Sentences with phrase «decades of working hard»

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The drywall company he had owned and operated since he was 20 years old — employing dozens of people over decades of hard work — shriveled.

The movie brings viewers inside the dedication, obsession, and decades of hard work it takes to achieve perfection.

A lot of people work really hard for decades and decades, like Winston Churchill and Einstein,» she said.

Nearly three decades of hard work may have helped too.

According to a fascinating recent Nature article by Tom Clynes, science has been hard at work trying to figure out the answer to that question for more than four decades with the the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth.

If they continue on that path, they will discredit China's remarkable achievements accomplished over decades of hard and smart work to save, produce and sell to willing buyers around the world.

Instead of providing massive giveaways to the wealthy and well - connected, Trump and Congress should be taking bold steps to raise the wages of hard - working Americans whose real wages have been stagnant or in decline for decades.

For more than a decade, David has been front and center reporting on the biggest stories of our time, helping drive us forward with tireless dedication, hard work and good humor.

According to a Gallup poll, 74 % of employees feel that they are missing out on company news and information, which is shocking considering how hard human resource teams have worked to increase employee engagement over the past several decades.

It will always be uncomfortable to watch hopes, dreams and hard work end up in failure, but the alternative is even worse: tax - payer support of European & (especially) Japanese banks that «extend & pretend» with years, decades of bad loans to zombie companies, and no capital to lend to new, vibrant companies.

And in recent decades it has worked hard, and with some success, to give voice to many of these groups.

Drawing on decades of hard work and experience, and working through scores of not - quite - right combinations, Apel eventually wins the race against his peers and goes on to produce one of the most successful men's fragrances ever.

But making liberation real requires hard work and decades of construction.

And yet: The so - called foolish, brave pastors of the 1980s and «90s spent decades doing the hard work of making New York City a place where the seeds of the Gospel could again be planted.

It's still the program's best start to a season in over two decades, and the product of hard work the Broncos put in after the 6 - 20 mark last season, in coach Ron Pangilinan's first year with the program.

Many of our employees have been with us for about decade and without their hard work and creativity this business would not be anywhere near as successful.

We have decades of experience and work hard to bring young people into the sport for future generations.

We need to appeal to people, and I would note that in these results, while I'm sorry that Conservative councillors who've worked hard lost their seats, in places like Amber Valley in Derbyshire, the heart of England, a part that's actually been Labour for decades, we still have a Conservative council, a place where I launched our local election campaign.»

«For decades, working people of the 21st have been hit hard from our broken politics with bad trade deals, low wages, and deindustrialization.

«For decades, New Yorkers» lives have been improved by the hard work and progressive leadership of Eric Schneiderman,» said the Manhattan Democrat's campaign spokesman James Freedland.

It hasn't worked well in many, many decades,» Cuomo said, adding as examples, «the dominance of the county chairs and the political parties and how hard it is to get on the ballot.»

Mr Shapps said: «One of the cruelest things about this welfare system, which had developed over decades... is that it traps people who want to work hard and get on in life with no other option but to be trapped into a life on welfare.

«The paper is just the culmination of almost two decades of hard work and incredible collaboration and partnerships between so many agencies and institutions,» said Tykoski.

Having his grants not discussed, his tenure - track position therefore lost, and no career to show for 2 decades of hard work, Matthew felt emotionally ready.

Like people around the globe, Singaporeans, who have worked hard for decades to lift the country out of poverty, now want to enjoy their fortune.

He felt trapped like a bug inside glass — an ironic epiphany for a man who would work so hard to seal up a handful of his followers three decades hence.

«We can piggyback on decades of hard work in service of understanding heart disease,» she says.

«This is a result of more than a decade of hard work using the best tools to do cutting - edge science — just the kind of research NSF loves to be a part of.»

Ms. Minger seems to think she can denounce decades of study, research and hard work carried out by a dedicated expert in the field, T. Colin Campbell, as easily as she might «like» her friends Saturday night pizza dinner posted on Facebook or Twitter.

For years scientists, consumers and concerned companies have been working hard to change the 1970s regulations that ushered in over four decades of heavy duty application of chemicals in furniture.

Alt.com deserves a lot of credit for taking a stand back in 1996 and working so hard to stay relevant with millions of sexy BDSM dating enthusiasts decades later.

The hunt for Bin Laden took two decades and a lot of hard work, and Manhunt is a compelling, in depth documentary about this interesting subject.

It's hard to believe that it has been only a decade; it's a decade of revolution, in which an entire generation of independent filmmakers working with, parallel to, and in the same vein as Swanberg has transformed the very relationship between actor and director, has shifted the notion of performance.

Milla most certainly isn't the hardest working actress in the business, nor is she in high demand, but her short list of film appearances are nothing short of an accomplishment, dealing out impressive performances in almost everyone one of her films of the past decade.

That Guy Dick Miller by Elijah Drenner pays homage to one of Hollywood's hardest working and finest character actors during the last six decades.

Hard not to reward the Coens for their best work, but Godard's massive Histoire (s) is one of the great directorial achievements of the decade, a project that is still ahead of its time more than 15 years after it was completed.

The Gist: It's been well over a decade since seminal American filmmaker (and sometime Indiewire blogger) Bogdonavich directed a narrative feature, and even as he's remained busy with journalistic pursuits and documentary work, it's hard not to wonder what sort of stories the man behind «The Last Picture Show» could tell today.

But still, Witherspoon received the best reviews of her career for her portrayal as Cheryl Strayed, she has been working the campaign trail harder than anyone and had a «comeback» year after a decade of flops and tabloid treachery.

Delpy brings two decades of backstory to her work as Celine as they approach the harder parts of their relationship.

But Wormwood expands that divisive aspect of the documentary legend's methodology into uncharted territory, as Morris combines his famously hard - hitting interview style with scripted scenes starring Peter Sarsgaard as a man determined, for several decades, to find out what happened to his father, a scientist who died during the Cold War while working on a top - secret program.

For the better part of a decade, the actor has hefted the hammer, and really made the role his own; Thor: Ragnarok being the payoff for all of that hard work, if all of the reviews are to be believed.

Composition can be a hard thing to break into — the field is often dominated by the same old names, and even looking at this year's Oscar nominations, you see people like John Williams, Alexandre Desplat and Mychael Danna, who've been fixtures of film scores for years if not decades (not that we don't love their work).

WHY: Woody Allen is one of the most prolific filmmakers in history, but it's hard to maintain any level of quality with that sort of productivity, and moviegoers have witnessed the hit - and - miss nature of the director's work first - hand over the past two decades.

Michelle Monaghan has been a hard - working young actress for nearly a decade, and lately it's been paying off with a number of leading roles.

Having worked in this thriving area of business for over a decade I realised that the companies working so hard to deliver excellence for children had no way to get any independent accreditation.

«The president is so wildly unpopular among Democrats that his support for some of these policies — which we've been working on for literally decades — had made the politics of supporting school choice much harder than it needs to be,» said Derrell Bradford, the vice president of 50Can.

But he doesn't expect overnight success: «This is really, really hard work; there's a reason the country took a pass on this for a couple of decades.»

To build that capacity after years and perhaps decades of isolation, though, will require careful attention and hard work.

A decade later, in his seminal work Bureaucracy, James Q. Wilson (1989) tugged on this thread a bit harder, arguing that central offices often struggle even to keep track of what goes on in such «coping organizations» on any given day.

If we've learned anything from the last two decades of school reform, it is that education reform is hard, uncertain, and often frustrating work.