Sentences with phrase «harder than in past»

If you're shopping for a new credit card — and you tend to carry a balance — finding a low - interest rate card can be harder than in the past, but they are still out there.

We must try harder than in the past to understand the perspectives and needs of the non-Jewish (principally Christian) majority.

last January, CEO Reed Hastings didn't do much to assuage those fears when he said, «Our high penetration in the U.S. seems to be making net additions harder than in the past.»

«Our high penetration in the U.S. seems to be making net additions harder than in the past,» the company said in a quarterly letter to shareholders.

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.

Not exact matches

The slowing economy has hit smaller accounting firms harder than the big players, judging by revenue data released over the past month, with practices in Western Australia affected more than those in other states.

At Egon Zehnder, we have learned in much of our work with many of the leading Chinese tech giants and startup unicorns what type of talent is likely to thrive in China, which prioritizes the more nuanced «soft» skills of adaptability, flexibility, and potential rather than simply the «hard» skills of language fluency and past work experiences.

Airline workers also work much harder than they did in the past; the industry had the second highest multifactor productivity growth from 1997 through 2014, according to an analysis by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

That is one reason why (as the briefing explains) it will be harder to take a billion more people out of extreme poverty in the next 20 years than it was to take almost a billion out in the past 20.

One reason that lenders were so hard on applicants in the past is that they had more business than they could handle.

«My fear is that Treasury yields fell so much in the past year that if they continue to rise,» he added, «their prices will fall much harder than those of investment - grade corporate ETFs.»

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Now in the past, I've always made a distinction between the complementarianism of groups like The Gospel Coalition and the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood and the hard patriarchy of groups likeVision Forum and the FIC Movement, assuming that the latter was much more legalistic and patriarchal than the former.

So, too, the seminary, where we must look harder and more critically than we have in the past at applicants who are clearly seeking not a theological education but in fact the cave.

But with Le Prof now working harder than ever and finally looking like he is willing to splash the cash in order to win the title, perhaps Arsenal fans can all finally forget the past and get behind the team.

If the borderland remains its protean self, in one respect it's as hard as a barrier can be: While Juàrez becomes an ever more Hobbesian hell of drug violence, in which more than 8,000 people have been murdered over the past three years, El Paso remains virtually immune.

Wenger is of the opinion that teams that come up from the Championship nowadays are a lot harder to beat than they used to be in the past.

This really is a testament to all the hard work that has gone in to making the polo club what it is today, one which is bigger and better than it ever has been, and we would like to thank you all for the support that has been given to the Club over the past few years, and particularly this year.

Like you, we try hard to minimize waste, yet I know there are three beets sitting lonely and dejected in my fridge than are past time to go.

I've said in the past how the school holidays are actually harder than I thought they would be; not with the kids one on one but definitely with them both together.

, and the baby «s head is bigger than my boob, its fine (laughs) my everything is fine and I remember just lifting up my shirt you know my son was underneath of this very light receiving blanket, I remember lifting up my shirt and I was like, for up untilnow and for this past 6 weeks I had really been helping him to latch on and stufflike that and because I was making sure the blanket wasn't falling off the next thing I knew he latched on all by himself and I was like, «oh my gosh», and I waslike we have arrived (laughs) and ever since then I was totally not nearly as hard as I thought it was going to be but I actually needed my 6 weeks old son to show me that we knew what we were doing because clearly I was not confident enough yet but that was 6 1/2 years ago and it still really stick in my mind.

Although having to go through IVF and gestational diabetes and 2 c - sections and Joey's NICU / nursery stays and both kids self weaning were all huge emotional and physical traumas for me (and my husband), now that they're in the past and I'm a mommy to two amazing toddlers, I can see that it all worked out how it was supposed to.And my advice to all new mothers who hope / plan to nurse take a breastfeeding class when pregnant, have a breastpump in the house before the baby is born, buy nursing bras that have front panels that you can open easily (and bring some to the hospital with you when you go to give birth), don't be afraid to pump and let someone else give the baby a bottle of your milk when you need to sleep, hold off on introducing baby food until much closer to 1 year old than 6 ohtnms, and be prepared for it to be hard and possibly painful at first (think cracked, bleeding nipples and breasts that are so full of milk you think they will explode so also have lanolin and / or nipple cream in the house, and nurse or pump well before you let yourself become engorged and in pain).

Sitting here two days past the shooting of a congressmember and the murder of six people standing near her, it's hard not to think that a public discourse dripping with contempt for public service has played a role in more crimes than one.

If in the past the NPP tried desperately to create the false impression that no development is taking place under the watch of President Mahama and the NDC administration; the chickens are now home roosting and no less a person than Dr. Bawumia has acknowledged the fact that President Mahama is working very hard to improve the nation's infrastructure base.

If the future of fiscal squeeze follows the pattern of the past, we can expect future squeezes to continue to bite harder on the spending than on the revenue element, to be orchestrated and planned within the central administrative apparatus rather than by outside commissions, and for the pain to be spread over longer periods with lower annual falls, rather than in sudden steep cuts.

Or is there something about the way that modern state spending is set up (for example through long - term contracts with private suppliers, or through its changing composition across policy domains) that makes it harder than it might have been in the past to put the brakes on quickly?

«Some of them have been small, others large, but together they have turned the party inwards rather than outwards, looking to the past rather than to new ideas, resting on easy rhetoric rather than taking hard decisions — and above all seeking to distance ourselves from our time in government, rather than building on it, in terms of both policy content and political culture and dynamic.»

The heavy rain and high winds hit hardest in the southeastern and northwestern sections of the county, raising creeks well past flood stage and rendering more than 80 roads impassible, though that number dwindled to about a dozen on Wednesday.

Some of them, of course, have a worthy past, and a few of them work hard and take home less in expenses than they could for a senior political job on their local council.

Climate change is occurring 10 to 100 times faster than in the past and ecosystems will find it hard to adjust

It is hard to show leniency and maintain legitimacy in the public eye when you're dealing with a repeat offender, and judges are seeing more of them than they have in the past,» he said.

Liberia has been especially hard - hit with more than 3,500 infections and 2,000 deaths in the past three months.

I have done other aerobic training in the past, but this felt a harder than I expected.

Maybe I am just seeing more out there than I have in the past, but I am having a hard time passing one up when I see it.

In the past year, we've hired more than 30 team members — they are a phenomenal group of truly sweet and hard - working people.

I'm on year four of my day - by - day five year memory book, and find it hard to believe that a blogger dinner at Crios or a weekend spent with friends, both of which feel like they happened last week, are now more than a year in the past.

Me and Eugene (I'm finally mentioning my boyfriend's name) spent the past week in Spain and it was just so dreamy and peaceful, that coming back to rainy Germany was harder than I would have thought.

And in the world we live in, where social media presents a far fuller picture of a stranger than you would have ever seen in the past, it's not hard to get over-excited.

Nothing more sad than seeing a guy try too hard to cling to a look from his distant past, (i.e. No guy past twelve years old should have a baseball cap on backwards) or high - waisted, stone - washed jeans with the shirt tucked in!

It's hard to imagine leaving 2017 in the past; however, when it comes to an unsuccessful love life, we can hope for nothing more than that in the coming year.

Why «The Revenant» was hard for me; Joanna Coates and Daniel Metz on «Amorous»; Scorsese's «The Age of Innocence»; Horror films are scarier than in the past; Teaching VR filmmaking.

Sure, it does more for your eyes and ears than your heart and head, but appealing musical cinema has been hard enough to find in the past several decades that you're bound to appreciate this even while acknowledging its obvious limitations.

Bananas can be used as shields to break homing items such as Red Shells; however, they can not be dragged behind the kart like in past games, making this technique harder to execute than before.

When: May 4th Why: It's hard to imagine a better piece of counterprogramming to «The Avengers» than this John Madden dramedy, because although studios have typically put a chick flick up against a surefire blockbuster to lure female moviegoers in the past, «The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel» is a film that both sexes can enjoy.

With the revamped Infinity Engine, all of the clips and hard - hitting tackles have more realism and heft than in past games.

While certainly not in the same league as past John McClane adventures, «Live Free or Die Hard» works in more ways than one, and with the exception of a crappy title (what happened to «Die Hard 4.0»?)

I think this was the hardest I laughed at a horror comedy since Zombieland, and while I won't say Hell Baby is on the same level that Zombieland is, I will 100 % admit that it was a whole hell of a lot funnier and more creative than any spoof movie to come out in the past 15 or so years.

In the past, a majority of voters have sided with charter opponents, who have argued charters haven't proved to be better than other public schools, would drain money from them and leave them with the harder - to - educate kids.

Schools that pay attention to eye - opening statistics like these realize that students living in our knowledge - rich society learn differently than they did in past decades when knowledge was harder to obtain.

Some observers doubt the trigger will ever be tried (or succeed) in LAUSD, given the past two years of struggle: «It is hard for me to believe that it will go much further than it has,» said one longtime education journalist via email on Friday, calling it «a waste of time, energy and money.»