Sentences with phrase «early lean years»

Throughout all of her proselytizing, during many early lean years in which she was barely able to support herself, and later, as she gained esteem and wealth, Ms. Goodman has always operated resolutely in the background.

Not exact matches

But Lean LaunchPad successes include a company sold earlier this year for more than $ 200 million.
Meanwhile, as you may have heard, she released a book (and launched a nonprofit) called Lean In early this year — a «sort of manifesto» for women's ambition that's stood atop bestseller lists and has sold a million copies since it dropped in March.
Perhaps based on our earlier challenges, they intuited that we might need to lean on their enthusiastic support in the years to come.
If the early church could hold together communities made up of Jews and Greeks, slaves and free, men and women, circumcised and uncircumcised, tax collectors and zealots, prostitutes and Pharisees, kosher believers and non-kosher believers, those who ate food sacrificed to idols and those who refused, I guess this evolution - accepting, hell - questioning, liberal - leaning feminist can worship Jesus alongside a Tea Party complementarian who thinks the earth is 6,000 years old and that Ghandi and Anne Frank are in hell.
whether for the right or wrong reasons, our leader chose to stay on when things took a turn of sorts... a new owner arrived on the scene, plans for a new stadium emerged and Wenger became the bearer of bad news... he sold us on a new story, one that required patience on our parts... financial constraints were the order of the day, so that the enormous sums spent on the new venue could be recouped... although some would question the validity of such claims, why wouldn't they believe their faithful leader... according to those within the hierarchy, the future never looked so bright, as this new home would ensure our place among the elites for years to come... as we all know now these claims were a well constructed fabrication and so those who feel they were duped in the process are infuriated and rightly so... the fact that this club and it's manager have continually misled the fans, especially following Gazidis's claims about our financial liquidity, simply rubbed more salt in an already gaping wound... this surely isn't how you treat your «family», especially when they supported you through the supposed «lean» years... it was a dirty trick played by Kroenke but the fact is was orchestrated by Wenger himself hurt the most... as for those in the media, many of whom are former players or longtime pundits, who observed the early years firsthand, saw this as the perfect opportunity to vent the anger they felt towards this pretentious man once and for all... all in all, karma's a bitch
I know that offseason knee surgery earlier this spring is not the best sign that he will actually shake the injury bug this year, but I kinda lean the other way.
Or, you can recall his terrible chipping earlier this year and lean the other way.
Max compensated for the loss of Dybala by transitioning to the 4 -3-3 formation that he leaned on while the Argentine was out injured earlier this year.
In the early years, we leaned heavily on dear friends in our Nashville, Tennessee, USA, community to serve on our Board of Directors, staff our little office — which for seven years was in Barbara's house — and volunteer for fundraising efforts.
Left - leaning healthcare workers union 1199 SEIU has endorsed Brooklyn GOP State Senator Martin Golden for re-election — in spite of a vow earlier this year to work exclusively toward helping the Democrats win control of the upper house of the state legislature.
A uniformed - union leader who's since retired once recalled an early conversation with Governor Cuomo about what was in store for public employees at a time when Mr. Cuomo was leaning on state - employee unions to accept a three - year wage freeze and sizable increases in their health - care premiums.
Edwards» 17th district is strongly Republican - leaning with Arizona Sen. John McCain winning 67 percent in 2008 and President George W. Bush taking 70 percent four years earlier.
That raised about $ 20,000, Keeling says, enough to keep programme staff on his payroll during lean months earlier this year.
In a study of more than 14,000 metabolically healthy Korean people last year, scientists found early plaque buildup in the arteries of obese subjects more often than they did in the lean ones.
It's lean too, meaning you can get an early start on the New Year new you!
I engaged in intermittent fasting using the Lean Gains protocol earlier this year for several months.
His early years as a performer were lean, and he often resorted to work as a soda jerk, a theater usher, an office clerk, or any one of a number of short - lived jobs.
Some lean years followed, including a never - released concentration - camp story, «The Day the Clown Cried,» produced in the early 1970s, and «Max Rose,» which was shot in 2012.
This time it went with director Hideo Sekigawa, a communist who had worked on left - leaning films for Toho in the early years of the occupation.
After his tenderly passionate debut Weekend and the strained marriage - in - crisis drama 45 Years — led by British New Wave icons Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling — Andrew Haigh continues his ascendancy into the upper tier of British screen talents with his third film and first transatlantic foray: an exploration of horse - rearing culture in the Pacific Northwest entitled Lean on Pete which, despite its divergent milieu from Haigh's previous works, richly and evocatively expands on his earlier films» themes of companionship, stability and the solemn dignity of love.
Childcare Apprenticeships currently available are: The Children and Young People's Workforce apprenticeship programme Level 2 and 3 NVQ, Level 2 being open to school leavers age 16 and over who have a passion for working with children and wish to become Assistant Early Years Educators and Level 3 leaning more towards more experienced staff who aim to progress to a more responsible position as Qualified Early Years Educators and Room Managers.
An early pioneer among compact premium sedans, the Acura ILX sharpens its lux leanings for the 2016 model year by adding some significant new features — and getting rid of an old one.
Once I stood on the bank of a rice paddy in rural Sichuan Province, and a lean and aging Chinese peasant, wearing a faded forty - year - old blue jacket issued by the Mao government in the early years of the Revolution, stood knee deep in water and apropos of absolutely nothing shouted defiantly at me, «We Chinese invented many things!»
The new model seems to be: try tradpub on one or a few early novels, get reamed by tradpub, move to smallpub / indy for new works, wait a few years to get rights back to that one or few first books, re-issue in indy (subjects aren't usually so topical you can't do this), and then continue the series, if those early novels leant themselves to it, based on real market interest.
He and Margie went through many lean times during the early years, and they bore with it well.
We've been at it for 3.5 years and things are going really well, but you should plan for lean times in the early years.
OnePlus has long kept lean stock of its phones, which lead to the invite system in early years.
A rumor earlier this year claimed Apple was leaning toward using the A9 processor in the iPhone 5se, but this is the first report confirming Apple's plans.
«Since most agents work on a commission and become successful over time through training, repeat business and referrals, income in those early years can be quite lean as agents establish themselves.
When my husband and I married 41 years ago I was Early American leaning heavily toward country.
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