Sentence examples for meet this hurdle from inspiring English sources

Increasing the necessary test scores for entry into a program means that certain populations of students may not be able to even begin teacher preparation and prove their ability in a timely fashion and be effectively locked out of undergraduate study in the field (you can have one guess about from which communities most students who might not meet this hurdle would likely come).

Payne: It was my first studio film, and Paramount put me through a number of casting hurdles: Meet this guy, meet that guy.

Does the increased efficiency our investment allocation system delivers meet that hurdle?

The risk of further penalties was one of the reasons RBS failed to meet the hurdle set by the Bank as it awaits a penalty from the US for mortgage bond mis-selling before the crisis.

In the last few years, many efforts have been made on generalization of the notion of convexity to meet the hurdles in advanced optimization theory.

But its manufacturer, Merck, Sharp & Dohme, has been given permission to go through fast-track procedures to meet those hurdles, according to The Guardian.

With poor showings in Iowa, New Hampshire and recent polls, he barely met the hurdle for qualification for the Jan . 19CNN debate in Charleston, two days before the South Carolina primary.

One of many hurdles to meeting this goal is that the private sector owns and controls most of the networks the government must protect.

While the nation's pharmacy benefit managers endorse the Institute of Medicine's call for national electronic prescribing by 2010 ("Report Finds a Heavy Toll From Medication Errors,'' news article, July 21), a big hurdle remains to meeting this timetable.

"Travelers Property Casualty didn't meet our hurdle rates," Mr. Weill said.

This is particularly the case in private equity, where most funds have to meet a hurdle, typically set at 8%, below which the managers get nothing.