Sentences with phrase «into tough year»

It has turned into a tough year for Ruf, who just resigned from her position as director of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, in the midst of alleged conflicts of interest between her institutional role and her broader activities as an adviser.

Not exact matches

Alan Bishop has spent 40 years building insurance broker EBM into a national player and worked through many business cycles over that time, but arguably none as tough as the current conditions in Western Australia.

But it was her turn as the tough - talking princess who defies the Evil Empire in «Star Wars» two years later that rocketed her into fame and turned her into a feminist icon at the tender age of 19.

There's no saying the Sixers» plan won't work, but to go from a lottery team to a championship contender in three years is pretty tough unless someone the Sixers have drafted turns into a bonafide superstar very quickly.

Last year I went to a huge multi-day event featuring more than 50 main speakers, dozens of seminar speakers, a wide variety of breakout sessions and workshops... fitting everything into a schedule was almost as tough as getting all the schwag into my carry - on.

«They put their deposit down four or five years ago and then they're ready to register the unit and get a mortgage and they're walking into tough times,» a Toronto broker told industry website Mortgagebrokernews.ca last month.

It's tough imagining what life will be like 30 - years into the future after you've worked to build your retirement portfolio.

The decision is designed to bring early years settings into line with similar tough measures in schools.

This time last year, the assumption was that Zimmermann would end up with a deal similar to whatever Jon Lester signed, but a tough 2015 season cut into his price just enough so that he was «only» able to pull in $ 22 million per season over five years.

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.

Wenger could have walked into any other club to be their manager in 2006, but he stayed to help us through the tough years, yet some fans don't appreciate that.

Thirty years after Slap Shot vaulted three minor league tough guys into hockey immortality, they're still playing their parts.

Second, all I hope is that we come out with a really solid roster of young, hungry, tough prospects that will take a few years to gel and get molded into a great team that's built to last season after season with a great core (like Pitt, ugh, Nash, TB, etc).

N'Zonzi is a tough tackling hard defensive midfielder and considering that Granit Xhaka has not really settled into the role for Arsenal, it would not be a surprise that Wenger is looking for an alternative for the New Year.

Boise State made it into the bracket after coming out of the tough Mountain West despite double - digit losses on the year.

When Ozil arrived Khedira missed him more so than anyone and at time it was said he would follow a year later which i believed to some extent... im sure he must of thought it through, but then the cl medal and his team being most feared came into thinking if he hadnt of already had those train of thoughts in first place that is... And now with a serious injury and his age risen moving to a league which has a reputation for shorter careers and higher physicality must come into his thinking no matter how tough he thinks he is.

UCLA Tough to see how Bruins rebound after turning 6 - 0 start last year into 7 - 4, especially with a young defense.

After winning the double last year, and earning promotion into the Northern 1A it's been a tough start to the season for our men's lacrosse team.

The 20 - year - old featured in cup competitions last year as he threatened to break into Wenger's squad, but ultimately he's found it tough going this time round and like Akpom, he'll hope to use his loan spell abroad to gain experience and come back a stronger player.

The 28 year - old has just over 18 months remaining on his current contract, and is said to have been told that he will not be offered a new one unless he can prove he is deserving of one, and with him currently struggling to break into the starting line - up, that may well prove too tough to achieve.

Quarterback Jimmy Harris, a «raw sophomore,» stepped into the breach last year when Gene Calame was injured, and drove the team to victory over unexpected tough opposition against TCU and Texas.

We don't go into these tough games confident of victory like we did 10/15 years ago.

«We need to turn these draws into wins... But in years gone by, this is a very tough place for us to play and we managed to get a result today.»

Sergi, an 18 - year - old senior at College Park High, breezed into the 138 - pound championship match at the California Interscholastic Federation championship tournament without too much difficulty, in a tough weight class, in one of the 4 - 5 toughest state wrestling tournaments in the country.

I'm not sure how well a move to the Dutch second - tier will help Nwakali make it into the senior Super Eagles side, but with regular first - team action, I'm sure he will get the opportunity to gain tougher experience next year, while we await his work permit.

If we get back into the top four and qualify for the Champions League I can see the Frenchman saying that is good and that our failure to do so this year just proves how tough and competitive the league is.

So this year, English champions Manchester City went into pot 2 of the draw, making a tougher draw more likely, while third - placed Chelsea and fourth - placed Arsenal went into pot 1 and so were protected from being drawn against the other seven biggest sides.

After establishing a two - year tradition of starting slow and finishing fast, Chicago's rough and tough hockey players have suddenly blossomed into an outfit that starts fast and may finish the same way

In Game 5 of this year's NBA championship quarterfinals, when loathed New York Knick center Patrick Ewing fouled out with just over three minutes left to play, the Chicago crowd roared so loudly, venting all its resentment of those frighteningly tough New Yorkers while the P.A. system blared «Hit the Road, Jack», that the sound raged beyond vibration into pure inner - ear hurt.

After last year saw them face a tough Liverpool 1st team early on in the campaign, the team are going into this year's competition with the aim to recover that title.

Placing Ox on the left side... another classic Wenger positional switcheroo... for the love of god can anyone tell me one positive that has come as a result of Wenger playing guys out of position in the last 6 or 7 years... I'll tell you, Cazorla playing a little deeper than he previously had and Ox last year as the right - side wing - back... he can't pass properly on the left and he is far more ineffective driving to the end line... the manager needs to make the tough decisions, either you play Bellerin or Ox on the right and the other becomes the back - up, get rid of one of the two or get rid of both of them and buy a top - class player who would be an everyday starter then develop a younger player behind him... no wonder he wants to leave... square peg into a round hole (same old, same old)

To be fair to the boss, if Ramsey had been performing and banging in the goals from the middle like he was a couple of years ago, the decision would have been tougher, but injury problems and a loss of form meant that Ramsey was not the killer he had been, while the Spaniard's creative stats have spoken for themselves since Wenger dropped him into a deeper role.

lies after lies, and top four this year its gonna be tough as hell, we would be lucky to get into top four clubs, this year its gonna be realy success!!!

Juve won't go into a tie with Barca with any fear, but it will be an incredibly tough task to knock them out at this stage two years running.

I hope they see it through but it's going to be tough to put those 18 and 20 year olds from the academy into the first team knowing, as we've found, that they're 2 or 3 years away from the level we would want and it could cost you points.

In line to make his landmark mark for Wigan on Saturday, the 27 year old explained how his tough initiation into English football was one of the main factors in him reaching the unique milestone.

Paul Tough's last book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, spent more than a year on the New York Times hardcover and paperback best - seller lists and was translated into 27 languages.

Paul Tough writes about education, parenting, poverty, and politics for various publications in the U.S.. His book How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, was translated into 27 languages and spent more than a year on the New York Times best - seller list.

2016 has been a tough year, but I did not realize it was because we were actually living in a broadcast season of American Horror Story until news came out that a group of creepy clowns has been trying to lure children into the woods near an apartment complex in South Carolina.

The Tough Starts Series Package equips parents with insight into how their child's tough start in life may lead to troubling behavior years later and teaches parents how to intercede and help the child Tough Starts Series Package equips parents with insight into how their child's tough start in life may lead to troubling behavior years later and teaches parents how to intercede and help the child tough start in life may lead to troubling behavior years later and teaches parents how to intercede and help the child heal.

But last year, crowding at the Rolling Meadows ice arena forced her into a pace that even a veteran skating mom had a tough time accepting.

My next oldest is graduating this year with a pre-med degree in BioMedical Sciences before heading into med school, but even with an incredibly tough university schedule he takes the time each week to go to a local teen hang - out spot and work in an outreach ministry he created and has been building for the last year.

More broadly, this tactic reminded me of what folks from the abortive Mark Warner presidential campaign said a couple of years ago about his appearance in Second Life: very few people actually saw Warner there, but many more talked about it, and they talked about it on tech sites and gaming sites that are normally tough to break into.

«The hallmark of his career is the bill that put some really tough standards into financial institutions — banks, security firms, insurance — to make sure that what happened a few years ago doesn't happen again, and I think that's how he'll best be remembered,» the senator replied.

He admitted it would be «tough» for those organisations to get their finances into shape but said SHAs had agreed to repay # 200 million in debts last year.

They've forestalled any tough decisions, and made Rick Lazio's life more difficult when he's elected governor next year because they refuse to take any serious actions and make any tough decisions,» Fullington says while looking earnestly into the camera.

«The Legislature and the governor are going to have to make some very tough decisions on spending as we head into the budget cycle next year,» DiNapoli said.

The Town of Olive, which has had the same Democratic town supervisor, Berndt Leifeld, for 24 years now, is about to enter into its wildest political season perhaps in decades, and at least in this century, with all eyes currently on a tough Democratic Party caucus on July 11 at the town meeting hall on Bostock Road in Shokan.

Indeed, when the U.K. government considered repealing Section 24 more than 10 years ago, then — Science Minister David Sainsbury said the biggest concern was «the question of penalties for people who improperly put that information into the public domain» and taking a tough stance against «animal terrorism.»

Testing the model has been tough because groupings of stars at distances of 8 billion to 11 billion light - years away from us are so faint that they tend to vanish into the background glow of Earth's atmosphere.