Sentences with phrase «getting tougher every year»

The Colts, you see, want to get tougher this year so they're having tougher practices, whatever that means.

The EPL is getting tougher each year.

With Chris Evans, who played the Human Torch here, going on to embody Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, that gets tougher every year.

Fuel economy standards are getting tougher every year, so all manufacturers are being forced to look for ways to reduce the reliance on gasoline.

Since the competition to get into veterinary school gets tougher every year, this could be a way to stand out.

Competition for graduate employment is getting tougher each year and the application process is making it harder for a college graduate to get a foot in the door.

It seems to get tougher each year so we have to get more creative.

Not exact matches

Tough questions — like whether to leave you comfortable job or start your own business, move across the country in pursuit of opportunity or stick close to home, study economics or art, get down on one knee and propose or give it another year — cause many of us to break out in a cold sweat.

But assuming that the rest of the world will continue to turn a blind eye to American profligacy is a risky bet, and it will get riskier if Congress keeps skirting the tough choices for the next 10 years.

While the renewable industry has gained momentum in recent years, «the battle certainly got tougher» with the election of Trump, said Dan Kammen, an energy expert at the University of California, Berkeley and science envoy for the U.S. State Department.

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Over the years, Amazon has come under plenty of fire for being a tough place to work but it's also got some great programs, particularly around retraining.

«They are curious, energetic, and aren't afraid to ask tough and sometimes unusual questions... We both get interviewed dozens of times every year, but this was the most memorable one we've done in a long time.»

Last year I went to a huge multi-day event featuring more than 50 main speakers, dozens of seminar speakers, a wide variety of breakout sessions and workshops... fitting everything into a schedule was almost as tough as getting all the schwag into my carry - on.

That said, the survey revealed that business owners might have had a slightly tougher time getting started last year than in 2012.

Fear of failure often has deep roots in our early lives, so getting tough with yourself and giving yourself a lecture is about as effective as yelling at a teary two year old.

It was a tough decision to drop Harvard — she'd spent three years working on the sky - high GMAT score that got her in — but the opportunity to take part in a new program with an Aboriginal focus was irresistible.

When negotiations were getting tough with PayPal a few years ago, Sandberg would call up John Donahoe, the CEO of eBay, PayPal's parent company.

Since that's a pretty tough thing to do (Intel just announced that it will spend two and half years getting to the next smallest generation of chips instead of two), I asked Crooke if that meant that manufacturing these chips was difficult.

But unless you got one heck of a deal, the delta in rent over dividends will have a very tough time making up for the 6 % per year difference in appreciation.

The tariffs are Trump's first strike at China's economy after a year of procrastinating on campaign promises to get tough on US trade with China.

Now that the connection between gift cards and the opioid crisis is known, regulators and law enforcement plan to get tougher on store return fraud next year.

Setting his sights on hacking the toughest challenge of all — cancer — the co-founder of Napster, founding president of Facebook, and president of the Parker Foundation has already accomplished something miraculous in a few years» time: getting the nation's top cancer immunology experts to work together toward a common goal.

And I think that since we really started getting what I'd consider tougher comparable year - over-year comparisons probably in December of this year, and since December, I've seen a fair amount of stability bouncing around in that — right around the 5 % to 6 % year - over-year if you look at the months since December.

Conditions should get tougher still over the next few years, junk watchers say.

Ten years ago, it was tough to get a mortgage.

«They put their deposit down four or five years ago and then they're ready to register the unit and get a mortgage and they're walking into tough times,» a Toronto broker told industry website Mortgagebrokernews.ca last month.

Getting to 350k by the end of the year will be tough - and is probably almost entirely out of my control at this point.

When I started freelancing over 15 years ago it was tough to get going, but the landscape back then was very different.

Ottawa has been trying to get tougher on companies involved in corruption after being rebuked for years on the international stage for its perceived failure to take the matter seriously.

How can you be breast fed when the catholic church does not like birth control — if mom is popping them out every year for the first 6 kids say it is tough to get a breast?

In California, home of the get - tough three - strikes - and - you're - out law, it's estimated that by 2020, $ 5 billion a year will be spent on health care for aging inmates — the amount of the state's entire prison budget for 2002.

As for all you mother's, thank you, thank you, thank you for being such great mothers, and somehow, getting through the tough years of being a mother.

We're getting close to anniversaries of tough times last year, and it felt good to just recharge with each other.

If times ever got tough we could easily set up a shop on Fab.com and sell all of the furniture and odds and ends he's made for us over the years and be rich beyond our wildest dreams.

Kids are often the toughest critics, especially with healthy stuff, so if it passed the 7 - year - old test then that is always a good sign I hope there are many more batches to come and I will keep that in mind and get back to more banana flour recipes / experiments soon hopefully!

I found it a little tough to get through Thanksgiving without you this year, I have to admit.

Same points, and this time we won't get pot 1, this time we'll be playing in a much tougher group in the champions league next year so don't be so proud of 2nd spot.

After the 21 - year - old Webster torched the Jazz for 24 third - quarter points on Jan. 5, Utah reserve Matt Harpring observed, «It was tough when what's - his - face got hot.»

(Hutchinson) was here when we got real young for a couple years and it was tough standing in between the pipes certain nights and his numbers reflected that.

The Gunners may still get a very tough draw but I do not think coming second is such a bad thing this year.

Just got to make sure we don't enjoy the team's successes during a tough year?

However, they still have to get under the cap, figure out how they the players who were injured can come back and play the «toughest» schedule next year.

In past years the players haven't necessarily been able to remain consistent throughout a season and have dropped off when it begins to get tough.

The team has had a tough time in recent years, and with Honda's current track record, perhaps this could help them get back on track.

Truth be told they've had tough matchups to start both Playoff runs each year and it's only a matter of time until they get a break in terms of seeding..

Neither and i do nt think joachim loew wilm come but hes about the only guy but why are we even having this conversation competimg for 8 trophies in 8 years and won 5 thats top drawer you need atleast two years to redevelop your squad after missing champions league lets give him another year no new manager will have enough time with the team its a world cup year if we get a new guy we will start horribly it will be a tough year of wenger we will put the forces behind him to have a successful year and i see it happenong qe will spend and we will succeed

«It's real tough, probably our toughest loss we've had all year because we felt like we were getting in the groove.

Second, all I hope is that we come out with a really solid roster of young, hungry, tough prospects that will take a few years to gel and get molded into a great team that's built to last season after season with a great core (like Pitt, ugh, Nash, TB, etc).

And we've been close, and the fact remains: If you don't have enough to beat Wisconsin — the last three or four years we played Wisconsin, we played them tough, and the next week, we'd just get our doors blown off.