Sentences with phrase «of a slog at»

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As the U.S. economy slogs along at a tepid pace, household incomes in much of the developing world are leaping ahead.

A tight group of Adelaide investors who backed silicon battery pioneer 1414 Degrees through a decade of hard slog will see their stakes valued at $ 16.5 million when the company floats on the ASX.

Since at the ZLB, the real interest rate is the negative of the inflation rate (real int rate = nom rate — inflation rate), another suspect as to why this recovery's been more of a slog (though see last point below on this) is our low inflation rate.

Decathlon, in first start as 3 - year - old, slogged through mud into early lead, held on grimly under urging of Jockey Gene Martin to nose out Liberty Sun in $ 23,775 Hibiscus Stakes at Hialeah Park, Fla..

A young player could have launched a career last week at Annandale Golf Club in Madison, Miss., creating a little buzz in an otherwise static end - of - the - year slog.

I'm old and cranky and I've always hated jogging, and clearly there are a lot of people who really enjoy slogging up hills at an incredibly slow pace with their features locked into a grimace of agony (sorry, sorry, I'll do better.)

While Ottawa will head home for the spring and summer this weekend, the Penguins will take aim at history now that the long six - month slog of the regular season is behind them.

Arsenal had to fight hard to get all three points at Newcastle yesterday, and with many of our close rivals also winning, Arsene Wenger is sure that it is going to be a hard slog to hang on to a place in the Top Four, although he believes Chelsea are too far in front at the moment to be caught before the end of the season.

By this point improvements had made the MP4 / 12 among the fastest cars, but another win at Monza and a couple of podiums were nowhere near enough so late into the season with Ferrari and Williams slogging it out at the front.

Though more often than not these days I would rather be watching Sunday leaguers slogging it out down at the local park for little more than the joy of the game and competition, I found myself fixated, along with millions of other world citizens, at the unfolding spectacle that is, and has become, El Clasico.

I have at least 100 journal articles on sleep saved on my computer, and I've been dutifully slogging through them, trying to systematically summarize the effects of different sleep training methods or otherwise.

And what better excuse do fathers need to avoid the hard slog (while at the same time missing out on the good bits) of looking after children?

Pity the group of Labourites who, in one day, had to endure a dog bite and subsequent visit to A&E; three naked aggressors spewing bile about expense abuses - in the same house; and a rogue beetle in their noodles at the end of a hard day's slog.

The budget, the product of a long and heated slog at the Capitol, includes measures designed to react to potential cuts in the federal level.

[6] Clarke, who declined Cameron's offer of the Leadership of the House of Commons, [7] explained that when Cameron asked him to become Shadow Business Secretary in 2009, the men agreed that he would serve in the cabinet for two years, and that «At my age, it is time for me to step back from the slog of running a large department, but I am delighted to have been given a more advisory political role».

Combine the effort required to run in armor with that needed to slog through mud, says Graham Askew, one of the study's leaders, and you'd expect at least a fourfold increase in energy expenditure — enough, it seems, to change history.

Slogging through buckets of slush at intersections that rise unsuspectingly to your knee caps.

Not only are HIIT workouts shorter and way more fun than slogging away at a treadmill doing «cardio», but there is a ton of research showing that HIIT workouts provide unique heart health benefits that traditional cardio doesn't

This is the time of year that I usually start to crank up my traditional grouse: based on what's available on retailers» racks, they seem to think that we ALL spend our summers cavorting at the beach, or a lakeside resort, or anything other than slogging into the office five (or more) days per week.

The consequences of leaving a job tend to outweigh staying at something that doesn't make us happy, though, so we continue to slog through.

Yes, professor, and we've always wanted to see you perform it; or, at least those of us who have slogged through seven books and seven movies.

Insurance salesman Dodge Petersen (Carell at his most downcast) continues to slog to the office and gym; Elsa (Tonita Castro), his housekeeper, keeps showing up to clean; his married friends (Rob Corddry and Connie Britton) throw dinner parties that have all the end - of - the - world abandon of an aborted swingers confab circa 1982; and so on.

Then it slogs through a handful of truncated scenes, a few more interviews, yet another time - lapse, more voiceover narration, and finally settles down at a seemingly random point.

At 16 tracks, though, Fifty Shades of Grey is a bit of a slog, with too many dreary midtempo numbers — by Sia, Laura Welsh and Skylar Grey — that only feel more glazed (and less enticing) the longer you listen.

It's a choice to make at the end of the slog.

Unlike the others, which are long slogs through large dungeons and pockets of enemies, Asylum Sanctorium allows you and the party to choose how the trial will be approached, and you can ultimately face all three main bosses at once, given the team is strong enough to handle that onslaught.

The flabby screenplay moves at half - speed while undeveloped characters slog through predictable motions and forced quirkiness, all of which is trapped in an erratic tone that swerves from kookiness to uncomfortably somber.

Every film has a story or a moral or a message and while some are utterly fun & splendidly charming — hello La La Land — others are a bit more of a slog to get through — sorry Moonlight — which means that any movie out at the moment offering nothing but hilarity and full on belly laughs is incredibly welcome.

Just have the newbies at the company slog through it: it'd be a great test of their work ethic to see what kind of work they will do on altogether new games.

Consider how Marshall spends altogether too much time on the budding relationship of these non-characters and how at its semi-resolution, Syrena does something completely inexplicable, then something else completely inexplicable, leading to ambiguity not of the provocative kind but of the rudderless kind indulged in by people making it up as they go along, forgetting what they've left in and what they've left at the side of this endless slog.

However, the rest of the film slogs along at a glacial pace.

It'll be a long slog but I think I'll go for the BF2 platinum this year, the rest of the trophies look like they need less skill and more luck and persistence, and lots of time and patience since I'm only at level 26!

Long pauses in Harrison's track make it a slog, but at lest Jewison has a sense of humor, occasionally chuckling at the ways the film is now dated even as he stands by its perceptive social commentary.

The middle portion of this film, which is predominantly spent with Harry, Hermione, and Ron slogging through the woods lost and confused about how to continue their journey, can get pretty painful at times.

Slattery is exceptional at silently communicating the tough slog of 15 thankless years of logging in the cold, and Krause, the damaged and dysfunctional mother is outstanding and one to watch.

At least during the first half, which is a bit of slog to wade through; the second half amps up the fun quotient considerably.

So when her character weepingly declares, «I don't feel anything,» at the end of Volume One, it's easy to relate, especially with another (and worse) volume still left to slog through.

I liked the trappings and combat of Op Abyss well enough, just burned out at the expansive slog during the game's second of two halves.

Annihilation This attempt at a thinking person's action movie devolves into a motiveless slog, in which a group of women soldiers go on a suicide mission, for little or no reason, and end up seeing some very gory, disgusting things.

by Walter Chaw Constrained by, among other things, what writer / creator Joss Whedon calls Donald Sutherland's reprehensible attitude and script tampering plus director Fran Rubel Kuzui's inability to stand up to the veteran thespian, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a slog through the underbelly of cinematic dredge that feels at least twice as long as its 86 minutes.

(Kathleen Murphy) The Neptune Will Be a «Bona Fide Movie Theater» By Friday Night (Paul Constant for The Stranger Slog) Cluttered Homes and Haunted Houses: Matt Wilkins and Marrow (Sean Axmaker) Out of Africa: Eliachi Kimaro and A Lot Like You (Brian Miller) 11 feature films with Northwest ties at SIFF (Moira Macdonald)

Fashioning themselves the «United Students Against Sweatshops» (it's okay to laugh at that), these kids have taken TFA to task for being «the man» — and for turning teaching into sweatshop - like work by allowing some selected recruits to enter the classroom without slogging through the entirety of traditional teacher prep.

From the pickup location at LAX we slogged our way through some classic L.A. traffic to Venice Beach to meet up with Martin Squires, a surfer who runs a surf school out of his classic VW Microbuses.

Last fall, at the end of my final day there, I was slogging toward the street, walking gingerly on blistered

At least the radar - based cruise control works smoothly, reducing stress during much of the interstate slog.

Last fall, at the end of my final day there, I was slogging toward the street, walking gingerly on blistered feet.

The diesel V6 emitted a sporty warble under load, but was also free of the sort of harsh, labouring vibration often encountered in diesels at lower revs, whether cruising or slogging uphill in a high gear.

That's enough oomph both for slogging up precipitous, mud - caked inclines and for pulling out to pass double - trailer semi trucks at freeway speeds without fear of additional gray hairs.

Don't get me wrong, this is still an excellent all - rounder with impressive levels of performance and practicality, but with an amateur driver at the wheel, the car begins to feel a little ragged when slogged hard.

I would also spring for the $ 1,695 Magnetic Ride Control suspension, as it's worth every penny to have a car that can be both tight and entertaining on twisty roads and then be comfortable and forgiving for slogging through traffic at the press of a button.