Sentences with phrase «faced tough work»

[citation needed] Within a few days of entering her job, she faced tough work as she was responsible for securing the public's safety through transport after some attempted terrorist attacks.

Not exact matches

When you're up against a deadline or facing a tough challenge, do the people you work with know instinctively that they'll find you in the thick of the fight — pitching in, working long hours, and doing whatever is necessary to succeed?

The networking giant faces tough competition in the work collaboration space, with companies like Microsoft, Google, Slack, and Atlassian (team) all selling similar services they each claim is the superior choice.

They work long hours, they face tough challenges, and their future isn't guaranteed.

However the company will face tougher competition in the second half the year, as it is still working through the «business recovery» it began in the third quarter of 2017, Dorsey said.

Seeing the bigger picture will allow us to understand other people's perspectives and worldviews, which will allow us to work together to solve tough social challenges we face in our global community.

With no disrespect intended to the Nets, this is probably a good opportunity for them to work out the kinks before they face tougher opposition.

«Unfortunately for the past two seasons we've faced Bayern Munich, the toughest opponent [in the last 16], but I think that if we carry on and work hard we can go far in the competition.»

Facing this life - work balance can be tough.

Sometimes tough love is necessary, sometimes people getting in your face, calling you names, and yelling at you totally works as motivation.

With all this flu in our schools, working moms and dads are faced with some tough decisions when it comes to taking time off work.

It worked: Cameron needed to summon all of his politicking powers to get through one of the toughest PMQs sessions he's faced since entering Downing Street.

The Treasury minister Sajid Javid upped the stakes, quoting back at Labour the shadow work secretary Liam Byrne's conference speech two years ago, when he said: «Let's face the tough truth — that many people on the doorstep at the last election felt that too often we were for shirkers, not workers.»

The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) may have weathered a storm in recent years as they fought to make powersharing work, but they now face a tough test to make progress in Northern Ireland's Westminster elections.

More prisoners will face the tough discipline of regular working hours.

Many feel that Derbyshire County Council will be the toughest nut to crack in local government for us on 4th June, but one needs to remember that Labour have not faced us when there has not been a General Election on the same day since 1993... and that was not a good year for Conservatives anyway!Accordingly, we have worked hard to establish a Shadow Cabinet, engage in active but constructive opposition and really get to grips with the workings of the County Council so that we can put our vision for the future in place quickly; to employ a cliché: «to hit the ground running».

Espaillat said that winning in Congress means that he will be able to provide «some level of relief for neighborhood and families that are facing eviction or having a tough time making ends meet,» such as the child care tax credit increase proposal he announced earlier this year, which he said will provide relief for working families.

College - educated middle - class workers, with material, cultural, and intellectual resources, are more resilient, however, when faced with the effects of possible insecure work in tough times, and therefore are more able to commit to marriage and to planning families.

And one final thing it all depends on the type of person you are, some can go straight to longer duration fasts and others need to work into it, such as starting with 10 hrs, then 12 hrs, then 14 hrs, etc... For me I went straight to 16 hrs, and it was tough but doable (mostly facing my hunger pangs), and after a few days it started to become normal routine and hunger pangs went away for a majority of the fast.

I have to say this was a tough choice, Sherwin - Williams has some incredible navys, but at the end of the day I wanted a rich, dark blue that could work all year round with the changing faces of my front porch.

But when Trip's parents (Kathy Bates and Terry Bradshaw) bring her in to work her magic she finds herself facing her toughest case ever, and getting close to client the way she swore she would never do.

Some of the best - received films at earlier festivals will get their North American launches here, including «Life is Beautiful,» Roberto Begnini's Cannes winner about an Italian clown who fights the Nazis with laughter; Rohmer's heartwarming love story «Autumn Tale,» which charmed Telluride audiences; Ken Loach's «My Name Is Joe,» with Cannes best actor winner Peter Mullen as a recovering alcoholic facing tough times; Theo Angelopoulos» «Eternity and a Day,» this year's Cannes winner; «The General» (1999) which won Boorman the best director prize at Cannes, and the Cannes and Telluride favorite «Claire Dolan,» by Lodge Kerrigan, with Emily Watson («Breaking the Waves») as a prostitute who thinks she can detach from her work.

«Our movie is really about a working leader who must make tough decisions and get things done in the face of overwhelming opposition... [The film begins with] Lincoln's realization that the Emancipation Proclamation, the thing he is most known for, was simply a war powers act that would easily be struck down by any number of lawyers after the cessation of hostilities after the Civil War.

Larson, Tremblay and Joan Allen (playing Larson's mother) all do terrific work; Larson excels at going from tough and resilient to psychologically shattered, Tremblay is absolutely convincing as a child facing the world for the first time, and Allen is remarkable as she tries to deal with both her daughter's return and becoming a grandmother.

Chin up, working class, beyond world - weary but tough as nails, with an undercurrent of the maternal that might reveal itself at an odd moment — like when the cancer - ridden sheriff, in the midst of interrogating her, coughs blood into her face, and as she goes for help, she comforts him, calling him baby.

As Pam Hobbs, mother of one of the victims, Witherspoon is relatively unburdened by stilted dialogue and convincingly portrays a tough, working - class woman facing unfathomable grief.

«Our movie is really about a working leader who must make tough decisions and get things done in the face of overwhelming opposition,» director Steven Spielberg says.

Her book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City (University of California Press 2010), challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture — the clothing, music, and tough talk — to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students and children of immigrants as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives.

They can help us work through the tough conflicts and decisions we face between our professional lives and our families» needs.

Her forthcoming book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City (University of California Press 2010), challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture — the clothing, music, and tough talk — to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students and children of immigrants as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives.

Meridian's new superintendent, Charles Kent — who officially began his position just a few days prior to the institute — didn't shy away from the tough work his district faces.

Staff commitment is especially critical in the tough economic conditions that schools are facing today as teachers continue to work in a continually stressful environment, sometimes on low pay.

Advocacy is tough work — and many advocates have faced the added challenge of breaking barriers for future generations of leaders.

The California Board of Education is facing some tough choices — and heavy lobbying from parent groups and student advocates — as it works its way toward approving a new school accountability system that meets federal mandates and the vision of Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature in passing the Local Control Funding Formula.

Newspapers such as The Independent here in the UK, with their bloated work force and printing costs, are struggling in tough economic times, as they try and work out how to make money from the content they produce in the face of smaller, leaner publishers or individual bloggers.

Let's face it, indie author marketing is tough work (indie author marketing success even more so).

Unfortunately, this only tends to work with the basic zombie - like enemies, tougher opponents later on will just laugh and pound Garcia's face in.

This ongoing, single player tournament has you facing off against tougher and tougher fighters as you work your way to the top of the leader board.

This piece stayed with me not only for Young's unique method (lets face it, gimmicky or not it's tough to do something completely original in the art world) but for the depth of its comparison to Pollock and how it (even if the relevance of the other works were in question) was rooted cleverly and sincerely in Abstract Expressionism.

Mr. Nara's works have always been characterized as graphically spare, the faces of his lonely, tough children outlined with thick brushstrokes so they appear mask - l

Michael Wara, a law professor at Stanford University, doesn't flunk the president, but in a «Your Dot» contribution offers a tough critique, as if facing a student who keeps making excuses for tardy inadequate work:

While the bill will likely be supported in McCain's Commerce Committee, and is touted by its authors as an economic bill more than an environmental bill, it will face tough opposition from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, whose new chair, Oklahoma Republican James Inhofe, opposes mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

The TDSB is often, as all of the judges of this category pointed out, in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons but acting general counsel Leola Pon and her group are quietly doing tough work in their very public - facing corner of the world.

The IAALS is a think tank working on the development and application of innovative solutions for the toughest problems facing the US courts and legal profession... [more]

The legal market faces tough times but working virtually appears to thrive.

The IAALS is a think tank working on the development and application of innovative solutions for the toughest problems facing the US courts and legal profession.

Car insurance companies are faced with tough competition and so they work at great lengths to service their market the best way they can.

«We faced tough questions about our role in democracy, our role in discourse, our role in journalism, and our role in well - being... We have our best teams internally partnered with the best experts externally to work through each set of the issues»

Additionally, the Amazon Echo may face tough challenges from Facebook and Samsung, both of which are reportedly working on their own smart speakers, but instead of relying on voice recognition capabilities, Facebook's smart speaker will supposedly use a touchscreen to allow users to control the device.

Both the back - facing camera lens and, in the iPhone 5s, the Touch ID home button work with Sapphire Glass to keep them tough.