Sentences with phrase «rough it»

One of Ballmer's favorite examples of what he's trying to accomplish is a grant to support a community policing project at Harvard Park, a rough neighborhood in south LA.

Whether you're a first - time inventor or an entrepreneur who's tasted failure more than once, you know it takes confidence to show others your startup's rough sketch.

After a rough summer of market volatility and expectations of rising interest rates, bonds are back.

When we start building a community we tend to have a bit of a rough edge, we are figuring things out as we go, getting it right sometimes, getting it wrong often.

The ensuing flip - flop even prompted one writer to publish an online compendium to the issue entitled «A rough guide to the Conservative's carbon tax farce.»

«This journey to engineering was rough and I was doing it by myself,» she said.

Though he experienced some rough sledding, he got through it.

«Rough life.»

Look out: Falling oil prices could rough up stocks in the new year, says trader Jack Bouroudjian.

Rather than sweat over business plans, they throw out something rough, then tweak and experiment.

The Rams or Chargers could see their values spike above $ 2.1 billion after relocating, at least $ 500 million higher than if they stayed put, according to rough projections by Vrooman.

Using that admittedly rough method, Verzello and Goodwin estimated the size of the national gay market to be about $ 240 million.

But on the debit side, Japan's machinery orders fell, a rough proxy for Asian business investment, fell by 25.8 % on the year in November (offsetting any enthusiasm for the Japanese yen, which is normally in demand as a safe haven on days like this.)

One morning, after he woke — or maybe he was still up, he can't recall — he sat at the kitchen table and wrote «MyPillow» over and over until he'd sketched the rough logo for a product that didn't exist.

But the season was likely rough for electronics retailers, where sales fell 2.3 % but stellar for beauty retailers, where sales were up 6.7 %.

It all comes back to the need for crystal clear vision: Sometimes picturing the end result and the satisfaction of the challenge being behind you is the only way to make it through the rough spots.

By sharing the stages she goes through — and which she feels are a pretty universal to creative projects — she hopes to inspire others to stick with their own creative endeavors through all the inevitable rough patches.

Golf has had a rough history in China, but as of this week it's officially legal to play the game again, according to The Guardian.

I'll admit that 18 hours of transit is rough compared to the two or three hours that a flight covering the same distance would take.

In Scaramucci's first appearance in front of the White House press corps in his new role last week, he said he and Priebus «are a little bit like brothers, where we rough each other up once in a while, which is totally normal for brothers.»

It's a rough time of year for wall flowers.

Here's a rough outline of the 15 slides every investment pitch should contain, based on my experience pitching hundreds of investors and ultimately raising over $ 100 million in funding for Kaltura.

The strategy was, of course, met with skepticism, and Lavalin found itself under pressure to divest the assets during a rough patch.

Find the diamonds in the rough, the talented folks who might not fit the classic mold.

Entrepreneurs should be as conservative with their money as possible to be able to deal with any rough patch that arises.

More than 320 employees in 20 quarries and six plants across Canada and the U.S. produce its materials, using 1.5 million cubic feet of rough blocks each year.

One of the nation's biggest insurance providers, Prudential Financial faced a rough year at its core unit.

«An ISO 9000 advisor could give you a rough sketch of the registration process and help you get started,» stated Nation's Business.

He grew up in a working - class family in Newcastle, had a pretty rough time of it, and got out as soon as he could.

Observers, including Fortune «s own Philip Elmer - Dewitt, believe the new talent will help smooth the rough edges of a technology that's as personal as a bracelet, watch, or ring.

On Monday, two powerful conservative leaders in the House declared the blueprint unacceptable because it relies on giving people refundable tax credits to purchase insurance — a policy mechanism that, in a very rough sense, resembles Obamacare's subsidies to buy mandated health coverage (and is therefore being slammed by conservatives as just another entitlement program).

During a call with analysts on Wednesday, Weisler explained that the rough marketplace is «the new normal» and that he would «not be completely satisfied» until HP returns «to sustained growth.»

Reform is needed, said Villanova School of Business Economist David Fiorenza, if only to keep state budgets out of the red if the economy hits another rough patch.

As he puts it, «Founders inevitably will have to overcome rough patches and patches where they don't know what the right answer is.

It has clear rough edges with compatibility and reliability today, but given some time, it should be the path forward.

«Our culture has gotten too mean and too rough, especially to children and teenagers,» she said, speaking at a rally outside Philadelphia.

And then when you look at it, when you think, «Wow,» when you have a rough day, «my life's not as good as that.»

The team is still struggling frantically to smooth out the sorts of bugs and rough edges in Baxter that appeared early in my demo.

It was rough in the beginning, but there was no temptation to call back John Deere and ask for my job back.

The road may be rough at first, but someone who's ready to see your business through and can tell you why it's worth it to them is someone you want on your team.

You'll probably find three (embarrassing) things: Client processes have some pretty rough edges, the procedures rely on lots of manual legwork and some steps that used to make sense do not anymore.

Given that growth may already be slowing, you can expect Snap to have a rough first year, especially as direct competition from Facebook's multiple platforms increases.

Not to mention Facebook's current valuation, which, after its recent rough patch, looks the most attractive it's been in months.

The logic: It's been a rough year for the Seminoles, but the team was able to keep its streak of bowl appearances alive thanks to a late run of wins and a bit of slightly questionable math.

The financial news site 24/7 Wall Street does rough calculations of its own to determine the losses in real value to Berkshire's holdings, and the results aren't pretty.

The first three weeks of January were particularly rough, he said, which caused some customers to decide against buying new technology infrastructure, he explained.

And if you're wondering how much sleep is enough, here's a rough guide: One of the most acclaimed sleep researchers, Daniel Kripke, found in a recent study that «people who sleep between 6.5 hours and 7.5 hours a night, live the longest, are happier, and most productive.»

But of course, sometimes even an honest company, trying its best to treat people right, can hit a rough patch.

Depending on your dorm, there's a good chance you might not have air conditioning, making the beginning and the end of your school year pretty rough.

Dana Gardner, principal analyst with InterArbor Solutions, a research firm that also consults for HPE, said the company has weathered rough weather and come out the other side.