Sentences with phrase «slogging away»

A system where those kind and caring, slogging away being detailed and honorable are looked at as fools, as disposable, by those who know they could do more business if they dispensed with sappiness and just got the job done?

While Ms. Cullen and her sister rebounded successfully from their difficult situations, Cullen acknowledges the difficulties that could face a «newly minted lawyer slogging away at a corporate job to service $ 100,000 in student - loan debt.»

The whole climate caper is beginning to look like a revenge of the nerds — a mass movement of harmless types, tired of slogging away in the backwaters of science for a pittance, suffering ridicule and cutbacks, who have discovered the cure for their ills.

Also still slogging away at the fourth Professor Layton.

Instead you'll find yourself slogging away for hours on end as you try to make every connection between the countless puzzles across the island.

Most top bloggers have spent years slogging away before they've achieved any level of success.

I think sometimes it's hard to keep that passion burning after months / years of slogging away.

Most people who do well already have four or five or six books out and have been slogging away without great reward for years.

I just keep slogging away: writing, editing, reading Jim's writing books, making all sorts of story charts.

Generally I force myself to keep slogging away, and almost always I end up enjoying the book.

After more than five years slogging away without success through traditional channels, she'd had enough.

Having been slogging away at even MORE indie than Skullkickers, I get where you are coming from.

I was slogging away in the misdemeanor intake unit, issuing criminal trespass after criminal trespass case, thinking to myself, This is a shitty way to spend my thirty - second birthday.

Chris O'Dowd After slogging away on Channel 4 since 2006, O'Dowd has hit the big screen three times in the past two years.

You don't have to resign yourself to long, boring hours slogging away on the treadmill.

Not only are HIIT workouts shorter and way more fun than slogging away at a treadmill doing «cardio», but there is a ton of research showing that HIIT workouts provide unique heart health benefits that traditional cardio doesn't

Very quickly, I found myself listless and enormously anxious, slogging away at a corporate job that I didn't enjoy.

You will reduce your cortisol levels and stimulate more serotonin and endorphins walking in green spaces than you will slogging away on the dreadmill or walking city streets.

But avoid slogging away on the treadmill in pursuit of the magic number that says it's time to quit.

Thanks for the questions you've sent and your story, and I'll keep slogging away until I have found better answers to them.

The end result should be that mommy is not the only one slogging away to keep the home clean while the rest of the household behave like they are staying in a hotel with room service.

And just when you're ready to pat yourself on the back for a good job done, you realize that you're slogging away, trying to squeeze every last drop of milk as though the survival of the entire human race, nay the entire universe depends on it.

We're just slogging away in the traditional investment world,»» says Cordes, who built AssetMark Investment Services to about $ 9 billion in assets, sold it to Genworth Financial Inc. in 2006, and last year was part of an investment group that re-acquired the company.

Last summer, Siqi Chen decided to give up on Heyday, the social media app he'd been slogging away at for the last four years.

It's every startup founder's dream: being acquired for hundreds of millions without years of slogging away for decades.

Until then, I have to slog away at boring work.

Though we do it through endless meetings, emails and calls, rather than the plough and the loom, we still slog away, as if our lives depend on it.

It sounds so simple, but many people slog away doing exercises they find boring or painful because they think that's what they «should» be doing.

Silva is paid 400 euros for the 40 hours she slogs away each week in a kitchen in a poor neighborhood of Lisbon.

As Shah finishes the interview and heads back to slog away again on her new novel, she laughs when asked if it's harder to write the beginning of a novel or the ending.

Those are the blues that can overwhelm the unpublished / underpublished novelist as we slog away, year after year, with nothing to show for our life's work but a mini-Kilimanjaro of rejection slips.

I was simply providing an obvious scenario based on the simple facts of how SPG points are earned and then transferred, whether one transfers 20K points or slogs away to get 80K points, 1 point / $ at the tune of $ 80k, before transferring.

Not exact matches

Traditional publishing is a slog — find an agent, pitch a book and if it's picked up by a publisher, sign away the rights to your work, then spend years doing edits and waiting for the book to slot into a publishing schedule — and the majority of these people don't score a deal, because most entrepreneurs «aren't in a position to be commercially published,» says Sattersten.

As lawmakers continue to slog through budget negotiations, one should keep in mind that if this were the private sector, it would be time to walk away.

The Republican field has a lot of winnowing to do and the two remaining Democrats could be in for a long slog - but, April 19 is a long way away.

Most of us slog through the 9 - 5 cycle and actually shy away from «really busy» work assignments.

When played away from a wi - fi connection, it becomes supremely laggy and makes battles even more of a repetitive slog.

While it's an entertaining distraction, the lack of immediacy in the five - minute build - up can feel like a slog and, ultimately, it's not compelling enough to draw your attention away from the more comprehensive multiplayer modes on offer.

Hour after hour just fall away as you slog through Pandora.

Because the nature of the adventure requires pluck heroes to have several items on hand at a moments notice, for them to all be a simple tap away eases the tedium of the menu slog.

But it will still be a slog to pull people away from Valve's popular storefront where gamers already have expansive game libraries.

Many times, another buyer comes along while Mr. Analysis - by - Paralysis continues slogging through the details and «steals» the property away from him.