Sentences with phrase «very challenging years»

That confidence and support has stayed strong through some very challenging years.

«We need to stand behind the man who will have two very challenging years,» said former legislator Mike Berardi in nominating Quigley at the Democratic caucus.

Saraki said this in his message at the opening session of the Senate on Tuesday, during which he noted that 2016 was «a very challenging year.»

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As to the question of when he and his party will develop a broad and substantive legislative platform to tackle the critical challenges America faces, McConnell has a ready answer as well: «If we're in the majority,» he says, «we'll be sitting down, intensely, a year from now on the very issue you've raised.»

This year, however, Lapointe had a very specific challenge in mind, because Bombardier was in an unusual position as a powersports manufacturer.

But on Monday, McDonald's reported a comparable sales decline of 1.3 % in the U.S., which the company said reflected «the challenging comparison against the prior year launch of the very successful All - Day Breakfast.»

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.

Despite these challenges, Nakanishi is confident of surpassing last year's earnings result, noting that the direction the company is heading remains «very appropriate.»

Three years of a very challenging business and we still have a strong balance sheet.

«Cloudera has built its partner strategy out very well over the last year, and this is a key win, challenging the exclusivity Hortonworks seemed to have achieved in the nascent Hadoop - on - Windows world — one that is untapped so far but will become very large,» says Gartner analyst Merv Adrian, addressing Cloudera's pacts with Microsoft.

Let me ask you a few very straightforward, tough questions about what you are looking for in a supplier, what challenges you've had over the years, and then we can figure out together whether I truly add value.

«The international markets may remain a little challenging for the balance of this calendar year, and perhaps into 2016, but our foundations are solid and I feel very very good about our positioning today.»

Salah al Fulaij: Despite global and regional challenges in recent years, Kuwaiti banks are in a very strong position.

«Last year they were somewhat challenged by the outflow story, so they underperformed peers, but we continue to be very positive on them long - term.»

However, he does face the very difficult challenge of trying to fit a long list of very expensive election promises and commitments (e.g., eliminate the deficit in four years) into a fiscal framework that he can claim is realistic, prudent, fiscally sustainable, and transparent.

Fourth quarter comparable sales declined 1.3 % in the U.S., reflecting the challenging comparison against the prior year launch of the very successful All - Day Breakfast.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

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«Amidst the economic turmoil in 2009, SCB was able to close the year with a healthy and above - target profit, which strongly bears out the bank's right strategic direction to become the «premier universal bank in Thailand,» plus the bank's resilience in adapting to a very challenging economic environment, which resulted in the solid performance,» says Vichit Suraphongchai, chairman of Siam Commercial Bank.

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In many ways the challenges that Dominic faced in his days, eight hundred years ago, are very similar to those that the Church faces today, and therefore Dominic has a message for us now as to how we can meet those challenges.

Those of us who believe same - sex marriage to be a moral impossibility now face a very daunting challenge — how to live in a society that is moving so rapidly against our moral worldview, even as the society shared that worldview for over 2,000 years.

All the same, there seems to be a reasonable hope that Cardinal Ouellet will now, having noticed (probably with the Holy Father's direct involvement) this country's needs, set himself to showing «how an episcopate can be reconfigured for the challenges of the new evangelisation» here, too; so it could be that in 10 years» time our Bishops» Conference will have a very different look about it.

She explained: «A year ago when I had a very challenging situation with my health, I really felt that God taught me how to depend entirely on him in my weakest moments.

I'm actually a little sad to be posting this challenge, because it is the very last one: participation in the Daring Kitchen has been on the decline for the past few years, so the group is shutting down and it's time to move on.

Yet we face enormous challenges over the next few years - Brexit, continued intense competition in the retail sector and the consumer's demand for ever higher quality food at very competitive prices,» he said.

We have a very privileged industry position, over the years we have unfortunately been privy to a number of technical / quality challenges (none more so than bottled wine but different in their occurrence).

In a great year like 2015, the big challenge was selecting the final blend from more than 60 000 litres of very good quality wines, all of them worthy of great Vintage Port status.

But I admit, very few (if any) could achieve such consistency during those financially challenged years.

now wengers absurd transfer policy «is down to you people»... seriously krish n`chips... the acolytes of the delusional one are beginning to sound even more of a parody than the master himself... walcott is a very very average player with one good season in 12 years at the club... the fact that wenger hasnt sold him is part of the sorry state of our club and the idea that this can be blamed on fans who want to see us back challenging for top trophies is frankly offensive

Reds boss Jurgen Klopp is reportedly very eager to bolster his squad before tonight's 11 pm deadline report the Independent, after his side's title challenge faded after the turn of the year last season due to his squad's lack of depth.

We're all just very disappointed because we all thought that if the summer went well, we could have actually challenged for the title this year.

I believe tgere are 3 titke contenders this year Leicester, city and arsenal About Leicester they are doing great but there football depends on counter attacking and few quick passes to reach the ball to mahrez or vardy i don't think they can impress anybody if they faced teams that park the bus like what the teams do with arsenal and also any injury for mahrez or vardy will ruin there season so i don't consider them a real challenge and in an open game we got the best out of them and beat them with 5 goals to 2 so calm down gooners About city they had very impressing start for the season then they were vety baf winning most games by pure luck or last minute goals and they could be beaten easily Arsenal are the best team form we controled most of the games and the losses and draws were by bad referee decisions or bad luck and the 4 points margain with city could have been easily 10 or 12

He said the biggest issue would be adapting to the very different challenges that racing in Nascar poses, something he reckons would take years to achieve.

They are certainly a lot closer than Arsenal this season, and they were last season too in fact, but they are a very long way from challenging Man City just yet, and it is still ten years since they won a trophy of any kind, so they can hardly start bragging about being a bigger team than Arsenal just yet.

For the years have been supporting Arsenal have never heard Wenger say what he is looking for in the market, it's always «i have very good players who can challenge for the title.

Another area i feel we should adress is our mildfied, since carzola get injuries every time, i think we need well experienced players like Andres Iniesta of Barcelona would be a massive adding to our midfield, he wants to leave Barca, he wants new challenge, we could make him come to Arsenal, and give him up to 280 weakly wages and take him for 2 years, but with Wenger our coach i doubt it, Getting a Deffensive midfielder in person of Everton Idrissa Guaye, won most tackles last season, won 2nd most tackles 2 seasons ago, very similar to kante.

Last summer saw Arsenal fans very optimistic about us winning the title, but the combination of the World Cup hangover and an incredibly long injury list scuppered our chances of keeping up with Chelsea in the early stages of the campaign, but this year Arsene Wenger sounds even more confident of challenging but he's refusing to commit himself to predictions.

«Rugby in my life is very diverse — playing is very different to coaching, and my coaching role is progressing every year as we get new students, creating its own challenges.»

For years Arsenal fans have been saying that we need more than Giroud to challenge and perhaps the very strong competition he is finally getting from Alexis Sanchez is pushing him on.

Or, Elena Della Donne awarded the WNBA Rookie of the Year after a very challenging road to the pros that required her to make incredible athletic sacrifices in order to manage her personal life.

He also has some very interesting things to say about why Arsenal are not looking like adding another trophy to the cabinest this year and why we seem unable to keep up a proper challenge for the Premier League title.

If the Gunners were not facing a game like the away clash with Stoke City, where we always get a big physical challenge and have struggled to get anything from games in recent years, then I very much doubt whether the boss would think of taking a gamble on the fitness of Alexis.

At man utd it is already decided that whether they win fa cup or not LVG will leave as the board felt man utd is above challenging for just fa cup, but why in arsenal as far as we qualify for top four with fa cup as bonus after 10 years our board are very very very happy and even crown wenger as the life coach of arsenal

Given the two clubs involved in the transfer talk, it will undoubtedly be a very difficult decision for the 22 - year - old to make if he has intentions of leaving Germany to start a fresh challenge as playing for Guardiola or Barca is a dream for many.

Yes, Kroenke has very average knowledge of how to run a sport team but like or not he gave Wenger 100 millions last year to be competitive and challenge for the eluded title last year.

«Every year they come with a very strong team and are challenging for the title,» the midfielder said.

all that you said plus at the very least challenging for the epl title for at least half of those years would have represented good progress.

While Palace did make a sizeable investment on Townsend, many felt that the 25 - year - old would prove to be a very good signing for the club and even potentially help them challenge for Europe during the current campaign.

I have enjoyed some very happy years at Chelsea but the time has come for a new challenge.