Sentences with phrase «second year of trying»

We are in the second year of trying to rebuild a football team that is not one of the best teams in the world.

Not exact matches

His performance Wednesday revealed his willingness to bite the hand that feeds, ridiculing representatives of Wall Street's biggest banks who tried to pinpoint how he'd live up to his promises to build more Model 3 sedans and generate cash in the second half of the year.

Where it became very valuable is in your turf, Kara, in your domain, because what we did in the course I started teaching, a second - year course, 450 MBAs took it in 1993,» 94,» 95, is try and understand the rhymes of past industrial revolutions with what was then being called «the computer revolution» that became the smartphone revolution that became the digital revolution.

He first tried trading in his second year of studies in 2015, starting with the BP Canada Trading Competition held each October at UCalgary.

Our most sophisticated models can't predict movements in 60 seconds (consistently, didn't stop us from trying as a joke activity) and it is sad that retail traders who don't even have a fraction of the tools or computing power think they can outperform, except of course the lucky ones (elementary 1st year university statistics predicts that, so they are lucky not talented).

Woods» best finish this season is a tie for second at the Valspar Championship, but said he's still trying to get a gauge for where his overall game is following years of persistent back problems.

If you were the creator of a universe 100 billion light years in diameter, that probably is also multi-dimensional as well as eternal, would you hang around trying to impress a group of arrogant primates who a milli - second ago were brachiating among the tress of Africa?

They not only welcomed me, and treated me like a valuable person right from the start, but they got me through two of the hardest years of my life, when I had to leave the job I had to take 10 and a half weeks post op from my second open heart surgery in less than a year, (couldn't get disability) and try one more time to get SSDI.

Disillusioned with romance after my second divorce, I decided to take a year off from conventional dating to try to figure out how to succeed at finding a wife with whom I could spend the rest of my life in unspoiled domestic bliss.

We both went on with our lives and I've tried to contact him a few years ago, but he ignored my messages of asking forgiveness and a second chance to make things right - which I understand as he is a proud man and I wish him all the happiness and blessings in the world.

this cult tried to change everything in the country to match their religious doctrine, a book that says gay people are evil, women are second class citizens, the world was made 6k years ago and a whole bunch of evil / ignorant dogma.

A few years ago, in a moment of lonely desperation, I googled something having to do with «Christians against biblical inerrancy» (for some reason you were on the first or second page of search results...) because I was trying to find out if there was anyone else who was thinking about the Scriptures in a different way from what I had encountered.

His liberal critics, of whom there are many, have over the years accused of him of trying to roll back the Second Vatican Council (1962 - 1965).

Since I had already made my usual Gingerbread Men recipe earlier this season, I decided that I would branch out and try a new one for my second round of cookies this year.

He may very well try again during the second - biggest show of the year.

Despite murmours of interest from big names like Arsenal and Liverpool, who of course tried to sign him prior to his move to Real, the 18 - year - old eventually became something of a coup for Everton for the second half of the 2016/17 season.

If you want to tell me that Mesut isn't the way, I'm more open to listening to that than I've been the last 3 years — though I still think he would thrive with Santi and Le Coq behind him and dynamic 9 in front of him — but don't try to convince me for one second that Ramsey is the answer.

Carolina's topline, centered by Rod Brind «Amour, drew the attention of Pronger and partnerJason Smith for most of the series, giving it the dubious honor of trying towipe that David Letterman - like gap - toothed smile off Pronger's unmarked face.That matchup gave Carolina's second - line center, Staal, a degree of liberty.The 6» 4», 205 - pound Staal matter - of - factly led playoff scoring with 28points, including eight in the finals - a remarkable achievement by a 21 - year - oldwho is as modest as his roots, which really do come from the soil.

Now, my second reason for writing you this letter is to try and see if I can appeal to you, to consider the love Arsenal fans have for you and sign the new contract Arsenal football club is offering, at least even if it is just for two more years, instead of four years!

Tubby, you called it mate, we have the most fickle fans on the planet, last night doesn't mean all of a sudden were crap, what it does mean is certain players need to take a long hard look at themselves as Arsene is taking serious heat by showing his loyalty to them namely, ozil and per, just not good enough and as for welbeck he should never been given an arsenal shirt, Giroud had a mare but he has proven this year that he is a great squad player but can not be our first choice striker, gooners keep the faith and hope that Monaco try to play ball in second leg cos if we turn up we could still hammer them.

Are you really naive enough to believe that Wenger would bring anyone into this current locker room that is going to be given a strong voice... have you not been watching, listening or reading about our club for years... Lehman is a blind Wenger follower, which is the only reason he was even considered... just for a second think of all the strong personalities that have played for this club that have never been seriously considered even though they have expressed legitimate interest in participating in the coaching process... even worse, think of all the former greats who aren't even allowed on the same pitch as Wenger because they have offered their advice and / or criticism to the infallible one... I dare you to find a manager that has distanced himself from his former players as much as this man... it's the very reason why only one player I can think of has ever returned to play for Wenger and that was Flamini, which was hilarious considering we were desperately looking for a top quality defensive midfielder but Wenger could somehow find no one better than Flamini in the whole wide world... let's face it this club was simply trying to appease it's disgruntled fans by declaring that Wenger would no longer be given Ca rte Blanche when it came to the backroom staff so they probably asked him to give them a list of those who he would allow in the locker room... on that list he wrote Lehman, Pires and Bergkamp, likely because the first two are the only former players who haven't publicly questioned his horrible decision - making and the last one because he won't get in an airplane

Well im not in a wonderland he has his failings as we all do and great teams find a way to win good teams sit where we are 6 -5-4 but thats besides the point and it would be nice if your aunty had bolocks cause then we d be second but ive watched the games were an offensive team most the time although were terrible in the pissing rain but for the most part the game plans have worked weve created chances quality scoring chances one after the other problem is for me the finishing unless we sit back with 9 man behind the ball or ten when you push forward you will give up a goal if you lousy forwards fail to finish the set ups have been there this year but our strikers have failed to kill the games if we create quality chances and grab leads in the first 60 minutes like we have for the most part and in those games those games should of been killed even if we give a goal or two alongside the strategy but we failed to hit multiple should be goals we tried laca we'll see abou auba although hes a bit lazy so far but we'll see but we've lacked that quality in front goal a player the chances have been there im looking at the failure of the strikers and maybe that is his fault but monreal has scored as many goals recently as our strikers and thats sad our defenders or a midfielder will score and our stikers cant tally one in th first 60 mins of a game alongside them then were tired for last 40 give them hope there still only down one and we rue our missed chances while they push thats where iv been frustrated with this season not the tactics but the finishing

Charlie Morton takes the mound for the «Stros, while CC Sabathia tries to get the Yankees to win their second come - from - behind postseason series of the year.

Then after an exchange of I love you's and a hug with his older sister, the 24 - year - old driver for Richard Petty Motorsports tried to put into words what it meant to finish second in NASCAR's biggest race following a year where his place within the sport was uncertain because he lacked sponsorship.

They're trying to surround their second year QB with a bunch of receiving talent after a year with a bad receiver group (similar to the Eagles last year).

With Bayer Leverkusen central defensive organiser, Omer Toprak likely to be out until the end of the year after rupturing tendons in his left - hamstring during a pre-season friendly, the Rhineland outfit are desperate to plug the hole and after trying and failing to bring in Bayern Munich's Brazilian stopper, Dante — who seems quite content with a second banana role at the Allianz - Arena — «Werkself» director of sport, Rudi Voller will have to look elsewhere for emergency cover, maybe in the direction of Wolfsburg back - up, Timm Klose or Tobias Strobl at Hoffenheim.

It would be a case of second time lucky for the Merseyside club in their pursuit of the Egyptian, who they first tried to recruit three years ago under the stewardship of Brendan Rodgers.

Fast forward two and half years, I fell pregnant again, realised the errors of my ridiculous judgement and decided to give babywearing a try when my second son arrived 9 months later.

I can't really see candidates doing a whole lot of advertising on porn sites (though I'd love to see someone try), but appearances in Second Life and other immersive online worlds are a definite possibility (may I point out that more sites than just Boing Boing noticed that Mark Warner held a virtual event earlier this year?).

A Washington - based hairstylist says the president - elect's second wife, Marla Maples, tried to get out of paying her to style her tresses and those of her 23 - year - old daughter, Tiffany Trump, for Inauguration Day.

Three quarters say the governor hasn't done enough to try to stem corruption in the state, in a year where both leaders of the legislature have been arrested for running fraudulent scams, and the second in command in the Senate is currently on trial, accused of lying to FBI agents.

Earlier this year, Sampson was slapped with a second indictment, alleging that he lied to the FBI about his ownership of a Bed - Stuy liquor store and tried to lobby the state to have the shop's tax bill lowered.

So, after a string of short - term positions in academia — 1 year teaching, a 2 - year postdoc in Italy, and 16 months in a second postdoc back in France — she decided to try her luck elsewhere.

This is the second time the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society has collected information on the previous year's weather extremes and tried to tease out the role of climate change in those events.

But when a Second Lifer who calls himself Nimrod Yaffle tried to log in to the community earlier his year, he discovered his avatar had been sequestered in a surreal, isolated landscape: infinite rows of corn, spread out under a dark sky, with nothing else in sight except a small red tractor and a black - and - white television set playing the 1940 film Boy in Court.

When Cormac McCarthy was writing The Crossing in the 1990s, the second book of his Border Trilogy series, he found inspiration for the story of a haunted sixteen - year - old boy trying to catch a wolf in McBride's tale of spending eleven months hunting a single wolf in Mexico.

Oktay has already tried the technique on a 30 - year - old dancer from Arizona who'd had her first ovary removed at 17 because of cysts but had the foresight to have her second ovary frozen.

The main hope of rescuing the mission, intended to study the planet's climate, appears to be a second try at inserting it into orbit when it approaches the planet again in about 6 years.

Vasiliki Pavlidou, a second - year postdoc at the University of Chicago and the subject of our first profile, uses methods from particle physics to identify — or to try to identify — unknown, persistent gamma ray sources.

'' Between my second serious flare - up of Ulcerative Colitis (trying a barage of different drugs which failed) and being correctly diagnosed Crohn's, I spent a year on a proven and medically supported elimination diet.

Try a mid-year review to reignite your spark for the second half of the year.

My first pregnancy did lead to weight gain that I couldn't get rid of (I was so sick during my second pregnancy that I ended the pregnancy at the same weight I began it), and I have struggled with trying to lose that weight - and more - over the past 8.5 years, but over the past six months I have incorporated intermittent fasting along with keto and am down 34 lbs with another 30 to go to get back to my maintenance weight.

The very first time i tried couple of years back, it took me about 6 - 7 months and the second time was about 3 months.

I've been trying to loose since the second semester of junior year, when I was dangerously close to 300.

I have been reading about the benefits of switching from cotton pillow cases to silk pillow cases for the better part of a year and last month I finally decided to order myself one pillow case to try out before adding a second pillowcase.

Up until my senior year of high school I would spend the whole day before the first day trying on any and every outfit combination I could think of and forcing my Mom and brother to watch my «Back to School Fashion Show» in order to pick out my first day attire (and then second, third, fourth, etc. as well).

I tried out lots of new products the second half of the year, so get ready for a few more beauty posts over the next few months.

My first tip was all about learning to love your partner well this Valentine's Day (read the full post here), while my second tip was more of a challenge to try something new this year (full article here).

There are countless possible reasons for this but we recommend that regardless of whether you are getting a first date but not a second, or are you only getting to a month or a year, that you spend time trying to understand and improve yourself.

I've been trying for four years, and I can count on one hand the number of guys that have turned into a second date — never mind beyond.