Sentences with phrase «much harder every year»

Because interest rates have been coming down for the past 30 + years, generating low risk passive income is becoming that much harder every year.

Not exact matches

It's a much shorter run than Elton's John's farewell tour which is expected to include 300 shows across several years, which may also make tickets a little harder to come by.

Where building customer rapport used to take years of hard work, sales representatives can now look to developing deeper customer relationships much faster by using semantics analytics.

Big commodities players, hit hard by falling prices in recent years, are also eagerly awaiting Belt and Road, since so much of the early spending will flow toward raw materials.

The recent fiscal legislation caused negative, structural changes on both the spending and revenue fronts — making the task of keeping the debt in check much harder than it would have been even a year ago.

Millstein acknowledges that being his kind of activist director is hard work, much harder than just spending a few hours at eight board meetings each year.

As we rush through our work during the year, it can be hard to focus on much other than hard data to tell us whether our staff is succeeding.

«The hardest decision that I made this year wasn't to invest so much in safety and security — that decision was easy,» Zuckerberg said.

«All of the information of how a planet formed is still there, whereas with much older planets it could be harder to [work out] how it formed, or how it got there because it could have changed over billions of years.»

Over the years, Ratliff has forged meaningful relationships with her «guests,» as she calls them — so much so that, when she fell on hard times, they banded together in support.

Two years later, it's hard to see Occupy as having achieved much of anything, other than a lot of overtime for police and a few weeks» fodder for the nightly news.

But just a couple of years later, Netflix lost its exclusivity with Epix when the distributor signed a similar deal with Amazon (AMZN)-- news that also hit the company's share price hard, taking Netflix stock down by as much as 11 percent in a day.

Printing chromosomes today isn't much harder than 3 - D printing was a few years ago.

Gartner estimates that Azure revenue will be nearly $ 3 billion this year (Microsoft, itself lumps Azure revenue in with other, non-cloud products so it's hard to see how much the cloud service alone makes).

It's actually hard to overstate how much things will change over the next few years as these printers become commonplace.

And health can complicate matters: If you fall ill, it can be much harder to work — but if you're healthy, a longer lifespan means your savings will need to cover more years of income.

Years ago, when you bought your first PC or first notebook, you could probably tell me the size of the processor, how much memory you had, how big the hard drive was, how much it weighed.

On the worst days of the year, he's in the field beside his guys — and it motivates them all to work that much harder.

But one of the hardest lessons I've learned in more than 20 years of running businesses is that the need to please can be a real handicap, and that it is, in fact, possible to care too much.

With the 10 - year yield (risk free rate) at roughly 2.55 %, and the Fed Funds rate at 1.5 % (two more 0.25 % hikes are expected in 2018), it's hard to see interest rates declining much further.

I don't regret the years I spent in corporate America environment, but business ownership is so much more rewarding.I work even harder than I did before but the level of satisfaction is so much higher.

If disruption theory is correct, Tesla's future holds either acquisition by a much larger incumbent or a years - long and hard - fought battle for market significance.

My concern has always been that I won't have enough money for a long retirement, but I won't realize it until I'm 10 years into retirement, at which point it's MUCH harder to «get a real job» again.

«A number of agents I spoke to said last year that they weren't selling as hard, they weren't working as hard, and they weren't meeting with people as much as they used to because of their confusion and uncertainty over what might happen with the DOL,» he explained.

Indeed, the stock of local currency government debt securities outstanding for a representative sample of Asian markets has increased five-fold over the past 15 years (it's hard to go back much further).

Our site used to do amazing without much hard work until the past 2 years or so when poker & gaming became a fad, others saturated the market making it much harder and costly to do well.

«We're entering year nine of the longest uninterrupted auto credit cycle on record, and auto makers and suppliers will find it hard to push earnings much higher, which will drive them to get creative on expanding the multiple.

The U.S. is almost guaranteed to have large trade deficits year after year A low savings rate makes shrinking the trade gap much harderA low savings rate makes shrinking the trade gap much harder, writes Rex Nutting.

It is hard to believe, for example, that Canada could not in the end find common ground with the US on some extension of patent protection for pharmaceuticals, since it was able to do so in the just - completed negotiations with the EU, or that an extension of the term of copyright protection from 50 to 70 years from the agreed baseline would have much if any real practical impact on Canada although it would be seen as a gain by the US given the heavy copyright portfolios of US entertainment companies, allowing them an additional period of time to exploit their copyrighted content.

Stocks can fall fast and bounce back hard, even if they haven't moved all that much or that quickly in recent years.

(I'd like to offer a rosy «best wishes for the New Year,» but I'm one of those hard - bitten union types who dislikes empty rhetoric as much as our members do.)

«My fear is that Treasury yields fell so much in the past year that if they continue to rise,» he added, «their prices will fall much harder than those of investment - grade corporate ETFs.»

Trump's point man on the negotiation, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, has acknowledged that it gets harder if talks linger too much into next year.

Furthermore, he notes that while earnings are decent, there is the hard truth that returns over the last few years have come as much from higher equity valuations as they have from fundamental growth.

For those that get offended by how much you are investing each month I think it is easy to judge someone after years of hard work, sacrifice, and consistent investing.

I know some of the struggle she's been through, but I think somehow to be raised female for five years and then have to switch to male is much harder.

Given that natural selection has held up since Darwin's time and wonderfully explains what we see and do in the lab and things like why it's hard to treat viral infections and why there are an increasing number of antibiotic resistant bacteria, I don't expect it to change much in the next 10 years.

With the Supreme Court striking down the Defense of Marriage Act last year and same - sex marriage now imposed by court after court, it's hard to sustain the illusion, much cherished by the secular left as a scare tactic, that our country is on the brink of a theocratic takeover.

John, the West has given the Jews hardest time for 2,000 years while getting so much from their intelligence.

Trying to birth the ministry was so hard and I had so much opposition, and for me as a woman in ministry, when I started 40 years ago, it was very unheard of and unpopular... you got a lot of judgement and criticism for it.

Linda Stoll — Much of my «and now I think» comes from 60 years of hard won life lessons.

He filled a role I needed to have filled for many years — this made losing him all that much harder.

I have learned so much from Dianna through the years, it's hard to know where to start.

@@@@@ WIMPY WASP explained it when earthquakes and floods and famine hit really hard then most crazy broke really religious people who don't have a job go crazy like you.you religious people don't give back in my last three years I given back too helping the poor more then $ 20,000 dallors of my own money how much you so called chicken heads crazy religious people given out of your own income wait you crazy religious people got ta pay your light bill.by the way I own my own commercial health base buisness in Arizona.you still working for a pay check I write employees paychecks.

As much as I want to be thankful for all the good this year, if I'm completely honest — this has been one of the hardest years of my life.

No worries though, I had warned him about you before he came to this page last night... he was well prepared to deal with your 5 year old mind... in fact you've provided much humor the last few weeks for us - we find it hard to believe people like you still exist in this world.

(This is one reason why the piece is much harder than its sounds, as many a ten - year - old has found out.)

my adrenal gland continually pumps... i spent a whole year unable to leave the house 10 years ago and although much better these days have to go very carefully sometimes... it's hard to be kind to myself, i'm impatient and get easily depressed.

I mean they work hard, harder than you, and they have calaced hands, bad backs, bad feet, bad everything after 30 years and still they are not much farther along than they were when they started.

people think things are rough now, wait and see how the extremists of american religions make life that much harder for all those that had to fight through the years to get anything close to equal rights.