Sentences with phrase «of ongoing difficulty»

These tests can be invaluable when food allergy testing shows unremarkable results in the face of ongoing difficulty losing weight.

While the most severe cases are managed clinically, there is growing evidence that many of the ongoing difficulties experienced by at - risk students begin early in life, and have societal or behavioral origins.

Not exact matches

'' (The ongoing standoff between the euro zone and Greece) also increases the chances of snap elections in Greece as after overplaying his hand and facing increasing difficulties in concluding the review, Tsipras may be tempted to cut his losses by calling early elections before Syriza (the ruling party) loses more support for adopting unpopular measures,» Piccoli said.

Despite demand, 60 % of contractors reported difficulty finding skilled workers in the third quarter of 2017 due to an ongoing skilled labor shortage.

He cited issues such as executive departures, ongoing model production problems and investor concerns over cash flow as just some of the difficulties plaguing the tech giant.

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.

This difficulty places an imperative on organizations to invest in as well as establish a foundational understanding of their buyer's values — supported by ongoing engagement with buyers to help them realize these values.

The market has also been affected by ongoing supply disruptions in Iraq, which have arisen from technical difficulties and sabotage ahead of the Iraqi elections.

Although the American Catholic community has been confronted with yet more difficulties — ranging from the redefinition of marriage to assaults on religious liberty — one of the reasons for hope, moving forward, is that John Paul II left behind a rich spiritual and intellectual infrastructure for Americans to draw upon, to deal with these ongoing challenges.

In addition to the actual difficulty of the work itself, there was his ongoing internal monologue about how this wasn't good enough.

The facilitators talked about the difficulties many women experience with engorgement, painful nipples from poor attachment technique and stressed the importance of initial and ongoing help if difficulties arose with breastfeeding.

Not only can you have a short amount of time with families in transit, but there may well be difficulties ensuring they have an ongoing supply of suitable formula and they may be less willing to change to cup feeding, whilst simultaneously being completely unable to clean anything.

Cuomo's well - known difficulty in recruiting top - level replacement staffers for a second term is generally attributed to his obsessive penchant for micro-management, a legendary willingness to harshly berate those he believes haven't served him well, and to US Attorney Preet Bharara's ongoing criminal probe of his Moreland Commission meddling.

According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, chronic insomnia, which affects as many as 10 percent of adults, involves ongoing difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep — or regularly waking up earlier than desired — despite an adequate opportunity for sleep.

Given the difficulty of finding water for those 26,000 soldiers, it becomes easier to understand the severity of the ongoing and unsolved water crisis facing the five million to seven million residents of Darfur.

The ongoing difficulty of accurately measuring the Earth's ocean heat content has led to premature «skeptic» claims about ocean cooling.

But the filmmaker's ongoing difficulties in offering up authentic thrills ensures that the charisma of the stars is ultimately rendered moot, with the viewer's dwindling interest the most obvious casualty of Date Night's progressively erratic atmosphere.

It's a shame, really, given the potential here for a fun horror - movie ride, with Johnson's ongoing difficulties in sustaining viewer's interest ultimately ensuring that The Wolfman comes off as a sporadically intriguing but mostly underwhelming piece of work.

Meeting this fifth challenge depends on better ways of: identifying children at risk of being locked into trajectories of low achievement at the earliest possible ages; enhancing levels of school readiness; diagnosing learning difficulties upon entry to school; and intervening intensively during the early years of school to address individual learning needs to give as many students as possible the chance of successful ongoing learning.

In a complex climate of challenging pupil behaviour, emotional difficulties and ongoing policy changes, the effect on health and wellbeing is significant.

An ongoing challenge for educators is figuring out which students with reading difficulties have a true learning disability and which ones can develop effective reading skills as a result of different reading instruction.

However, this might be difficult, if not impossible, given the tangled nature of DAT's relationship with DET and ongoing difficulties at the boarding school.

The poll results suggest there could be ongoing difficulties for advocates of the Common Core initiative as they face challenges to the standards across the country.

Leaving out the technical difficulties — including the lack of ongoing price discovery — one big counter could be that shorts didn't so much to stop the earlier dotcom bubble (which largely took place in the public markets).

Through Ceva's ongoing interest in cat behaviour and wellbeing, we understand the difficulties faced by clinics handling cats, and the lack of available resources in this area.

The difficulties of obtaining and maintaining a career in game audio has been an ongoing topic we've reported on previously.

One ongoing issue has been that, so far, the songs that have been released are on relatively high tiers of the Challenge mode in the Arena, having high difficulties.

Stephen Westfall: The difficulty in that question — and what's true for most veteran painters; I'm old enough now where veteran is a nice way to put it — is that we are not starting paintings, we're establishing an ongoing vocabulary that is sort of morphing.

This extent of habitat destruction and fragmentation means that even if individuals of a species can move fast enough to cope with ongoing climate change, they will have difficulty dispersing into suitable areas because adequate dispersal corridors no longer exist.

Given the difficulties related to the ongoing negotiations on the project of PIF Directive, this decision is very timely.

But the events of 9/11 and the ongoing conflict in Palestine add an extra layer of difficulty for Arab lawyers.

The marriage was having difficulties due to ongoing pressure from both of their careers and poor communication.

In addition to loss of independence, a TBI can cause severe financial difficulty due to ongoing medical costs, the cost of in - home care, and lost wages.

She asserts that many of these injuries are acute in terms of their severity and the ongoing difficulty they cause her.

[85] Though her recovery has plateaued, she is at risk of further and ongoing difficulty.

A chapter 13 case presents greater difficulties than a chapter 7 case for separated spouses because of the ongoing obligation to make plan payments, the evolving goals of husband and wife during the bankruptcy and separation, and the ability of the husband or wife to discharge debts that are not domestic support obligations but that are related to divorce and separation.

It takes longer times before land records are recorded, limited access of records, ongoing disputes over boundaries, and selling of land rights not owned by the seller and this is one source of the economic difficulties faced by most Ghanaians yet the courts are drowning in land disputes cases.

Even producing a great phone like the U11 is over-shadowed by ongoing financial difficulties and the swooping in of Google to gobble up some of the HTC staffers... Read more

One difficulty with this funding, however, is that even where funding is provided for an ongoing process rather than a specific negotiation, it is almost always provided where the state government wants a particular outcome (such as to increase the processing of exploration tenure, facilitate a particular industrial development, or expand residential areas).

I provide ongoing or short term support, guidance and skills to those having difficulty coping with life transitions, dysfunctional patterns of thinking or behaviors and traumatic events.

I work with children, adolescents and adults utilizing a collaborative approach to treatment that involves exploration of concerns, development of strategies and skills to manage or overcome difficulties and ongoing assessment of therapeutic progress.»

Wanting to believe it is a nightmare, the betrayed spouse may have difficulty with ongoing feelings of anger, resentment and betrayal, which may also make it difficult to listen to her spouse, even if she wishes to repair their marriage.

Further success of the program is highlighted by the ongoing involvement of parents in their child's sessions, with Child Aware psychologists ensuring that they made contact after each session to share goals, outcomes, homework tasks, or to discuss difficulties.

Ongoing medical monitoring is needed to assess the efficacy of the medication and to check for possible side effects such as sleeping difficulties, decreased appetite, increased blood pressure and heart rate.

The ongoing involvement of parents in their child's sessions, with Child Aware psychologists ensuring that they make contact after each session to share goals, outcomes, homework tasks, or to discuss difficulties

With KidsMatter providing a foundation and ongoing support, Alunga and IS Medicare Local forged a partnership with the shared goals of building children's resilience through enhancing relationships, reducing the risk of mental health difficulties, and supporting families in need at the centre.

Protective factors such as living in a supportive and nurturing environment assist children to be able to manage stressful events and can decrease the likelihood of ongoing impact, such as mental health and behavioural difficulties, after children have been affected by trauma.

Examples of self - regulation difficulties in children include ongoing difficulties with concentration (e.g., being able to listen to a story), looking very sad and uninterested in daily activities (e.g., playing with other children), or becoming easily upset and worries so they are unable to move on.

Some of the signs of self - regulation difficulties in children include ongoing difficulties with concentration (e.g., being unable to listen to a story), looking very sad and uninterested in daily activities (e.g., playing with other children), or becoming easily upset and worried so they are unable to move on.

Sometimes mental health difficulties in children can be ongoing and interfere with many aspects of their life.