Sentences with phrase «particularly challenging year»

Despite a particularly challenging year in the housing market, they donated $ 11,000, bringing the eight - year total to more than $ 80,000.

Like the couple years before it, 2017 was a particularly challenging year.

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When I ask if he has considered how it might look that he's leaving, particularly following the challenges SolarCity had faced during the previous year, he replies that the question sounds to him «like a broken record.

Over the next 2 - 3 years the CCBE will devote a considerable amount of time to gaining a better understanding of good compensation governance for family firms, focusing particularly on the unique challenge of compensating a CEO who is a member of the controlling family.

Is that a behavioural challenge to kinda work with, with your older clients, and particularly older ones that are having children that may outlive even, you know, us by a 10, 20, 40 years?

Moreover, achieving this may well challenge the churches of the Reformation, and particularly the Church of England, to seek a renewal of their own faith and practice in parallel with the Catholic Church's Year of Faith.

His most recent book on the topic, a second edition of Growing Up Amish: The Rumspringa Years (Johns Hopkins UP), focuses particularly on the challenges new information and social technologies pose to Amish communities.

Although Januzaj would be much more suited to Mourinho tactics than he was to Louis van Gaal's slow system, the 21 - year - old winger doesn't seem particularly well - placed to mount a challenge to get in United's team.

This is particularly delicate because of the challenges I've faced with T in the past year and the fact that I feel like he and I have recently turned a corner.

We did venture out but it was difficult as he would want to feed for about 45minutes to an hour sometimes and if I had Leo with me this could be particularly challenging, 3 year olds don't like to sit still for long.

In reality, three years into parenting, it's proven a real challenge for us to get out, particularly since we both work full - time, want to spend our non-work hours with our little man, and feel uncomfortable overtaxing my parents (our only babysitters at present).

Every spring when I (somewhat begrudgingly) tackle the challenge of sorting out Laurel's summer schedule, I'm reminded of what a shock it was to go from the year - round reliable awesomeness of day care to an elementary school schedule, particularly since Laurel wasn't exactly receptive to frequent changes and transitions (e.g., different camps on different weeks) after said reliable awesomeness.

I've used my 25 years of experience in feeding children to help design healthy menus that taste great — and that's been the challenge up until now, particularly in small schools that have limited kitchen facilities.

Growing up is full of challenges but the tween years can be particularly difficult for children.

«The toddler years can be particularly challenging since food preferences may be erratic and unpredictable,» said Mead Johnson spokesman Chris Perille.

Rangel said he thinks it's «not fair» to leave sitting members of Congress — not to mention anyone who might want to challenge them or run for any seats that might open up — in the dark on the process, particularly since the primary is going to be early this year (thanks to the DOJ).

«In a telephone call from London to the bereaved Wazirin, the President said the loss of such a devoted wife of many years was particularly a painful and challenging moment in the life of any husband.

«The challenge for me now, and all of the shadow cabinet and Jeremy Corbyn as leader, is to demonstrate we can be a strong opposition and a convincing alternative to the Tories and that we can win over and win back public opinion, particularly voters we've lost in recent years.»

Earlier this year, Democratic Party leaders in Albany seemed confident that a clear majority in the 63 - seat Senate was within reach, particularly after Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo made a commitment, after a challenge from the left last spring, to help fight for that goal.

Although attempts to knock people off the ballot are not unusual, this year's challenges have been particularly aggressive, with those opposing candidates aligned with the board's current majority showing up at homes and calling voters who signed petitions to verify their authenticity.

But other prominent Republicans expressed concern that Ms. Scozzafava's decision seemed likely to encourage conservatives going into next year's midterm elections to mount primary challenges against Republican candidates whom they consider too moderate, particularly if Mr. Hoffman wins on Tuesday.

The task is particularly challenging among elderly patients, who see an average of seven physicians a year across four different practices, according to the Institute of Medicine.

What makes the effort particularly tricky is that the prediction of natural variations like El Niño are typically only accurate on the scale of a few months, so looking out several years presents a serious challenge.

«Working in collaboration with CIRM for the past 6 years, ViaCyte has developed a particularly novel approach to overcome the challenges of treating type 1 diabetes.

Particularly in an election year, Republicans do not want to challenge Bush with new legislation, even though some of the most strident conservatives in the party are now in favor allowing scientists to study cells from embryos that were frozen as part of assisted reproduction techniques.

Sounds simple enough in theory, but in fact this took me years to appreciate and apply to my own life, particularly in areas where I felt challenged or stuck.

Whether this was a challenging year for you, or a particularly great one, now is a great time of year for emotional release.

Overall and with diligent daily use I would say that my skin feels soft and supple, with a sustained brightness and glow that can be challenging to maintain during the darker months of the year, particularly in the North.

Because I've trained track for so many years, I need to run at least 13.5 km / h (for 4 - 5 km or so) in order to challenge myself — but will it bulk up my body (particularly my legs) to run at this pace?

As a practicing psychiatrist for more than 15 years, I can tell you that schizoaffective disorder is a particularly challenging diagnosis for people to live with and for psychiatrists to treat.

Knowing she needed actors for years at a time made the task particularly challenging.

The game on average isn't particularly challenging, especially since some fans have literally spent years of their lives figuring out how to break it.

However, Tallgrass Film AssociationCreative Director, Lela Meadow - Conner noted that every year, many of the Tallgrass Film Festival's timely and challenging films have been made by women, particularly in the realm of documentary filmmaking.

In other words, there are twin challenges: to support and promote the progress of all children — and particularly children who lag in their development — in the preschool years; and to ensure that all children make a smooth transition into the first year of school by meeting individuals at their points of need upon entry.

This is particularly relevant for new teachers, who need intensive inoculation in their first years of teaching from the stressors and challenges of the profession.

Charters there have faced regulatory challenges in recent years, particularly in Detroit, leading some to paint her as the sheriff of an educational Wild West.

When the city elected a new mayor — Marty Walsh — for the first time in 20 years, Cavallo saw it as an opportunity for change in the city, particularly for contemporary artists facing challenges ranging from lack of affordable studio space to limited commercial opportunities in the city.

«We know that the first few years of a teacher's career can be particularly challenging,» Ms Skehan said.

Clearly, this suggests a way of responding to the problem of insufficient challenge which is particularly prevalent in the secondary years.

Following her presentation at ACER's Research Conference last year, Bendikson sat down with Teacher editor Jo Earp to talk more about courageous leadership, particularly when faced with the challenge of resisting a new program or idea.

But teaching about controversial topics this school year has been particularly challenging, Martell and other education researchers acknowledged.

But some say that this approach will pose a special challenge for math teachers, particularly in the middle school years, as students begin learning advanced concepts that build on each other sequentially.

«The success of the teachers and students in these schools is particularly noteworthy given the challenging new mathematics SOL tests that were introduced during the 2011 - 2012 school year,» Superintendent of Public Instruction Patricia I. Wright said.

School operators to explore entirely new models of schooling, particularly those challenging traditional models in use of time, space, technology and staff in school; reconsider how students experience learning in schools, creating new models that provide personalized and authentic learning experiences; and improve existing models by reconsidering how facilities are used and funded, how to reach full enrollment capacity more quickly and how to maintain steady revenues by «backfilling» (filling vacant seats each year).

Because children with mild disabilities are significantly more likely to be mainstreamed during the elementary years than at any other time during their educational experience, elementary school social studies teachers are in a particularly challenging situation.

So if you have a particularly challenging student who has had a multiple years of that, that kid comes with a reputation.

Facilities are often a challenge for charter schools, particularly in their early years.

By sixth grade, chronic absence predicts the likelihood of a student dropping out of high school.84 In the 2013 - 14 school year, 14 percent of students in the United States — or 1 in 7 students — were chronically absent, having missed at least 15 days of school.85 Chronic absences were particularly prevalent among students from low - income families, students of color, and students with disabilities.86 As a result, consistently missing school compounds the challenges that disadvantaged students already face.

For 12 years, Walker Furniture has sponsored a program that promotes reading among Clark County School District students, particularly those in some of the region's most economically challenged neighborhoods.

But Navas said despite that particularly challenging meeting, she'll be in Albany next year, and the year after, and she'll carry on advocating for kids even after her children graduate.