Sentences with phrase «struggle against falling»

FHA Loans Struggle Against Falling Home Values With home values still falling across the nation, a 3 % (or 3.5 %) down payment just doesn't give FHA homeowners a whole lot of breathing room.

The chain has been struggling against falling comparable store sales in the U.S., which still accounts for 40 % of the company's operating income.

«As a result, schools are now struggling against falling applications and the highest number of teachers quitting the profession on record.

Not exact matches

This is why I think the Galaxy S8 — and likely the Note 8 that's expected to launch this fall — will struggle against Apple's next iPhone, which is said to adopt a lot of features from Samsung, like a larger, curved screen.

He did not completely free himself from the thinking against which he struggled, and his followers have tended in part to fall back into it.

With his treachery against Laban just behind him, and the awful reminder of his shame against father and brother just ahead in the inevitable meeting with Esau, God falls upon him as a nocturnal spirit who, after a struggle that endures throughout the night, again gives — this time simply in a name — both promise and blessing:

It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

He was in part playing the role of «pastor in chief,» taking a moment with the nation to remember the fallen in the decade - long struggle against terrorism.

Dale Van Kley's new book, The Religious Origins of the French Revolution, seeks to revive a sort of Whiggish interpretation of the French Revolution as the struggle for freedom against sacral monarchy, with much of the ideological discourse of the revolutionaries deriving from little expected religious controversies» beginning with the rise and fall of Calvinism in Catholic France, continuing through the struggles over theological Jansenism, and ending in the political struggles of the French high courts of justice, the parlements, with the administrative monarchy of the eighteenth century.

I fully understand we just lost one game and uts not the end of the world but am struggling to deal with is the consistent lack of mental toughness that are the hallmarks of all title winning teams... we need to be proactive and stop been reactionary, simples... we had what is in all honesty a good couple of matches begining of the season WINNABLE games but we already fell short at the first hurdle now all the talk is about bouncing back, whatever happened to eyes on the ball straight from the off... a Westham side with a new manager, some new players and a 16 year old making his debut beating Arsenal at home is just plain disgraceful and whatever happens next does not in any way mitigate against that.....

Whilst the home side have only lost three times this season at Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, those defeats have come to Barcelona and Juventus, proving they struggle against the top tier opponents — a bracket that Real Madrid certainly fall into.

Just as Bolton were showing signs of recovering with a win over Liverpool and a draw against Arsenal, it has all fallen apart, and they are struggling for form.

The Scot has won just two of his sixteen league games in charge, two of which coming against a then utterly demoralised and in free - fall West Brom either side of the New Year, and he is currently struggling to rouse the troops during a nine - match barren run which has seen Rovers go nearly three whole months without winning.

While some designers go with the flow and deliver regular jewelry pieces, the most daredevils among them struggle against the stream and drop some extravagant necklaces for fall 2017.

The script written by Leslie Dixon, one of the prime generators of the decade's many high - concept, low - humor chuckle fests («Mrs. Doubtfire,» «Outrageous Fortune,» «Look Who's Talking Now»), pitted Hawn's pampered rich - bitch princess, who ends up with amnesia after falling off her yacht, against Russell's struggling widower carpenter and father of four.

We're introduced to a supporting cast who could normally knock your socks off at ten paces (John C Reilly, Ben Whishaw & Ashley Jensen) but they disappear from the story and the screen when Farrell escapes into nearby woods where he falls in love with Rachel Weisz who delivers the single most monotone & depressing voiceover throughout the film I've ever heard and struggles against Lea Seydoux as the tiresome «villain» of the piece.

Looking back, I can see that my colleagues and I were struggling to counteract powerful tendencies that work against high student achievement in urban schools: If teachers work in isolation, if there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasm.

It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

Three storylines weave together the experiences of a black family: In the 1940s, Evelyn, the wealthy, Creole daughter of a doctor, falls of a poor boy; in the»80s, Evelyn's daughter Jackie grapples with her marriage to a recovering crack addict; and in post-Katrina 2010, Jackie's son T.C. struggles against the prison system.

The Fallen Land is a gritty, bone - chilling saga about a young couple struggling to survive against impossible odds during the wretched, sad last days of the Civil War (Patricia G).

He opens a window on his private life, from his boyhood dislike of school to his daughter's precocious melancholy, from his successful struggle to quit smoking to his anxiety at the prospect of testifying against some clumsy muggers who fell upon him during a visit to New York City.

Development of small to medium reactors (SMRs), is regarded as crucial to the future of the nuclear industry as it struggles to remain competitive against the rapidly falling cost of renewable wind and solar power.

Its fiat currency continues to fall against the dollar to all - time lows even as its regime struggled recently to reform interest rates and forgive loans.