Sentences with phrase «plodding on»

When something isn't working you can't just continue plodding on in the same fashion and hope that you will get different results.

To date, my wife Sally and I have walked from the North Sea in Holland to Nice (2,300 km) and then between Vienna and Brittany (2,900 km) and we are now on a further trek — crossing the Alps for the second time — between Heidelberg and Verona (900 km to date, and still plodding on).

Good to see you still plodding on with this Jennifer.

I write in the evenings, leaving daytime to do things I can't do in the evening and night, plodding on, alternating between books, hubpages and comments etc..

It plodded on through but kind of came to a full stop when the last of the dates was added in.

He could plod on with Adam Lallana and Oxlade - Chamberlain for that role, but that's Klopp's way.

Regardless, lawmakers were planning Wednesday to plod on, get a budget enacted and get out of town for a «cooling off» period.

But he plodded on.

This was the only day we had that poured with rain and was freezing cold but we plodded on.

As the movie plods on, the jokes start to fall flat... Worst of all is a centerpiece scene, when Ben has to pretend to be a mafioso (but sounds more like a cross between Martin and Lewis), when Crystal is so unfunny that you almost feel sorry for him.

Kolia's almost entirely separate descent into thugville is simultaneously overripe and familiar, and I predicted how his storyline would link up with Hadji's literally two hours in advance, as the movie plods on for a wearying two and a half.

As each of the characters try to figure out what he or she really wants, the plot plods on predictably to the inevitable end.

Meanwhile, the horse plodded on down the main street of its own accord, meeting the milkman at the end of the block.

Most of human history was book - free, yet our ancestors plodded on without the musings of Holden Caulfield or the witticisms of Elizabeth Bennet.

Thanks — put another way though — if you just buy a portfolio of say low EV / EBITDA (just as an example), and you basically run 100 % exposure on that approach — does history say in expensive markets you plod on with the same or is there a demonstrable benefit in changing exposure based on overall market valuation?

I'd far rather all three of our cats had a balance of wet and dried but tend to go along with what THEY seem to like and while Ella plods on with dried only thank you Mumsy, George and Ella are happy with a variety.

I realised that I can still accomplish that here, just with a little more practice, and I was eager to plod on.

My guess is that our brains are not wired for this kind of thing, and we will just plod on with our high IQs and PHDs from Yale and Harvard, and the IPCC will issue it's 1,356 th report in the year 2400 and it will be all over, folks.

A judicial attempt to provide legal services paid for by HMCTS has been overturned by the Court of Appeal in re K & H (Children)[2015] EWCA Civ 543, [2015] All ER (D) 230 (May), so the individuals will either plod on, aided if possible by the court staff, the judge and pro bono work by lawyers.

While LG ditched that strategy soon after the launch of the G5 and Moto continues to plod on with its Moto Mods, it's clear this trend was not the future of mobile devices.

He plodded on, with faith and pluck, And when she won, they called it luck.

We have pretty much plodded on ever since, had a lovely summer break and booked a holiday to celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary next year.

Not exact matches

It's a clear, sunny day as you plod along on the water, when suddenly a police helicopter begins circling overhead.

It looks like a glorified scooter, and even today, it's a rare sight to see anyone other than a mall security officer or tourist group plodding along on one.

Back in 2001, the native Vancouverite made a living renovating and reselling Gulf Island houses and cabins, but property markets there and throughout British Columbia merely plodded along, while prices on the islands south of the border were exploding.

Depending on whom you ask, the crisis will either worsen or plod along; hardly anyone says it'll get much better next year.

On the contentious question of what good news the church has for gay Christians, few books are more sober, plodding, or poignant than Oliver O'Donovan's Church in Crisis.

The common habit of using the Bible by concentrating on one verse at a time (which may or may not be a complete sentence) is at best a very slow, plodding way to get at the author's main points, rather like playing dominoes or checkers at the rate of one or two moves per day or per week, and at worst a fragmentation and distortion.

Freeing every woman and man on the face of the earth from poverty is not only its aim, but its steady, plodding achievement generation after generation.

I find it ironic that this CENTURY series focuses on change while I steadily plod toward stability.

I myself spend quality time plodding down by the Thames, exercising away my continued reliance on too much of a good thing (plus, doing a bit of bird - watching.

No player's is bigger than their club but arsene have made it so difficult to sell players on because nobody want our plods with their ridiculously high wages, if ox and sanchez wants to go but nothing under 100 million for both and if they stay don't give in to their wage apart from the one that's being offered at the moment

Skiers are likely to insist that on snowshoes you are a slow - going fellow doing something that is dull and plodding.

His three returning quarterbacks, upperclassmen Billy Dicken and John Reeves and redshirt freshman Clay Walters, were making a mess of the spread passing offense that Tiller intended to unleash on the unsuspecting, plodding Big Ten.

Most of the teams are plodding along on their journey, with quite a long way to go until even the halfway point.

Preseason projections still account for 30 percent of teams» ratings, which doesn't help, but neither do Arizona's poor performance against UTSA or Utah's plodding offense, which has been outgained by the opponent, on a per - play basis, in every game so far.

This season those supposed pistols have been mostly shooting blanks — Charles Howell (24th on the money list) has been solid enough, but David Gossett (82nd), Luke Donald (86th), Matt Kuchar (175th) and Ty Tryon (199th) have been outfoxed and overmatched by the plodding veterans who thrive on the increasingly extreme course setups.

He's happy to plod along on easy street under Wenger, knowing he'll never get subbed, or even shouted at.

come on guys lets get real think with your heads and not with your emotions, do we want a top flight team or we are happy with plodding alone, if its the later then stop complaining about being 4th.

But this will be a low - scoring game, especially if the Tigers play at their usual plodding pace on offense.

This season, however, the results haven't been quite as sterling, as Roma has only earned 11 points from nine matches, plodding along with +1 goal differential on the road.

There is something about plodding through those first five minutes to get the kinks out and then finding your pace, focusing on your breathing and just letting your body move smoothly and naturally.

I know there are earlier ones, but the first one that popped into my head was when my son was about a year, and starting to walk by pushing this toy on wheels; early in the morning, before anyone in our neighbourhood was up, we'd walk around the block, me in my pjs with a mug of tea, the rising sun shining on his bright little face, as he plodded that LONG distance (for his little strides) beside me.

But one year on, it is a law the country has taken to heart.No - one would dare light up in the wrong place — not for fear of the plod, butfear of the public.

Unrepresented at the highest management structure of NOMS, neglected and misrepresented, the probation service has for years plodded along in the shadows, only to be thrust into the limelight when the spotlight fell on individual tragedies amid media frenzies.

Back here on Earth, this once - gorgeous planet, now plodded and trammeled by doomed and flatulent cattle, shall see its scenery restored when billions of acres are replanted with swards of lush, sky - thickening rain forest.

So, instead of plodding along on the treadmill, try kickboxing cardio workout.

At one point or another, most of us have probably dragged ourselves to the gym to «do 20 minutes on the treadmill» and plodded through the entire time with one eye on the clock and the other on Access Hollywood.

Those are the 1 - 2 hour cardio sessions where you're plodding around on a treadmill watching the clock tick by, bored out of your mind.

American Pie Presents The Naked Mile's latter half, as a result, moves along at a plodding pace that's compounded by an episodic structure, as the movie lurches from one ill - conceived set - piece to the next with little thought towards momentum or consistency - which inevitably does confirm the film's place as just another interminable waste of time designed to cash in on the original trilogy's success.