Sentences with phrase «difficult years of»

I offer several weekend relationship improvement workshops for couples as well as workshops for new and expecting parents to «baby - proof» their relationship through some of the most difficult years of parenting.

As a career coach and resume writer during those difficult years of the 2008 recession, I witnessed an avalanche of newly unemployed, dispirited, and in many cases, desperate jobseekers who faced the dilemma of having no work at all, or accepting a replacement job at a fraction of their former salary, simply to support their families.

I was fortunate to choose MacIsaac & Company to represent me during three very difficult years of recovery and rehabilitation.

The country's economy has stabilised after a few difficult years of low oil prices, especially as it is making efforts to diversify away from oil and into minerals and metals, as well as industrial products, and 2018 is expected to be a better year for deal - making in the country.

Chagall: Love, War & Exile will be opening on September 15, 2013, at the Jewish Museum with artworks created by the artist during the more difficult years of his life.

Younger teachers seek his advice during those first difficult years of teaching.

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The Democratic state committeeman for the 26th Assembly District said he based his decision to drop his bid on the heels of what he called one of the most difficult years of his life, which included the death of his mother in December.

I will tell anyone that the year I had two under the age of five AND a teenager was one of the most difficult years of my life.

Having a support system during these difficult years of child - rearing can be a life saver.

He admitted in the past that even during the difficult years of the Emirates move, Wenger had some very admirable offers from elsewhere, so I'm certain that he'll see the season out for sure, no matter where we are at the end of the campaign.

The film's title refers to the difficult years of China's Cultural Revolution, which Guo Pei's parents — a batalion leader in the People's Army, and her mother, a kindergarten teacher, whom we meet in the film — lived through.

This has been by far the most emotional, difficult year of my career.»

After a difficult year of unexpected health issues, I am back on my feet and feeling like my old self again.

He's a new man with a new plan, after what he tells me was the most difficult year of his career.

When I was first starting out in marriage counseling, I asked an older more experienced counselor, what's the most difficult year of marriage?

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At the beginning of 2015, Orlando predicted there would be a «mid-stage capital crunch» that year, owing to the fact that it has historically been the most difficult stage of a young company's growth, and because U.S. investors that might otherwise back Canadian companies have their pick of opportunities at home these days.

A couple years ago, Karen Okonkwo had a difficult time finding photos of women of color for her blog, Sorority Secrets.

«For most of the last 80 years, venture as an asset class has been really difficult for the average investor to get in, unless you are a high net worth individual, unless you get the deal flow, you are part of an angel group or you invest into VCs, you just didn't have access into this asset class,» Wang says.

Menear, who took the reins three years ago, has had the enviable though difficult task of building on his predecessor Frank Blake's remarkable run by finding new avenues of growth and preventing the company from falling into complacency.

It is difficult to walk more than 10 feet without stepping over at least one pair of the iconic American creation, responsible for a global market that researcher Euromonitor predicts will be worth nearly $ 143 billion next year.

That's why their cookies are an $ 800 million a year business in the U.S. (Such a shame that pesky child labour laws make it difficult for profit - seeking entities to exploit the selling power of Girl Scouts.

But this year, engineering hires came in second in the «difficult - to - hire» rankings, with 24 percent of entrepreneurs citing them.

Like some other hedge funds betting on economic trends in developed markets, a lack of volatility amid years of central - bank stimulus made it difficult to make money.

«In the next five to 10 years, it's going to be very difficult to see any data - oriented piece of the world not fundamentally transformed by this technology,» predicts Shivon Zilis, an investor at Bloomberg Beta, based in San Francisco and New York.

After a preliminary investigation, Police chief Sylvia Moir said that the collision that killed 49 - year - old Elaine Herzberg wasn't Uber's fault and the accident «would have been difficult to avoid» regardless of whether the other car was autonomous or human - driven.

The potential investment comes after a difficult few years for Yum in China, its biggest market by sales, where a series of food - safety scandals and management mis - steps has dented its reputation with diners.

About eight years ago, I made a difficult decision: to end my career of public speaking.

Deutsche Bank is no longer one of the world's top 15 private banks after a difficult year for the German lender, a study by Scorpio Partnership showed Monday.

The second quarter of last year was the company's best ever, making it more difficult to top this year, the executives warned analysts.

Because option values can be difficult to understand, boards have tended to issue a certain number of options from year to year, regardless of the grant's dollar value, rather than calculate a desired dollar value and vary the number of options.

That could prove a difficult task, as tax - writing committees have not yet introduced a bill and lawmakers face multiple other deadlines before the end of the year.

«I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit,» Ladar Levinson, the company's founder, said in a letter to users.

At other times of year, building a mailing list can be difficult.

Sobolewski, who has been in the police about 14 years, said progress was being made but it was a difficult as traffickers often target the most vulnerable people who are lured with false promises of well - paid jobs.

But without a majority decision on Halo, it could be more difficult for district courts to award attorneys» fees to prevailing parties in patent troll cases, which every year sap billions of dollars in such fees.

Meanwhile, a handful of uncertainties confront the SBA, including the potential revival of a popular commercial - real - estate - refinance program and a potential resolution to the sequester fighting, which make it difficult to predict where SBA lending will be a year from now.

«With fewer bargain - priced properties to choose from and a growing number of traditional buyers, finding a home for vacation purposes became more difficult and less affordable last year,» he said.

Wind added 100,000 subscribers during its first six months, the analyst notes, a rate that makes it difficult to reach its goal of 1.5 million after three years.

With an aging bull market in the U.S. nearing the end of its seventh year at press time, it's difficult to find safety in cheap stocks; even formerly stodgy dividend payers now trade at dangerously expensive valuations.

This line of thinking is especially difficult to adapt in the consumer tech world, where every company does their best to convince you that this year's Thing is constantly superior than last year's Whatever.

45 % of digital marketers plan to hire more social media personnel this year, which may prove difficult, as 80 % say it is difficult to find qualified social marketing candidates.

Likening critical CEO capabilities, such as giving difficult feedback, to learning the unnatural motion of lifting your back foot first in boxing, he claims «it generally takes years for a founder to develop the CEO skill set.»

I was seven years old, and it was difficult to grasp the evil — the lack of humanity.

Ken Wisnefski, founder of WebiMax, an online marketing company in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, had to have a difficult talk with a manager at his previous company, which he sold last year.

Seasonal adjustments tend to be more difficult around holidays, and claims remain near a 45 - year low, indicating a persistent shortage of qualified workers is keeping employers reluctant to fire staff.

A year into a difficult turnaround, Kelley took a few moments to pen his thoughts on where Consolidated had been and was going — the kind of stuff too many CEOs leave unsaid.

«For those of us who've been around a long time, it's been difficult to change,» says Displaymasters salesperson Judy Okerstrom, who's been with the company for 10 years.

In most of these countries, China may be difficult to dislodge because it has been operating development programs there for many years and decades.

When you don't know what kind of budget to expect from year to year, it makes long - term planning difficult.