Sentences with phrase «of a slog in»

It's a bit of a slog in places due to difficulty spikes, but it's bold, brash, and appropriately trashy.

Not exact matches

Born in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and raised across Canada, Ray Taaeb moved often as a kid, but it wasn't until he had to find his own place in Toronto that he discovered the slog of renting.

For legions of career - minded Boomers, work is far from a slog: in fact, it's enjoyable.

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

For entrepreneurs burned out by the slog of growing a business in a tepid economy, the temptation to take the money and run must be enormous.

«The main message, though, is that the exciting growth from the middle of 2016 up until the middle of 2017 is now truly in the past, and the economy is back to the drudgery of slogging out something closer to potential of around two per cent,» Porter wrote in a note to clients.

Traditional publishing is a slog — find an agent, pitch a book and if it's picked up by a publisher, sign away the rights to your work, then spend years doing edits and waiting for the book to slot into a publishing schedule — and the majority of these people don't score a deal, because most entrepreneurs «aren't in a position to be commercially published,» says Sattersten.

We're just slogging away in the traditional investment world,»» says Cordes, who built AssetMark Investment Services to about $ 9 billion in assets, sold it to Genworth Financial Inc. in 2006, and last year was part of an investment group that re-acquired the company.

But this is a big market, and there already is some activity — it just hasn't picked up a ton of traction just yet because it is a slog to get everything all in one place.

A few people asked me to show similar charts on bonds, as many investors are wondering what the impact of a potential rise or sideways slog in rates could do to future returns in fixed income.

There are more people who believe in peace, unity and the pursuit of truth and slog daily to make a difference in this crazy world, without recognition or praise... writing a book doesn't make him credible or noble..

Just because you're in the first stage doesn't mean you need to slog through all of them.

That said, there is the possibility of creating a micro-rut when it comes to leftovers if you're once of those who makes a big pot of chili then slogs through it all week in the name of ease and convenience (raising my hand over here!)

I slogged up the back steps and as I reached for the door knob, fumbling in the 5 p.m. darkness, a vision tumbled through the kitchen windows with a glow of light!

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..

With long runs in both domestic competitions and progress to the last 32 of the Europa League possibly catching up on Spurs, yesterday's 1 - 0 home surrender to Aston Villa suggests the remaining few weeks of the campaign could be a slog.

Given his perilous health, his disintegrating game, and the depressing slog of each and every round in recent years, this comeback is really already startling.

Unless baseball voluntarily complies with the decision, which seemed doubtful as of Monday, the case is likely to slog through the legal system and keep the nine umps in limbo for the rest of this season.

Having already missed a big chunk of 2008 with neck and back injuries, AndyRoddick withdrew in Shanghai after spraining his right ankle during practice.Roger Federer slogged through his matches last week, slowed noticeably by backtrouble as he bowed out in the quarterfinals.

It's easy to paint a road map to the league's demise — let's say, a critical mass of players leaves the sport because of health concerns, fans likewise lose interest in a sport they know is ruining men, and the game itself becomes a terrible slog to watch — but the end point may be several decades from now, well after the people who could have acted have sold out or died.

In Austin, while most of the other visiting teams stayed in hotels, the Bowie team had to sleep on Army cots set up beneath the stands of Memorial Stadium, the football field on the Texas campus, and to make the long slog across the field to the Longhorns» field house to use the bathrooIn Austin, while most of the other visiting teams stayed in hotels, the Bowie team had to sleep on Army cots set up beneath the stands of Memorial Stadium, the football field on the Texas campus, and to make the long slog across the field to the Longhorns» field house to use the bathrooin hotels, the Bowie team had to sleep on Army cots set up beneath the stands of Memorial Stadium, the football field on the Texas campus, and to make the long slog across the field to the Longhorns» field house to use the bathroom.

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.

Arsenal fans will be hoping that the 26 - year old can now stay injury free, and even better would be if he can start the next season in a similar manner to the way in which he rounded off the last one, after more than a year of real frustration and hard slog for the striker.

Let me just generalize and say «we,»» Poulter said about his slog around Augusta in the company of 2008 Masters champion Trevor Immelman and Patrick Cantlay, starting just his second Masters.

Lose in an upset in the Carrier Dome, and Project Slog's odds of success increase dramatically.

The players used to glide over the surface of the pitch, unbothered by such trifling concerns as the rules of physics; nowadays they slog, hard, as though the move from an arcade experience to one with pretensions toward simulation had sunk the footballers up to the knees in custard.

Tottenham's failure to buy a striker in January means that Kane faces a mighty slog between now and May, should Spurs remain in all three competitions, increasing his chances of getting injured.

Team Shlofrock catapulted to 3rd place in the last couple of weeks with a couple key wins after an up and down start, while Team Hakimian has slogged through the toughest schedule of any Team and lost some truly heartbreaking Games..

Will Muschamp's team became bowl eligible before the end of October, but this game was an unsightly slog that Tennessee had under control until late in the third quarter, when South Carolina put together a 12 - play, 95 - yard drive for the game - tying score.

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.

Then, against Sweden, switching leads and surprisingly pell - mell entertainment brought to mind Fulham's bonkers run to the UEFA Cup final, before finally, in the first half against the Ukraine, a lifeless, lightless slog straight out of that long strange Anfield autumn.)

Although there are parachute payments and support available for relegated teams, nothing can be done to remedy damaged egos and the loss of players who don't want to slog it out for a season in a lower league.

The crushing victory was more than enough to put Chelsea in early control of the group with Atletico slogging out a 0 - 0 score in Rome.

The first weeks of September over the years have been characterised by an abundance of goals; before early season exuberance on flat, grassy pitches in late summer sunshine gives way to a cold, muddy mid-winter's slog with floodlights switched on before half - time.

Focusing on successful models is an attractive approach for a narrative journalist, too, because people generally prefer reading emotionally resonant stories about individuals in pursuit of a worthy goal to slogging through lots of dry research and statistics.

Driving home is a bit of a slog, but the savings in airfare is definitely worth the drive to Buffalo!

The end result should be that mommy is not the only one slogging away to keep the home clean while the rest of the household behave like they are staying in a hotel with room service.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is settling in for a protracted nominating race — a «state by state» slog, as he called it — against former first lady and secretary of state Hillary Clinton.

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.

«Over the Cliff» by Crooks and Liars bloggers John Amato and David Neiwert is, so far, a bit of a slog — it's rehashing a lot of what I know in a dry and judgmental way.

The Republican field has a lot of winnowing to do and the two remaining Democrats could be in for a long slog - but, April 19 is a long way away.

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.

That spirit of campaigning proved invaluable during his long apprenticeship in politics, the «long hard slog» experienced by many Lib Dems currently in parliament.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER As the State Senate slogged through its last scheduled day in its 2014 session, a member of the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) that shares majority power with the Republicans, voiced hope that a measure to bar mental health professionals from performing «sexual orientation change efforts» on minors could yet get a floor vote.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER As the State Senate slogged through its last scheduled day in its 2014 session, a member of the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) that shares majority power with the Republicans, voiced hope that a measure to bar mental health professionals from performing «sexual orientation change efforts» on minors could yet get a -LSB-...]

But fossil fuel investment performance has generally slogged in recent years as clean energy continues to expand its share of the global energy market.

On Tuesday, Cuomo touted the idea of a bridge to Westchester County or the Bronx in an Albany speech, saying it would save drivers hours of time slogging through New York City traffic.

She told the same programme: «I certainly wouldn't want to stand down in any circumstances, having slogged round the country talking to tens of thousands of party members for the last two months.

[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».

Which of Labour's big names: Dan, Yvette, Chuka, Lisa, (or whoever) is prepared to, in all probability, forego the chance of leading Labour in government in order to take the brickbats and endure the hard slog required to lead Labour's modernisation and save the party?