Sentences with phrase «hardest challenge of my life»

«I will say that [losing 50 pounds] was the hardest challenge of my life.

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For black men, though, the challenges of the corporate life are daunting at least in part because they are sometimes hard to pin down — influenced as much by age - old prejudice as by cultural preconceptions, the subtleties of psychology, and the weight of human history (more on that soon).

Thus Evangelical Catholicism challenges the proscription - centered understanding of the moral life into which both Catholic traditionalists (who insist on hard - and - fast rules, and lots of them) and Catholic progressives (who want to loosen the rules, to the point where they often disappear) are stuck.

An ongoing challenge for church and clergy is to sufficiently establish the significance of scripture in the hearts and minds of believers so that they will attempt the hard work, the life's work, of seeking to understand the Word made Book.

Unless, that is, our essentially middle - class life style is challenged by the poverty and oppression which is the lot of most of humankind, and we confront the hard truth that the issue is not reform of the welfare system, no matter how much that is needed, but the end of a capitalist economic order which increasingly divides the world into those who have and those who have not.

The karate instructor tells Randall, «We are your community... when things get hard, we will be the ones to hold you up,» pointing to the responsibility of every dad in the room to showcase their strength and love to their sons by carrying them through life's challenges.

When a friend is diagnosed with cancer, raising kids is a challenge, God seems distant, or life is hard, this kind of worship can seem irrelevant and disconnected from everyday life.

can't imagine any country without sick, elderly, retarded, disabled, mentally challenged, addictive personality types (20 % of humanity), discriminated, etc etc living amongs those of us that are «fortunate» enough to be both hard working and have jobs or job opportunities (oops fewer and fewer as the «greedy» capitalist does what they have to do for an even bigger yacht) that actually pays enough for basic needs for oneself... and again «lucky» if it pays enough to support any offspring's needs as well.

* To relish and build on those fragments of insight and wisdom you have acquired by hard experience — this is the challenge of the interior life in the mid-years.

Its interesting account of the poiesiso f Christian life (pages 61 - 68) does not focus on the challenging but rewarding hard work of reviving authentic Christian Culture as service - and - challenge to the contemporary «cultural desert».

(ugh, the life of a blogger is so challenging) but since I worked so hard and ate so well, I deserve chocolate (dark 80 % Yes, please!

To add to the challenge of both hubby and I having no living parents ourselves and a kid with special needs is enough to crack even the hardest nut.

Many men identify fathering as something which is active, challenging, creative, irreplaceable, hard work and a central part of their life, regardless of their family situation.

It is now recognised that many men identify fathering as something which is active, challenging, creative, irreplaceable, hard work and a central part of their life, regardless of their family situation.

«When Success Leads to Failure,» The Atlantic «The Gift of Failure,» New York Times «If Your Kid Left His Term Paper At Home, Don't Bring It To Him» New York Magazine «Books That Changed My Mind This Year,» Fortune «New Book Suggests Parents Learn to Let Kids Fail,» USA Today «7 Rules for Raising Self - Reliant Children,» Forbes «Before You Let Your Child Fail, Read This,» Huffington Post «How Schools Are Handling an Overparenting Crisis,» NPR «Why Failure Hits Girls So Hard,» Time «The Value of a Mess,» Slate «4 Reasons Why Every Educator Should Read «The Gift of Failure,»» Inside Higher Ed «Why We Should Let Our Children Fail,» The Guardian (UK) «Shelly's Bookworms: The Gift of Failure,» WFAA Dallas «Why I Don't Want My Kids to be Lazy Like Me,» Yahoo Parenting «Jessica Lahey,» Celia Walden for The Telegraph (UK) «How to To Give Your Child The Gift of Failure,» Huffington Post «The Gift of Failure,» Doug Fabrizio, Radio West «In the Author's Voice: The Gift of Failure,» WISU / NPR «The Gift of Failure,» The Good Life Project «Giving Our Children the Gift of Failure,» ScaryMommy «Lyme Resident's Book Challenges Parents and Kids on Failure,» Valley News «The Gift of Failure,» The Jewish Press

For this month's Green Moms» Carnival, Beth of Fake Plastic Fish challenged the Green Moms to write about a «Day in the Life,» reflecting on the «green steps we take as well as the green challenges we face and the hard decisions we have to make.»

After my post «To spank, or not to spank» was published on APtly Said, my friend Ingrid and I had a conversation about the challenges of raising kids and how difficult it is at times to discipline them in a positive way — moreover, how hard it is to keep our composure, especially when we are distressed with other matters in our lives.

«Our city's annual loss of $ 307 million to preventable subway delays is a critical derailment of the economic lives of many businesses and New Yorkers, particularly those from economically challenged communities who feel any hit to their wallet harder than those with access to alternate commuting options,» said Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, who requested the study.

The challenging times we live in whereby multiple agencies with varying levels of jurisdiction often make it hard for dispatchers process the inundation of calls that occur when a crisis arises.

Measuring the activity of transporter proteins in a living organism has been a challenge for scientists, because the methods are difficult, often require the use of radioactive tracers, and are hard to use in intact tissues and organs.

Life after baby is full of challenges that can make losing weight harder than ever before, says Nur Akalin, Quebec territory manager for Weight Watchers.

Knowing exactly what to buy that'll flatter your shape can be one of life's hardest challenges; especially if you're a busy working mom, with limited time to spare.

I definitely had the most weirdest, challenging, transformative and hardest year of my life, but at the same time I had the most versatile, beautiful, magical and self - growth year ever!

Your goals: Planning ahead, working hard and motivating yourself to accomplish your personal goals are some of life's most rewarding challenges.

In honor of those hard - working (real - life) acting teachers who inspired, challenged, and motivated us all, here are 11 fictional acting teachers who we can not forget!

Not only does Jai Courtney (star of films like Divergent and Die Hard 5) have an iconic character to live up to, he also has to recapture Reese's iconic 1980s look (duster jacket, Nike shoes, etc.), and as we found out while visiting the Terminator Genisys set, the performance was nowhere near the challenge as getting the costuming just right.

It's hard to think of a Pixar production, even among the feebler ones, that doesn't offer at least one significant breakthrough or refinement in terms of a specific visual challenge: water in Finding Nemo, the organic - metallic sheen of insect wings in A Bug's Life, fur in Monsters, Inc., the color red in The Incredibles...

Moving out of the laid back town environment and into the challenge of real - time combat within the dungeons was a little jarring, but it also helped to articulate the dual nature of the life Will is leading: It's hard to be both an action hero and a mild - mannered shopkeeper.

The pupils were part of the Welsh government's Schools Challenge Cymru initiative, designed to give «hard working and aspirational students from non-privileged backgrounds a rare insight into working life in the City».

Family Picnic & Quiz Piggy Pairs Numbers Game Against the clock Squares Count Pyramid Puzzle (easy, Medium, Hard) Colour your own sums Counting the Pennies Holiday Money Number Line Counting Let's use Tally (Farmyard Task) Time for Bingo (Bingo & Caller cards included) and the Subtraction workbook includes: Difference Dots Fruit & Vet Sale Less than 2 minutes Saturday Night Take Away Subtraction Squares (Easy - Medium - Hard) The Washing Line Lets Go Bowling Lets Bowl Game Subtraction in Space (Easy - Medium - Hard) Dice Cream Game Real Life Sums Double Decker Bus Time For Bingo The Multiplication workbook includes a range of tasks and activities that works well with smart board or interactive technology... i.e King Fred the frog, Mum's shopping trip or even «a day in the garden»... Functional Skills Challenge Workbook - Division will be available soon.

These are incredibly hard questions — but they really do make up the daily warp and woof of life as a teacher, and I invite you to join me in this inquiry into the impossible, but also essential, challenges of teaching.

Dedicated teachers and staff at Glendale Middle School in Utah show how hard work and a boundless belief in students can raise achievement in an environment where most of the students live in poverty and many have enormous challenges in their home lives to overcome.

They know that when tasks help students make sense of important ideas, are highly relevant to students» life experiences, and are designed at a moderate level of challenge, students are willing to do the hard work that is the hallmark of excellence.

I know I'd be hard pressed to find somebody writing a book with all of my same life challenges to relate to, but Gretchen's life seemed pretty bland to need to reflect on finding happiness.

Revision is the hardest and it's a huge challenge to juggle the focus it requires with the tugs of life.

Is there a way out or are you trapped forever?Set in the mid-twentieth century South Africa amidst the bitter three - way struggle for dominion between the Boers, British, and black South Africans, An Examined Life is a tale of extraordinary courage shown by a remarkable white man, who dared to challenge the status quo, forsaking everything he had worked so hard to achieve, and what most people would hold dear above everything else.

RF: It's so delayed, and it's hard because when you're 18, it's probably harder to deal with that challenge of going to Cuyamaca, versus when you're 25 and you're living on ramen still, when you think that you should be having this great career and you can't afford anything.

At one point in life, most of us have had the experience of getting a dog that we found so challenging to train.Such dogs are hard to teach, and don't -LSB-...]

Our very own Maddie's ® Professor of Shelter Medicine, Dr. Julie Levy, has been hard at work alongside Dr. Kate Hurley and the team at UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program on the Million Cat Challenge, a new initiative that challenges shelters across North America to save the lives of 1 million cats over the next 5 years.

Rescued from the property of NFL quarterback Michael Vick, Meryl has worked hard to overcome challenges from her painful former life.

It'll be hard to live up to that level this time around — and a challenge considering just how many types of gameplay styles Fares has planned.

Alongside Solo Tournaments, Solo Challenges offer a variety of fight scenarios against real - life UFC fighters and each one offers an increasing number of coins depending on the difficulty (normal, hard or insane) you choose.

Be warned, though - Hard Corps really does live up to its title and offers up some of the toughest challenges in any Contra game.

Renowned for her challenging optical and hard - edged abstract paintings, Edna Andrade (1917 - 2008) lived and worked in Philadelphia beginning from the time she was a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Clark - whose early work challenged fantasies of a wholesome postwar America with hard, often graphic images from his personal life - is

At one end of the first floor is the challenging retrospective by hard - to - parse Isa Genzken, while closer to the main entrance is the newest exhibition, «Bouquets: French Still Life Painting From Chardin to Matisse.»

It makes this all seem a lot harder — the challenge of decarbonizing a global energy economy as we head toward 9 billion people seeking better lives — but I think it's doable.

And while it's hard not to detect a slight smell of cheese throughout, by splicing in real - life news reports of oil spills, air pollution, and scenes of climate change, it seems that such a revamping of the 20 - year - old television show would actually be quite relevant in light of the environmental challenges we face today.

Survivors of the most severe injuries — including spinal cord injuries — will face hard challenges adjusting to life with a permanent disability.

In fact, it's because of cases just like these that we've worked so hard to develop relationships with dozens of highly rated life insurance companies so that when we are presented with a more «challenging» life insurance application that those from artificial heart valve applicants, we don't have to simply rely on just one or two different life insurance companies, we can «shop» your life insurance application to dozens of different insurance companies and let them compete for your business!