Sentence examples for increasingly tough environment from inspiring English sources

"The fashion industry is an increasingly tough environment for designers starting out.

The success rate of applications fell this year at five out of six research councils – down to just 12% at the Economic and Social Research Council – as financial pressures lead to an increasingly tough environment.

So far as is known, the Ebbers-led WorldCom resorted to fraud only when its basis business plan to grow continually through mergers ended, and it was forced to show results in a increasingly tough environment as an operating company.

Emerging market economies such as China, India, Chile and Indonesia have solved the problem of backwardness; they are exploiting their labor advantage and growing much faster than the U.S. If America is going to remain on top, we have to compete in an increasingly tough environment.

Like the larger real estate market, fractional homes have faced an increasingly tough sales environment in recent months.

Squires's achievement is a ray of light for charities, whose incomes have been battered in an increasingly tough funding environment over the past two years.

"The first-quarter declines in equity prices and short-term interest rates have made this an increasingly tough operating environment," he said.

But in an increasingly tough business environment and with the emergence of discount airlines like easyJet and Ryanair, Mr. Suter treated the airline like "a family business," cutting corners to save money, said an aviation analyst who insisted on anonymity.

Other complicating factors include Stormont's failure to reach agreement on implementing welfare reform and an increasingly tough public spending environment.

It's a tough environment.

He worked in a very tough environment".