Sentences with phrase «hard slog»

After you have emerged from the long hard slog of final exams, the next item on the agenda for most graduates is likely to be launching your career...

It's been a long hard slog for jobs in the legal sector, especially for newly minted lawyers.

Three years of hard slog at university have finally ended.

«For the next five years there will be a real hard slog for this economy and the chancellor has not set out the path we need,» Cable ends.

«I wish we could race a lot closer in the cars that we have today but still I think the fact that we are similar pacewise, it's going to be a very, very hard slog this season I think.

Then there is the promotion... This is a real HARD SLOG and this is where hopes are dashed.

Simply getting on the show to begin with is a much harder slog.

THe Premier League is a long hard slog though and if Ozil is to really help us to become champions of England, he needs to avoid the injury problems that have beset him so far.

It was necessary to put in the hours, and some periods were shear hard slog, but there was no burden of responsibility for running and maintaining a lab, no concerns about funding, and no need to direct other peoples» research.

Lynch pulls no punches as she exposes difficulties she overcame through therapy and self - resolve, recounting the professional hard slog from high - school theater in Dolton, Illinois, to her current role in the hit television series Glee.

Although 2.625 % everywhere towards unrestricted travel sounds great I've found it to be a long hard slog earning points this way.

Novice trekkers beware... this was one long hard slog!!!

But if that card isn't appealing it's going to be a long hard slog with only the Premier with any signup bonus at all at the moment, and a paltry 30k doesn't seem worth it.

You might assume that this means what follows is a painfully hard slog through hostile environments, but...

After two years of hard slog DMA eventually presented an action game to Nintendo.

What we have now is the long, hard slog of rebuilding.

Arsenal fans will be hoping that the 26 - year old can now stay injury free, and even better would be if he can start the next season in a similar manner to the way in which he rounded off the last one, after more than a year of real frustration and hard slog for the striker.

It could be a long hard slog.

Building and then operating such a far - flung network of distribution centres took five years of hard slogging, driven by the founders» willingness to spend extended periods of time living overseas while they established those divisions.

A tight group of Adelaide investors who backed silicon battery pioneer 1414 Degrees through a decade of hard slog will see their stakes valued at $ 16.5 million when the company floats on the ASX.

Yes, our plan will be a hard slog, but it is doable and it has never been more necessary.

I got ill after glandular fever which gave me POTS / ME 31 years ago and it's been a hard slog keeping my body together!

Some of the numbers in Citi's latest health and safety report are tragically chilling, for all that it identifies materially positive progress over a decade of hard slog.

Now, they were an expansion team, so they had a harder slog at the beginning, but that doesn't explain everything.

Arsenal had to fight hard to get all three points at Newcastle yesterday, and with many of our close rivals also winning, Arsene Wenger is sure that it is going to be a hard slog to hang on to a place in the Top Four, although he believes Chelsea are too far in front at the moment to be caught before the end of the season.

The demand on players is huge, midweek fixtures come in thick and fast in what proves to be a long, hard slog of a season which takes no prisoners.

For all his skills in possession, Sissoko has often been found wanting against lesser lights, and unlike those accustomed to a hard slog, is often unwilling to tackle or press until it is too late.

But it's a hard slog when kids fight and argue every minute of the day.

And what better excuse do fathers need to avoid the hard slog (while at the same time missing out on the good bits) of looking after children?

Helen from Actually Mummy said «Parenthood is... like a long hard slog up a mountain.

It was a long hard slog to put the current sanctions regime in place, and Russia and China no longer support the regime, but have continued to adhere to it.

Her complaints about the lack of money available to her show that she either hasn't realised, or wishes to bypass, the hard slog of winning the support of hundreds of local people required to deliver leaflets for, and donate to, your campaign.

That spirit of campaigning proved invaluable during his long apprenticeship in politics, the «long hard slog» experienced by many Lib Dems currently in parliament.

We should level with people that life under PM Ed will be a hard slog.

But we've still got a lot of hard slogging to do to demonstrate that with the numbers.»

Many «discoveries» of background radiation evaporated as data became more precise, and the ones that endured faced a hard slog to prove themselves.

So far, Shapiro and Novak have amassed 88 passenger pigeon samples from museum collections, but it will be a long, hard slog to determine which genes distinguish a passenger pigeon from a rock pigeon, and what the genes do, Shapiro says.

It's been a long, hard slog to Mount Sharp, but at least I'm finding some interesting rocks along the way.

Getting Corot to the launchpad, she explained, was a long, hard slog, marked by bureaucratic near - death experiences.

Rather than wait for a kindly benefactor to appear and reward your years of hard slog, there is something practical you can do.

«They do a lot of the hard slogging in surveys like this one, staying up all night to watch stars that, more often than not, turn out not to have planets.»

«It's a slow, hard slog but it's essential,» says Voigt.