Sentences with phrase «hard years as»

Those were hard years as newborns tend to throw curve balls into schedules and routines.

My Angel Girl has been having a hard year as she has realized she doesn't have a way to contact her birthmother.

This gets harder every year as more amazing games are being released than ever before.

I love Christmas and my Lord Jesus, i love decorating and all that Christmas stands for, but it is going to be really hard this year as there is not a lot of space for decorations.

Not exact matches

Sales dropped 9 % last year as foreign exchange impacts hit the company hard.

He's just working hard on something for years as his passion project,» Maurice says.

Co-founders Devin Haman and Jeff Bozz (last we saw them, they were firing a pair of hard - partying friends named Holly and Molly) will be back for a new season on E! later this year... AmieStreet.com, a music - downloading start - up that raises the price of a song as it gains popularity, hit the jackpot when users found recordings on the site by Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the woman linked with former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer.

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.

While Flaugh said that «it's hard to totally discredit them as a supplier after all these years,» if it turns out that the video actually is representative of the farm workers» conduct, «they would be discontinued as a supplier.

«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.»

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.

As we rush through our work during the year, it can be hard to focus on much other than hard data to tell us whether our staff is succeeding.

The number of middle - class thieves grew this year, too, as those hit hard by the recession tried to keep up with the Joneses.

«I don't think we are going to see [hard seltzer] reach the size of hard soda, but we will see as new players enter, especially this year,» Danelle Kosmal, vice president of Nielsen's beverage alcohol division, told Fortune.

Apple, hard to characterise as an out and out manufacturer or pure technology play, currently trades at 13.5 times its estimated earnings for the next twelve months, higher than its five - year average of close to 13.

It sounds like a piece of cake, but as Angela can attest it takes years of hard - work and preparation to secure investment.

That year, just a decade ago, it was hard to imagine that a President of the United States would ever use a social media channel as a primary form of communication.

The properties that were hardest hit were the Trump SoHo, Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago and Trump Taj Mahal, down 17 — 24 % in raw foot traffic this past year as compared to the previous year.

FEATURE: Having gained notoriety in the 1996 movie Jerry Maguire, the phrase «show me the money» will be heard often, and loudly, in business in Western Australia in coming years as capital inflows become capital outflows and funds become harder - than - ever to raise.

Meanwhile, as Microsoft was all but vaporizing its hard - earned profits to buy back those 37 million shares last year, it was busy issuing another 45 million shares that employees had exercised through the option plan.

Over the years, Ratliff has forged meaningful relationships with her «guests,» as she calls them — so much so that, when she fell on hard times, they banded together in support.

Nor do they expect Brito to ease up on his frugality, even as extracting fat from AB InBev gets harder with each passing year.

Two years later, it's hard to see Occupy as having achieved much of anything, other than a lot of overtime for police and a few weeks» fodder for the nightly news.

The industry as a whole has been churning out gasoline hard for the past year, as a golden period of refining margins emerged out of the ashes of the crude oil rout.

But in the 20 years since the North American Free Trade Agreement was signed, Querétaro has worked the hardest to establish itself as a high - skills manufacturing hub and, more recently, one with a specialty in aerospace.

After a year of trial and error, Woolverton finally had a product that satisfied him, even if it was temperamental: Straight from the freezer, the ice cream could still be chalky and hard as a rock.

But just a couple of years later, Netflix lost its exclusivity with Epix when the distributor signed a similar deal with Amazon (AMZN)-- news that also hit the company's share price hard, taking Netflix stock down by as much as 11 percent in a day.

Peabody Energy, the nation's biggest coal producer, has been on a gradual slide down the Fortune 500 over the past few years, as falling demand for coal hit it hard.

Apple is always good for a surprise or two, but other than the expected incorporation of fitness trackers, a larger screen and / or some sort of mobile payment technology, it's hard to imagine the company doing anything that will generate the same buzz as its first few iPhone models did just a few years ago.

«The extreme optimism about economic growth this year has cooled as the hard data have come in constructive but not exceptional,» wrote Michelle Meyer, Bank of America Merrill Lynch's US economist, and her colleagues in their research.

As they watched the market crash during their early years, many of them became hesitant to invest in a hard asset that might not retain its value.

«Though my cousin is still sharp as a tack at 110 - years - old, it's been getting harder and harder for him to care for himself,» Volma Overton said in a statement.

As the economy has muddled along the past few years, banks have been criticized for making it hard for small businesses to get loans.

The work on the shop floor, as in any box company, is hard, blistering hot in summertime, and occasionally dangerous (the number of lost - time accidents last year: five).

So the pre-election Republican position, backed by allies such as the Chamber of Commerce, to extend all of the tax cuts and postpone all of the spending cuts until the leaders work out a deal is not likely to win over many Democrats, who seem more inclined to let the tax cuts expire and start from scratch next year, presumably making it harder for Republicans to resist.

It's actually hard to overstate how much things will change over the next few years as these printers become commonplace.

We found that the latest recession hit them hard — the hardest of all demographics — and as a result, in the years when they should be in peak accumulation, they're struggling to reach their savings goals.

I am now at a point in life where I can be proud of my years of hard work, but I know that I would be only half as far had I not crafted a dream list.

But during the seven years since McKeon hung up his spurs, as it were, at the company's headquarters in Santa Clarita, Calif., Howard & Phil's fell on hard times.

He has lots of hard evidence to back it up, too: if you measure prosperity in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, not only has Canada been lagging the States for years, but lately that «prosperity gap» has grown bigger — reaching about $ 8,900 as of 2010.

«Most informed investors believe that when interest rates go higher, as they are expected to within the next few years, condo prices will be hit very hard,» says MacKenzie.

Tax refund fraud is a growing $ 5 billion a year problem as crooks are getting smarter and the IRS needs to work harder to catch thieves, reports CNBC's Scott Cohn.

The German ZEW figures beat all expectations, a sign that the euro zone crisis was no longer hitting Europe's largest economy as hard as it was last year.

You'd dismiss the stunt as totally ridiculous, if it weren't for the fact that, hard on the heels of its well - financed rival, Borland International Inc. is valued at $ 680 million, a mere eight years later.

That event, known as a «hard fork,» is viewed as increasingly likely among bitcoin leaders, as a years - long debate about the network's technical limitations and broader vision comes to a head.

A tit - for - tat trade war could evolve into a full - blown one that hurts everyone, and would be a slap in the face of the global statesmanship, and commitment to globalization Xi has tried hard to display, most notably with his speech at the original Davos last year, where he presented himself as a counter to the newly - elected Trump's protectionism.

As it stands, TLRD recognized just $ 50 million in synergies over the past year, and while they still claim these synergies will eventually reach the lower end of that $ 100 - $ 150 million range by the end of this year, it's hard to trust those claims given the combined company's poor operating results.

Mattel's rebuttal indicates that Margaret Georgiadis, who took over as the company's chief executive in February, is seeking to drive a hard bargain in negotiations with Hasbro, even though Mattel's stock has significantly underperformed that of Hasbro in the last year.

After 25 years of hard work, the goals have become clean waves, such as:

The rouble has weakened some 30 percent versus the dollar this year, as Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis have made it harder for banks and companies to refinance foreign currency debts and as tumbling oil prices have hurt government revenue.