Sentences with phrase «past year fighting»

She's been spending the past year fighting against single - use plastics in Savannah because of the dangerous effects they are having on the coastal Georgia marine life and their unique barrier island waterway system.

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While Canadians enjoyed Balsillie's fight with the NHL these past two years, there is no doubt that he has the fight of its life on his hands in the in the near future and must reinvent his company to remain competitive in this market.

Don't worry, it's not as bad as the epic back and forth of the past few years, as Congress decided to impose burdensome new requirements, the small business community fought back, and then Congress (typically) fought childishly among themselves about how to pay for a repeal.

He's also a fighting champion, putting his undefeated record on the line four times in the past two years, most notably in two absolutely brutal victories over Sergey Kovalev to become the unified light heavyweight champion of the world.

In years past, there might be a handful of teams fighting for last in the NBA and the 25 % shot at the first overall draft pick (and assurance that you'd fall no lower than fourth) that comes with it.

A: «I've spent the past 12 years of my life fight or flight.

«The real driver behind the show's shenanigans is that the VMAs and MTV have lost the cultural cachet they had in years past, so the network is dependent on outrageous on - stage antics and pre-show Twitter fights to get people to watch.»

For the past four years, I told them to give up that fight and accept that gay marriage is inevitable.

The minister of citizenship and immigration has already picked a fight this year with Amnesty International over his plan to enlist the public's help in identifying and rounding up fugitives suspected of hiding in Canada from their alleged past behaviour as war criminals.

«It's been one of the many challenges I've encountered in the past two years, along with being a first timer with no connections, as well as fighting for my artist visa and getting the script in the right hands.»

For the fifth straight year in a row, today the B.C. Liberal government blew past its budget estimate for fighting forest fires.

Over the past 50 years, Christianity and pop music have blended, clashed and fought with secular ideas.

The L.A. Times «report is based on their extensive research of the Scouts» «perversion files;» a confidential blacklist of alleged sex offenders that they have fought to keep private for the past forty years...

What would the course of American history and the quality of our national life have been like over the past 110 years or so if the U.S. had not fought the Civil War?

For the past 50 years it's been fighting a losing battle to stay relevant to Western Europe, where churches regularly stand almost empty.

Over the past two years, she said, 45 women have been detained and one woman, Hoffman herself, has been arrested in the fight over how they want to pray at the wall.

The speech was a brutally frank assessment of the state of Muslim societies as weak, divided and ineffective, with the proof being that «over the past 50 years of fighting in Palestine we have not achieved any result.

And while his stance has certainly mellowed with the years - he apologized for his past comments and joined with churches in 2008 to fight malaria - his suggestion that God may have had a hand in the oil disaster that killed 11 and is threatening the Gulf Coast may take some by surprise.

Although the United States was spared any major assassination attempts during the past year, many Americans, both lawmakers and concerned citizens, are continuing to fight for gun control.

With good reason: the term has come into prominence only in the past dozen years (after Newsweek named 1976 «The Year of the Evangelical»), and evangelicals themselves fight over what the term does and should mean.

hi there my name is gypsy i have a 6 and half year old daughter can't have gluten or dairy seems to react once taken out of her diet improved but test negative for celiac now i have been sick for the past 4 years supposedly with fibromyalgia and 2 yr after that ross river now i wonder after reading ur posts if maybe i should get tested myself still awaiting see specialist and most doctors just push me aside seems like a fighting battle.

Like him or not, Tony is very passionate about MMA and has put in impressive work over the past several years despite not getting the chance to fight Conor or Khabib through no fault of his own.

But they do three different halftime shows each year, so the only thing they've done the same every halftime for the past five years is play the fight song as they march off.

Rua was coming back off a blown out ACL and hadn't fought for the better part of a year, Rampage was past his prime and completely shut down in trying to round out his game long before have fought Jones.

The one thing that Nova has had for the past 5 - 10 years is 2 things — 1 an awful on - campus arena and 2) the hope and / or potential that the smart leadership of Villanova would see the limitations of the current situation and then fight to get a much better situation for the school.

Unlike Miocic, who just set the record this past January at UFC 220 for consecutive heavyweight title defenses at three, Lesnar last fought in July of 2016 after nearly five years away from the Octagon.

So I don't see him waiting 2 - 3 years to get Canelo back in the ring, nor do I see him being super busy like in the past (3 - 4 fights a year) at this stage of his career.

Similarly to Loftus - Cheek, the youngster hasn't had the chances with the Blues over the past year or so, and it seems as though Chelsea are ready to let him leave with the likes of Swansea and Watford left to fight over his services.

They will not be coasting into a Top Seed like in years past but instead will need to fight through the Regular Season to secure their spot..

«It is good to see all the people again, fighting for the club like we have for the past few years,» Carvalho said.

Arsenal are a successful club and will always be seriously last season was not that bad for the past 21 years we remind a the top four no club in England had achieved that 21 years on the trot I believe we needed a new look at ourselves and the reason why we have not won it we have not won the premier league in the past 12 years while clubs such Leicester have won it having said that we were the only team to have won them home and away we seem to be a little short at every term in one stage opponents literally broke our players and some were very viciously broken every one ganged against us and we crumbled to the pressure we need to assert our self by winning lower tear competitions and grow to be strong and fight it hard and give other teams what we were giving Firstly we need to unite and create a fortress at the emirate stadium become the twelfth team player once we get the fundamentals right I know and guarantee we will win it all we need to plant our feet in the ground we need unite become one strong unit

Barcelona have also shown an interest in the 26 - year - old in the past, but it now looks like being a two - way fight between Arsenal and United for his signature in this transfer window.

The player has failed to acquire a work permit in the past three years and subsequently spent that time on loan, but his tweet stating «Costa Rica see you soon, on my way to fight for my dreams.»

Why can't people for God sake understand the angle the young man was coming from, this is a guy who has come out to suggest what he feel will be of great glory to the team, futbol is about winning trophy not the samba, champaign, tick taka or jambody style Of playwill be accredited to ur cv after retirement, every professional player will wants to be identify with a medal, mind you he have limited years to his career, therefore we should not allow sentment or affections we have for our various teams erode the basic objective of the game.we should also think about their future too, this guys are proffessionals which young lads are looking up to and questions will be ask tomorrow about theirs playing days.can people tell me why pele and some other famous players in the world both present and past are been celebrated today the answer is simply cos they are successful in their career and have trophy to show for it in their respective clubs or countries, why the complain in nigeria?its simply cos our team for quite a while now has not recorded any troph to her glory, fans should learn how to call a spade a spade in order to balance situation and also for better performance of the team.why then did arsene wenger hurridly went to buy more experienced players after the poor outing he had at the beggining of last season?this players know beta cos they are at the centre of it all, we don't have to trash what they say, we fans are only watching from screen, in as much as we beliv in arsen wenger, we should also know that without the boys no arsen wenger, fans should try to reason along with the players too.an hypotetical cases of similar to rvp has been tested by some players and have put them right over the coach and the team.so, whatelse does the fans needs to prove that futbol has gone beyond living in the past.for example, fabrigas and nasri were able to prove their critics wrong.thank God for them, we should always be objective in our submission, how else do we expect players to show their commitment to a team that was in 8 on the log table and later fought their way back to 3rd this boys are commendable and deserve to be encouraged, I think is high time the manager and the mgt board of arsenal futbol team get to know that game of futbol has gone beyond two teams domination, its now like a pendilum which can swing either way only with a powerful insrument called money.you can't eat ur cake and have.

It was a typically self - deprecating comment, whereas in reality the 40 - year - old had been training hard for this race for the past few months and was determined to go down fighting.

There's been a bit of bad blood in this fixture over the past couple of years and with us fighting for the league and Hull desperate to avoid relegation I don't expect anything different.

Besides, this is a team which in the past three years has been to a Champions League final, we're playing for another Coppa Italia final, and we're in the fight for the Scudetto.

It would be a complete reversal of the trends that Mississippi State's defense has fallen into the past few years and would give the Bulldogs a fighting chance to get to 8 or 9 wins this season.

There's been a bit of bad blood in this fixture over the past couple of years and with us fighting for the league and -LSB-...]

For the past 20 years, ConAgra Foods and the ConAgra Foods Foundation have worked to fight child hunger, partnering with some of the largest nonprofits dedicated to child hunger, such as Feeding America ®.

He told me that sex has never been important to him and it has always affected his past relationships (granted he told me this after 4 years of fighting about sex).

It is seen in the fight that Leigh Kendall has demonstrated for the past three years since Hugo was born, in her ability to hold true to who she is, and be proud of her own achievements and fight, like really fight, like no other.

Just when my husband and I thought sleepless nights were a thing of the past, my daughter recently started putting up a fight at bedtime and waking up in the middle of the night crying, behaviors I thought she grew out of a year ago.

This past year I have seen kids fighting for what they believe is right, it has been magnificent.

Cockerell has fought to create these programmes for the past six years.

He claimed 200,000 people have died in the past three years of fighting between black African rebel groups on one side, and government forces and the Janjaweed Arab militia on the other.

In the past 100 years, they have fought wars along most of these borders.

In spite of having been formed just over the past year and a half, they will all fight the May 2015 general election, fielding candidates across the North of England.

Adam Haber will fight to defend the progress we've made for the past eight years.»

The HMRC are intent on fronting their story with the «good news» that the Revenue have managed to reduce the gap by # 4 billion in the past year and the claim that they are determined to fight rich tax avoiders, but this is nothing more than political propaganda.