Sentences with phrase «of years of failures»

My faith is based on an unbroken record of thousands of years of failures by believers to produce anything of substance in the way of evidence for their gods.

It's preemptive because of YEARS of failure under Wenger, and that's what that fan probably felt.

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While such failures are not common, there is typically at least one major exchange outage a year, said Eric Johnson, a technology expert who is dean of Vanderbilt Universitys Owen Graduate School of Management.

In an Entrepreneur article last year defending Donald Trump's long trail of bankruptcies, editor - at - large Ray Hennessey called failure «a badge of honour.»

Woodside has made no secret of its dissatisfaction with Shell's failure to sell Australian LNG in recent years.

Sony's problems were many: brutal competition for its once - dominant television group; being bested by Apple's (aapl) iPod, a humiliation for the Walkman pioneer; high - cost manufacturing in Japan; a failure to seize the music - streaming initiative despite years of trying.

Lilly faced a devastating clinical setback last year with a late - stage failure for its experimental Alzheimer's treatment, the studies for which cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars.

As you well know, expertise develops over years of successes, failures, false starts, experimentation and risk - taking.

Papa John's founder John Schnatter, who stepped down as CEO at the end of last year, had blamed falling sales on the NFL's failure to resolve the raging controversy over players taking a knee during the national anthem, in order to protest against police brutality.

Such factors include, among others, general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties; the actual results of current and future exploration activities; the actual results of reclamation activities; conclusions of economic evaluations; meeting various expected cost estimates; changes in project parameters and / or economic assessments as plans continue to be refined; future prices of metals; possible variations of mineral grade or recovery rates; the risk that actual costs may exceed estimated costs; failure of plant, equipment or processes to operate as anticipated; accidents, labour disputes and other risks of the mining industry; political instability; delays in obtaining governmental approvals or financing or in the completion of development or construction activities, as well as those factors discussed in the section entitled «Risk Factors» in the Company's Annual Information Form for the year ended December 31, 2017 dated March 15, 2018.

In 2017, after years of failure, shareholders at my former employer, Exxon Mobil, passed a resolution calling for the company to outline its plans for dealing with climate change.

The Murdoch family have never wavered in their ambition to take full control of Sky, despite the damaging failure of a previous attempt five years ago when their British newspaper business became embroiled in a phone - hacking scandal.

After a year of complaints from subordinates, feeling like failure, crying jags and eventual burnout, she asked for her old job back, at which she had been outstanding.

Unless there is some unlikely action on this issue by the end of the year, his inability to get AMPs established — and thereby get supposedly world - leading net neutrality rules to be taken seriously by ISPs — will easily go down as his biggest failure at the CRTC.

As my own company has grown, I've had to make continuous adjustments to strategy and approach every year based on business development successes and failures and a slew of other things I couldn't really plan for.

«After many years of failure, countries are coming together to finally address the dangers posed by North Korea.

The attacks could hurt Hollande's chances of re-election next year, already damaged by failure to cut unemployment.

Fifty years ago company management could make a bunch of rules and put in place processes to develop a system wherein failure wasn't an option.

Though the failure rate for startups is often exaggerated, it's still relatively high: 20 percent of businesses fail within the first year, and about half of U.S. businesses fail within five years, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The college was the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, and the companies — there were three failures in five years — were unambitious, money losing, and admittedly dopey.

And often, it can take years of failures to get to the big success.

And it's going to help you in business, be it by a mixture of accounts on other corporate successes or failures and lessons on lean startups, or a 2,500 - year - old military tome that works just as well in boardrooms as war.

Actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward - looking statements due to these risks and uncertainties as well as other factors, which include, without limitation: the uncertain timing of, and risks relating to, the executive search process; risks related to the potential failure of eptinezumab to demonstrate safety and efficacy in clinical testing; Alder's ability to conduct clinical trials and studies of eptinezumab sufficient to achieve a positive completion; the availability of data at the expected times; the clinical, therapeutic and commercial value of eptinezumab; risks and uncertainties related to regulatory application, review and approval processes and Alder's compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements; risks and uncertainties relating to the manufacture of eptinezumab; Alder's ability to obtain and protect intellectual property rights, and operate without infringing on the intellectual property rights of others; the uncertain timing and level of expenses associated with Alder's development and commercialization activities; the sufficiency of Alder's capital and other resources; market competition; changes in economic and business conditions; and other factors discussed under the caption «Risk Factors» in Alder's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on February 26, 2018, and is available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.

He once gave out a «failure of the year» award to the team within his company that produced a flop that the whole company learned something valuable from.

Given the high failure rate of startups in their first year, a business plan is also an ideal opportunity to safely test out the feasibility of a business and spot flaws, set aside unrealistic projections and identify and analyze the competition.

The positives of his first two years in politics have been swamped by his star - crossed attempt at tax reform and his failure to put his personal assets in a blind trust.

Census Bureau data show that the rate of business failure has been declining for the past 30 years, and that the failure rate correlates 0.61 with the startup rate.

«Because Mylan's Board has determined that risk oversight is the responsibility of the full board, all incumbent directors should be considered accountable for material failures of risk oversight over a number of years, when warning signs were available to the company but no actions appear to have been taken to mitigate or head off the significant potential risks that have since materialized.

The biggest congressional setback for the drug industry this year — other than the advent of Martin Shkreli — has been the Senate's failure to pass a medical innovation bill.

According to Scotiabank's Derek Holt, who predicts household grocery bills could balloon by as much as 15 % in the next few years, the failure of the international community to settle on a rational policy for handling shortages has led to stockpiling and export bans, which «further impairs supply sides of markets and causes prices to go up even more.»

Over two years later, after many failures and many hundreds of millions of dollars, Musk's Falcon 9 rocket finally achieved vertical landing.

Startup Garage, a second - year elective, asks students to build an idea for a company using, in part, the lean startup model, Eric Ries's method of developing and rolling out products or services quickly to avoid costly failures.

Failure of prices to recover raises the prospect of even deeper cuts to investment by oil and gas companies next year and would likely result in Canada's economy remaining on a slower growth path than the 2.2 per cent pace we are expecting.»

Indeed, though an 2014 academic study of bridge failures found roughly 120 bridges collapse or partially collapse every year, most do so because of floods, fires and collisions rather than structural decline.

Year after year, influential speakers offer graduates a relatively familiar message, telling them to change the world while seizing opportunities and overcoming fears of failYear after year, influential speakers offer graduates a relatively familiar message, telling them to change the world while seizing opportunities and overcoming fears of failyear, influential speakers offer graduates a relatively familiar message, telling them to change the world while seizing opportunities and overcoming fears of failure.

Of all the people I've talked to over the years about starting their own business, the fear of failure is the number one thing that keeps many people from doing what they really want to dOf all the people I've talked to over the years about starting their own business, the fear of failure is the number one thing that keeps many people from doing what they really want to dof failure is the number one thing that keeps many people from doing what they really want to do.

Fox's decision to finally move forward with the film followed a years - long process in which Reynolds, director Tim Miller, and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick had to fight through various obstacles (including the box office failure of another Reynolds superhero movie, 2011's Green Lantern) to get the movie made.

That's an instructive example because publishers and entertainment conglomerates for years have tried to claim what they see as their rightful share of the digital - content - rentals business, but most of their efforts have been failures, while tech «middle men» like Amazon, Netflix, Apple, and Spotify have flourished.

Fear of failure often has deep roots in our early lives, so getting tough with yourself and giving yourself a lecture is about as effective as yelling at a teary two year old.

Earlier this week, Georgia Representative Hank Johnson introduced two bills that he believes will help improve voting security a few years down the road: the Election Infrastructure and Security Promotion Act, which, if passed, would classify voting systems as critical infrastructure to be protected by the Department of Homeland Security; and the Election Integrity Act, which will map out a planned response for voting system failures and control the types of voting machines states are allowed to buy.

At the American College of Cardiology's meeting in Chicago on Saturday, Novartis told doctors that clinically stable heart patients, as well as those considered least stable, both appear to benefit from taking Entresto compared to enalapril, a generic introduced 35 years ago that remains a standard heart failure treatment.

Sony's problems were many: brutal competition for its once - dominant television group; being bested by Apple's iPod, a humiliation for the Walkman pioneer; high - cost manufacturing in Japan; a failure to seize the music - streaming initiative despite years of trying.

Failure to do this reduces what could be a meaningful piece of marketing to something more closely resembling the «pink it and shrink it» gimmicks of years past.

Success means the reinforcement of prices and revenue stability for producers after two difficult years; failure risks starting a fourth year of stock builds and a possible return to lower prices,» the IEA added.

«Our success is primarily dependent on audience acceptance of our films, which is extremely difficult to predict and, therefore, inherently risky... Our business is currently substantially dependent upon the success of a limited number of film releases each year and the unexpected delay or commercial failure of any one of them could have a material adverse effect on our financial results and cash flows.»

Over the years, administrators of the Pell Grant system have come to expect that each year thousands of otherwise eligible applicants will be denied the benefit because of failure to register for the draft.

Why fans believe it is true: In 1997, two years after breaking Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games played, a game between the Orioles and Mariners was postponed because of a electrical failure that affected the lights at Camden Yards.

The Pantry deal was reached about four years after the failure of Couche - Tard's US$ 1.9 - billion hostile bid for Casey's General Stores.

According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), a consortium of academic teams in more than 70 countries, until last year 25 - to -34-year-olds were significantly more worried about failure than 35 - to -54-year-olds.

The Wall Street Journal explores the mechanical failure of America's job engine in the last 10 years.