Sentences with phrase «hard years spent»

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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.

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.

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.

Millstein acknowledges that being his kind of activist director is hard work, much harder than just spending a few hours at eight board meetings each year.

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.

But skipping formal education is possible, provided you've spent long, hard years proving yourself in the field in a supervisory position.

The more time you spend swapping complaints about your boss, links to the best video you've seen all year and — oh, right — questions about work, the harder it becomes to recover and produce.

Take a hard look at your budget and spending habits to avoid finding yourself in the same situation next year.

Projected job growth over the next 10 years is below the national average, so lack of spending power would make it hard for the city to support another small business.

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.

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.

I don't regret the years I spent in corporate America environment, but business ownership is so much more rewarding.I work even harder than I did before but the level of satisfaction is so much higher.

Even if you find it hard to spend your nest egg, you'll have to start cashing out a portion of your retirement savings each year once you turn 70-1/2 years old.

But lackluster spending data may change: It is hard for us to believe the big increases in employment over the past year, together with rises in aggregate wages and the extra disposable income accumulated from the big drop in gas prices, will not translate into increased consumer spending.

Despite serious challenges facing British Columbia, the Liberal government under Premier Christy Clark has spent a significant portion of the past year campaigning instead of governing, spending valuable public resources on pre-election advertising and staging photo - ops instead of doing the hard work of actually governing.

However, it's often hard to justify spending more money today to be mortgage free in 25 years.

Twenty years ago, with a latent demand for more leverage - led spending, it wasn't hard to stimulate growth in demand with lower interest rates, at least not in the Anglosphere or the Nordic countries.

Even though I spent three years in the Army listening to barracks braggadocio, I find that hard to believe.

Instead, the next few months and years will be filled with hard work, decision making, problem solving, time commitments, financial commitments, faith commitments, vulnerability, uncertainty, and all the messy and beautiful things that go along with spending a lot of time with people.

Imagine if all the billions of dollars in time, effort and hard cash that we spend worldwide each year worshipping and appeasing make - believe deities of one kind or another were instead funneled into something tangible and worthwhile, like reducing poverty, improving education or protecting the environment.

raised a catholic, spent nine years in a catholic school... hardest i've ever been hit was by a third grade nun..

While most Americans spend their Labor Day weekend savoring the last moments of summer vacation, political scientists are normally hard at work at their annual association meeting, held this year in Seattle.

It's hard to believe that it's been five years since my son, Stephen, and I spent two months in Rome — all of Lent and Easter Week — preparing a book that would allow readers to make the city's ancient Lenten station church pilgrimage at home.

Besides, Sephardic Jews are a group who spent a long period of time in the Iberian peninsula (until getting kicked out 1500 - ish), so it's hard to say that modern Sephardic Jews can be used as a baseline when trying to determine the «whiteness» of a Jew who lived 2000 years ago in a totally different place.

Santa Claus is part of a Indocrination program that has been on - going from 500 years ago to maintain the status quo of white supremacy, people grow up totally conflicted when they realize their hard earned dollars is the real Santa claus that they willingly spend and too their kids continue to support the Lie.

It's hard to give up certain doctrines or ways of thinking that you spent over 30 years believing to be true.

my adrenal gland continually pumps... i spent a whole year unable to leave the house 10 years ago and although much better these days have to go very carefully sometimes... it's hard to be kind to myself, i'm impatient and get easily depressed.

Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being more funding, and more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing more than a job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...

«Instead of spending # 250million of Scots taxpayers» cash a year on nuclear weapons, we can invest in a transformational increase in free childcare, to save hard - pressed families tens of thousands of pounds and give our children a better start in life.»

I'd been thinking about buying some kind of Canon 5D for a couple of years, but I had a hard time committing to spending that kind of money on something that will soon go obsolete.

«From the early days spent travelling from the Riverina region to far North Queensland selling their locally produced wine, to the incredible 12.5 million cases we now produce every year, our family business is a heroic tail of success that is testament to my parents» determination and hard work from the beginning,» he added.

I have made my decision years ago not to spend a penny on AFC until the ownership shows desire to win or get changed, Arsenal keep selling tickets though and making that profit because others have blindly handed over their hard earned cash.

To be fair the draw has not been too hard on Arsenal this year, although it will still be tough to beat the big spending French champions PSG into first place.

He spends a lot of time in the off - season with his five - year - old son, Patrick Ewing Jr., but the youngster lives in Boston with his mother, and it's hard for Ewing to see him during the season.

It's hard to penetrate the curtain he draws over his life for the five years he spent in Southeast Asia preceding the breakdown of his health.

After a year spent explaining his decision to ditch Oklahoma City for the Bay, he seems talked out by this point and it's hard to blame him.

Man United, although I despise them too, I have major respect for them because like us, all the money they are spending is not from a the pockets of a sugar daddy, but earned over the years of success, also built upon hard work and dedication.

Citeh and Chelski have been over paying for years which sadly sets the benchmark for pricing... so either we match them which ee cant or we have to be more clever in transfer market which is getting harder each year when even Everton are spending big!

no way wenger was gonna swallow his pride and bring him back, beating monoco is going to stretch our season, making an injured team harder to achieve 4th place, i think this year could be wengers first time out of top 4, unless he spends in january, and he never finds what he seems to want in january... first time i say, i see trouble on the horizon, seems our only durable players are Per and Santi,

The 20 - year - old has found it hard to get regular football with the Blaugrana, but technical secretary Robert Fernandez has made it clear that the player will be spending another campaign at the Nou Camp.

It's a lot harder to account for every last penny that the thousands of new fans will spend over the next 30 years.

The only «cold hard facts» available suggest Chelsea and Man City have deeper squads and are rightfully favourites and if we had spent as much as them for the past 5 years we would be up there too — but we haven't and we aren't.

I wonder what Arsenal could be with an owner that is a die hard fan, always in the stands and spends money on class players year after year to finally compliment this 5 star stadium that we built.

It is hard to believe that Sterling is just 22 considering that he has spent 5 years at Liverpool and Man City already, and has made 32 appearances for the England team.

BUT we have to remember with the spending splurges of the last couple years and the cap hell most teams are in because of it, it's going to be hard for a team that could use a Joe Harris (a mid / top end second unit player that give offense off the bench) and spend that kind of money on him.

«I've spent eight years shaping this team and it would be hard to adjust to struggling to win,» says Nelson, who has a 374 - 264 regular - season record.

I would like to meet 1 yes 1 Arsenal fan who is behind Wenger he's a blatant liar, and I predict this is the end for him, we may win a few games this year but we are an embarrassment, how can a manager turn down Balotelli Remy Vela and then agree to Welbeck I'm lost for words, wil will suffer this year, I don't blame welbeck he's a genuine lad who works hard but he's not a CF who will bang in 25 there are teams who are better then us and I hate to say it but City Chelsea Liverpool Even Man U at the end of this window will be better Then Everton Lukaka Swansea Bomy I'm devastated this is the worst ever time as a gunner at least I forgave him when we built the ground but now we have No excuse I will not be spending # 250 to travel to see them this season

Obviously it is hard to give this too good a long - term score, but his incredibly extensive southern ties (virtually every year of his 35 + year coaching career has been spent at a Southern school, from The Citadel, to East Carolina, to South Carolina) make this feel like a solid hire regardless.

If we spend 50 - 60 millions in this 2 players we will be able to win the EPL and give hard time to Barca plus looking into the future to have a team ready to fight against City for seasons to come... dear gooners, all the best players will want to play for PEP and then they will dominate EPL for years to come plus the so called middle table teams will get harder to beat..

... AKBs and their definition for success and why that potato head should continue turning the club to a laughing stock... i get so confused when some people will stay in the most competitive league in the world and still be happy to just compete for top four... even the sick manager is thinking about a «top four» like the whole years of embarrassment has not been enough especially for fans who spend their hard earned money to watch home games as well as buy club apparels...