Sentences with phrase «constantly worked against»

He's also an underdog who constantly worked against the odds.

The good news is that while outside sources are constantly working against our good bacteria these days, there are ways to boost good bacteria naturally, even for those of us not still nursing or fond of eating dirt.

Furthermore, constantly working against the inclinations of your body often isn't particularly healthy, even though it can be very functional in reaching goals in the short term.

Why not work with our bodies, instead of constantly working against them in order to satisfy every temporary whim?

Gravity is constantly working against your heart to pump fluid into, you guessed it, your brain.

We are constantly working against both the cheaters themselves and the cheat providers.

Not exact matches

«If you're constantly charging through to the next thing, that determination could eventually work against you,» she warns.

I think this is because we are constantly having to work against the mainstream.

My guess is that the way the Lib Dems have used coalition government to u-turn on promises like tuition fees, have constantly briefed against their coalition partners and have also struggled with collective responsibility will produce a lasting souring towards the idea of politicians «working together».

When we feel like we are constantly pushing against the grain, we must ask ourselves why we are working so hard, burning ourselves out.

I've been wearing this structured bag constantly and pretending the raspberry pink is a neutral — it works with more than you'd think — and I was surprised how much I loved it against navy.

Ritchie's unique filmmaking style is constantly pushing back against the more traditional elements of a summer tentpole movie, and while that may have worked to good effect in the aforementioned projects, there's a more noticeable divide here that prevents the film from having a clear identity.

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.

As someone who constantly argues against so many modern videogame practices I should take a more critical stance in my reviews and to a degree that's something I'm working toward doing, but it requires essentially altering a large chunk of personality and in doing so presents a concern that it could quite badly impact my own personal enjoyment of games.

If traditional portraiture figures the subject in contrast to or against its background, Pendleton's works aim to disappear or camouflage the subject amid constantly alternating surfaces.

In a constantly evolving body of work, Kjartansson plays with notions of myth, cultural history, and identity, often through the lens of music and durational performance, all the while playing sincerity against the inherent artifice of performance.

She often asks herself if her works can still be relevant in 2015 while standing alongside the familiar works of the movement, and is constantly working with and against its established visual language to create her present story.

E.g., Soden has done a lot of work testing the water vapor feedback against data, they are constantly looking at how the models are able to reproduce various events and aspects of the climate.

The interests of ecologists, native Alaskans, oil prospectors and the federal government are constantly rubbing up against each other, making for a lot of litigation work, often with a regulatory slant.

I have practiced in the area of sexual abuse for nearly two decades, and have observed that when one «sees over and over again the profound damage wrought by sexual abuse and being constantly reminded of the depravity and evil perpetrated against vulnerable individuals, one has to question why it is that awards in this area are not more consistently, or even sporadically, higher than they have been to date.»

While constantly working on improving the experience and security for users, their recent partnership announcement with Thales is a big step in making their platform more protected against malicious attacks.

But unfairly or not, having gaps can put you at a disadvantage against other candidates that have been working constantly in the field, picking up steady experience and a continuous progression through the ranks.

Whether you're constantly fighting, continually coming up against a pattern of dissatisfaction or not getting your needs met, dealing with a challenging rupture or betrayal, or feeling distant and withdrawn, Shena works with you to understand where you are and how you got here, and to clarify what's needed to shift.

«My tiny son and I sobbed our hearts out... After everything I'd worked for, carrying and nurturing Joseph in the womb, having him at home against no small odds, keeping him by my side constantly since birth, nursing him whenever he needed closeness and nourishment — the circumcision was a horrible violation of all I felt we shared.