Sentences with phrase «easier than last year»

If this is your second year with the exchange, things may be a little different this time around, and hopefully a lot easier than last year.

I only ask because I've started going direct recently and found that the interface is so much easier than last year (when I previously tried) and they also do some interesting promotional tools.

This schedule is easier than last year Much much less travel Crazy to see how this team plays if by chance they go 5 - 0 after beating Seattle on the road!!!

Not exact matches

After phasing out her work last year as creative director for a packaging company to give Tweedle Press her full attention, she found that running the company with only one employee — her husband — made for an easier work - life balance than when she used part - timers in the past.

I'm sure I'm not using the right wording but it is easy to say something is outdated dogma by only looking at the last line of a book that has been in process for 2,000 years (i.e. 9 times older than the government trying to tell it what to do).

With the added incentive of the free DVD prize, the large cash prizes with matching category manager prizes, and the easy to access display materials, we expect to attract an even a higher rate of participation than last year.»

With some streaks of hot, dry temperatures in the summer, mildew management was easier than in the last few years.

It's easier than weighting the last year of the sample for all 90 players and building in some sort of age - related decline.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

That will not be easy as the French have some pretty tasty central midfielders including the likes of Pogba, Cabaye and Matuidi, but there is one man that I think is the main rival for Le Coq and it is the player who has been the subject of as many, if not more, Arsenal transfer rumours than anyone else in the last year or so, Morgan Schneiderlin.

Will be easier for the fans in attendance to keep score rather than the confusing scoring methods of last years game.

It is normal that teams improve because of hard work, and our expectation is to be stronger than last year, but it is not easy because we were good last year.

I've been finding my style over the last few years, so this part comes easier now than it once did.

Probably because that kind of change is hard, and demonizing the little guy — the local student nutrition director and local radio DJ last year, or the small restaurant operator and local school superintendent this year — is easier and less risky than taking on the real «bad guys» — the elected officials, the giant Agribusiness players, the networks that broadcast all of those fast food and junk food ads to our kids and also, oh yes, broadcast Jamie Oliver's shows....

I remember dreading it last year but the first day of school was easier for me emotionally than the last day of preschool had been.

i bought it last year and I am absolutely satisfied, and defiantly recommend it to every one, thank you Britax for making our life easier, but every time we want to fold we have to separate the seat which is hard and takes a lot of space, other than that it is perfect, perfect

Cloth diapering has greatly evolved in the last few years and now we have great diaper fasteners that are much easier to use than safety...

Cloth diapering has greatly evolved in the last few years and now we have great diaper fasteners that are much easier to use than safety pins.

Note that this «problem» — to me it sounds like a healthy response — doesn't just exist for political marketers, since if it were easy to find paying customers for commercial products on social networking sites, Facebook would have earned more than $ 150 million off of advertising to its umpteen million users last year.

A: d... Apparently it's easier for Bill Stachowski to attack gay New Yorkers who are upset over his anti-equality vote than to defend his record in Albany over the last 30 years.

ALBANY, N.Y. — For more than a decade, advocates have traveled to Albany to push for a bill that would make it easier for the survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file lawsuits, but supporters of the measure known as the Child Victims Act say this year is different as perceptions surrounding sexual abuse and misconduct have changed in the last several months.

For more than a decade, advocates have traveled to Albany to push for a bill that would make it easier for the survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file lawsuits, but supporters of the measure known as the Child Victims Act say this year is different as perceptions surrounding sexual abuse and misconduct have changed in the last several months.

«It's a lot different than last year, because last year was easier than this year.»

Let me tell you, it is not going to be easy to do that because they're powerful industries, who have, as their general interest, getting people to eat more food than last [year]-- that's just the way our investment system works.

Far lower to the ground than her famous platform flats, these are easier to wear, and way less trendy, ensuring you'll be able to wear these for decades without your footwear ever seeming «so last year».

Fall is such a beautiful time of year and we've been lucky in Vancouver to have dryer - than - normal days in the last two weeks, which makes it much easier to shoot photos.

I've had to let go of the things (and the people) I can't control, which is no easy feat for this Type A. I can honestly say I've learned more about myself (some good, some bad) in the last two months than I have in the entire 29 years I've spent on this earth.

Last year was better than the year before, but nowhere near 2013/14 when I only missed 2 — but that was an easy year.

In many ways, they're easier to predict than the frequently confounding technical categories, but that's no reason to get complacent — as we saw last year with then - unexpected wins for Tilda Swinton and Marion Cotillard, BAFTA is more than capable of throwing a significant spanner in the works in the top races.

In many ways, they're easier to predict than the frequently confounding technical categories, but that's no reason to get complacent — as we saw last year with then - unexpected wins for Tilda Swinton and Marion Cotillard, BAFTA is more than capable of -LSB-...]

Its celebration of Planet Earth is a lot easier to appreciate than the celebration of «ordinary American heroes» that America's Heart & Soul gave us last year.

Having spent the last year at Harvard as a student, Brewster says, «It's so much easier than teaching because I'm only concerned about myself for a year and not 50 students.»

The Reading Paper was easier (lower word count difficulty) and more accessible than last year's resulting in a rise of 66 % to 71 % EXS.

More public school students passed their standardized exams last year than in the previous year, in part because of changes to the grading scale that made it easier for students to be considered proficient.

The 2010 - 11 school year is witnessing a larger - than - usual upheaval among the ranks of urban superintendents: Ramon Cortines is retiring in Los Angeles next month, Joel Klein quit mid-year in New York City, Michelle Rhee was done after Adrian Fenty's failed re-election bid in the nation's capital last fall, Clifford Janey is out in Newark after his contract wasn't renewed, Ron Huberman stepped down in Chicago last November, Beverly Hall is leaving amidst a cheating scandal in Atlanta, Paul Vallas is moving on from the Big Easy and Jerry Weast is throwing in the towel in Montgomery County, Md..

, released by the Manhattan Institute last week, concludes that students are somewhat easier to teach, given socioeconomic factors, than they were 30 years ago.

It would be easy to dismiss the RSX as nothing more than a tarted up Honda Civic coupe, but doing so would mean missing out on the enjoyment of driving one of the most talented front - wheel drive sports coupes in the last 15 years.

The biggest change when it comes to the interior for the Ford Fusion is the additional of the new Synch 3 infotainment system, which reacts quicker to commands and is easier to use than last year's MyFord Touch technology.

The car is a cocoon of comfort for the most part with instruments and controls clearer than last year, with color coding making info all the more easy to read.

As luck would have it, the first car we set off in from our starting point in Los Angeles, CA — the very 1950s, very Pulp Fiction Mel's Diner on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood — happened to have the aforementioned EcoBoost four - cylinder engine, only with a slight twist; it also had the Performance Package, a $ 3,000 option that adds special 19 - inch black wheels (making it easier to identify from the outside than a similarly - equipped model from last year), bigger rear sway bars, special chassis tuning, a 3.55 rear axle ratio, heavy duty front springs and a larger radiator.

It's just 1 or 2 miles per gallon more than last year's models, but moving brawny vehicles with the muscle of an F - 150 isn't easy — and improving on it is harder still.

While the publishing industry has evolved more in the last handful of years than ever before, it's easy to get swept up and believe that this is just where the business is heading.

Traditional publishing often takes several years, so it may seem impossible to time the market — but most trends last longer than you'd think, and it's pretty easy to determine whether you want to write something that hits more popular terms (the more you can match what people are actively looking for, the more free, organic visibility your book will get, and the easier it will be to sell.

They now want a monopsony as well — they have spent the last few years offering greater and greater incentives for self - published authors to pull their titles from all other vendors, while also making it easier for them to see other authors as competitors rather than colleagues, with things like their zero - sum KDP Select book - lending promotions.

Amazon's latest operating system, Fire OS 4 Sangria, isn't much different than last year's Mojito, but it adds a few features to make sharing the tablet with family members simpler and extending the battery life easier.

It's easy to see the truth of that when you consider that of the 600,000 to 1 million books published last year in the US, more than half were self - published.

With a drastic shift in the digital world in the last year, it's easier than ever to get your message out.

Over the last few years, it's become easier than ever to rent out your space - but you've probably never heard of it.

Actually, lending standards have been loosening for the last three years, and you may find it easier to get a mortgage than you think.

It is easy to understand those investors» frustration when the wealth generated by the Russell 1000 Value Index (and most value managers) was fully 24 % less than the broad market Russell 1000 Index over the last three years of the tech bubble.