Sentences with phrase «public challenges in»

Those were the words Jimmy Connors used in the seventies to issue one of the most public challenges in sports history to Sweden's Bjorn Borg.

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A judicial review («JR») is a type of court proceeding in which a judge reviews the lawfulness of a decision or action made by a public body; they are a challenge to the way in which a decision has been made, rather than the conclusion reached.

A Wall Street outsider in every conceivable way — a public school grad, a Texan from a visible minority, a woman — Godiwalla contended with more than the usual challenges when she moved to Manhattan in the»90s and became an analyst in Morgan Stanley's corporate finance group.

Passed amidst bitter partisan division and an ambivalent public... the right depends on private actors, private health insurance companies, and willing states to administer and participate in a newly transparent, competitive, and streamlined private health insurance market, while these same actors hesitate to invest in the infrastructure of this market due to uncertainty from legal and political challenges to the ACA.

«In a world where information travels very, very fast and through different media, figuring out whether information is public or not is challenging,» says Daniel Hawke, the former chief of the SEC's market abuse unit, who recently joined Washington, D.C., law firm Arnold & Porter.

Comments: «We are entering the fifth year post «The Great Contraction» with considerable progress made in deleveraging the financial and household sectors; however, the most complex stage - stabilizing public sector debt - remains a formidable challenge.

In the current challenging economic environment, a company's worst - case scenarios might include the bankruptcy of its biggest and once - best customer, a banker's decision to close down its corporate credit line, the postponement or cancellation of an impending initial public offering, or the meltdown of a company's value.

It would have been easy to dismiss her challenge, but now that I'm a published author, now that Bodies on the Potomac is out there in the public domain being read by friends and family and strangers alike, I realize that listening to a respected friend's advice might be the catalyst others can use to break through.

But for now, I'll point you to the CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion, an organization comprised of some of the world's biggest companies who have made a public commitment to work together on issues of diversity and accountability in all its challenging nuance.

Part of the challenge in creating a new tech accessory is convincing the public that they need it.

Oza's video is just the latest public relations challenge for United, which is still reeling after the forcible removal of passenger Dr. David Dao from an overbooked flight in April bought the airline global condemnation.

The underwhelming IPO highlights the challenges e-commerce companies face going public in the wake of poor performances from Snap and Blue Apron.

Abigail Bozarth, a spokeswoman for AstraZeneca, said «AstraZeneca believes it is important to engage with policymakers, key partners, and the public — across all states in the United States — about the very challenging issues we face as we all work to strengthen our nation's health care system.»

Setting up this vision, in the face of what public funding institutions expect, has been one of the biggest challenges,» says Gutiérrez.

But HP, which had planned to mount a challenge in public cloud, fell off the leader board completely.

As an attorney who moved into the public policy and government and now as a university president (all positions in fields dominated by men), I have faced challenges while working my way up.

But the vote, underlining widespread concern among EU politicians about American dominance of the Internet industry, would be a significant public challenge to Google's business in Europe.

In his witty, 18 - minute takedown of the talent - squandering treadmill that is the traditional public education system, Sir Kenneth Robinson challenges us to «radically rethink» the way we teach our children.

Fitzgerald said a challenge in a movie like Snowden is to appeal to the American public, which includes many people who don't know or care about geek - speak, while also remaining credible with hacker types.

The fellows serve 12 - month terms as entrepreneurs - in - residence, applying their problem - solving chops to public sector challenges.

These mega-projects are fraught with challenges ranging from new engineering demands to public opposition.But to look at any one pipeline or container - port controversy in isolation is to miss the big picture of inexorable change in the world economy and Canada's place within it.

In addition to this public challenge, the company hosts inter-office competitions, breaking their staff of 16 into small groups and tracking the number of employees who cycle to work, offering lunch, a beer or latte to the winning team at the end of the week.

Of course, taking a scrappy Canadian startup public comes with its own set of challenges — how do you maintain the same energy and innovation when your staff is in the hundreds, instead of the dozens?

Enough teenagers have engaged in the Tide Pod challenge that it's warranted public health scrutiny.

«I took it very, very seriously and quickly realized that this was even tougher than any of the other challenges in the public domain because it was my hometown, and it was my school,» says Alexander.

Ross Rubin, principle analyst with Reticle Research, said that a major challenge for smart watch makers — Apple included — will be to rekindle public interest in buying watches.

The Congress faces an array of policy choices as it confronts the challenges posed by the amount of federal debt held by the public — which has more than doubled relative to the size of the economy since 2007 — and the prospect of continued growth in that debt over the coming decades if the large annual budget deficits projected under current law come to pass.

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[109][110][111] Corzine later wrote that only after the proposal was released did he discover «the harsh reality: the public intensely disliked the idea» and that, in retrospect, he «should have pressed harder to identify the most salient arguments against the plan and developed a strategy to get in front of and respond to those challenges.»

Many of the challenges that urban regions face spill over the boundaries of municipal governments — none more so than in the current Ontario debate over public transit.

We would strongly recommend that you support the IMF conclusion in its recent report on» the importance of increasing transparency and communication about these challenges (demographic) and their long - run implications, (and) to increase public awareness and contribute to a debate about possible solutions» [9].

«Assembling a workable public consensus on energy and climate change is the most challenging agenda item in Canadian politics today.

B.C.'s renewed Liberal government faces so many unchanged challenges, but in particular a public education system that's still crying out for cash.

As the debate has taken on a decidedly Asia focus, with some recent studies and popular media coverage pointing to investors from Asia as one of the drivers of Vancouver's soaring housing prices, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) has written a background document aggregating the available facts, outlining similar challenges in other jurisdictions, and raising the question: Is public policy required?

On Earth Day, April 22nd, 2017, Elizabeth and Sheila Malcolmson (MP, Nanaimo - Ladysmith) participated in «Protecting Our Islands,» a public meeting and fundraiser to assist with the First Nations court challenge of the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion project.

Her own story and refusal to shrink from the public eye challenges preconceptions about sex work: namely, the assumption that those in the sex industry forfeit their right to autonomy and human dignity.

Think about the disruption being caused by electric and autonomous cars in automotive; by regulatory challenges in banking; by shale resources in oil and gas; and by a groundswell of public dissatisfaction in political institutions, to name just a few.

I am proud that he was a Harvard undergraduate during my time on the faculty at Harvard and I think that the Bank of England is fortunate to have someone with his degree of experience in public policy and also experience as a participant directly in financial markets, at the helm at what will be a challenging time for the city of London and England and the global financial system.

In the coming weeks, it will also present perhaps the country's greatest public policy challenge since President Donald Trump's was inaugurated.

Texas eminent domain lawyer Luke Ellis, told the Houston Chronicle: «The public interest question surrounding exports provides an opening to challenge land takings in court, and is almost certainly on the minds of pipeline executives.»

Indra is a world leader in the development of end - to - end technology solutions in fields such as Defense and Security, Transport and Traffic, Energy and Industry, Telecommunications and Media, Financial Services, Electoral Processes, and Public Administrations and Healthcare, Through its Minsait unit, it addresses the challenges of digital transformation.

Grounded in Boston Fed research, the Challenge encourages leaders from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to advance proposals that tackle complex challenges facing smaller post-industrial cities and achieve large scale impact across communities.

Yesterday, I took part in a panel discussion in Davos titled «Hack the Attack» where we debated some of the key challenges that face the public and private sector in working together to prepare for cyberattacks.

• The character and integrity of those with whom you are doing business • Changing technology as it impacts industries (including the banking industry) • Future changes in the law or even how the law might be interpreted differently 10 years from now • Deteriorating international competiveness (as what happened to our tax code) • Emerging competitive threats • Changes in industrial structure; e.g., new sources of competition • Political influence and unexpected litigation • Public sector fiscal challenges, demographic changes and challenges managing the nation's healthcare resources

In sprucing up their Amazon bids for Bezos, cities ranging from Atlanta to New York will need to take an honest look at whether housing stock and public transportation — both critical to a winning bid — are up to the HQ2 challenge.

The hearings themselves may also be open to the public, provided that the government whose decisions are being challenged «determines that it is in the public interest to do so.»

Higher food prices could pose a challenge to the government of the nation's president, Jacob Zuma, who is confronting widening public anger over rising income inequality and whose party, the African National Congress, is expected to face serious challenges in municipal elections this year.

Completely scrap the the funding for private schools, but in the event it's not politically expedient for the government heading into an election, at least consider a reduction in funding levels to financially aid the public system and alleviate some of the pressures they currently are experiencing with class size, lack of teachers and the challenges inherent in providing school lunch programs.

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He cautioned any twinning of the pipeline would be «transformative change» that would present «a challenge and a problem for us» but that it would be up to Kinder Morgan to bring back proposals that are defensible and in the public interest.