Sentences with phrase «despite years of hard work»

Often, but not always, it's because families have legitimate concerns about school safety or academic performance, despite years of hard work to improve them.

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Despite serious challenges facing British Columbia, the Liberal government under Premier Christy Clark has spent a significant portion of the past year campaigning instead of governing, spending valuable public resources on pre-election advertising and staging photo - ops instead of doing the hard work of actually governing.

Despite differences in the number of new products each region releases each year, manufacturers everywhere are working hard to catch up to clean label demand.

Despite being a 1st year student who is new to Manchester & the city life, he is an example of what you can achieve if you work hard!

Despite the excellent game yesterday, Arsenal's problems are still just lurking in the background, and they need to work very hard to avoid the usual mid-season slump that fans fear is just around - the - corner at this time of year.

The 25 - year old has been working hard on things that he has not been able to do in the normal course of a season and he reckons that the work strengthening his legs will pay dividends and help to ensure that despite all the new fast players at the club, he will still be the quickest off the blocks for Arsenal.

We have been linked with a number of targets in recent years, but despite Arsene Wenger working hard to land a new forward, none of the targets tick all the right boxes for many fans.

Despite having worked hard to gain lean muscle mass over the past couple of years I still weigh in under 60 kg and so I definitely do not conform to this stereotype.

There is much that remains to be done despite 25 years of hard work, particularly on the fourth Innocenti target that calls on governments to `... enact imaginative legislation protecting the breastfeeding rights of working women and establish means for its enforcement.»

Will Straw, who failed to take Rossendale & Darwen for Labour despite years of working the seat hard, said Miliband was one problem among many.

That the high pass rate secured last year has been retained despite these challenges, is a real testament to the hard work and dedication of pupils, parents and teachers.

Shelter Animals Count — Despite the hard work of shelters and rescues everywhere, it is estimated that millions of dogs and cats enter America's shelters each year, and more than half of them will never leave.

But despite ten years of hard work that had helped make a dent in Dekalb and Fulton's intake numbers, euthanasia rates were still alarmingly high, at 50 % and 65 %, respectively.

Despite announcing their retirement from video - games industry and resigning from their brain - child BioWare after more than 15 years of hard - work and success, Dr.Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, most -LSB-...]

And despite this hard work, the associate compensation: partner compensation ratio is a fraction of what it was 15 years ago.

I commend you both for your perseverance, for your hard work and determination, for having faith in Centurion and the Innocence Project, despite the days, weeks, months, and years of no change, no good news, no justice.

But despite the hard work of the team, the Korean operation has faced growing challenges over the past few years that now make scaling our business very difficult.