The brisk clip and dashes of dark humor ward off actual despair, but the length
poses challenges for some of the heavy lifting of character growth.
While vacancy rates were on the decline over the past year (from 5.60 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2007 to 4.50 per cent in 2008) and rents continued to escalate ($ 21.36 to $ 22.90 per sq. ft. for the same period), softening demand due to weak economic conditions and the expected supply of several million square feet of new office space will
pose challenges for some of the prestigious towers in Toronto's financial district during 2009 and 2010.
Not exact matches
Developing a drug pipeline
posed new
challenges for the small company,
of course.
Teenagers, however,
pose a
challenge for Bossa Nova's Walmart robots because
of their «mischievous» nature, Hitch said.
Chip Espinoza, co-author
of Managing the Millennials: Discover the Core Competencies
for Managing Today's Workforce, says millennials» expectations can
pose challenges for older managers accustomed to a more traditional, seniority - based system.
Additionally, doing social media right requires a time commitment, which
poses a
challenge for busy executives — regardless
of age.
The popularization
of coupon culture through shows like «Extreme Couponing»
pose some
challenges for business.
«Any argument they make
for keeping that in would result in the same kinds
of legal
challenges presented by Section 3 (c), which
poses the question
of, «Why have people from these countries been deemed more dangerous than others?»»
For brands, particularly iconic ones, marketing to Millennials
poses a
challenge because the group's purchasing, communication and personal - interaction habits and prefer - ences differ significantly from those
of earlier generations.
This likely
poses major
challenges for managing all the component parts
of a successful content marketing campaign, such as:
Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect
for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations
posed by the environmental, social and economic
challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report
of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts
of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report
of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption
of «quantitative goals...
for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»
Using the best - selling 737 - 8 as the starting point
for a new type
of 737 could
pose such
challenges, but may also be cheaper to make because
of economies
of scale in busy 737 - 8 production.
The year ahead will
pose new
challenges for them, not just on technological fronts, but also because
of the new geo - political order dawning.
Google's inability to access China's large population
of young, tech - savvy internet users
poses a
challenge for the firm whose search engine has expanded to become the world's largest and most ubiquitous.
In the post-financial crisis world, however, new realities
pose significant
challenges for the conduct
of monetary policy.
Creating and analyzing benchmarks
for private investments, especially
for a younger, emerging portion
of the market such as impact investing,
poses a number
of challenges.
The potential
for China to acquire cutting - edge European technology or convert critical infrastructure investments into strategic assets — including the potential
for dual - use
of assets such as ports — might also
pose long - term
challenges to U.S. interests, especially as U.S. - China competition intensifies.
But as we've shown, periods
of modestly rising inflation still
pose challenges for mainstream asset classes.
And even if Huawei does have its own OS, if the company is forced off
of traditional Android and onto something else, it would still
pose a huge
challenge for the world's third largest smartphone maker.
Economists have analyzed extensively how platform markets may
pose unique
challenges for antitrust analysis.377 Specifically, they stress that analysis applicable to firms in single - sided markets may break down when applied to two - sided markets, given the distinct pricing structures and network externalities.378 These studies often focus on the
challenge that two - sided platforms face in attracting both sides — the classic coordination problem
of having to attract buyers without an established line
of sellers, and vice versa.379 Economists tend to conclude that — given the particular
challenges of two - sided markets380 — antitrust should be forgiving
of conduct that might otherwise be characterized as anticompetitive.381
Adjusting to the new systems also
poses a
challenge for all involved, as well as a fear
of the unknown, especially with publishers keen to keeping proprietary measures as a selling point
for advertisers.
Higher wages, inflation fears and the prospect
of faster than expected rate hikes are
posing challenges market players haven't seen
for years.
That could
pose challenges for apartment landlords, who are bracing this year
for one
of the largest infusions
of new rental supply in three decades.
The fact that we are setting up a mobile juice truck business in a city with other mobile juice trucks and
of course juice and smoothie bars might likely
pose a
challenge for us in breaking into the already saturated market in Houston — Texas.
Meanwhile, I've been my own harshest critic — particularly with regard to the unfortunate timing
of my stress - testing decision in 2009 — and have been very open about the
challenges that QE and yield - seeking speculation have
posed for the methods that resulted: deferring market losses that resulted much more quickly following extremely overextended market conditions in prior historical cycles.
And even though mainstream economics now blames the Federal Reserve and the Bank
of France
for the intensity
of the Great Depression and acknowledges that too many central banks have created runaway inflations, mainstream economists have been slow to answer the
challenge that free banking theory now
poses to central banking.
But the potential
for delays and adjustments to anticipated growth - boosting policies
poses risks, and we think the extent
of these
challenges may be underestimated.
Irene Tang, a gambling - addiction counsellor, has said that the «BCLC's increased weekly limit will
pose a
challenge for those already at risk
of exceeding their personal limit.»
Furthermore, the reporting
of ethnicity, and subsequent interpretation
of the results, is complex, and
poses challenges for comparisons with other data sources.
The absence
of a single agreed - upon pricing system
for cryptocurrencies could
pose a major
challenge as investors and businesses try to comply with financial reporting requirements.
Thus while the herd
of independent minds was having a field day condemning Benedict XVI
for his 2006 Regensburg Lecture, Fouad understood that the Bavarian pope had correctly identified the two critical
challenges that contemporary history
posed to 21st - century Islam: the
challenges of finding, within authoritative Islamic sources, Islamic warrants underwriting religious tolerance and distinguishing religious and political authority in public life.
Broadcasting it
poses no problems about the separation
of church and state,
for who can raise a legal
challenge to the message that the true visible church on earth is You.
Just as the deism
of Tom Paine
posed a problem
for the Churches as a new frontier in thought, so did the physical frontier present the Churches with a
challenge.
How,
for example, can one hope to understand the history
of German theology without some discussion
of the
challenges posed by the likes
of Ludwig Feuerbach, Auguste Comte, Karl Marx, or Friedrich Nietzsche?
The revival
of confessionalism
poses a different
challenge for mainstream conservative Baptists, namely, how to use historic documents
of the church in passing on the faith to the rising generation.
Thus, the central
challenge posed by black theology is that neoclassical metaphysics consider the realities
of oppression as among the most important, if not the most important
of the relevant empirical facts to be used together with non-empirical principles
for the illumination
of value problems
of personal and social life.
These, and many other distinctive elements
of this conflict,
pose challenges to existing moral frameworks
for assessing the use
of military force.
«In addition, as the Tony Blair Institute
for Global Change works with the state government to deliver democratic dividends, we urge it to also assist in addressing the
challenges to rule
of law
posed by these arrests and prosecutions, encouraging respect
for press freedom and advocating
for protection and justice
for targeted communities in southern Kaduna.»
The main objectives
of this Consultation were to analyze globalization and its impact on human rights; to study ethical and theological considerations with regard to globalization; to search
for alternative development paradigms; to study the policies
of developed nations on development and trade policies in the context
of globalization; to gain inputs on the experiences
of indigenous people, workers and farmers who are affected by globalization; to consider the response
of the Churches to the
challenges posed by globalization and to study and identify concerns that the Asian churches can take up in order to address the adverse impact
of globalization in the Asian context.
If that glimpse
of Jesus is valid to any extent, it
poses a significant
challenge for the Christian churches.
Observance
of the Sabbath can
pose a
challenge for observant Jews living in a culture on a different timetable.
First, until quite recently, most
of the influential analytic philosophers
of religion
challenging God's existence in the face
of evil had
posed the problem as a strictly logical one, and thus Plantinga and other analytic philosophers
of religion can hardly be criticized justly
for having expended a great deal
of effort in response.
I have come to the conclusion that
for we who live in the Western world, the major
challenge to the viability
of Christianity is not Buddhism, with all its philosophical appeal to the Western mind, nor is it Islam, with all the
challenge that it
poses to Western culture.
10 Certain recent discussions
of environmental ethics, dealing with «respect
for nature» (where nature is not necessarily limited to the realm
of living things), reflect some affinities with Hall's ideas on «deference» and seem to
pose a
challenge to my suggestion that the pursuit
of power over nature should be criticized primarily in terms
of its negative effects on human values and experiences.
The US has,
for reasons
of its own (including fears that the treaty can
pose a
challenge to such laws as the Helms - Burton law and the D'Amato law which seek to penalize foreign corporations which trade with or invest in Cuba, Iran or Libya), declared that it would not accept the treaty in its present form.
He is aware — all too aware —
of the
challenge that these issues
pose for a traditional understanding
of the halakhah.
The driving force behind this process — i.e., the «factors making
for growth in the halakhah» — is, first, the «necessity to respond to new external conditions — social, economic, political, or cultural — that
pose a
challenge or even a threat to accepted religious and ethical values,» and, second, the «need to give recognition to new ethical insights and attitudes and to embody them in the life
of the people, even if there [is] no change in objective conditions.»
The churches keep on raising questions, sometimes legitimate, about the style and structure
of action groups and people's movements, without showing any readiness to face the
challenge posed by the vision and strategy (justice and collective action)
for the Church's ministry and mission.
The title alludes to that book
of the Bible so beloved by skeptics and pessimists,
for the questions Jarman
poses in poem after poem are
challenges to the Preacher's resigned acceptance, and to his famous assertion that «all is vanity.»
Like Vine before it, the app is meant to generate visual content in real - time,
posing a
challenge for brands that require the safety net
of planned and polished content.