Sentences with phrase «than challenging for»

Palace have failed to claim a single victory in the Premier League since December 19, a run stretching over 11 games and such a terrible streak has meant that rather than challenging for Europe, the Eagles are staring at a fight against the drop.

Instead, a place in the top four is the target — it is a target that looks only slightly more realistic than challenging for the title, given their current form.

Today at 11:30 am - West Ham fans here in the Tavern will be happy once the season is over and they have guaranteed their Premier League status for another year following a disappointing campaign which saw them flirting with relegation rather than challenging for European football, as was expected at the London Stadium.

Arsenal has become a club that the board and Wenger interested in making profit than challenging for silverwares.

Roy Keane, who had some (in) famous duels with Arsenal players in his playing time — more often with his counterpart Patrick Vieira — came out with the suggestion that the current squad is «more interested in selfies and six packs» than challenging for trophies.

I get the feeling the board would be happy to avoid relegation every year rather than challenge for the top 4 trophy and save the hundreds of millions in player purchases and wages

Not exact matches

For Eric Newell, leading during challenging times has often been easier than during the good ones.

More than 100 Democrats have entered races for open seats or to challenge an incumbent in Senate races.

Since many of us would have given up under lesser challenges than his, I asked him for advice for others facing adverse conditions.

My prediction is that small businesses will continue to challenge and at times beat the large enterprises (perhaps sooner rather than later), simply because they will appeal to the consumers desire to support the up and comers, the dreamers and the entrepreneurs that are often much easier for people to relate to.

A recent survey found that for more than 80 percent of small - business owners, the rewards outweigh the challenges.

You would then consider fitness more challenging for you than for most.

Blackburn conducted research focused on mothers caring for children with autism and other chronic conditions, and found that moms who were more resilient to stress — perceiving their situation as a challenge, rather than something hopeless or overwhelming — kept their telomeres longer.

At a distance, it all sounds like rather typical challenges for an online streaming service that's been on the market for less than two months, but the complaints are mounting.

It's so much easier to administer and grade a useless multiple choice test and to inflate every kids» grades for their college applications than it is to create challenging course work that excites, engages, and challenges them.

Another challenge for Jolly Time: Consumers have also gravitated more toward pre-popped, bagged popcorns in recent years rather than microwave popcorn.

«But it seems that launching low - cost long - haul flights without connecting services is challenging,» Gagey said, pointing to Norwegian Air Shuttle, which on Thursday reported a bigger than expected loss for the last quarter of 2017.

Of the nine winners who did report challenges building their startups because of student - loan debt, only three left school owing more than $ 35,000, the average amount for class of 2015 graduates (the highest in U.S. history), according to a report by financial aid resource Edvisors.com.

In a recent survey, more than a fifth of small business owners cited rising interest rates as a top challenge for their business.

Comments: «We continue to believe that prospects remain good for economic growth to reassert itself as challenges are persistently met by concerted efforts of country officials and central bankers around the world aided and abetted by secular trends larger than the cyclical hurdles in the immediate path.

And like us, Ravensburger is a family - owned company that has thrived for more than a century by staying true to its mission — a belief in the benefits of challenging the mind and the importance of creative play.

We're very good at launching Mario Party - type games — that's one franchise that does better in Canada than other markets, for example — but when it comes to launching new IP it's a huge challenge in today's world, where consumers are just bombarded with entertainment options that didn't exist when we first launched Mario 30 years ago.

For more than half a century governments around the world have been trying to solve the challenge of nuclear fusion.

A federal appeals court, which has been grappling with the FCC's media ownership rules for more than a decade, is expected to hear challenges to the new rules.

«There is a lot of data that shows it's still far more challenging for women than men»

A Challenge to cut out sugar and alcohol for 30 days is vastly more likely to create lasting change than a nebulous «Lose 50 pounds» goal.

Stephens faced challenges as well, including taking on a product - architecture design that was larger in scale and complexity than what was envisioned at the beginning, and growing a culture that fits today's needs in a highly competitive marketplace for talent.

The situation was less than ideal; Corcoran described the listing as a «dungeon,» and was confronted with the challenge of trying to rent out the apartment space for $ 330 a month.

Though OFC exceeds its quota, managers at the firm consider it to be their greatest challenge: For many jobs, hiring Saudis — who often require training and who by law are paid considerably more than expats — is expensive.

All of that will have to take place under a different matrix than the norm for the profession as the investing world itself faces new challenges.

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«Other kinds of work — be it exercise, a creative hobby, hands - on parenting, or volunteering — will do more to preserve your zest for Monday's challenges than complete vegetation or working through the weekend,» she writes.

If anything has gotten easier for Barkan despite the physical and emotional challenges that comes with his illness, it's that the issues he is now advocating for are much simpler to explain to people than US interest rate policy, which has been his focus at the Center for Popular Democracy.

But aside from raising awareness and more than $ 20 million for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, over the past month, the challenge also may be unleashing a new model for the $ 300 billion - a-year business of charitable giving.

That gives people the opportunity to race at the highest level of the sport, and we don't want to lose that, but when you add new top teams... making sure that you have an equally attractive environment for pro-am independent teams is a challenge we're up to — but it's easier said than done.

«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?»»

«The challenge for an incoming administration is always to make those policy changes without making law enforcement look like a purely political undertaking,» said William Yeomans, who worked in the division for more than two decades.

These are the questions Greg asks himself when he decides to ditch electronics for a while, but he finds the challenge harder than he expected.

More than that, however, they offer suggestions about how to evaluate each of those traits in a potential leader, tying courage, for example, not just to a leader's commitment to core values and a track record of navigating challenges, but to patience.

The U.K.'s challenges are somewhat different from Canada's: as a result of the Conservative Party's austerity campaign, the U.K.'s economy has suffered more than Canada's, which has taken more of a Keynesian approach; and the City, as London's financial hub is known, has had a reputation for a much looser approach to regulation than that found in either Canada or the U.S. Tal says the U.K.'s finance sector has to change and he expects Carney will attempt to move it in the direction of greater regulation.

Everyone wants to be more global, to infuse ethics and integrity into the curriculum, to teach students to be more entrepreneurial and innovative, and to put more of a challenge into MBA programs that, at some places, have become little more than a two - year search for a better job.

They often see new challenges as obstacles in the path of their success rather than opportunities for growth.

Consequently, the non-prime consumers need more options — rather than fewer — for weathering these minor financial challenges.

«Other kinds of work — be it exercise, a creative hobby, hands - on parenting, or volunteering — will do more to preserve your zest for Monday's challenges than complete vegetation,» she has written before recommending that, if you really want to feel jazzed up after a break, you should proactively schedule challenging or engaging activities rather than just planning to chill and take things the days as they come.

I thus began to long for a life as something other than a business owner, looking to sate my appetite for a new kind of challenge.

That's more of a challenge for faculties than students, because for MBAs to stay relevant and for people to continue to want to pay for it, faculties will have to make these degrees transferable and global.

Asked if Sony has given this potential challenge any thought, Turvey says, «I'd be concerned if we haven't thought about it, and there's a lot smarter people than myself — our engineers in Tokyo — that have solutions for all these opportunities.

As a new parent, Serena now faces a bigger challenge than demanding equal pay for black women.

For incumbent furniture players, the challenge ahead will be more about streamlining operations than improving design.

But what it means — theoretically at least — is that there is a lot more potential for posts on Medium to be challenged directly on the platform than there is for a newspaper op - ed piece to be challenged in the same way.