Sentence examples for this challenging year from inspiring English sources

Still, the uncertainties of this challenging year are manifesting themselves in the days before Super Bowl XLIII as advertisers think, rethink — and rethink again — what they intend to do.

"It has been particularly important for me to assist the company during this challenging year in the markets and in the management succession at the firm," Mr. Klein said in a statement.

Still, at the local level, this challenging year could bring transformative change. .

As this challenging year ends, it is important that we commit to teaching the Mr. Potters in our lives what is truly important.

"We have, I think, set this bill up for success, but I think, like anything else, this is a challenging year and a challenging political climate.

This was a challenging year to get a farmers' market off the ground.

VENICE — This is a challenging year for the Venice Film Festival, given that construction has now started on a brand new Palazzo del Cinema on the Lido, due to be completed in 2011, on the same site where the world's oldest filmfest has taken place since it began in the 1930s.

"There's no doubt that this was a challenging year," she admits to a roomful of reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour in Los Angeles on Saturday.

"This has been a challenging year," Mr. Jackson said in his remarks.

SAN FRANCISCO — So far this has been a challenging year for companies hoping to go public.

"This will be a challenging year for retailers due to continued uncertainty in the economic environment," Borders's chief executive, George L.