Sentences with phrase «long years of struggle»

It can remind us that those who so cherished liberty for themselves were willing to enslave and exploit others; that a civil war and long years of struggle were required before the nation legally ended slavery, segregation and discrimination and attempted to redress the harm done to the conquered native people.

Not exact matches

Long associated with older industries, Osaka has struggled to get out of the shadow of Tokyo as a start - up hub, but it has upped its game in recent years with new start - up investment funds, downtown university campuses, incubators and pitch events.

McDonald's (MCD) is having a devil of time breaking a three - year funk, but the struggling restaurant chain thinks that tactics like toasting buns longer and changing how it sears its burgers could very well be the moves that put the iconic burger chain back on the path to growth.

With speculation mounting that Twitter (twtr) will soon have a new corporate owner, the 10 - year - old social networking service — which has long struggled to define its core purpose — may end up heading in one of several distinctly different directions depending on who ends up paying for it.

Syria peace talks due to begin in Geneva this week look set to struggle with the sides showing no sign of compromise over the issue at the heart of the five - year - long conflict: the future of President Bashar al - Assad.

The aging plane had rescued and resupplied American citizens after last year's hurricanes as part of the U.S. territory's fleet, which often struggles to remain mission - ready amid long waits for spare parts, said Adjutant Gen. Isabelo Rivera, commander of the Puerto Rico National Guard.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Struggling to reach a long - term agreement, House Republicans plan to vote on a one - year extension of temporary tax breaks affecting millions of businesses and individuals.

Actually, I come from a long line of ministers, and I am an atheist now, after many years of faith and many more of questioning and struggling.

The country has long been considered a model of tolerance, but religious tensions in the past few years — including the demolition of 20 churches, protests over attacks on Christians by Islamist extremists, and a law requiring minority religious groups to collect signatures from local majority groups before building churches — highlight the country's increasing struggles to maintain harmony between its religious groups.

We were able to embrace him as the loved son he always was and will be... I am sad that he struggled so many years with the dread of rejection of us as his parents and held the «secret» of being gay for way too long.

The story runs through Woodrow Wilson's expansive mission to «make the world safe for democracy,» Eisenhower's World War II «crusade in Europe,» and the long years of cold war struggle against «godless communism.»

Yet there is no tooth in any one of those museum - skulls that did not daily through long years of the foretime hold fast to the body struggling in despair of some fated living victim.

Her work as a reformer and an advocate for democracy in the country has been a decades - long struggle that included 15 years of house arrest under the military junta government.

When the Nazis invaded Austria in 1938, Freud was allowed to move to London, where he died the next year, after a long, painful struggle with cancer of the mouth.

He has sought hard and relentlessly for at least 30 years, seeking the truth, longing for the correct formula, craving the perfect key to unlock the mystery of life with all its suffering, struggles and sorrows.

He reminded me of long nights, struggles with homelessness and poverty and desperation that I had experienced over the years, and the power of pure worship to shout down life's loudest dins.

The 33 - year - old has already struggled to hit peak form this term and will be 34 by the second half of next season, so the rigours of Premier League football may no longer be ideal for him.

This success is gaining a LOT of fair - weather, bandwagon fans that will be long gone when the team struggles for a few years.

The 22 year - old has since fallen out of favour at Old Trafford, with the youngster having struggled to break into Jose Mourinho's plans following a long - term injury, a double leg fracture.

And as the No. 48 team demonstrated last year, when it struggled for much of the regular season with Johnson going through a career - long 24 - race winless streak before embarking on a title run, there is still ample time to correct any issues before the playoffs begin.

We were title contenders for long stretches of the season last year in our 4 -2-3-1, and it was clear that we needed to a powerful / athletic / ball - winning CDM and a big - game consistent 9 to push us over the top; but instead, Wenger changed the system to the 4 -1-4-1 to get both Jack and Aaron in the team, pushed Santi / Mesut out wide, and we struggled our asses off.

Pair that with their star WR being out for the year and the rest of the team struggling to catch the most simple of passes, it could make for a long rest of the season for the teams out of MetLife Stadium.

This verdict brings to a conclusion the longest jury hearing in British legal history, and also vindicates the years - long struggle of the families of the victims and associated campaign groups, who comprehensively and consistently rejected the findings of the first inquest held in 1989.

The 34 - year - old has struggled this season as he has now failed to keep a clean sheet in eight consecutive Premier League games, the longest run of his career so far.

Honda has struggled in Super GT in recent years but an NSX won the most recent round in Fuji and being such a long race, of course anything can happen.

I am not one of the Arsenal fans that were calling for Aaron Ramsey to be dropped from the Arsenal team and even sold a few years ago as he was struggling to find his best form after coming back from that horror leg break and a long injury lay - off.

Since his arrival from Southampton in the 2006 January transfer window, the 26 - year - old has gone on to make over 300 appearances for the Gunners, however, he has struggled fulfill his enormous potential due to a number of long - term injuries which has halted his progress.

The Belgian goalkeeper has struggled for consistency, however this summer he signed a long term 5 year contract and part of that contract was an improved wage of reportably # 80,000 a week.

The club's two key players, Ozil and Alexis Sanchez, are now in the final year of their contracts and that has created uncertainty regarding the long - term future of Arsenal, as they would struggle to sufficiently replace both of them.

After several years of Premier League struggle, the disaster of relegation to the Championship, and a long, hard, disappointing 2016 - 17 season, it seems that...

Looking back on Mourinho's career, the longest stint he spent at one club was first time round at Chelsea, where he lasted just over three years after his initial success had started to wear off, only claiming the League Cup in his final full season before struggling at the beginning of the next.

We've come a long way in the last 6 years, but it's still an act of courage to come out about your motherhood struggles, and certainly about postpartum depression and anxiety — and even MORE so for you because you have a very public profile and a successful business to run.

Rivas, a 29 - year - old stay - at - home mother from Santa Clarita, Calif., remembers days and nights of struggling to ignore her baby's crying, of feeling guilty when she longed to rock him to sleep in her arms but believed that she should not.

«I Kesems because my aunt has struggled with cancer for too long and my cousin has gone to Camp Kesem for the past couple of years.»

You know, we are asking them to combine that role of being a breastfeeding mother, alongside being a lover and a sexual partner and you know, when two or three months have gone by and you are struggling to combine those two roles and your partner is struggling with that, it's inevitable that some people are going to start thinking about giving up breastfeeding and certainly for asking those mothers to get to six months and a year, that's a long time to struggle with those two roles and struggle trying to make those two roles fit together.

We struggled to afford it, but there wasn't any other option until a mother I met online gave me several hundred ounces of frozen milk.1 We bought a deep freeze to keep it in and stretched it as far as possible, but we still had to supplement with formula until he was over two years old because he also developed allergies to a long list of foods.

When your baby is a newborn, the idea of nursing for a year or longer can be overwhelming, especially if you are struggling.

Ultimately then, like many have concluded with this year's anniversary, the significance of Magna Carta for those in the movement lay in what it stood for as a potent symbol of the long struggle for the rights and freedoms of the British people.

When retired politicians look backgloomily on forty years of thankless struggle over long - forgotten...

When retired politicians look backgloomily on forty years of thankless struggle over long - forgotten policies andan eternity of pounding pavements to engage constituents who can hardly bebothered to vote, they are often overcome with a sense of futility.

No longer the underdog candidate, Mr. Espaillat — who already boasts the backing of the council speaker — is attracting the sort of establishment support he struggled to garner two years ago.

New York Republicans, who have struggled for 14 years to advance a statewide candidate, sought to regroup at their state convention in Buffalo with the unanimous nomination of Wendy Long to challenge U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, even as the turbulent presidential race threatened to tear their national counterparts asunder.

While opponents Jackson and Alcántara have criticized Lasher's Upper West Side ties and his connections to Bloomberg, suggesting they place him out of touch with low - income voters in Washington Heights and Inwood, Lasher stressed he has long fought to assist struggling city residents, pointing to his role as a board member of the Community Service Society, a 150 - year old antipoverty organization.

The fortunes of Boys and Girls High School, a venerable but long - struggling school that the de Blasio administration pledged to revive, took another turn this week, when its principal said he was considering leaving for a different job after less than two years.

Reverend Amy Butler of Riverside Church recalled the famous speech that Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered at that church 50 years ago, when he urged Americans to rededicate themselves «to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world.»

«We congratulate Nigerians for this important milestone in the long and bitter struggle against the forces of evil that have wreaked so much suffering and hardship on our people in the last few years.

Thousands of Long Islanders are still struggling two years after superstorm Sandy, and will likely...

Labeled persistently struggling last summer and taken off the list earlier this month, it is no longer eligible to receive the total $ 2.6 million it was promised — putting district officials in the position of deciding at the last minute whether to fund this year's intervention plans from its own coffers.

The number of private sector landlords who have registered with the Welsh Government's Rent Smart Wales scheme has barely struggled past ten per cent of those required to do so, with only five months left of the year long registration period, the Welsh Liberal Democrats Housing Spokesperson, Councillor Peter Black has revealed.

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, whose family tragedy in the Long Island Rail Road massacre 20 years ago led her to become the face of gun control in Congress, said Wednesday she will not run for re-election this year — a decision reached after health struggles.