Sentences with phrase «hard slog for»

«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.

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.

The hard slogging for the Canadians is coming now, pitting rights against each other, like equality versus religion.

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.

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.

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.

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

You find it hard to think clearly, and you feel like you spend your days slogging thru a vat of waist - deep oatmeal, it just takes way more effort than it should for you to accomplish anything.

If you go to them alone (as I often do) it can feel a bit like a hard slog... all that networking... saying who you are and what you do repetitively and seeing if the person's eyes you are speaking too lights up or glazes over and begins to dart anxiously around the room looking for more erm, useful contacts.

For others, it's a long, hard slog that gets in the way of «real work».

It outlines important topics, guidelines, and necessary ways of thinking for sticking with a self - publishing career and slogging through the hard word that is (inevitably) required.

You can try to chase the market and write what you think is popular, but that's not going to last for the long term (thank you Kristine Kathryn Rusch for an excellent blog post) or you can slog through and work hard.

-- Despite the uncalled for debt burden, the Irish people are already tackling the hard slog back to competitiveness & fiscal stability (unlike Greece)

Some beaches are hard packed and perfect for walking, while other may be silky and soft, but can make hiking with that backpack a bit of a slog.

Well, after completing Psychonauts tonight for the first time and slogging my way through that horrid platforming HELL that is the Meat Circus final area of the game, I do have to retract one of my earlier statements: yeah, we still have companies making old school «Nintendo Hard» games besides Team Ninja.

It was a hard slog unloading piles to search for the needed print or drawing.

Writing in Slog, Jen Graves's reflections on Chamberlain betray a sense of regret for not having looked harder.

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.

Dislodging the four - year old Slack will be a hard slog, however, even for a company the size of Atlassian.

Everyone knows that it is always easier to find a new job when you are already employed, but for those who are unemployed or just about to step forward in the world fresh out of full - time education and searching for that dream job, it really can be a long hard slog to find it.

It has been a hard slog to get the house refurbished and looking exactly the way we want it — especially with three kids — but we can see now that it has all been worth it, and we've created a dream place that's perfect for our children to grow up in.»