Sentence examples for challenging operating from inspiring English sources

The US Arctic Ocean presents almost a perfect storm of risks – a requirement for a long-term capital-intensive investment for uncertain return, a remote and uniquely challenging operating environment, ongoing court challenges, a lack of extraction and spill response infrastructure, and the spotlight of the world's environmental organisations, the US political community and international media.

Unilever cited a sales slowdown across its European and North American food businesses due to a "more challenging" operating environment.

Vital to enabling the UN to rapidly initiate its life-saving response in a highly challenging operating environment was the availability of internal UN emergency funds, including the $9.2 million from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund CERFF).

"These results demonstrate the strength of our differentiated, simple, low-risk business model and reflect our ability to actively respond to the challenging operating environment," he said.

Staff protests have forced HSBC to abandon a pay freeze imposed on staff less than two weeks ago, even though its chief executive has warned of the "very challenging operating environment" this year.

Last week, Gulliver admitted there was a "very challenging operating environment" for the bank, even as he was forced to embark on an embarrassing U-turn to reverse a staff pay freeze announced only two weeks earlier.

My firm, the China Market Research Group, recently interviewed dozens of senior executives at multinationals in 10 sectors to find out what they felt were their biggest challenges operating in China.

Some European nations are also challenging the operating practices of global technology companies, with success.

His Speak Out Challenge operates in almost every secondary school in London and Essex, training almost 17,000 young people each year in public speaking.

Lisbon Challenge, operated by Beta-i, has been acknowledged as one of the top five most active investor programmes in Europe.

Dragon Challenge operates with several steel and fiberglass trains.