Sentences with phrase «of year challenging»

Holiday stress can make this time of year challenging for couples and families.

«She was coming with us to Albany when there were no cameras,» said Ansari, who runs the New York City office, «and using her celebrity to help elevate the voices and stories of parents and students that, like myself, have been coming up there for a number of years challenging New York State, to say, «When are black and brown kids gonna get their fair share of these dollars?

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Among the wave of financial technology companies attempting to challenge the hegemony of Canada's Big Five banks are «robo - advisers,» such as Wealthsimple and WealthBar, whose platforms help clients create and maintain portfolios of mostly passive investments, such as exchange - traded funds, for fees in the neighbourhood of 1 % of assets per year.

«In order to meet the growing challenge of a tough market last year, I was forced to consider alternative options to keep my business viable,» said Dr. Alan Glazier, the company's founder and CEO.

In the key swing state of Ohio, Ted Strickland was elected governor as a pro-gun Democrats in 2006, but largely reversed his views on guns before challenging incumbent Sen. Rob Portman this year.

«These emotional memories are almost hardwired through years of relationships can create some challenges that you wouldn't have with someone else.»

Earlier this year, Zuckerberg acknowledged the damage the Facebook community is causing in the world, saying «Facebook has a lot of work to do,» and has made fixing it his personal challenge for 2018.

As to the question of when he and his party will develop a broad and substantive legislative platform to tackle the critical challenges America faces, McConnell has a ready answer as well: «If we're in the majority,» he says, «we'll be sitting down, intensely, a year from now on the very issue you've raised.»

«This year, a different challenge has sharpened: People across Europe and the U.S. have risen up and said, «We don't feel we belong, and we don't feel we're being heard,» explained Ngaire Woods, dean of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University, who moderated a panel discussion on the «Fourth Industrial Revolution» on Tuesday.

As he puts it: «I'd like to CHALLENGE every woman in tech who's a) got a nice care, b) owns a nice house, or c) is making over $ 125K a year to start thinking of themselves as the next Ron Conway or Esther Dyson in the making and commit to investing in startups...» I'll forgive him for the poor grammar, ditto for the wisecrack a couple of paragraphs later about how some of us might have spent $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 on our MBAs... or our wardrobes.

Of course, innate aptitude plays a big role in what any one of us can achieve (for instance, I could practice all day, every day for the next 100 years and never become an opera singer — «Happy Birthday» might even remain a challengeOf course, innate aptitude plays a big role in what any one of us can achieve (for instance, I could practice all day, every day for the next 100 years and never become an opera singer — «Happy Birthday» might even remain a challengeof us can achieve (for instance, I could practice all day, every day for the next 100 years and never become an opera singer — «Happy Birthday» might even remain a challenge).

This will be the company's significant challenge going forward, with its new slate of C - suite executives, and as it grows past 100 employees this next year.

In just four years, Warby Parker's chic glasses and affordable prices have helped establish the company as one of the go - to places for eyesight - challenged.

Being young and fresh out of school, it was definitely a challenge, but after six months, a year, 18 months went by, I started to realize that this felt more like home to me than anything I'd done before.

Kaushal is willing to give Stingray the benefit of the doubt: «We believe this is several years away and expect management to take the same profit and return - focused approach to meet this challenge.»

Stock investors from all over China have been making their way to Beijing after the nation's stock markets suffered one of the worst corrections in years, posing a challenge to the Chinese leadership.

Most companies experience cash flow challenges within the first few years of operation and, for a large percentage of those businesses, the obstacle of high operating expenses and compounding debt proves to be too much -LSB-...]

The challenge of preserving and conveying this unique institutional knowledge has been intensifying for several years and is now reaching a critical tipping point as more companies are transitioning to the freelance economy.

(DHX now produces 22 Minutes, which is in its 21st season; Donovan has previously said he'd like 22 Minutes to break Front Page Challenge's on - air record of 37 years.)

Earlier this year, Harris told Congress that Beijing's impressive military buildup, including its pursuit of hypersonic weapons, could challenge the United States «across almost every domain.»

In June 2014, however, Target Canada released its apology on YouTube, which featured employees and executives reflecting on the challenges of the first year and confessing to their sins.

Most companies experience cash flow challenges within the first few years of operation and, for a large percentage of those businesses, the obstacle of high operating expenses and compounding debt proves to be too much to handle.

Scorpio and co-founder Sam Zaid were members of Singularity's first class, in 2009; they were challenged by Google co-founder Larry Page to come up with a plan that would, in 10 years, impact a billion people.

The challenge of our time will be to implement a circular economy and make carbon dioxide an industrial friend within just 30 years.

MONTREAL — Valeant Pharmaceuticals faces years of legal challenges despite cutting ties with a U.S. mail - order pharmacy at the centre of a controversy about how Canada's largest publicly traded drug firm conducts its business, say industry observers and the company's second - largest shareholder.

All of which means that as Bouchard prepares to hand over the reins of the company to a new CEO later this year, the empire he's built could face some daunting new challenges.

If you're one of them, and you have expertise in, say, one or two areas, the broad range of questions you must answer — with little or no prior experience to draw on — burdens those first few years of running a business with challenges.

On a full - year basis, 2013 same - store sales growth of 1.1 % in the Canadian segment was below our original target range of 2 % to 4 %; we believe this was due to ongoing challenging economic conditions and increased competitive intensity in our industry.

They'll have organized social and cultural events, and monthly team challenges in exchange for a year of participation in the city's hoped for transformation from poster child of urban dysfunction to rejuvenated metropolis.

But on Monday, McDonald's reported a comparable sales decline of 1.3 % in the U.S., which the company said reflected «the challenging comparison against the prior year launch of the very successful All - Day Breakfast.»

Despite a year of upheaval, scandal, and legal challenges, Uber is still the most valuable startup in the US.

«As a now 130 - person software company with plans to hire 100 more in the next year, our hardest challenge will be to keep the same level of shared purpose and context across everyone in the company.»

Two years ago, at the Venture Capital Challenge organized by the famous Silicon Valley VC Draper Fischer Jurveston, the hands - down winner of the $ 250,000 prize was a new sleep - monitoring gizmo called NeuroVigil.

So although the air travel industry faces two huge challenges — the rising price of oil, and the environmental impact of the roughly 1.5 billion barrels of jet fuel that the airline industry burns through each year — the solutions are likely to be all but invisible.

If you're in the exhausting middle years of your life, squeezed between growing kids and a growing career, chances are good that getting out of bed early enough for self - care is a perpetual challenge.

Moody's Investor Services says spending pressure will challenge the province's ability to «sustain balanced fiscal results» over a number of years.

«After a challenging first half, the firm performed well for the remainder of the year as the operating environment improved,» CEO Lloyd Blankfein said in a statement.

Magnetar's tactic of filing lawsuits challenging takeover valuations in order to make money, also known as appraisal arbitrage, has become increasing popular with hedge funds in recent years, especially in the merger litigation hotbed of Delaware.

«It's time to sleep our way to the top,» Arianna Huffington charged readers of The Huffington Post earlier this year as part of the online newspaper's Sleep Challenge 2010.

Through all of the successes and challenges of the past year, Dan has never once put himself first,» read the post, which includes a video of Price accepting the surprise gift.

I find this fascinating, because one of the biggest challenges I've confronted as a founder over the last few years has been changing my mind, when I have a realization and I become inconsistent on a thought I previously had.

«The last couple of years I've been trying to learn percussion a bit, which has been challenging,» he said.

With the core consumer inflation steady in January from a year earlier, it is a sign that a strengthening economy has yet to prompt companies to raise prices, a challenge policy makers have yet to overcome despite years of massive stimulus.

Despite these challenges, Nakanishi is confident of surpassing last year's earnings result, noting that the direction the company is heading remains «very appropriate.»

So if a guy living inside a giant, high - tech tin can floating in the most hostile environment imaginable for a year can find the funny in his everyday life, certainly most of us can do the same despite our mundane professional challenges and personal annoyances.

Two years into McGuinty's green dream, the costs and challenges of doing all that are becoming clearer.

But it is widely held that all such technical hurdles have now been erased and that later this year a challenge that began over a decade ago will finally spell the end for the protection of the Washington Redskin's federal trademark.

Forecasting the roll - out of solar, in particular, has proved to be a daunting challenge for these organizations over the years.

If we spin things forward over the next several years as the Machine becomes something that people use, what kinds of challenges do you expect and what are some of the key things that need to be accomplished?

For years different groups of Native Americans have challenged the continued registration of the trademark on the grounds that it is, effectively, a derogatory racial slur.