Sentences with phrase «even years trying»

Because sex abuse is often difficult if not impossible to disprove, the accused parent may spend months and even years trying without success to refute the charge.

Both the financial and emotional toll from spending weeks, months, and even years trying to set the record straight about a false report on your credit is enormous.

Probate means that your beneficiaries may spend months or even years trying to receive what is rightfully theirs.

It is quite tiring and difficult to spend months, or even years trying to find your true love.

Not exact matches

Finally, I've tried for years to figure out why some seemingly smart (and arguably perceptive) people never rise to the highest levels of trust and responsibility, even though it's pretty clear that they are hard workers who are definitely trying to get ahead.

«Having taught at Stanford now for 30 years... one of the things I think that we're failing even in our elite education — and we're failing at Stanford although we're trying — is teaching people to fight constructively,» Sutton said.

Nevertheless, luxury - goods companies were trying to maintain a buoyant attitude last year as 2009 approached; Bain & Co. even suggested in an October 2008 report that some ritzy categories (particularly watches) would remain strong.

It even made a short list of companies Alphabet was mulling trying to acquire, Recode reported last year.

Yet there is another scenario, which, many observers believe, is just as likely: that Putin, with about $ 465 billion in foreign cash and gold in Russia's Central Bank, could try to ride out sanctions, perhaps for years, and emerge even stronger (his approval ratings are above 80 %) as the Man Who Faced Down the West.

That's why most business owners would rather do just about anything than sit down with a spreadsheet and try to forecast what their sales, profits and cash flow are going to look like next year, next quarter or even next month.

So, while you get ready to reconnect with family, and even set your New Year's resolutions, try to first take a moment to see what's already worth appreciating in your life.

I've got ta admit to you — because I try to be totally transparent — that I don't think we even had a grasp, three years ago, of how much we would do that.

Hsieh's sudden embrace of the city seemed to come out of nowhere, even to those who had spent years trying to develop the struggling downtown.

«We try to tell our members on a regular basis, even weekly this time of the year, is go out and check your EFINs [tax pro number].

Even as he tries to open more than 30 new stores in three years, he'll do it cautiously, watching how the stores perform in each new market before opening more: «Until I'm very comfortable and convinced, the foot's always ready to be on the brake as opposed to the gas.»

«They have talked about trying to rebalance the economy for 5 or 10 years now, but the imbalances got even worse, so you simply fall back on the model that got you into the difficulty in the first place,» said Peter Elston, head of Asia - Pacific strategy and asset allocation at Aberdeen Asset Management.

Over the next two years Wheeler tried to refine her collection efforts — even using index cards, one per client.

During the busiest six months of last year, I almost purposefully let go of even trying to exercise.

Worst of all, Luhnow and his execs were openly violating the baseball compact by which rebuilding teams were supposed to obscure their long - term plan by maintaining the illusion that they were genuinely trying to win each and every year, even if it meant losing just a little less.

New types of computer memory pop up every few years as firms such as HP, IBM, Motorola / Freescale and even startups try to create alternatives that are cheaper, faster, more dense or otherwise offer a different series of trade - offs than the dominant forms of memory used today.

While Tories haven't been shy about slamming Trudeau, even releasing negative ads just a day after he won the Liberal leadership last year, it seems they are trying something new these days.

He previously tried to talk to his 13 - year - old daughter about data privacy and social media — even providing examples of how much the tech companies know about people and what they can do with that information.

It's also possible that he doesn't (or that he won't be able to find buyers even if he tries), and that 2018 will be a relatively uneventful year for FCA by recent standards.

Rates are now at the highest level in four years, prompting more buyers to try to get in before they move even higher.

If GDP growth had not been artificially boosted by credit expansion, then it is hard to understand why Beijing has been trying urgently to get credit growth under control for over five years but has not even been able to prevent it from accelerating.

Last year, suggestions even appeared from politicians trying to ban access to crypto altogether for regular Russians, something which president Vladimir Putin himself later indicated was not what he wanted.

The point I'm trying to make is that even with the basic assumption of retiring by 65 with $ 1 million dollars and a 4 % withdrawal rate yielding $ 40,000 a year, this might not be reasonable for many people.

While it's true the airline industry is financially healthier than it has been in years — thanks to cost - cutting and its new pay - as - you - go approach (United Airlines is even offering passengers who don't qualify for elite status the opportunity to pay $ 500 a year for seat upgrades and another $ 350 a year to avoid baggage fees)-- the changes have made flying a truly trying experience that is only likely to get worse.

Too often big companies and CEOs spend years, even decades, trying to reinvent flagging enterprises — wasting capital and profits accumulated through past glories — and presiding over shrinking empires.

Engineers at Apple even tried for many years to build a smarter battery by adding solar charging to iPhones and iPods, a former Apple executive said.

It took him two more years to raise enough money to try even that expedition again only for a cracked fuel bottle to contaminate all his food after a fall from an ice ridge.

Longtime CEO Sally Smith announced her retirement by the end of this year, and the reshuffled board of directors has announced plans to try to sell 83 locations to franchisees, even though franchised locations have historically underperformed company - operated ones.

Over the years since she joined Facebook in junior high school, her perception has shifted, and Facebook now feels more like a place that tries to «exploit» her personal information, even as it fails to, in her view, adequately address the harassment and hate speech she and her friends see on the platform.

Our most sophisticated models can't predict movements in 60 seconds (consistently, didn't stop us from trying as a joke activity) and it is sad that retail traders who don't even have a fraction of the tools or computing power think they can outperform, except of course the lucky ones (elementary 1st year university statistics predicts that, so they are lucky not talented).

He notes that even «Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway lagged the S&P 500 in more than one - third of rolling three - year periods in the 25 years since 1987,» which, he says, is «something to keep in mind when trying to gauge manager skill over shorter time periods.

This surgeon was one of the best in this field and had even successfully tried a treatment on this exact cancer for other patients that tripled the five - year - survival odds — from 5 percent to 15 percent — albeit with a poor quality of life.

The first one basically being that you know, as we have seen over the past two years, even with the emergency monetary stimulus that they're able to grow their balance sheet, which creates excess reserves into the system and in a variety ways and that means, they are purchasing bonds, purchasing mortgages, purchasing treasuries, which increases the amount of monetary supply — the money available to help all set the conditions that they are trying to counterbalance.

That stocks could be in favor for 8 - 23 years and then out of favor for 13 - 17 years isn't very helpful for someone who is trying to find a stock to buy each week, month, or even year.

This however extreme it might sound, is largely what I have tried to do with the result that, now, very late in life, I have come full circle and after years of cynicism and doubt have become a Christian — but even now — not one who unthinkingly accepts every facet of my Doctrine of choice.

For years I believed that what a rapist did was my fault; that belief was confirmed the first time I tried to tell anyone about what he'd done — before I could even finish, the Christian counselor interrupted me and told me I needed to «repent.»

I am a proud American who chose to become Baha'i around 20 years ago, and I am very proud of the strength and resilience that the Baha'i community in Iran is demonstrating, while attempting to live their lives in obediance to Baha'i principles, which include obediance and loyalty to their government even when it is trying to destroy them.

With more than 40 years of recovery under my belt, I've tried it all and had my biggest chanllenge at 15 years when I became a Buddhist — we don't believe in God and not even in a Higher Power, so it took awhile for me to reconcile the two.

Barack Obama is, for better or worse, an empathetic man who has tried for years to see the world through Republican eyes even as he has pleaded for Republicans to walk a few miles in Democratic shoes.

No matter how I tried, I could hardly get a job even I have some interview.I used to be a counselor for the developmentally handicapped adults for few years but just couldn't find the same old job again.Right now, I have just got a license and will become an insurance agent in a few weeks.

But he too tried to blame the victim, saying he (the 15 year old boy) made the first move... it is sickening to hear someone in even more authority would say such a thing... car accident or not, he needs to be removed from his position of HELPING other priests...

The elder investment bankers are appalled that younger members of the fraternity who are already making $ 1 million a year, such as the convicted insider trader Dennis Levine of Drexel Burnham Lambert, are trying to make even more through illegal insider trading.

It's hopeless, at least at this time, as I gave it one more try even using «Biship Tutu's methods for reconciliation,» to be met with it's «my fault for damaging our relationship by bringing up the past» (what she and her pastor husband did, and have been doing to anger and ruin my reputation with my entire family for the past 30 years).

You didn't even try to tell me why all of mankind (up until the past sixty years) were idiots for believing in God, or why Father Abraham and Noah never existed.

creationism is far from an adult theory, its a child like story with fantasy elements based on myth and NO science, we always hear about these crazy people trying to outlaw evolution.But has you stated we have billions of years of evidence, thanks for helping us evolutionists out, unfortunately you have none, just a book, no science, no artifacts, no garden of eden, no bones of adam or eve or even the snake for that matter, no ark, no proof of a biblical flood, no proof of a created world by a higher power, no nothing..

ect ect... you can't stop talking about Palin... and tried your best to dirty up Obama 3 years ago... you start things you can't finish... like bringing out all the people haters in the land with topics that don't even matter... shame shame CNN for shame...