Stirrup noted that JCS Chairman Mullen's October 9 Congressional testimony, in which he predicted that 2009 would present increased challenges in Afghanistan and that "trends across the board are not going in the right direction," was "headline news" in the United Kingdom.
Although more common in ships, the increasing presence of constant-power loads in small power systems presents increased challenges to classical stability-control paradigms.
Human activities have shaped almost all aspects of natural ecosystems and present increasing challenges to the integrity of ecosystems that people depend on.
CAATSA's amendments to the sectoral sanctions program have presented increased compliance challenges for U.S. entities providing financing or goods and services to designated Russian entities, as well as for non-U.S.
Since the neutron and surface heat loads are higher in APEX designs than those in conventional fusion designs, decay heat and activation are generally higher, presenting an increased challenge when justifying the safety case.
Campbell, who has presided over a period of considerable financial turmoil for AJ Lucas – its shares were suspended in 2011 due to a debt crisis – also used his statement to admit that "some ill-judged senior appointments and, quite frankly, some management decisions both here and in the UK … were not up to the increased challenges presented by the market place".
The propeller design is an activity which nowadays presents ever increasing challenges to the designer, involving not only the usual mechanical characteristics fulfillment and cavitation erosion avoidance, but also other cavitation side effects, such as radiated noise and/or pressure pulses.
Substance use and related problems have presented an increasing challenge for most countries over the past few decades [ 1].
The rapid development and spread of multidrug resistant infections present an increasing challenge to public health and disease therapy (Alekshun and Levy 2003).
Multidrug-resistant and lately pan drug-resistant (PDR) Acinetobacter Baumanii presents an increasing challenge to health care and especially in Intensive Care Units (ICU).
"This suggests that tone at the top and overall senior management attitude to fighting fraud is worsening, and presents an increasing challenge for non-executive board members," said Andrew Clark, forensic services partner at PwC.
