Sentences with phrase «take years of fighting»

Personal injury litigation can take years of fighting in the boardroom and courtroom.

Not exact matches

The fight ultimately took three and a half years and a huge chunk of the company's resources.

«Folks from all over this city — including many Council members, including the public advocate and the comptroller — have been fighting for Fair Fares for years now and just this week, we've taken an enormous step forward thanks to the members of the City Council, [and specifically] Speaker Corey Johnson,» he said.

With the ousting of former potty - mouthed CEO Carol Bartz, the long - in - the - tooth Internet corporation looked like it had a fighting chance at relevance earlier this year when it hired former PayPal president Scott Thompson to take the reins.

After years of the kind of debilitating economic and political warfare it took to remain on top, Carnegie was finally done fighting, finally free to pursue his charitable endeavors on the other side of perpetual strife.

Also last year, Coury took the lead in a bitter takeover fight with Ireland - based Perrigo Co., a manufacturer of over-the-counter medicines, and fought off a takeover attempt from Israel - based Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd..

You are idiots for calling him on the carpet, instead you should be getting the federal government out of the poverty fighting business, The war on poverty is over 44 years old and for all intents and purposes all it did was create an out of control bureaucracy that needs to be taken apart and labeled a bad idea for future generations.

I fought for my kids to get money for years and now I am taking it into my own hands getting my Masters and will pull us out of poverty.

If you want to be victorious in your Christian life, then like Caleb, who was 80 years old, and yet still went out to fight the fiercest opponents possible — we can take up the shield of faith, we can place our trust in God, and go forward in victory.

Author Chuck Palahniuk plans to revisit Tyler Durden and the whole gang in an upcoming graphic novel that takes place 10 years after the events of Fight Club, his novel which David Fincher later adapted into the now - classic film.

Pierce retired from his crime - fighting days, until nine years later, a new local threat of gang violence compels him to take heroic action.

I do this... as a duty of brotherly love, so that if any misfortune or disaster comes out of this matter, it may not be attributed to me, nor will I be blamed before God and men because of my silence... We have no one on earth to thank for this disastrous rebellion except you princes and lords, and especially you blind bishops and mad priests and monks whose hearts are hardened... The murder - prophets [a reference to Karlstadt, Muntzer and all the Schwarmerei] who hate me as they hate you, have come among these people... for more than three years, and no one has resisted and fought against them except me... I beseech you not to make light of this rebellion... The peasants have just published twelve articles some of which are so fair and just as to take away your reputation in the eyes of God... Because you made light of my To The German Nobility you must now listen to and put up with these selfish articles.

As for the Mexican War, «the deadliest that the United States has ever fought»» one in ten American soldiers died in less than two years of service» Howe makes a persuasive case that it was provoked by Anglo settlers with the connivance of the Polk administration as part of a cynical scheme to take California and the Southwest from Mexico.

hi there my name is gypsy i have a 6 and half year old daughter can't have gluten or dairy seems to react once taken out of her diet improved but test negative for celiac now i have been sick for the past 4 years supposedly with fibromyalgia and 2 yr after that ross river now i wonder after reading ur posts if maybe i should get tested myself still awaiting see specialist and most doctors just push me aside seems like a fighting battle.

The 32 - year - old is known as a tremendous professional who looks after himself well and this has only made those setbacks and the length of the lay - off harder to take, as he fight to return to the Gunners first team set - up.

There have been many comments over the last few years that Arsenal simply don't have any leaders on the pitch, someone who can take the game by the scruff of the neck and cajole the players into fighting for every ball when we go a goal down, a Tony Adams for example...

The next morning, I took a train to Seville to see one of the more promising amateur fighters in the country, a 16 - year - old teen heartthrob nicknamed «Juanito,» who was fighting inside the baroque façade of the La Maestranza Plaza de Toros, immortalized in Bizet's opera Carmen.

Arizona State's Frank Kush produces winning teams every year by espousing the Lombardian theory of coaching — hit, sweat, fight, take a couple of laps up the side of a mountain and then whip somebody 66 - 7

We have only won one of our last 8 visits and our 3 - 2 defeat there last year was taken very badly by some of our travelling supporters, but Arsenal bounced back and we fought our way into the Top Four as usual.

It's only sank in (personally) to my head the last two years how Arsenal have now settled as a club who will fight for whatever is left, after the «Top dogs» of the pack have taken the best to offer.

If you are gonna fight again, period, then what's the confusion, agree now to face the winner of Tony V Khabib rather than take another random fight which will only give you an out to say I can't fight the winner I just had a fight I'm off again for another year

In their first fight, with his career at stake, the 29 - year - old Duran took home a purse of $ 1.5 million.

There have been many comments over the last few years that Arsenal simply don't have any leaders on the pitch, someone who can take the game by the scruff of the neck and cajole the players into fighting for every ball when we go a goal down, a Tony Adams for example...... Read the full article here

The most anticipated fight of the century takes place later today with 36 - year old Manny Pacquiao (57 -5-2) and 38 - year old Floyd Mayweather (47 - 0) squaring off on Saturday night in Las Vegas.

On Saturday evening, one of the most important boxing fights in this year's sporting calendar takes place at the 02 Arena, with Froch vs Kessler tickets still available to boxing fans.

Start Xeroxing those brackets, strike up the Siena fight song, tell the boss you're taking a long lunch: 65 teams and 65 reasons that prove this is the best basketball month of the year

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)

i don't think now is time to take chances, i hear Man - U will spend 350 million pounds in the next two years Chelsea who is already a full squad and still toying with the idea of buying Messi, City will sell few deadwood and buy big and we are thinking of signing 38 year old striker, i love TH but come on guys we are suppose to be fighting back to greatness and catch up to Europe's elite, Man - U is linked wit every player we the Arsenal supporters are asking for and guess who will buy them.

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.

These guys are entering their 3rd All Sports Season and I'm confident this is the year that everyone will take notice of the Fighting Igors.

After five years of on - and - off negotiations, the fight that the world has been waiting for is set to take place and opinion couldn't be more split on who will be victorious.

.2 Manchesters are gone and Spurs ready to get da hell out of there and take 3rd place if not fighting for title... Then next year, Wenger can do same for last year contract, sit and look at his son take title with hil next year..

The prospects of a close fight for the lead took a major blow when Nico Rosberg was struck by Mercedes» greatest foe this year — unreliability.

The Premier League season has not even kicked off yet, so this may seem a little morbid, but with so much focus on the top of the table and who will be fighting for European spots, I want to take a look at who will be fighting for their Premier League existence this year and who could be looking at relegation.

Imagine how much less stressful things would be, for you, me, and everyone else, including the team, if all agreed that (a) we should be fighting for the league this year and (b) in football it takes time until it becomes clear whether we will or not and, finally, (c) we'll try support the team in the manner that gives them the best chance of success until then.

Furthermore, Mancini's cause isn't helped one little bit by the fact his team have taken a miserly two points from a possible eighteen on their travels since the turn of the year, however a great deal of confidence can be had from their exploits at Wembley a week previous, when eliminating arch rivals Manchester United in the semi-final of the FA Cup courtesy of a hard - fought but thoroughly deserved 1 - 0 victory.

London 2012 Olympic champion Jessica Ennis - Hill and former world champion Tatyana Chernova, both taking pregnancy breaks, and world champion Hanna Melnychenko were of course notable absentees who are expected to be in Beijing next year, but Ennis - Hill knows she will have a fight on her hands just to remain British No. 1.

The «left wing» refuses to acknowledge legitimate flaws in the regs and accuses the right of politicizing our children's future and always fighting against anything the Obama administration puts forward, and the «right wing» isn't recognizing any of the improvements that were made as a result of the regs and blaming the government for over regulating and not giving the administration an ounce of credit for at least taking on an overhaul of a system that hadn't seen significant reform in 20 years.

The upshot: He believes Fred Dicker purposesly goaded the candidate into the near - fight, knowing full well Paladino was upset with The Post for trying to take pictures of the 10 - year - old daughter he fathered out of wedlock.

Burnham is primarily known for his work bringing about the second enquiry into the Hillsborough disaster, saying at the 25th anniversary of the tragedy that taking part in the ongoing fight over Hillsborough was «the privilege of my life» with the past five years «teaching me more than a life in politics».

Gibson declined to take sides in the GOP primary battle for his seat, which he is vacating at the end of the year, but has since endorsed the winner of that fight, former Assembly Minority Leader John Faso.

Tube workers facing the prospect of hundreds of job cuts will not take this lying down and Londoners can expect months if not years of strikes and disruption as these proposals are fought.

Last year, Cuomo was embroiled in fights with lawmakers and took the State of the State on the road, to annoyance of some in the Assembly and Senate and traditionalists in Albany.

You simply can't plug the huge budget deficits looming in the years ahead without taking a bite out of Medicaid and, as sure as night follows day, picking a fight with Cunningham's chief client.

Now he can plan for a conference and winter in which he can pull together his vision of Britain and take the fight to Brown with renewed vigour and confidence First he was lucky to face Blair in his twilight years.

Many a denizen of Nassau County — where the average SALT deduction in 2015 was $ 20,000 — spent the week between Christmas and New Year's fighting for her tax planner's attention; waiting in long lines to prepay her 2018 property taxes, in hopes of getting in one last, unlimited deduction before the new rules take effect — and then learning that those prepaid taxes might not actually be deductible, anyway.

Because of an «unfit for purpose» system, their claims take years to resolve, wasting untold amounts of taxpayers» money as other bureaucrats and Johnson's hired gun lawyers fight them to the bitter end despite the mountain of evidence that Iraq is a death zone for gays.

The threat that the Families of Continental Flight 3407 worried about finally started to take shape, as a key senator — John Thune, a South Dakota Republican — said he would propose changes to the pilot experience requirements that the families fought to get enacted into law seven years ago.

He spoke further: I note with satisfaction the logical steps taken by Adamawa State Government in the last two and a half years to demonstrate that transparency, fiscal responsibility, accountability and timely delivery of strategic goods and services to develop the state and enhance the confidence of its people is a viable template to fighting corruption.

«And I think, in order to beat Faso, and what's got me motivated to do this, is we need someone who's got the fight and the fire to take him on, and I've proven through years of work as an advocate and as a job creator.»