Sentences with phrase «early years of sacrifice»

Those early years of sacrifice and dissatisfaction and struggle create the foundation for later success... and create a lifelong competitive advantage.

Not exact matches

Though Oracle's critics have complained over the years about Ellison's tendency to promise a product prematurely, or sacrifice quality for early delivery, he clearly understands the benefit of first - mover advantage.

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.

The liturgical scholarship of the past hundred years has uncovered some fascinating insights into the rites used in the early Church but these indications are often incidental to the principal concern of the Fathers, which was to affirm that the Eucharist was the perfect sacrifice prophesied by Malachi, to emphasise the awesome mystery of the sacred action, and to exhort the faithful to approach it with a clear conscience.

nice to see you crawl out of your hole just in time to offer your 2 cents worth once again... unlike yourself I started following this team long before Wenger arrived on the scene and will continue to do so long after he's gone... in his earlier years I admired the cerebral elements he brought to the EPL, which at that point was more brutish than beautiful, and I respected the seemingly tireless efforts of Arsene, Dein & staff to uncover and develop talent without sacrificing the product on the field... likewise I appreciated that such a youthful manager wasn't afraid to bring strong personalities and / or world - class players into the fold without being fearful of how said players would potentially undermine and / or dilute his authority... unfortunately this all changed about 10 years ago and culminated in the removal of all our greatest players, both young and old, without any real replacements coming in... from Henry to RVP to Fabergas and Nasri, it was easy to see that this club was no longer interested in competing at the highest levels... instead of being honest, minus the ridiculous claims regarding the new stadium, Wenger chose to side with management and in doing so became the «front man» for this corporation pretending to be a world - class soccer club... without the «front man» this organization would have been exposed numerous years earlier, so his presence was imperative if the facade was to continue... it's for this reason and more that I despise what this once great man and Kroenke has done to my beloved club... the gutless, shameful and manipulative way they have treated the fans, like myself, is largely indefensible and this is why I felt it necessary to start offering my opinion in a public format... trust me, I resisted the temptation for many years but as long as the same shit continues to exist I will voice my opinions and if you don't like it maybe you should look for a different team to pretend to follow

Earlier this year, P.S. 276 had to sacrifice half its pre-K program to accommodate the crush of incoming kindergartners.

In 2014, after her first attempt at getting an INSERM position came to no avail, Bigorgne was confronted with a reality that many early - career scientists eventually come to face: Despite her passion, years of training, and personal sacrifices, she wouldn't necessarily be able to secure a permanent position and stay in academia.

At the bottom of a Guatemalan lake skin divers have found objects sacrificed to the lake spirits as early as 2,500 years ago.

Like the abominable «Napoleon Dynamite,» director Jared Hess» second feature will doubtless capture the hearts and minds of 12 - year - old boys everywhere, even if Nacho Libre sacrifices the earlier film's aggressive mean - spiritedness in favor of gentle slapstick lunacy.

It wasn't long before Sony announced that a revised version of the game was in the works, Soul Sacrifice Delta having launched earlier this year.

Mike Robe's 1991 TV mini-series presented a more detailed and straightforward biography of Custer's life, while this early studio production during the war years shaped events to reflect more contemporary morals: heroism, self - sacrifice, and the preservation of democratic ideals are sacred, while greed and war profiteering - via Ned Sharp - are ruinous, and unconscionable.

Teachers also are sacrificing; Portland, Oregon, teachers agreed in March to a pay cut for the rest of the school year, to prevent the school year from ending early.

Compared to the engine in last year's Sportage SX Turbo, the new 2.0 - liter inline - four has been retuned for broader, earlier torque delivery at the expense of sacrificing 20 hp and 9 lb - ft of torque.

Person 1 will have $ 56,000 more to spend on traveling, a house, a car, etc., later in life because of the sacrifice early to save $ 1,000 a year (less than $ 100 a month!)

To me, I weigh the sacrifices of maintaining a tight budget and the extra hours I put into my job against the financial freedom that early retirement will afford me for the rest of my years.