Sentences with phrase «hard year in»

I would love to be able to bless him for working so hard this year in school and getting all his grades up well into the 90's.

Let profit sharing do most of the work to achieve competitive balance by forcing teams to fight hard every year in order to maximize profits.

It's a very hard year in brazil, politically speaking.

Those hard years in my teens were so, so important - you need to fully see your darkness to desire the light.

As Day - Lewis» loping gait suggests the physical toll of hard years in office, his manner is quiet and remarkably shrewd — one moment, he's the rural Illinoisan telling folksy stories; the next, he's a lethal politician working backrooms and surrogates.

After some hard years in the orphanage, Adonis grows up in wealth and luxury, but with a nagging desire to prove himself to the phantom father figure.

There are a great many games that could have, and should have made this list, and this was the hardest year in terms of distilling so many great games down to 10.

Not exact matches

Still, we're in the fifth year of a very weak recovery in which small businesses have been hit hard by tight credit markets, slow sales and limited spending.

In addition to those smaller bets, Dopfner has made it clear that he is also willing to make large ones: Earlier this year, he tried hard to acquire the venerable Financial Times, only to be outflanked at the last minute by Nikkei.

In pre-budget consultations this year, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business pushed the government hard to lower the rate again.

If there's one thing «The Post» (opening in limited release on December 22 and then wide next year) does well it's capturing the struggle that comes when personal relationships and hard journalism.

«And I believe after 26, 27 years in this country, it is still a country that rewards hard work.

For people in their 20s and 30s, Ponnapalli concedes that rules of thumb and general targets are a good place to start since it might be hard to gauge a detailed retirement budget from that many years away.

Big commodities players, hit hard by falling prices in recent years, are also eagerly awaiting Belt and Road, since so much of the early spending will flow toward raw materials.

I read this book well after I started my business, but I think the hardest lesson for entrepreneurs to grasp is that in order to give your business the best chance for success, you need to reinvest the profits for at least the first year.

Either way, his comments follow a trend of famous figures — from entertainers to sports figures — taking a hard stance against their children playing football at any level, especially in light of the revelations about long - term effects from football concussions that have surfaced in recent years.

In 2011, I said «no» more and worked hard for four years to make my dream of being a global lifestyle entrepreneur a reality.

Mark Karpelès, the CEO who presided over Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox until it went bankrupt in 2014, has had a hard time finding work for the last four years.

A dealer - owned co-operative, Home Hardware has worked hard in recent years to stress its connection to the communities where it operates, by sponsoring local minor sports teams and tournaments, and playing up its «Home Owners helping home owners» ad campaign.

The recent fiscal legislation caused negative, structural changes on both the spending and revenue fronts — making the task of keeping the debt in check much harder than it would have been even a year ago.

After 16 years of hard work, building a business from scratch, he saved enough to invest in real estate.

Few industries have been hit harder in recent years than energy, and the oilfield service provider Schlumberger (slb) epitomizes both the sector's struggles and its opportunities.

Seventeen years ago, it was hard for anyone working in the burgeoning digital media industry to imagine a world where Yahoo (YHOO) and AOL didn't rule the Web.

Just six years ago, Robert Friedland was No. 14 on the Rich 100, but the commodities slump hit his multiple mining interests hard — which ultimately knocked him off the ranking in 2014.

In 2013, I always worked hard to make sure that everything was 100 % perfect, but I know that if I keep growing at a 90 % rate that is 90 % perfect, I will get a lot farther than I did last year.

The effects are harder to see in the early years, but eventually, they become quite pronounced.

But the stories of the people who created these acclaimed works are just as fascinating and inspiring as the ones we see in theaters, ranging from partnerships between newfound friends, finally getting to yes after years of hard work and the remarkable work ethics of idiosyncratic minds.

Wheeler says the mega-complexes being built today will be hard to staff 10 years from now, and that the next era will see smaller workplaces where employees are responsible for meeting achievements and objectives, and have flexibility about when they come in to their office.

Pulled from this year's Inc. 5000, here are 10 Los Angeles - based companies led by some of the hardest working women in business.

«As a now 130 - person software company with plans to hire 100 more in the next year, our hardest challenge will be to keep the same level of shared purpose and context across everyone in the company.»

The Small Business American Dream Gap Report examined today's economic landscape compared to a year ago and found that despite the positive outlook for small businesses, nearly three out of 10 small businesses reported finding it harder than in the past to reduce operating costs.

After a seven - year legal battle, European authorities came down hard on Google on Tuesday for taking advantage of its dominance in online searches to direct customers to its own businesses, fining the tech giant a record 2.42 billion euros ($ 2.72 billion) and raising the prospect of more.

While Walmart has been offering in - store pick up for several years now, this is first year the retailer is pushing the service this hard, in a move aimed in part at preventing stores from being overwhelmed by panicked last - minute shoppers.

In the past several years, it has gotten a lot harder for boards to give away the store.

And, AWS's revenue growth appears to be slowing, in part because it's hard for such a huge business — AWS is expected to earn $ 16 billion this year — to grow as fast as its younger, smaller incarnation.

«I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit,» Ladar Levinson, the company's founder, said in a letter to users.

In a sport rooted in the hard - partying fringe of Southern California, Hawk was something different: While he was still in high school, he used his winnings to buy a house in Carlsbad, and a few years later, he started his first company — Birdhouse — even though the skateboard industry was tanking at the timIn a sport rooted in the hard - partying fringe of Southern California, Hawk was something different: While he was still in high school, he used his winnings to buy a house in Carlsbad, and a few years later, he started his first company — Birdhouse — even though the skateboard industry was tanking at the timin the hard - partying fringe of Southern California, Hawk was something different: While he was still in high school, he used his winnings to buy a house in Carlsbad, and a few years later, he started his first company — Birdhouse — even though the skateboard industry was tanking at the timin high school, he used his winnings to buy a house in Carlsbad, and a few years later, he started his first company — Birdhouse — even though the skateboard industry was tanking at the timin Carlsbad, and a few years later, he started his first company — Birdhouse — even though the skateboard industry was tanking at the time.

For now, though, since launching the website and the iOS app at the end of last year, the cofounders say it hasn't been hard for their innovative concept to take hold in the UAE market.

The decision, which the justices will likely make this summer, could also overturn hard fought for anti-discrimination laws that have been in place for employees for 50 years.

Almost half of his 110 employees have stayed in the company for five years or more, which is hard to achieve in a sector that sees tempting new tech jobs multiply by the minute.

«It's just posturing and frankly unhealthy,» the 34 - year - old founder said, adding: It's hard to detect signs of depression when you're in it.

So the following year, when the secretary decided to go public in a Vanity Fair article with her account of a quarter - century spent working for Bernie Madoff, it was hard to begrudge her a voice.

It's hard to verify independently the claims of retail traders who say they have made good money this year, when worries about a slowing Chinese economy and the slumping oil price have wiped up to $ 8 trillion from world stock markets in January alone.

Perhaps if Mao hadn't struck down an entire generation in the Cultural Revolution and China had started integrating its economy and ambitions 20 years earlier, that hard and soft power might have been assembled.

Roughly a year ago, Sam Adams brewer Boston Beer (sam) debuted the company's first hard seltzer under a brand called Truly Spiked & Sparkling, finding inspiration from the increased sales of carbonated bottled waters and broader interest in low - calorie alcoholic beverages.

«The hardest decision that I made this year wasn't to invest so much in safety and security — that decision was easy,» Zuckerberg said.

Two years ago, the house, constructed from untreated woods and equipped with water - saving laundry equipment and compact lighting, was the subject of a story in the Burlington Free Press under the headline «Greenhouse» — which raised the hackles of many hard - core Vermonters, including more than a few former Seventh Generation employees.

Nigeria, possibly the hardest hit among U.S. suppliers, has seen its exports to America plummet to the lowest level in years.

This oasis is still a work in progress at the year - old Columbus, Ohio, startup — staffers sometimes find it hard to tear themselves away, Schroter admits — but those who do partake say it helps them stave off the dreaded afternoon slump.

This year, we are on track to receive close to $ 15,000 in dividend income for doing absolutely nothing while our money works hard for us.