Sentences with phrase «hard knock»

But - there are some hard knock cultures that think if your employee base desires full transparency, that it comes with some brutal non-negotiables.

You Should Be Killed: When you are on the ground after a hard knock down, hold heavy attack + special attack (This will consume 3 gauges)

Today, major technology companies are chasing big data, however, it is a hard knock life for start - ups, especially those that lack financial anchor of the large tech corporations.

It's a hard knock life in the legal trenches, but some are surviving, and a few are even turning into good lawyers with good practices.

This powerful earthquake is a fresh reminder to other places with similar tectonic dynamics — particularly the Pacific Northwest — to redouble efforts to gird for an inevitable hard knock.

He has a great wake up assault with Shootdown Backbreaker, so don't jump after a hard knock down or you will regret it.

There's even a special where, if Frieza gets hard knock - downed, he can perform a desperate last attempt blast at the opponent just like the end of Goku's and Freiza fight on Namek.

However, having said that, it must come as hard knock to the other contenders for ModDB's Mod Of THe Year to be beaten by a mod that simply turns single player game into multiplayer, when you consider that other modders have been creating completely New content, Maps, & even games (Total Conversions), with their mods.

Ron was a warm and loving man with a hard knock exterior that we all loved and we will miss him always.

They also know that the equipment is going to take an occasional hard knock and get wet, but still needs to perform as though it just came out of the box.

Eddy, a forthright African American woman, suffers one more hard knock when she finds herself stranded in Nevada and beholden to Rhine, a successful businessman passing as white.

Relatively - sophisticated musings making sense of rants about a «Hard Knock Life» coming from an insightful 40 year - old ostensibly no longer full of the angst which had helped skyrocket him to the heights of super-stardom.

There are some amusing bits, like Wu blowing out «It's the Hard Knock Life» on his flute or an action sequence scored to Jim Croce, but the film's cumulative effect is utter exhaustion, the cinematic equivalent of chasing a toddler through a toy store.

Foxes does benefit from Jodie Foster's star presence, and she does deliver a fine performance, along with the titillation factor surrounding teen sexuality, love, drugs, and the hard knock life of the streets of LA.

The heart warming tale first came to screens in 1982 and has built quite the following, especially following Jay - Z's use of the famous track It's A Hard Knock Life.

Quvenzhane Wallis, famed for her role in BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD, takes on the part of the titular hero who has A Hard Knock Life in an orphanage run by the cruel Miss Hannigan (Cameron Diaz).

This predicament inspires the mistreated waifs to do what else but sing about how «It's the Hard Knock Life» for them.

Jay Z, who previously sampled the classic Annie song It's The Hard Knock Life in Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem), stated, «For Marcy Media's first foray into film, we couldn't ask for better partners and mentors than Overbrook Entertainment.

My well - known affinity for the classic «Hard Knock Life» makes Annie a natural vehicle to lead us into the world of the cinema.»

The deceptive theatrical trailer is provided, as it presents the movie as some «hard knock life» story before shifting to cute family dramedy.

She may or may not be an orphan (The fate of her parents is never revealed), but whereas people didn't «care a smidge» because she lived in an orphanage in Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin's mind - gripping tune «It's the Hard Knock Life,» people «don't care a bit» about Annie in this version because she's a foster kid.

The hip - hop mogul who had one of his biggest hits in 1998's «Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem),» which samples one of the two songs everyone knows from the 1977 Broadway musical.

Hubby got Ridin» Dirty and Hard Knock Life, haha love the names.

One hard knock Concussions are the most common type of brain injury, and about 85 percent of people who suffer one will more or less fully recover within a year.

Stringer's camp derided the hard knock by the disgraced governor — who resigned in 2008 after getting caught soliciting high - priced hookers — as a «desperate attempt to mislead voters.»

Even coming third would be a hard knock for the party now.

Stanley is perhaps one of the most quintessentially British names that seems to come from the rural and hard knock side of life.

It's funny to me and entertaining, specialist in failure jab was hard knock; especially since we finished 5th last year.

Connie was born into poverty and raised in the school of hard knocks.

Credibility comes through a lot of hard knocks.

For a leader familiar with the hard knocks of politics, Whitman has been unafraid to flip - flop.

One thing to know: The Buccaneers» season didn't go the way many viewers of «Hard Knocks» expected this year.

The school of hard knocks remained a staunch competitor, and the MBA initially grew slowly.

In my attempt to find solutions and coping strategies to help me raise my son, who suffers from a severe mental illness, and in dealing with a lot of setbacks along the way, I've discovered a formula for overcoming life's inevitable hard knocks: Courage plus resilience equals triumph.

That move also explains why so many Labor and Greens MPs today have tertiary qualifications — generally arts degrees — and little experience in the «school of hard knocks».

Sure, the school of hard knocks has value, and there are those who can gain a lot through more practical learning.

«I wanted to lift up everything I learned from the school of hard knocks and apply those skills to the nonprofit side,» Slatt says.

By the time he'd been put through the ringer with his OldCo, Joe received the proverbial MBA from the School of Hard Knocks.

I feel like I can instantly identify with most business owners / business starters on a certain level — because we've learned similar lessons through the school of hard knocks.

«The firm is on a positive trajectory after a lot of hard knocks,» Mr. Gorman said in an interview this month.

Let us use that school of hard knocks, experience and insight to propel you to shatter pink ceilings.

His knowledge comes from the school of hard knocks.

I have lost approx. 20 % of my account in 6 months, going through the usual «hard knocks» every trader goes through.

ExxonMobil, the U.S. energy giant, has taken some hard knocks in the last year: a staggering stock price, a massive de-booking, a lost AAA credit rating.

But eventually, through the school of hard knocks and learning from my numerous mistakes, I began to develop a winning trading strategy that enabled me to let the winners run, while also knowing the proper time to take profits before the inevitable reversals and pullbacks.

Otherwise, you will end up learning about your cognitive shortcomings the hard way: at the Wall Street campus of the School of Hard Knocks.

Might the reason be that belief in human perfectibility has taken so many hard knocks over the last several thousand years?

I remember the hard knocks on Obama being a muslim which was not even through.

I am not saying the church can stop a person from making bad decisions, but the church, despite its flaws, can help us grow and find wisdom without so much reliance on the school of hard knocks (an archaic term used often by my father).

God does not educate him about the possibilities; he gets educated in the school of hard knocks, by experience, by the world.