Sentences with phrase «hard slog at»

As with all philosophy reading, the book can be a bit of a hard slog at times and it pays to read slowly and carefully, going back over what you've read at times so that you may fully understand what is being said (and the implications).

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

Not exact matches

Whether it's slogging through a muddy obstacle course or brainstorming on how to better serve our customers, I can't wait for my next chance to work hard at a difficult challenge with my team.

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.

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.

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?

Pity the group of Labourites who, in one day, had to endure a dog bite and subsequent visit to A&E; three naked aggressors spewing bile about expense abuses - in the same house; and a rogue beetle in their noodles at the end of a hard day's slog.

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

Don't get me wrong, this is still an excellent all - rounder with impressive levels of performance and practicality, but with an amateur driver at the wheel, the car begins to feel a little ragged when slogged hard.

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.

But it seems to me that he's assuming that in America, at least, policy about this can simply be set a bit more like the Soviets would have set it, via authoritarian measures taken by the few, and a bit less like what seems to me to be the only option for progress: the hard slog of civic debate, inherently involving the citizenry, even in cases when most citizens already agree on the basic facts.

The main problem that i discern is that some of you expect independent verification without having to work very hard at it (again, those of you slogging through the nasa giss code are exempt from this criticism).

This is the hard slog of real - world change, and it's not going to be much fun, at least at the start.