generation,» the researchers write.

The reports also identifies other challenges that impact sustained observations, such as the declining investment in new technological development, increasing difficulty in retaining and replenishing the human resources associated with sustained ocean observing, and a decreasing number of global and ocean - class research vessels.

With the world's energy demands expected to increase more than three-fold over the next century, ExxonMobil and Shell executives acknowledge the necessity (and difficulty) of unseating inexpensive and efficient crude oil and coal

Richard A. Grucza, associate professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine and co-author of the paper, is aware of potential difficulties associated with increasing taxes.

Depending on how effective your vestibular and proprioceptive systems are, you will experience varying degrees of increased difficulty when you lose the visual input (with a corresponding increase in the microadjustments in your foot).

It points out that although the Western economies have difficulties with the rising costs of pension entitlement for its aging populations, societies are adapting through increases in retirement age and other measures.

When cephalopods are compared with mammals, the lack of any common anatomy only increases the difficulties.

But the subsequent, expansive closure of mental health facilities, fragmentation of outpatient health care services and growing difficulties in finding housing (increasing homelessness and incarceration rates) and support for persons with schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses have adversely impacted longevity.

As the brothers and sisters of those with CD are significantly more likely to develop antisocial behavior themselves, the findings suggest that similar difficulties in facial emotion recognition could be a factor that contributes to this increased risk.

As the brothers and sisters of those with conduct disorder are significantly more likely to develop antisocial behavior themselves, the findings of this study suggest that similar difficulties in facial emotion recognition could be a factor that contributes to this increased risk.

The authors speculate that poorer glycaemic control and difficulties in insulin management, which are more common among women, could be contributing factors to the increased risk of vascular - related death in women with type 1 diabetes compared with men with the condition.

«We believe that the early superiority in the reading skills of the children who were screened may have enabled them to read more demanding material more frequently than their peers with later confirmed hearing difficulties, thus increasing the skill gap between the two groups.

The study suggests that marijuana use — even in the absence of cannabis use disorder (characterized by problematic use of cannabis due to impairment in functioning or difficulty quitting or cutting down on use)-- is associated with increased odds of smoking onset, relapse, and persistence.

The difficulty of the game increased over the course of training in terms of the number of tasks to be completed per day, the complexity of tasks, and / or interference with prior tasks.

The program, previously validated with struggling readers without intellectual disability or low IQ, included a series of brief activities that increased in difficulty that were geared toward phonological awareness, letter knowledge and sounds, sounding out and sight words.

Babies born with esophageal disorders are at an increased risk of gastroesophageal reflux, respiratory difficulties, and developmental delays.

However, when working only with your body weight, you need a far more subtle approach based on skillfully increasing the resistance by manipulating other growth variables such as rep and set schemes, rest duration and increasing the difficulty of the exercises, for example replacing regular push - ups with feet - elevated push - ups, traditional squats with pistol squats and standard pull - ups with pull - ups to chest.

Increase the level of difficulty with the typewriter pull - up.

Sit on the floor (or ground) with your feet flat (feet can be elevated to increase level of difficulty) and your torso approximately 45 degrees from the ground.

To increase the difficulty of this exercise and get a nice shoulder stretch, too, do the same exercise with your hands and arms extended overhead (e).

The snap on adapter works to increase the difficulty of your workouts, while the resistance tubes provide you with a complete body workout.

If you want to stick with the classic version you can increase the difficulty by adding a static hold by pausing at the bottom of the rep and holding this position for 5 to 10 seconds before pushing back up.