Sentences with phrase «of years of trying»

This way of dieting has been the culmination of years of trying different diets, experimenting and tinkering, but it's an approach that has finally allowed me to do just that.

Not exact matches

Last year the group warned of «unscrupulous» parties who might try to use the yet - to - be-defined crowdfunding rules to steal from investors.

Trying to compete at the same cost from such a weak position hints at the same sort of hubris that has laid BlackBerry low over the past few years.

In an essay penned for the March 2018 issue of Vogue, Dunham revealed that she underwent a total hysterectomy to remove her uterus and cervix, after «years of complex surgeries measuring in the double digits» and trying alternative treatments.

This is the year a bunch of new ventures will try to convince us we can.

Earlier this year when U.S. authorities tried to seize a luxury yacht belonging to Low that was anchored off Bali, he accused them of judicial overreach, Malaysian media reported.

For a number of years, the two were estranged, to the point where Sumner tried to buy out Shari's stake in Viacom and CBS (as he bought out her brother Brent).

A few years ago during an important meeting, one of our investors was trying to explain our two roles.

«Instead of making a bunch of stuff months and years in advance and trying to sell it, we're able to see what's selling and make accordingly.»

He had thought that launching in the holiday shopping spree might be a boon for his campaign, but «the obvious hindsight observation is that one of the coldest months of the year is not the time to trying to get people excited about coolers,» said Grepper.

As a result, the company plans to try a number of different strategies to convince readers to turn off their ad blockers in the new year, including a message that tells them the publisher relies on ad revenue for its survival.

Sony's problems were many: brutal competition for its once - dominant television group; being bested by Apple's (aapl) iPod, a humiliation for the Walkman pioneer; high - cost manufacturing in Japan; a failure to seize the music - streaming initiative despite years of trying.

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

The British response to the Dunblane massacre was clearly driven in part by emotions — the murder of 15 children, only 5 or 6 years old, and their teacher, who apparently tried to shield them, is clearly emotive.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Some of the largest brewers in the U.S. are trying to reduce their water - to - beer ratio as drought and wildfire threaten the watersheds where they draw billions of gallons every year.

«I wanted to let you know of a few specimens we have an overstock that we are trying to place before the end of the year,» United Tissue Executive Director Alyssa Harrison wrote to a bone research organization.

Lending Loop, when it launched its online peer - to - peer loan portal last year, first tried the Uber approach, but it quickly ran afoul of provincial securities regulators.

«A customer tried to bring a baby kangaroo on the plane as a service animal,» a retired airline customer service agent with 18 years of experience told Business Insider.

In 2011, when Justin Woolverton began experimenting with a dessert of frozen Greek yogurt blended with fruit, he wasn't trying to start a business — much less one that would draw in revenue of $ 49 million in 2016, up almost 21,000 percent over a three - year period.

Gachot adds, «For many years, we have tried to deal with language as if it was a barrier for communication - while with neural machine translation, language difference is what makes the richness of communication between different cultures.»

That's a major global program where they're spending trillions of dollars a year and trying to build this program out for the next decade.

The share prices of big entertainment companies have been extremely volatile over the past year as investors try to assess the winners and losers in the changing video ecosystem.

Efforts to squash review aggregators come from the same playbook that retailers used a few years ago when trying to eliminate «showrooming,» the practice of using a smartphone to comparison shop while inside a brick - and - mortar store.

Over the years a list of potential new entrants has repeatedly tried to upend the economics of the industry to no avail.

Finally, I've tried for years to figure out why some seemingly smart (and arguably perceptive) people never rise to the highest levels of trust and responsibility, even though it's pretty clear that they are hard workers who are definitely trying to get ahead.

First, what our choice for Company of the Year is not: We're not trying to predict the company that will give investors the best return or be a household name in 100 years.

So when she discovered that year two of her rotation would focus mostly on surgery, Holly decided to take a break from medicine and give working for her dad's company a try.

Tsarnaev is accused of killing three people and injuring 264 with a pair of homemade pressure - cooker bombs at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, and with fatally shooting a police officer three days later as he and his 26 - year - old brother, Tamerlan, tried to flee.

Try to make a case that with X years of experience, you deserve receiving a salary which is X % higher because of what you can offer.

The popularity of the «Xoogler» network has popped in recent years, marking an interesting symbiosis between Alphabet, which has increasingly tried to keep its entrepreneurial talent on board, and ex-employees who feel pulled to venture out on their own while still relying on its extensive network.

«You see these little companies building out service brands because they want to have account executives who work with customers,» Atkinson adds, «so they try to spin their products into serving three different groups in the first couple of years, and that's a very adverse situation to get into.

In changing a core part of Facebook — the 7 - year - old «like» button has become synonymous with the social network — the company said it tried to keep things familiar.

In more than 25 years of practice, he has tried 20 federal criminal and civil cases, almost all to juries that returned verdicts.

The first two years I tried my cleanse, all of the stress I left behind promptly came back when I returned to my desk one week later.

I've tried over the years to write many times about the realism of the downsides of being an entrepreneur because there is a complete cognitive dissidence between what you read about yourself in the press and what you feel internally about where you're at in the journey.

In fact, over half of daily e-cigarette users had quit smoking in the past five years, compared to just 28 % of those who had never tried them.

Advice abounds this time of year, and Katie Morrell recently offered tips on the Open Forum blog, including pre-planning activities and structure for your intern to prevent you running around the office trying to find things for your intern to do once they arrive, as well as regular check - ins to ask about their experience and swap tasks they hate for to - dos they'll get more out of.

«The last couple of years I've been trying to learn percussion a bit, which has been challenging,» he said.

In November 2009, Stephen Elop stood before what remains of the Berlin Wall, trying to comprehend the change that engulfed eastern Europe 20 years earlier.

«Having taught at Stanford now for 30 years... one of the things I think that we're failing even in our elite education — and we're failing at Stanford although we're trying — is teaching people to fight constructively,» Sutton said.

So, two years ago McGuinty followed Quebec's example by trying to build much of the needed equipment within its own borders.

BM: There is more clarity of focus, and there are a lot of people around who have a very deep domain of knowledge, and that gives us the ability to skip over things we might have tried a few years ago.

He spent nine years trying to crack the happiness code, approaching the task from the logic - driven perspective of an engineer.

Abe, now in his sixth year in office, had tried to put behind him questions over the sale of state owned land at a huge discount to a school operator with ties to his wife, Akie.

Democrats said Republican leaders, flexing their new political muscle after big wins in the midterm elections that will give them control of both chambers of Congress next year, had gone too far in trying to roll back Dodd - Frank.

The number of middle - class thieves grew this year, too, as those hit hard by the recession tried to keep up with the Joneses.

Try this historic hotel and hunting lodge in North Wales, in the U.K., which has been owned and managed for the past four years by an American who spends most of his time stateside, running another business.

So far he has tried shaking up his own executive team, replacing two presidents of the U.S. business in two years, eliminating the chief operating officer role, and reorganizing the U.S. business to make it «a flatter, more nimble organization,» says the company.

However, before entrepreneurs in the tech space try to figure out their angle, they should consider whether the story is accurate or another of the many PR fakes Apple has pulled over the years.

This year, when he tried to dock at the French port of Antibes, Abramovich found the only spot big enough to park the 530 - foot boat was already being used by a Saudi Prince's yacht.