Sentences with phrase «toil against»

That right combination of knowing how to forge relationships, form loyalties, problem solve, structure alliances, shape your reputation, hustle, toil against adversity, drum up new business, stick - to - it and work damned hard requires an almost indescribable finesse.

Any Arsenal fan who watched the lads toil against the League One side Doncaster last night will not need me to tell them that the performance will need to be better when we get back to Premier League action on Monday night, but perhaps that will serve the side well and avoid any sort of complacency.

Greece proved a fertile ground for Paul, although each advance made for the gospel was dearly bought in sheer unremitting toil against equally determined opposition.

As punishment, the serpent must slink through life on its belly in the dirt, and man must toil against stubborn, inhospitable land until his death.

I do not even know whether one can be free, for I have toiled against my will.

After getting a serious dressing down on live TV by former Arsenal midfielder Paul Merson last night, as the Gunners toiled against Champions League minnows Anderlecht in Belgium, Arsene Wenger and his players have come in for more criticism today.

Not exact matches

The means by which we produce such abundance are good: Who would argue against making human toil easier by means of machines?

Everything I did, and wherever I went, I was still in a storm, and yet I continued to be the chief contriver and ring - leader of the frolics for many months after; though it was a toil and torment to attend them; but the devil and my own wicked heart drove me about like a slave, telling me that I must do this and do that, and bear this and bear that, and turn here and turn there, to keep my credit up, and retain the esteem of my associates: and all this while I continued as strict as possible in my duties, and left no stone unturned to pacify my conscience, watching even against my thoughts, and praying continually wherever I went: for I did not think there was any sin in my conduct, when I was among carnal company, because I did not take any satisfaction there, but only followed it, I thought, for sufficient reasons.

Neither player has looked overmatched against elite competition — even as most players their age continue to toil in low - level minor leagues.

The Spaniard, who was as overrun as anyone against Diego Simeone's side, is one of the players spending the peak years of their careers toiling on a listing ship while teams all over Europe cry out for their qualities.

While we toiled away in multiple competitions, notably fighting valiantly against the best teams in the world, the Foxes have cunningly used their lack of European misadventures to string together decent performances in the League.

Paddy Ashdown's «Macbeth» moment Spurred by the Lib Dems» improved 1997 electoral performance, Paddy Ashdown recast John Major, Chris Patten and Tristan Garel - Jones as Macbeth's three witches, relishing their plotting against William Hague with the memorable put - down: «Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble; the Tory party's reduced to rubble.»

They've found a precarious but so far effective way to survive, farming and fishing their way to dinner each night, while Lee toils away in his basement man cave, which is equipped with a whiteboard whose messages too obviously clue us into what he's trying to accomplish: to create a weapon to use against the monsters by identifying an exploitable weakness.

She makes you feel the dirt and toil staged against a backdrop of poetic landscapes that look like primitive paintings ready for a gallery retrospective.

And with that, the teachers» unions joined the battle against federal power, power they'd long toiled to increase.

Instead, these bloggers often toil away in anonymity, providing a voice for the thousands of teachers that have been silenced for speaking out against the reform agenda.

Thank you — it is liberating to feel that the yoke of consensus enforcement * finally * lifting, if only a crack; congratulations and profound appreciation to all of us who have toiled so hard and so long against almost unimaginable levels of victimization.