Sentences with phrase «intense struggle on»

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One of the founders of the family - owned and operated Missouri Star Quilt Company reflects on moments of intense struggle — and serious doubt.

Not surprisingly, given the intense focus on it of late by politicians and also other tech companies, Zuckerberg also discussed Facebook's struggle with what he called «fake news» and «filter bubbles,» defending social media for providing «more diverse viewpoints than traditional media ever has.»

It is not surprising that the slums in our cities, where there is an intense struggle for basic necessities, have become scenes of violent conflict, M.N. Srinivas, the eminent sociologist, observes «The richest soil for communal frenzy to build on is poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and slum — like conditions — all of which are m plenty in urban India» (India Today, January 16 - 31, 1993).

I wasn't struggling, I wasn't experiencing an intense urge and life seemed to be on a great path.

Although there are people in Los Angeles who are struggling tremendously, we don't know intense poverty and pain like the untouchables do in India or the children orphaned and living on the streets of Zambia or Brazil.

However, in light of Chelsea's recent struggles in the Premier League — the Pensioners sit 16th on 11 points after 12 matches, having only won three games — has prompted intense speculation about Mourinho's future.

He argues that prebendalism is the most appropriate conceptual notion for explaining Nigeria's politicians intense and persistent struggle to control and exploit the offices of the state and defines prebendalism in terms of «the historical association of the term «prebend» with the offices of certain feudal states which could be obtained through services rendered to a lord or monarch or through outright purchase by supplicants... the adjective «prebendal» will refer to patterns of political behaviour which rest on the justifying principle that such offices should be competed for and then utilised for the personal benefit of office holders as well as their reference or support group.

A lot of people struggle with barbell rows because of lower back problems, so I normally don't recommend that people try to max out on such an intense exercise.

A period drama set in post-World War II Mississippi, based on a novel of the same name by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound tells the story of two men — one African American, one white — returning home from the war to go to work on a rural Mississippi farm, each struggling to readjust to the realities of American life, including the intense racism of the period.

The dark brooding and intense scenes of the Dark Knight are great but that movie is an epic struggle that pit's Batman's internal baggage against that of a maniacal psycho bent on watching the world burn using Gotham as a back drop.

Based on the premises alone, it would appear that their two collaborations seem completely unrelated; however both focus on intense men who are obsessed with success and struggle outside of their professional lives.

First, there's Geoffrey (1938), a young and naïve schoolteacher who enlists during WWII -LRB-»... there would be, he imagined, an intense but brief struggle in Europe») only to find himself in Nazi - occupied Poland in an unspeakable situation; Billy (1859), an industrious Englishman who works his way out of poverty and gets caught in a love triangle; Elena (2029), an Italian scientist whose ground - breaking work in the field of human consciousness doesn't seem to eliminate her loneliness; Jeanne (1822), a simple - minded French servant who comes to know God and embraces change; and Anya (1971), an American, Joplin-esque musician whose talent and thirst for freedom send her on a glorious yet self - destructive path.

Each book is the unique, quirky creation of a lonely, intense, and often expensive struggle on the part of a single individual, a person whose living depends on his or her book finding readers.

I have gone through force - fetch training with other dogs of mine, and to be honest, have really struggled with the intense pressure put on the my dog.

We've already lifted the lid on the first two modes, Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch, and just last week at an event in San Francisco we revealed the title's last multiplayer mode, Survival Mode, an intense power struggle between humans and the gruesome Chimera.

What / Why: «Struggling to secure his reputation as a great American artist, Samuel F. B. Morse sailed to Europe in 1829, and embarked on a period of intense study and prodigious copying of great works of art that culminated in his grand painting Gallery of the Louvre (1831 — 33).

Not surprisingly, given the intense focus on it of late by politicians and also other tech companies, Zuckerberg also discussed Facebook's struggle with what he called «fake news» and «filter bubbles,» defending social media for providing «more diverse viewpoints than traditional media ever has.»

We've all been there — the seemingly endless hours of toil, the struggle and intense focus, the attention to every detail both large and small, the tweaks and rewrites based on multiple rounds of feedback and criticism from everyone who was ever important to us in our lives... until as close of a version of perfection is achieved.

But let a bigger, more intense situation happen, like questioning the impact your divorce will have on your kids, to healing from abusive situations, struggling to eat and keep down your meals everyday or coping with panic attacks, and you may feel anxiety, stress, and depression all at once.

«Her screams, her struggles to evade the whip, the marks of the whip arising on her body, all give me a feeling of male power and exultation that swells my love and devotion towards my sweetheart a hundredfold and makes out love - life more intense and impulsive.