Sentences with phrase «such as hurdles»

Ectomorphs are genetically predisposed to have the optimum physic for sports like long - distance running and certain field athletics such as hurdles.

Apparently when he's not having his opponents tackle him by his penis, Vernon Davis is able to things such as hurdling defenders...

You can use a small set of plyo boxes to train for particular sports skills, such as hurdling, jumping, landing on one leg and leaping.

Not exact matches

One of the biggest hurdles they face is the regulatory environment in the region, as it's not only about digitizing the real estate sector, but bringing blockchain concepts such as distributed ledgers to the space.

As such, the business has a seemingly massive hurdle to surmount prior to beginning operations: it must first make pot legal in the U.S.A.

They will externalize their own fears of opening their own business through their «advice» such that any thoughts they may have on the business almost always focuses on the negative aspects of the hurdles as opposed to the positive challenges in opportunities.

A couple of major hurdles are now behind us, such as the U.S. presidential election and the easing of energy prices.

The biggest potential hurdle: If you're reliant on enterprisewide software such as a customer - relationship management system, you might have trouble getting it to run on Linux PCs and you'd probably have to replace it with a Linux - friendly product.

Hurdles such as startup capital, language barriers and lack of a strong support network are real problems to would - be refugee entrepreneurs.

Although there is increasing concern that the costs paid by workers such as deductibles and co-insurance continue to mount, having increased access to health insurance overcomes a big hurdle for many entrepreneurs.

So it's still legal to buy, sell, and exchange these kinds of weapons, including in Nevada, as long as they're a few decades old — although with some extra hurdles that don't apply to other types of firearms, such as registering fully automatic guns with the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) and paying a special tax, with the risk of additional penalties if someone doesn't comply.

Amazon executives look at such hurdles as «friction,» which they are constantly seeking to eliminate.

China's online retail boom also began with increased Internet use, followed by the first wave of Internet companies, which had to jump market hurdles, such as immature electronic - payment systems.

Such fees create unnecessary hurdles for adopting DApps with internal tokens, reducing their ability to build out a large user base even as they attract significant mainstream attention.

Though autonomous trucking offers much promise to the trucking industry, it also must clear major hurdles before it becomes prevalent, such as legislative and infrastructure...

He further explained that, even though some governments are considering issuing digital currencies, there are still a number of hurdles and challenges (such as cyberattacks and other crimes) that need to be addressed before digital currencies can be widely used.

«A process such as this can reduce the old testing paradigm — which had various hurdles or stage gates — by the order of weeks or months in some situations.»

Once this regulatory hurdle is overcome and approval for the EU market secure, the company said it will be «on the front line» in Europe's fight against obesity and sugar - related health problems such as type 2 diabetes.

Coaches give instruction and training in events such as sprinting (100m, 200m, 400m), middle and long distance running (800m & 1600m), field events (long jump, shot put, discus, mini-javelin and hurdles).

There are hurdles to overcome, such as injury and inconsistency, which are no strangers to the game of soccer.

These include such enduring hurdles as stakeholder resistance, resource scarcity and profitability concerns.

If you spot a problem, such as math anxiety or trouble grasping math concepts, now is the time to step in and help your child work through any hurdles.

According to Smolkin, telling a child «no» teaches them important lessons such as how to deal with life's disappointment and hurdles, and how to handle those feelings attached to not getting their way.

Certainly some hurdles to breastfeeding are universal, such as overcoming the physical pain that can occur when starting to nurse.

And she is much more likely to either have knowledgeable breastfeeding support in her social circles or, if the breastfeeding specialist - to - mother ratio is similar to that of a wealthy nation, those breastfeeding supports are not having to compete with rampant cultural influence from formula companies and other cultural breastfeeding hurdles, such as unpaid maternity leave.

As such, they can change the rules to avoid the 60 vote «hurdle».

The WSJ notes that this year's budget deal was harder to come by than usual because legislative factions on the right and left dug in their heels, revealing a «growing polarization» in Albany that «poses a hurdle for a governor who has long positioned himself as a moderate mediator who prizes governmental order such as on - time budgets.»

The current legislative session concludes at the end of June and an online poker bill needs to pass three Assembly committees before making it to a floor vote, although, as Tuesday's vote proved, such hurdles can be cleared relatively quickly if the will is there.

UK law, as well as other treaties, may also be a hurdle to enact such a policy.

Cuomo has been pushing for such a tax ceiling since his campaign, and the Assembly had been seen as one of his most challenging hurdles, since the New York City Democrats that lead the body have close ties to teachers» unions, which have opposed the cap.

In key public services - such as health, education, fire, transport, border security and energy - there will be an additional hurdle that a strike must be endorsed by 40 % of those entitled to vote.

This year alone, the groups saw major elements of their platforms come to pass, such as tying teacher evaluations more closely to test scores, adding hurdles to earning tenure and increasing the number of charter schools, measures all unpopular with the unions.

Freehand says that because its arms do not enter the body but assist with tools other than operating instruments, it is complementary to technology such as the da Vinci robot rather than a competing product and does not face the same hurdles.

More recent attempts to make whiffy peripherals, such as the iSmell USB device from Digiscents in 2000, fell at the same hurdle.

A computer simulation then let researchers estimate how the bones would respond to the stresses of locomotion for each species, such as jumping over a hurdle or accelerating into a gallop.

Engineering such contact can face many hurdles, including language barriers and daunting challenges that arise in countries, such as Germany, that have accepted massive numbers of refugees in a short time.

Sharpe highlights several hurdles on the route to a human equivalent of the drug, such as creating an oral version rather than the injectable form used in the rodent trials.

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«And molecular imaging methods face some particularly challenging hurdles such as the need to deliver the short - lived imaging probes to centers performing the imaging.»

In part 2, hurdles such as funding issues, garnering administrative support, and «systems - driven obstacles» (i.e., cutting through the red tape) will be addressed.

But the model has more hurdles to clear, such as explaining why the innermost planets — Earth and its neighbors — weren't reshuffled as well.

Madhu Lal - Nag, a researcher at the National Institutes of Health who coordinates RNAi research, said she's starting to see a surge of interest in the field among academics who want to unravel more of the basic science, especially as it becomes clear that other hot fields of research, such as CRISPR gene - editing, face their own series of hurdles.

Sounds good, but the Innovation Strategy doesn't really address the crucial steps in taking a product from lab bench to market, such as protecting the intellectual property from competition, jumping over regulatory hurdles, or scale - up to economically viable production levels.

IBM, Intel and HP are well - positioned to leap these hurdles thanks to decades of fine - tuning manufacturing processes for PCs, computer processors, and other tech equipment, not to mention their multimillion dollar R&D budgets and worldwide facilities in places such as China and India.

But he says there are still technical hurdles to overcome, such as tuning different lasers to vibrate the molecules at a variety of frequencies at the same time.

That's been a high hurdle for devices called solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) that convert fuels — such as methane and hydrogen — directly to electricity without burning them.

Other hurdles remain, such as determining the proper dose of brown fat cells.

But the future fabric will have to leap other practical hurdles, such as proving to be durable and stable after washing.

Studying these electrostatic forces required researchers to devise an improved optical approach and to innovate to overcome hurdles, such as the presence of water and mineral - structure effects that impeded precise measurements.

In addition to the trials early career scientists must overcome, female researchers experience additional hurdles in the workplace, such as limited opportunities for equal pay and promotions, and insufficient maternity leave.