Sentences with phrase «difficult years working»

Angelo Bottone, who lectures at the Dublin Business School, gives an account of Newman's seven difficult years working for the establishment of the new Catholic University of Ireland.

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«2017 has been a very difficult year, and it's been one where we've been working quite diligently behind the scenes,» Gurley said.

«It became too difficult to turn a profit last year, so I closed the canteen and went to find work as a cook,» said Zhang, who left Bianqiang village 14 years ago.

«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.

«I worked at Google for 3 years and it was very difficult to leave but there was one major factor that helped me make the decision - the impact I could ever have on the business as an individual was minimal.

Ball State University researcher Michael Hicks found last year that there has been plenty of upheaval in states that have adopted right - to - work legislation, but he said it was difficult to establish a cause - and - effect relationship.

It is now one year until the U.K. leaves the European Union, and there's a lot that still needs to be worked out — so much so that retailers are finding it difficult to plan for the future, because they don't yet know what the future U.K. - EU trading relationship is going to look like.

Yet there has been no increase in transfer payments to the provinces for universities, meaning that working - and middle - class families have an incredibly difficult time sending their kids to post-secondary institutions (without housing and feeding them for an extra five years).

The Harper government showed its contempt for the whole idea of workplace health and safety by making it more difficult to refuse dangerous work a year or so ago.

For a working person, the golden years of retirement can be both easy and difficult to imagine.

«I've been working in New York for seven years and have always wanted to work in television, but it's difficult because most shows are shot in Los Angeles,» Hale said.

Living and working near Washington, D.C., it's difficult to tune out the noise of politics, especially in a presidential election year.

And our work has changed over the years as the war has turned into a relative time of peace which then turned into the massive rise of ISIS and the displacement of millions of people, and then an extremely difficult fight against ISIS.

The natural world is difficult to study, the article points out, and researchers feel «the pressure to cut corners, to see what one wants and believes to be true, to extract a positive outcome from months or years of hard work.»

These folks work long hours at difficult jobs, but they might work for several employers over the course of the year.

I made the very difficult decision to leave working in my dream job with Jamie and branch out on my own to tell my story in food so I quit my job, went freelance as a food stylist and recipe writer and within a year I was fortunate enough to have been spotted by my amazing publisher Louise Haines and was offered a book deal and from there my blog, newspaper and magazine columns all organically followed on.

Our needs change over the years, and it can be difficult to find the one that works for you.

Dilbert creator Scott Adams, who has been a vegetarian for eight years, came up with the idea for these products when he found it difficult to fit good nutrition into his seventeen - hour - a-day, seven - day - a-week work schedule.

While I have loved my work in Madison the last 2 1/2 years, being away from my husband during the week was more difficult than I had anticipated.

«It has been a long time away from the paddock and I have been through difficult periods, I kept working hard and a few years ago I felt it was impossible.

«I don't know what the future will bring, but I know one thing, after working for more than one year to prepare for this, I ran with good pace and consistent in difficult conditions.

It's been difficult to work Guice into the first round of mock drafts just because running back is deep at the top of the draft this year.

«He is doing a very good job in a difficult year with his natural ability, he is working very hard to defend and sacrifice himself and he has the attitude to do so,» the Dutch coach told journalists [as per Goal].

In a Daily Mail report the American has been talking about the manager and was full of praise for the brilliant work he has done in getting the Gunners through our difficult years, while admitting that we still can not compete financially with the really big hitters.

«When it comes to play - by - play announcing in 2018, it's difficult to stand out without standing out, but that is what I want to do,» said Crockett, who is easily recognizable at shows, never too far from ringside, working away on his laptop and chatting with his Little Brother, 14 - year - old Deon.

I found it difficult last year — coming towards the end of the season I didn't get my opportunities but I was still working hard.

The 30 - year - old was at the centre of the majority of his side's good work at Vicarage Road at the weekend, a sign that he may be finding some form after an admittedly difficult 2017.

One man who knows all about making teams difficult to beat is 64 - year - old former Fulham and Liverpool tactician Roy Hodgson, whose West Brom outfit almost held the defending champions, Manchester United, to a 1 - 1 draw at The Hawthorns last Sunday only for an 81st minute Steve Reid own goal to spoil all their previous hard work in the game.

Matic, now 29 - years - old, has defended Mourinho, terming him the «best coach» he's worked with, while admitting that the notoriously difficult Portuguese can be just that.

«Both players still have a lot of work to do in some aspects of the game, so it's very difficult to say right now what they are going to be in five years» time.

Although the deal to bring in defensive midfielder Mohammed Elneny from FC Basel has been delayed as the 23 - year - old is awaiting a work permit, any deal to bring Deeney to the Emirates could prove difficult to pull off.

Before having children I worked in London as programmer for a large international bank, after having baby number three I made the difficult decision to set up my own company and have for the last 4 years been working as a freelance social media consultant as well as running several of my own blogs.

When I met Reed, she was working with a 17 - year - old girl named Keitha Jones, whose childhood had been extremely difficult and painful and who expressed her frustration and anger by starting a fistfight, nearly every morning, with the first student at her high school who looked at her the wrong way.

We both work full - time so this is not something we get to do much and every year, I forget how difficult it really is to get kids back into some semblance of a normal life after a week of Anything Goes at Nana and Papa's camp.

Also, after a year, if your milk supply is decreasing or nursing is becoming increasingly difficult to juggle with work, you may feel ready to wean.

Raising funds for our work becomes ever more difficult — last year we had a shortfall as a three - year grant had come to an end.

The chart was not what I expected but overall it has worked well with my child, whom has been very difficult to potty train at 3.5 years.

I think my 10 + years of work overseas affected me greatly — when the doctor said the cord was around my babies neck and that the way he was turned meant it would be difficult to have him, I agreed to the c - section.

I wanted to wean him at a year initially, because pumping at work was difficult.

Most new mothers find it more difficult to bring a breast - feeding baby to work, admits Marian Tompson, one of six cofounders of La Leche League, a 32 - year - old, Franklin - Park - based international organization that devotes itself to educating women on breast - feeding and providing emotional support.

A significant number of people that have been unemployed for a year or more have health or social issues that make their return to work more difficult.

European leader Glenis Willmott said that a four - year delay to in - work benefits for other European nationals would be the most difficult of David Cameron's objectives.

Today Mr Hutton said «none of this should come as a surprise», noting that people who had been shut out of the labour market for ten or 15 years «are obviously going to find it difficult» to move from benefits to work.

Another prisoner said: «From being a settled lifer, working years to gain trust and respect from a difficult enough system, I find myself regarded as nothing.

«We've worked hard and made difficult decisions to set the state on more stable financial footing, including fully funding our pensions each and every year.

The three year rule was introduced so that those trying to move house (particularly those moving to follow work) are not disadvantaged when it is difficult to sell a house in a property slump.

«In the last four years, we've done all the difficult work in order that the economy will stabilise and Ghana will grow.

«We want this to be one of the most successful countries in the world in 20, 30, 40 years» time; there's a pretty difficult question that we have to answer which is essentially: are we going to be a country that is prepared to work hard in the way that Asian economies are prepared to work hard, in the way that Americans are prepared to work hard.

Ex-employees of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights say its leader, Kerry Kennedy, is so difficult to work for that at least nine people have quit within the past year.

When I first used to work in Westminster in the late «70s, you've got to remember there were very, very few places where people did interviews... 15 years later, with wall - to - wall 24 - hour news and the constant soundbite world, I think that finding a way to subvert the soundbite world is a duty for all of us and it's quite difficult... As somebody who would never argue against more outlets, one of the consequences we have to cope with is that people are trained up earlier and more efficiently and more boringly to avoid being interesting, avoid getting to the point.