Sentences with phrase «much struggled for»

Aside from that match, he has very much struggled for minutes, even with Olivier Giroud's lack of fitness.

Not exact matches

In Turkey, Zughbi is preparing for a lifetime of exile, but says conditions are not much better, as he struggles to make a living still as a medical aid worker.

Parents of the new crop of digital natives are struggling to manage what their children watch, listen to and play, creating strong demand for better tools to regulate how much time and money children spend online — and giving developers whose apps have robust controls an edge in the hyper - competitive business of digital entertainment for kids.

We live in a world where content creation is the basis of much of our marketing, but for most people, it's a struggle.

For a company that's struggled to expand its user base and whose advertising revenues have been left in the dust by Facebook, its much bigger rival, it's a very attractive strategy.

While this change might not mean much for large unicorn corporations who aren't opposed to spending a significant sum to promote their brands, small businesses and startups may struggle to reach their target customer base and beat the competition due to limited advertising budgets.

The company has been struggling to grow its user base for quite some time, and its product — sometimes described as «niche» — has received much of the blame.

«Shakespeare this ain't, and Gears 3 struggles at times with its forced attempts at heart - string pluckery, but I can forgive it as much; gore - starved guns adorned with toothy chainsaws easily atone for any cheesiness suffered along the way... the Gears 3 story continues with what amounts to a blood - drenched tale of woe, suffering, loss and absolution, cathartica that stands out in harsh relief when framed by the»80s era Schwarzenegger - ness of most of the dialogue.

Everyone from veteran entrepreneur Noam Brodksy to VC Brad Feld has publicly come out as struggling to draw this line (Feld offers a creative fix for how much email to respond to in the same post) but as Brodsky notes, not taming your connection anxiety not only annoys your traveling companions but can also really hurt your business.

Staying authentic to that image — that of an entertainer, mother, and woman of humble beginnings in a struggling Puerto Rican family from the Bronx — is important, much like for any product, and it's key to reaching a bigger audience of potential customers.

Those included a court challenge over how much of Wind Mobile was foreign - owned; struggles to negotiate tower - sharing agreements with Rogers, Bell and Telus (Rogers owns Canadian Business); and doubt about Wind's future when its biggest investor, Dutch carrier VimpelCom, revealed it was exploring «strategic alternatives» for its stake.

Check out the infographic below for more on which franchise industries are growing, as much of the private sector struggles.

«I think every manager struggles with the balance between how much do you bring people around for meetings and how much do you not,» he says.

Pfizer has struggled to divest the business for as much as $ 20 billion, after Reckitt Benckiser dropped out last month and Johnson & Johnson stepped away in January.

Much of the overall membership drop has to do with Aetna's individual insurance sector, which has been struggling to maintain profits in the Obamacare insurance marketplaces (which Aetna largely pulled out of for 2017.)

History shows when the benchmark rate for everything in the economy from corporate bond yields to mortgage rates moves by this much, this fast, the stock market struggles in the following months.

«We're at a good time in the cycle right now, but I would suggest that you go back and look at the tougher years in 2009 - 2010 and see how much of a struggle it's been for the entire industry during those down cycles.»

Refusing to ask for help, no matter how much you're struggling, is a sign of emotional immaturity.

Previous reports said that a sale of Salix could raise as much as $ 10 billion for Valeant, which has been struggling under a roughly $ 30 billion debt load after repeatedly slashing earnings expectations.

However much time they have — and in my opinion they are unlikely to have much more than 2 - 3 years in which to get credit growth under control, but there is no science to this so I can not know for sure — as Beijing moves forward in its struggle to rebalance the Chinese economy, we should keep three things in mind:

While these «stealth» modifications often reduced the monthly payment for struggling borrowers, they did so by extending the term of the loans — which also increased the total lifetime interest by as much as three times the original cost.

Oclaro, which manufactures optical components for fiber optic cables and data centers, struggled to compete against larger competitors for much of the late 2000's / early 2010's.

While a tight labor market provides definite advantages — such as employment opportunities for workers who have struggled to find a job — nonetheless, providing too much stimulus from either monetary or fiscal policy at this stage of the economic cycle could threaten to create a so - called «boom and bust» economy, which policymakers certainly want to avoid.

Oil prices finish higher as IMF move threatens Venezuelan output Traders also weigh jump in U.S. crude supplies, risks to Iran dealAfter trading on a mixed note for much of Wednesday's session, oil prices settled decidedly higher, as the International Monetary Fund's threat to expel Venezuela reignited market concerns over the struggling nation's crude production.

The social media giant has grappled with the criticism over the issue for much of the past year, and struggled to keep public opinion on its side.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Pizza chain Sbarro LLC has filed for bankruptcy protection for the second time in three years after struggling with too much debt and fewer customers in malls that house many of its restaurants.

Netflix's «poison pill» defense, which would make it much more difficult for Icahn — or anyone else — to mount a hostile takeover, comes as the streaming pioneer struggles to regain traction amid intense competition in the online - video space.

With the company struggling financially and battling a much larger competitor in Enron, Sprecher granted firms an 80 percent equity stake in the company in return for their commitment to trade on the platform.

This question is rather popular nowadays, as many people do not have much money for paper writing, but still struggle for help?

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.

Such accounts of the previous generation's struggle to defend and advance authentic religious faith against the scientism, atheism, materialism, hedonism, and despair of the surrounding culture can do much to prepare and strengthen us for our struggles against similar forces in our time.

No matter what aspect of sexual struggles you're experiencing in your marriage, there's hope for healing (much more on this in Choosing Marriage chapter 8: «Sex Marks the Spot»).

I have struggled with this a great deal as I want very much to maintain a close relationship with my family but find myself growing increasingly distant because it is just too painful to be close to people that I love dearly but feel completely rejected by for something that I have come to recognize as a core part of who I am and how I view myself and the world around me.

Basically, the lack of a Republican agenda that takes into account the struggles of much of the lower - middle - class makes it easier for Democrats....

To have grain and have it «more abundantly» decalres rather outrightly that there are many «grain» therefore for Christ to say that we «might have [it] more abundantly» declares without much doubt that we become eternal in the Life / death Life / death struggles throughout eternity.

It was not that he lacked bravery, it was that he had lacked all opportunity to be brave for much too long, and now he was not so much engaged in a serious political struggle as in a puberty rite.»

The historic Black church and the Catholic Church in America, though allies in many struggles, have been too much like strangers to each other for too long.

Much of what Ramsey teaches is sound, helpful advice, particularly for middle - class Americans struggling with mounting credit card bills.

For the victim of war struggling to connect with a God who allows so much evil in the world, the bad news is that mankind's rebellion has turned the planet into battlefield; the good news is that God loves the world and has a plan to ultimately heal, restore, and redeem all of creation.

For us, to serve Christ is just as much to feed the hungry, to teach people to read, and to help them in their struggle for justice, as it is to baptize them.&raqFor us, to serve Christ is just as much to feed the hungry, to teach people to read, and to help them in their struggle for justice, as it is to baptize them.&raqfor justice, as it is to baptize them.»

The development of a new philosophy of science which radically questions the earlier mechanical - materialistic world - view within which classical modern science worked and also the search for a new philosophy of technological development and struggle for social justice which takes seriously the concern for ecological justice, are very much part of the contemporary situation.

In the 2016 Barna research study commissioned by Josh McDowell Ministry, church leadership indicated that this problem is much bigger than it was 20 years ago, yet only 7 percent of pastors said they have a ministry program for those struggling with porn.

And «I'm a neurotic skeptic who thinks she's a Christian most of the time, but hates so much of what Christianity stands for, yet loves the teachings of Jesus, but struggles to actually follow them» tends to frighten people a bit.

I struggled with being attracted to guys and caring for them too much (I didn't want to call it falling in love, but I only felt that once with a friend, I would do anything to make him happy everyday.)

«You know, if you're struggling this much, maybe you're just not right for each other.

Roger writes: «Feminism is ascendant, from Susan Brownmiller («Man's discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times, along with the use of fire and the first crude stone axe») to Germaine Greer («Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caress of a subhumanly ugly mate?»).

The danger is that global capitalism will not collapse until much of the biosphere is irreparably damaged, many national governments have lost the power to prevent chaos in their borders, and the struggle for the remaining resources is everywhere violent.

In which I am here, breastfeeding, but not for much longer:: So I want to remember, for the real rest - work, and for the metaphors of struggle and let - down and release and feeding, and for the weight of responsibility, the lightness of giving, and for the ordinary, every day, pausing holy - wonder.

I've been married for three years and very much love my wife; however I am struggling with memories of having sex with my previous girlfriend from before I became a Christian.

As much as I struggle with the things I don't like about the Bible — the apparent contradictions, the competing interpretations, the troubling passages — I'm beginning to think that God allows these tensions to exist for a reason.