Sentences with phrase «several years fighting»

After spending several years fighting with creditors, you decided to file for bankruptcy.

The Republican governor, who has spent the past several years fighting to change the state's property - tax - reliant school finance formula, once again used the address to call attention to what he sees as the «unfinished business» of finance reform.

In a statement on Tuesday, Franken's office reiterated that he would not run, saying the senator would «spend the next several years fighting on behalf of Minnesota families.»

Not exact matches

«Over the last several years, we have consistently taken the fight to terrorists who threaten our country.

Though he complimented Ackman's intelligence on several occasions and said he did not believe they were still actively fighting, Icahn denied giving the hedge fund manager a hug at the same conference two years earlier.

Former Goldman Sachs (gs) chairman John Whitehead spoke to me several years ago about how he fought offerings that diminished shareholder rights.

The Chilean food industry fought this legislation for several years.

I remember the first time I heard about it at a nutrition conference several years ago, when a nutrition researcher discussed it's anti-inflammatory potential in fighting disease.

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.

Berahino's form has seen him linked several times with bigger clubs, with West Brom perhaps facing a fight to persuade the 21 - year - old that his long - term future remains at the Hawthorns.

But what it got me was the underground fights back several years ago.

If it wasn't for him taking the MW title from Bisping, like the poster above me said — we would've had to wait several months to several years until Bisping fought a deserving contender (i.e. Whittaker)

This House of Cards created by the thin - skinned narcissist and our absentee landlord is going to come crashing down over the next 12 months and anyone who doesn't put the success of the club ahead of blind allegiances will need to check themselves so that we can move forward once the dust has settled... this club has been on auto - pilot for far too long and the same old, same old just won't cut it in the new EPL where many of the best managers, players and deepest pockets in the world now reside... just think to yourself what has transpired in the last 7 years alone: Leicester City won the EPL, Chelsea and ManCity have changed several managers and still won the League on multiple occasions, ManU lost Fergie yet we still didn't take advantage, Liverpool has emerged from their slumber and the Spurs are presently the better team in North London... if you find this acceptable, I feel for you and this future of this club... hope you all enjoy fighting with Everton and West Ham for the final Europa spot every year (aka the new Wenger Cup)

Esocbar has been top 3 of our infield for many years — usually with the luxury of playing him off the bench at several positions — Adrianza will take that role, and Polanco will return to fight for a position.

Exactly my thought.For a big team never every cup matters.I know we think we are a big team, a team that has never won CL and did not win EPL in 9 years but still we call League cup a mickey mouse cup and act like we are too big for it.But there are big teams who won CL, won their league several time and still fight for small cups as well.That is a big team mentality should be, cuz every cup matters.

The Cary Park District voted unanimously to annex about 85 acres of the 260 - acre Hoffman Farm, which Cary and Lake in the Hills officials have been fighting over for several years.

CARY — The Cary Park District voted unanimously to annex about 85 acres of the 260 - acre Hoffman Farm, which Cary and Lake in the Hills officials have been fighting over for several years.

Guidelines about healthy school lunches and snacks have been rolling out for several years and are part of First Lady Michelle Obama's «Let's Move» campaign launched in 2010 to fight childhood obesity.

In recent years, several Somali - Americans from Minnesota have gone to fight for al - Shabab in Somalia.

The House of Representatives, the White House and several states on Wednesday settled a lawsuit over appropriations for the 2010 health law, resolving years of fighting over the balance of powers between the branches of government.

Despite receiving $ 7.5 million more in state aid this school year, Schenectady Superintendent of Schools Larry Spring and several Capital Region government officials pledged to continue fighting for even more funding.

Mali has been fighting a jihadist insurgency for several years, with Islamist fighters roaming the country's north and centre.

Cuomo, too, has embraced charter schools over the years, though after several contentious fights with the Assembly he has de-emphasized so far this year.

The two fought bitterly last year when the governor leaned on the city to cough up several billion more to finance the Metropolitan Transportation Authority — which resulted in Mr. de Blasio capitulating to take an additional $ 2.5 billion for the transit system onto the city's ledgers.

He said, «For the first time after several years, somebody in the name of Mr Ibrahim Magu is fighting corruption and bringing corrupt people to their knees, recovering funds.

Ultimate Fighting Championship for the last several years has sought to hold bouts in New York and this year scheduled an event for Madison Square Garden.

Twelve labour consisting of the Ghana Medical Association, the Ghana National Association of Teachers, the Civil and Local Government Staff Association among others, laid down their tools, fighting the erstwhile Mahama - government to pay up, after several years of negotiations.

Last year, poorly paid fast food workers throughout New York City also fighting for a $ 15 an minimum wage staged one - day walkouts on several occasions - and even attracted the outspoken support of then mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio in the process.

Gillibrand, who is nearly twenty years her junior, is ready for a fight, and though she has seemingly changed her stance on several key issues, she's also an energetic and flexible opponent.

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.»

Over the last several years, I, along with my colleagues in the Republican Conference, have lead the fight to eliminate the GEA.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai has commuted the death sentences passed on 66 soldiers who were tried by several Military Court Martials for mutiny and other offences in the fight against Boko Haram terrorists» in the North East to terms of 10 years imprisonment.

The RTI bill, which is expected to make information easily accessible by the media and Ghanaians to boost the fight against corruption has been in legislation for well over 17 years now because successive governments have failed to implement it despite several assurances.

«We have been fighting for several years, as all of you know, to restore the funding that was cut from the libraries beginning in 2008,» said Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer, who chaired the hearing, in his opening remarks.

Like several other investigators, he believes the fight was over a woman, a 17 - year - old coquette named Stéphanie Potterin du Motel.

Chairwoman Mikulski has been fighting for federal investments that will strengthen America's innovation economy for the past several years.

The main principle of this resistive random access memory (RRAM) has been known for several years, but researchers and developers are still fighting to bring it into real live applications.

Within science, the first signs that the ANC was winning its fight came several years before 2 February 1990, when President FW de Klerk announced the impending death of apartheid.

«In recent years, several therapeutic medicines have been developed that spur a person's own immune system to fight cancer,» said Raul Torres, PhD, professor of immunology at National Jewish Health, and senior author on the paper, published in the October issue of Cancer Immunology Research.

Hundreds of studies have indicated that practicing this diet for several years can help fight a host of potential causes of inflammation, help maintain a healthy protein turnover rate — a process critical to slowing the aging process — and it even activates an incredibly powerful anti-aging gene.

From a rookie Marine fighting aliens throughout the demolished streets of Santa Monica, to a bully on the snowy sidewalks of Chicago and a Romanian vampire several thousand years old, Fisher has showcased his wide range of acting ability in some of the hottest projects on screen today.

But the idea of Batman fighting Superman remained on the backburner for several years.

As years go by The Band of The Hawk fight in many battles, win several decisive victories, and make a huge name for themselves in the kingdom of Midland.

Injustice: Gods Among Us brought the DC Universe to life in one of the best fighting games of the last several years.

This movie picks up several years since we last saw them on the big screen... with the brothers no longer a crime - fighting team.

You'd think a story about one man's fight for survival on a planet several million years away from Earth would be bleak, but this return to form for director Ridley Scott is anything but.

WHAT: Several years after his three sons presumably died while fighting in the Battle of Gallipoli, Australian farmer Joseph Connor (Russell Crowe) travels to Turkey in search of the truth about what really happened on the battlefield.

The problem here is that the whole plot hinges on a twist that has been done several times in films in recent years (Fight Club most notably), including a similarly delusional Coen Brothers film about writer's block that also starred John Turturro (Barton Fink — probably the reason he was cast in this film).

«Only The Brave» gives you quite a viewpoint of fighting forest fires, and by fighting one large fire, what can be saved, such as a several hundred year old Joshua Tree.

In a new analysis of the charter school experience in South Carolina, Jonathan Butcher and Joel Medley observe, «despite the proliferation of charter laws and new schools around the country, charters and their authorizers still spend their first several years in a fight for survival.»