Sentences with phrase «several difficult years»

After several difficult years in the construction sector, the big graduate recruiters are back in the market, and their lead is being followed by some of the smaller players.

After several difficult years, it does appear that, thanks to some really constructive work with the DfE, we are now moving towards a system that teachers, parents and pupils can have faith in.

Egoyan coaxes credibly haunted performances from some of his cast (including an anguished Reynolds), and he uses the shuffled scene order to demonstrate the depths his distraught characters sink to, sometimes leaping in one cut from happy times to several difficult years later.

«The state budget enacted last year gave school district leaders hope after several difficult years that financial prospects for their schools might at last be turning around,» said Deputy Director Bob Lowry.

We have to prepare for several difficult years for a few reasons.

The departure follows several difficult years for the UK hedge fund company and comes amid plans to rein in costs and reverse an exodus of investors from its funds.

Not exact matches

It's a small service that was quite difficult and expensive to execute when Research in Motion introduced it on its BlackBerry devices several years ago.

This results in what experts call «fragmentation» — meaning there are hundreds of different versions of Android worldwide, many several years old, making it difficult to keep them current with the latest security features.

Then we were able to go to the employees, who were the owners, and said, «The customer is with us, now do you want to protect your equity which is worth nothing, and will be difficult, tenuous and poverty - stricken to try to protect over the next several years.

He served on our board for several years and never shied away from difficult conversations, often picking up the roles that other board members didn't want.

The care system for the elderly has been in crisis for several years with private care homes finding it increasingly difficult to make ends meet.

Several years ago, on the heels of a difficult season in my marriage, I sat down with a mentor, seeking advice.

This post was actually written several years ago when I was indeed going through a very difficult time in my life, and nearly every top Christian song that hit the radio sounded empty and meaningless, as if those who wrote them had never experienced any real pain or hardship.

The reason children require a number of years to develop mastery of certain basic concepts, according to some child psychologists, is not that they are slow in learning the words — they actually know the words quite early — but that they have to start experiencing the world in a new, more simplified way that corresponds with the classifications suggested by these words.4 For example, young children may know the words spoon, teaspoon, silver, knife, and metal but find it difficult for several years to apply them appropriately to objects in their environment, the reason being partly that these words form multiple and overlapping classifications.

For several years, the employment of Catholic teachers has been difficult.

Perhaps the year's long - term impact will remain unseen for some time, yet for many — especially Christians — there are several undeniable realities from this year that are difficult to overlook.

These folks work long hours at difficult jobs, but they might work for several employers over the course of the year.

«This significant Milk Price increase is welcome news indeed for Fonterra farmers, many of whose farm businesses remain under pressure after several challenging years and a current season marked by some difficult weather conditions.»

The actual spend per annum on transfers is difficult to determine as often the payments are made in stages, in other words spread over several years.

Before having children I worked in London as programmer for a large international bank, after having baby number three I made the difficult decision to set up my own company and have for the last 4 years been working as a freelance social media consultant as well as running several of my own blogs.

«For the last several years it was very difficult to get that thickness.»

I totally agree with Dr. Kim here: «I still believe that it is difficult for most people to experience their best health while following a 100 percent vegan diet for more than several years at most.»

I still believe that it is difficult for most people to experience their best health while following a 100 percent vegan diet for more than several years at most.

This, along with a difficult birth that knocked my spine out of alignment and left me unable to feel or move my right leg for several weeks, resulted in a year of no sex.

Actually, with half a dozen hyperactive under 11 - year - old girls who haven't seen each other for several days, it is difficult to think about anything other than how to get them to stop talking, listen to what you are saying and then watch them nonchalantly execute the drill, before they return to the back of the line to continue whatever it is that under - 11 girls talk about.

«Although returns have generally been favorable over the last several years, the expectation is that they will be more difficult to achieve going forward,» the agency stated in the November bulletin.

The governor predicted the Senate GOP will «say Amen» after having a chance to read the tax cap bill, pointing out it would be difficult for them to reject this cap when they passed a four percent cap several years ago — not to mention his bill (although he didn't mention that).

State Education Commissioner John King Jr. said he was also grateful for the emergency funds and blamed a «structural imbalance in funding for the past several years» for «the difficult decision» to cut the exams.

Congressional incumbents running for re-election this year are doing so in a difficult environment, with several key indicators among the worst they have been in midterm election years.

«When Rand Paul pulls a stunt like this, it easy to understand why it's difficult to be Rand Paul's next door neighbor,» said Dent, referring to the neighbor who assaulted Paul last year, breaking several of his ribs and sending him to the hospital.

Unfortunately, over the past year a difficult personal circumstance involving the care of a loved one prevented me from being in Albany for several session days, but I have worked hard to continue to fight for my constituents and expect to be able to have excellent attendance again next year.»

Medical ethics covers the appropriate use of biomaterials in patients and for certain applications, but it also can help you deal with difficult situations, such as when you discover that a particular biomaterial you've spent several years developing «has some toxicity, or some adverse reaction with the tissue or with the body.

The epidemic in Senegal, which began in the late 1980s, has proved difficult to treat for several years.

After several years of teaching, they each went on to earn master's degrees (Bill at MIT; Larry at Stanford University), then Ph.D. s. Bill's work at MIT resulted in two publications and unpublished contributions toward the solution of a difficult experimental problem: the deceptively simple 2NO2 / N2O4 equilibrium, which was still under investigation 25 years after his graduation.

When rock climbing many years ago, I often found that while tackling a difficult move I would try several times, and then my body would suddenly go for it and be over the hard part.

The inefficient technique won't supplant traditional mining, but the idea of using microbes as production facilities for a range of rare and difficult - to - produce materials has been gaining traction over the past several years.

The closest globular cluster to Earth is still several thousand light - years away, making it difficult to find planets, particularly in a cluster's crowded core.

Several years later, the genomic revolution gave the new PhD graduate the opportunity «to address the difficult questions in cancer biology.»

I wrote the book, after 50 years of finding my way out of a childhood of abuse, and many difficult circumstances, including divorce after 20 years, and several big failures — and achieving a life that by any standards, is really wonderful.

I have followed your advice for several years which has changed my life so transitioning my son was not difficult.

I have done Kenpo for several years and know how difficult this type of training can be.

I added a Mint Kate Spade bag to compliment the deep navy's in the outfit, this color is such a great color for spring and I love that it's made of Saffiano leather - something that's being phased out in several designer bags and can be more difficult to find in the coming year.

Traveling with children is not a crisis Even if traveling with kids is a very difficult activity to do, it does not mean that you should forget about the outside world for several years.

And production went on for several very, very difficult years.

A sensation when it screened at Sundance, it centers on single mother Amelia (the astonishing Essie Davis), still a mess of grief after the death of her husband several years earlier, who's struggling to raise her difficult, damaged son Samuel (Noah Wiseman).

Drinking Rules for 12 Years a Slave: 1) Drink whenever someone calls Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor) anything other than his real name 2) Drink for extended landscape shots 3) Drink any time you see shots of people lined up in a group Finish Your Drink When: Solomon says, «Please forgive my appearance, but I have had difficult times the past several years.&rYears a Slave: 1) Drink whenever someone calls Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor) anything other than his real name 2) Drink for extended landscape shots 3) Drink any time you see shots of people lined up in a group Finish Your Drink When: Solomon says, «Please forgive my appearance, but I have had difficult times the past several years.&ryears.»

Futuresource Consulting is projecting a difficult year for the sales of personal computers into the K - 12 education sector *, with the status of several large scale national tenders uncertain due to unstable economic conditions.

During a visit to Ontario several years ago, one of the authors asked a young math teacher if becoming a teacher in Canada was really as difficult as policy makers made it out to be.

Afolabi's death was difficult for the cohort who had grown close in their four years together, and they first wore pins in his honor several years ago.

Ellen is the author or coauthor of several books for educators, including Secrets for Secondary School Teachers: How to Succeed in Your First Year, On Being a Teacher, Secrets to Success for Beginning Elementary School Teachers, Counseling Skills for Teachers, English Language Learners in Your Classroom: Strategies That Work, Secrets to Success for Science Teachers, Students Who Drive You Crazy: Succeeding with Resistant, Unmotivated, and Otherwise Difficult Young People, and The Teacher's Journey.