Sentences with phrase «many lean years»

Zymeworks, meanwhile, went through a number of lean years; investors in Canada were still more comfortable with a development model that produced widely applicable chemical drugs.

As the holiday shopping season kicks off — and merchants brace for another lean year — a small group of online entrepreneurs is setting up shop around one of retail's only bright spots: The gift card.

Founded in 2002, Qualtrics survived and even grew through the lean years of 2008 and 2009.

You are used to the idea that you are going to have lean years, possibly quite a few.»

Morgan Stanley's share price has doubled in the last two years, mollifying angry investment bankers and traders who received stock in the lean years when cash bonuses shrank.

Are Canadian investors in for another lean year in domestic equity and fixed income markets?

Some lean years fed angst about apps and IP.

In lean years, between income and a dance with the Schedule C, my effective tax rate can be almost down to the single digits.

We believe the emphasis on capability may bode well for industry revenue, as manufacturers have been forced to deliver efficiency gains, and defend or increase margins in the leaner years.

It was quite severely bombed by Herr Hitler in 1941, and rebuilt on the cheap in the lean years after the war.

When lean years return there may be too many inhabitants to be catered for.

The company weathered the lean years by staying true to a solid set of business practices and keeping an eye on the future.

The mutual confidence in each other allowed Pecans.com, its vendors and customers to pull each other through the lean years.

Brad Pilon is one of the first people to open my eyes to flexible dieting and using Intermittent Fasting as not only a fat loss technique, but also as a way to stay lean year - round in a very easy fashion.

The company weathered the lean years by staying true to a solid set of business praccompany profile tices and keeping an eye on the future.

NOW has enjoyed many good years, but we've also seen plenty of lean years, and it's these times that help us remain grounded and focused on what really matters — helping others.

Man City hasn't been the worst of our opponents — in fact, they seem to be one of our most respectful opponents — even in our lean years.

Fair play to the prof for doing so well in the lean years but Arsenal need to push on and under Wenger it is just not happening.

But he stayed through the lean years.

All we want is to share in the spoils, the same spoils we willingly provided for them during those club - imposed lean years; keeping in mind, that we did so because we placed our trust in them and we honestly believed that they had our best interests at heart.

Lukas Podolski chose to return to Koln after a couple of lean years at Bayern Munich and his loyalty to the club he represented from the age of 10 until leaving for the Allianz Arena at age 21, is obvious for all to see, however the Polish born forward clearly feels it's time to move on.

However he is not a player who will instill confidence with the club's fanbase, who are hungry for success following a few lean years.

no doubt the papers made up this # 50 million to make the board look bad and tight (both are myths made up by press during the lean years), but they have said in public they will back wenger with the big money on world class purchases, then i believe they will.

You start by getting a defence of proper quality and after ten lean years a proper CDM.

We may forgive him during the lean years when money was tight and we had to become a selling club.

It ended a long Old Trafford hoodoo for the Gunners, put the label of big game bottlers further behind us, kept us in with a good chance of another trophy and was further evidence that Arsenal are on the up after some lean years.

Now if the club has had a decade of being a selling club then how many players would be needed to turn that selling club into a title contending club, basically how much driftwood has been collected during our lean years?

I understand and fully appreciate what Wenger has done in the lean years.

Jerry the Drummer, a superfan even back then, remembers those leanest years in the late»70s: «Our pet saying was, «We can't do any worse.»»

I'm forever grateful for his past glory and helping the club stay competitive during the lean years.

His arrival at the Nou Camp sparked a revival that saw the club complete a treble after a couple of lean years.

During the lean years we couldn't buy top talent and so much of the current squad we have is made up of signings made during those lean years, I would love to see Wenger rebuild faster but I know we have to rely on the board to make it happen.

It's how they can maintain an admirable farm system without picking in the first round of every draft, and it's how they were always able to stay over.500, even in the leaner years.

He's leaner this year.

It allowed me to commiserate with like - mindeds through the lean years and gave me folks to celebrate with during the recent successes.

Many people in the game, not just Arsenal fans, feel that Wenger deserves more respect after his years of service to the club and that he has overseen the recent lean years better than any other manager could.

Now is the time for the Gunners to get a little bit of our own back and to even up the stats, as Chelsea are having a season that is much worse than any we had to endure during the lean years.

Those who remember the lean years (decades) when losing was a way of life appreciate having an owner and FO that fields a competitive team year after year.

Of course Arsene Wenger has worked miracles to keep the club in the competition through the lean years, and the Frenchman has managed to keep getting us through the group stage, but for the last four seasons, that is where it has ended.

I suppose my ultimate response would be: «Well, maybe the government would have to stop living paycheck - to - paycheck, and make sure it could function during lean years.»

Following a couple of lean years, United are expected to go through a lot of changes over the summer and many feel that Carrick will be one of the players who will be heading out of the club as part of their mass overhaul, especially with the midfielder not having been offered a contract extension.

I was wondering if it would be of interest (as I think I am a bit older than the average blogger on your site, 46) how I became an arsenal fan and in fact a bit of history of the lean years.

He has brought in potentially great players, brought up wonderful youth players, developed the infrastructure to achieve great things, fought against the dinosaurs entrenched in the 19th century who are ¨ running ¨ the game, displayed dignity and nobility in the face of unremitting criticism from a small band of Arsenal ¨ supporters ¨ and the media, endured xenophobic pundits, questionable officiating, lean years after the stadium build, ever expanding competition for players from richer clubs and yet stayed true to his principles and still managed to bring in trophies and success over his 21 year reign.

There are various conspiracy theories on record to explain how the Gunners chairman, Sir Henry Norris, who had kept Arsenal afloat during some very lean years, managed to get his team promoted.

Reaching adulthood during the lean years of the Great Depression meant Mr. William Payne applied for any job he could.

-- seems to have done the trick: The lean years are over; cotton diapers and diaper services are making a comeback.

That attitude probably kept diaper services in business through the lean years of the last two decades, when a falling birth rate and disposable diapers seemed to be pushing the diaper service industry into the museum along with doctors who make house calls.

During those lean years for Democrats, Hinchey was always the bright star to young aspiring Democrats.

He hasn't joined the Conservative cause as a career move but worked for the party throughout our lean years.

To hedge their bets, McMahon said lawmakers are also proposing a kind of savings account, made up of any of the extra sales tax revenue from the amphitheater, to cover any lean years at the casino.