Sentences with phrase «hard slog of»

It will tackle the hard slog of kneading dough, blending cake mix or whipping buttercream icing.

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

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.

As such, it becomes a hard slog of rinse and repeat.

Even then he still has to do the hard slog of sending out to markets, submitting to prizes, giving readings, and literary editing to make ends meet.

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.

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

Not exact matches

Twenty - first - century selling isn't all a hard slog, of course; just think of the guys peddling iPads.

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.

As each slogs through the fights of their lives, a single truth emerges: politicians who simply don't surrender, and don't engage their critics, and don't admit there's even a debate to be had, are really hard to beat.

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.

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 players used to glide over the surface of the pitch, unbothered by such trifling concerns as the rules of physics; nowadays they slog, hard, as though the move from an arcade experience to one with pretensions toward simulation had sunk the footballers up to the knees in custard.

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.

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?

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.

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

I personally don't think he'd have much appetite to be leader of the opposition, the hard slog.

Either approach — this, or trying to regain control of the Labour party — would be a long, hard slog to government.

Which of Labour's big names: Dan, Yvette, Chuka, Lisa, (or whoever) is prepared to, in all probability, forego the chance of leading Labour in government in order to take the brickbats and endure the hard slog required to lead Labour's modernisation and save the party?

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

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.»

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.

It's a hard slog and I'll never be in the realm of Sincerely Jules etc but what I do love is the interaction with other bloggers and hopefully entertain those who read my little slice of the Internet!

It was a hard 26.2 miles of slogging along on some of Vermont's hilliest dirt roads.

Maybe if it had leaned just a little bit harder into its own ridiculousness, I'd have loved it without reserve, but as it is, it's less of a rampage, and more of a slog.

It's a bravura accomplishment of the writing then, that though we're being asked to find our way, in two hours, to the heart of a story grown over with decades of secrecy and thorns — a process that took the participants months of hard slog — we never get caught in the brambles.

Even Jennifer Lawrence doesn't appear particularly enthused about having to slog through this downer of a finale, and it's hard to blame her, because instead of going out on the high note that the franchise and its loyal fans deserved, my first thought when the film ended was, «Thank God it's finally over.»

As Shah finishes the interview and heads back to slog away again on her new novel, she laughs when asked if it's harder to write the beginning of a novel or the ending.

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

He concluded that it was a good thing to see small improvement in the second year of Common Core testing, but that it's going to be a «hard, slow slog» to get the majority of students to the proficient level with only about a third hitting that threshold now.

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.

In graphic, panoramic prose, Durham describes the battles, including the icy slaughter of the Trebia; the mist - shrouded battle along Lake Trasimene; the battle of Cannae, in which Hannibal's outnumbered force surrounded and decimated seventy thousand Romans in a single afternoon; and Zama, the hard slog that proved to be the decisive contest.

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).

I find FBReader's settings kind of hard to slog through, but on the other hand, some users might find that level of granularity of control a positive experience.

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.

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.

I think sometimes it's hard to keep that passion burning after months / years of slogging away.

Gameplay wise, many of the quests feel very wash and repeat, the difference being as you progress, the quests become a bit harder and you have to slog further.

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.

The Survival mode takes things up a notch, with a series of 10, 30, 50 or 99 progressively harder fights to slog through.

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

Whether or not the birds were too concerned about the conflict is hard to tell, but they remained abundant through his binoculars, which he'd don non-stop around base and «beyond the wire,» as he slogged through mud puddles, cruised the parameters, and traveled to all corners of the country (all the while enticing other soldiers to wonder about his strange «missions.»)

And really as here, it's a hard slog to continue to give examples from real science where this can't possibly be a property of a real gas molecule, so convinced are AGW's that a combination of Brownian motion and ideal gas properties apply, that they can no longer even imagine the real world.

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).

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

This year, I used the skills I gained during my internships, followed by a hard dose of slog, and created my own company: Designer District.