Sentences with phrase «of years of false starts»

I started writing for my children, because they were now old enough to read, and over the course of a couple of years of false starts, created Vulcan's Kittens, a YA novel (and a bunch of short stories, but more about those later).

Not exact matches

As you well know, expertise develops over years of successes, failures, false starts, experimentation and risk - taking.

After years of false starts with Turner, this was my best shot to bring our companies together.

It might feel as though the effect of phrase has diluted with year after year of false starts and setbacks — call it «Boy who cried «Tiger!»»

One risk that your readers have, given the disappointments they have suffered over the past five years, is that they may mistake normal bull market consolidation as having been a false start of a bull market and mistakenly get themselves shaken out of owning a stock.

While the inevitable climb of mortgage rates has had false starts over the past couple of years, the recent hikes could be the first phase of a long - term trend.

Considering that it took the Church about 300 years, long after they had made up their minds about theology, to start picking scripture to match that doctrine, and that the oldest known copt of the bible has over 27,000 «corrections» written all over it, how can you be sure that the New Testament isn't full of false doctrine to begin with?

An account of the day Roger Bannister broke the four minute mile: «There was ham salad for lunch, a shower of rain at 5.15 pm, a gusting wind, a false start, and then history... It is 60 years today since that iconic moment on the crunchy, uneven, gravel track at Iffley Road, Oxford... Bannister was 25, a medical student, and he was running in the annual Amateur Athletic Association v Oxford University Athletic Club match.»

Now he's back at Torrey again, hoping to avoid the ignominy and injury of last year's false start at this course.

Went off on a bit of a rant... but I'm just trying to emphasise the point that clearly Arsene doesn't know best, because the exact same mistakes are made every year and so continues the cycle of false hope and before anybody starts with the «yeah but we won two FA cups back to back ``.

if the Ox was played to either showcase his skills or to increase any potential bids because of his perceived importance to our starting 11, this was an incredibly risky move that could have cost us dearly... imagine if he was injured or played poorly, like he did, and this negatively impacted our ability to get the best available deal... more importantly, why was Wenger willing to play someone who obviously wants out in such an important game under false pretenses... this kind of behaviour might be less offensive in April, when things are done and dusted, but to do this following a loss against a supposed main rival that pipped us for fourth by a point last year, could be considered at best inappropriate and at worst treasonous... we can't afford to let this coach make business decisions on game day, which has gone on for far too long

Given his history and the number of false starts he's had in his career to date, many will doubt that Liverpool will ultimately receive a significant windfall in the coming years.

After a delay caused by Nickel Ashmeade questioning his disqualification for a false start, Mike Rodgers kept his composure to storm to 100m victory in 10.00 ahead of Richard Thompson — the second quickest man over the distance so far this year with 9.82 — who ran 10.08 and Kim Collins who got off to a blistering start and clocked a 10.10 season's best.

The 24 - year - old's Goodison Park career suffered a false start when a heel injury suffered during a promising debut against Stoke ruled him out of both matches against Hajduk Split and the meeting with Manchester City.

«I'm pleased that after years of false starts, we finally have a plan that works for taxpayers, the [neighboring] museums, the Park District, the Bears and the other teams and groups that use Soldier Field and the surrounding area,» Daley said at press conference at Soldier Field.

Yet I've had nothing but a series of false starts and stops over the past couple of years I've tried to shake the baby weight.

«After nearly a decade of false starts and broken promises, including three years under the current administration, it's understandable, if reports are correct, that someone on the governor's staff is frustrated and anxious.»

Dr Bawumia has been silent for the past two weeks since pressure started mounting on him to produce the list of foreigners his team promised aside 76,000 alleged Togolese he presented last year, which was eventually found out to be false.

After years of false starts we instituted a real teacher evaluation process that focuses on performance rather than merely growing the bureaucracy.

The vote to repeal and replace after several false starts was the fulfillment of a key campaign pledge for House Republicans, but it could cost them in key swing seats later next year.

Those projects earned Mahoney a reputation for pushing her ideas through at record speed - a criticism she accepts in a region that has suffered years of false starts on projects like rebuilding the Hotel Syracuse.

But after three years of false starts, and a years - long feud with the man he once counted as a friend, de Blasio seemed reluctant to endorse the governor's vision.

The governor also again hyped the new mini-branch of the Q line between 63rd and 96th Streets, which opened on New Year's Day after nearly a century of false starts and cost overruns — and which is still awaiting another $ 6 billion in funding so its «Phase Two» can extend into Harlem.

«Now, a few short years later, after 20 years of false starts, we are leaving an old, dangerous, traumatizing bridge as replaced by a new, safer, smarter structure,» he said.

After years of false starts, a new generation of DNA vaccines and medicines for HIV, influenza and other stubborn illnesses is now in clinical trials

«With two weeks of research, 20 years» worth of preconceived ideas were shown to be false, and now we have to start developing new hypotheses,» Conyers says.

A robust design for the world's largest polar - mounted telescope stymied engineers for years, and a few false starts delayed the progress of this telescope.

After years of false starts, potential stars and frustrating studio shuffling, thriller Triple Frontier might actually, finally be headed into production.

What You Need To Know: Joining the illustrious ranks of Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck is Chris Pine, who was linked to this project through years of false starts and budget - minded re-writes.

After years of false starts and unfulfilled promises, the live - action remake of Mamoru Oshii's influential animated feature, Ghost In The Shell is coming with Scarlett Johansson in the lead role (and Michael Pitt, Beat Takeshi and Juliette Binoche on support).

After years of false starts, Tim Burton's take on Batman, starring Michael Keaton as the titular hero and Jack Nicholson as the Joker, was released in 1989 and quickly became a pop - culture juggernaut.

He said that there had been a false start to shoot in 2015, but because of talent availability, they had to hold off one year.

After years of false starts, Cinemax has put in development «The Boys,» from the «Preacher» team of Rogen and Goldberg's Point Grey, Moritz's Original Film and Sony TV, Deadline reports.

It's taken a long time (there were a few false starts with financing, and the film had a long post-production period of nearly two years), but it's certainly worth the wait.

Ash vs. The Evil Dead After years of false starts and rumors about Sam Raimi and company getting the band back together for Evil Dead 4, it seemed unlikely that the world would ever be graced with Ashley J Williams presence on anything aside from the occasional limited comic book series again.

After seventeen years of rumors, speculation, and false starts, director Roland Emmerich appears to finally have some traction for the long - awaited Independence Day follow - up, tentatively titled ID Forever.

His prominent Hollywood debut in Robert Redford's «Lions for Lambs» was a bit of a false start; perhaps he'll have more luck opposite Keira Knightley and fellow Next Big Thing Carey Mulligan in next year's «Never Let Me Go.»

Lee meant not only the six hours sitting at the school board meeting to hear his application was approved, but the four years of struggle he was involved in before that, and two more years of false starts before he even got there to turn around the high school in the northeast San Fernando Valley.

After years of false starts, Congress now seems serious about fixing this law.

Now owned by China's largest automotive company, SAIC Motor Corporation Limited (SAIC Motor), the historic British brand has had several false starts in Australia, which will be among the first and most important western markets in SAIC's five - year plan to establish the MG brand globally with a full line - up of passenger vehicles and SUVs.

I don't think it's a false start this time: The 3D - product plans for the coming year represent the initial salvos of the coming 3D revolution.

February 2010 I. Introduction After several years of false starts, the universe of digital books seems at last poised to expand dramatically.

With Intel porting Android Jelly Bean to x86, this may signal an increased commitment by the chipmaker to continue its push into mobile after years of stillborn initiatives and false starts, while its AZ210 smartphone serves as its Trojan horse with each launch, should Intel decide to continue supporting the smartphone commercially.

After several years of false starts, the universe of digital books seems at last poised to expand dramatically.

Plus, you have time for a couple of false starts without any judgment from yourself or others, and you can treat the new year as a time to recommit to your goals.

Apparently, this foster pet parent put up with two years of false starts in having their canine charge placed in a permanent home, not to mention a startling lack of communication from the rescue organization in question, only to have the dog taken away by the organization under the guise of a visit to the vet.

August 2005: After countless false starts and years of bitter strife, could Croatia's Dalmatian Coast really be the next Côte d'Azur?

Sony is showing incompetence at the worst possible time, just before E3, thus showing that Sony must be struggling, other than in sales... they also lost their Bloodborne trademark for a short time this year, lost \ deleted Sony contest winners (for an anniversary PS4), and delayed two of their top exclusives, including their biggest exclusive ever, thus making listards hopefully start realizing why advertising for Sony in the forums makes them look as if they're Sony's «false advertising sales force».

The only reason that global warming is still an issue nine years after the world had already started to cool is because people who have no actual first hand knowledge do not have the ability to question the false information presented by those who use the authority of their academic credentials to promote thier claims.

The year 2012 was a recent minimum, so starting there gives a false impression of a recent increase.