Sentences with phrase «tough year following»

The credit union went through some tough years following the economic crisis of 2008, but was on the rebound by 2015, with more than $ 1 billion in assets, almost $ 900 million in deposits and $ 500 million in loans.

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If the U.N. group, which has been meeting for two years, comes up with a tougher global standard, the U.S. could follow its lead.

The year following Katrina was tough.

If someone with 10 years work experience can do this in a tough investment period following this approach, a team with more experience and execution intelligence should be able to readily best them.

A tough four or five years followed.

CHICAGO, May 2 - Global grain marketers have seized upon trade tensions between the United States and several of its top export markets, including China, to turn around struggling trading units following one of the toughest years ever for the industry.

The revamped marketing push follows a tough year for McDonald's, during which it reported declining revenue.

After Oxfam's Vietnam report appeared, the company reviewed its factory workers» wages globally and introduced tougher requirements for suppliers, according to Oxfam, which published a follow - up study last year.

Earnings and deregulation Last year was a strong year for corporate profitability across all major regions and it will be a tough act to follow.

These investing traits have carried me through some of the toughest times to hold equities and today I am glad I followed my own set of rules as it has served me well for many, many years.

The fairy - tale royal wedding was a morale boost in the tough years that followed the Second World War and millions of people tuned in to listen to the ceremony on the wireless.

And I love following it every year - whether I'm in it, or not;) It's a tough field this year!

Angela, I've been following your blog for over a year now... and I've made many of your recipes... always a success (and I am a tough critic of recipes!).

Following promotion after going undefeated in the league last year, W2 were expecting a tough season.

Following on from the success of last years cup campaign where they won the Conference Cup final, they have overcome some tough opposition to book their place at the #BIGBUCSWednesday down at Sheffield Hallam.

Knox left himself with a tough act to follow but he says, «What we did a year ago is a thing of the past.

Bowden Sainte - Claire Ponder is going to be one tough baby after her first year following her mom, Samantha Ponder, around.

When Ozil arrived Khedira missed him more so than anyone and at time it was said he would follow a year later which i believed to some extent... im sure he must of thought it through, but then the cl medal and his team being most feared came into thinking if he hadnt of already had those train of thoughts in first place that is... And now with a serious injury and his age risen moving to a league which has a reputation for shorter careers and higher physicality must come into his thinking no matter how tough he thinks he is.

They are a very tough rival, but we meet them at the Emirates and having beaten them in the FA Cup Final and the Community Shield this year, and followed that up with an impressive draw at Stamford Bridge earlier this season.

Clemson has a tough game at NC State this weekend followed by a home matchup against struggling FSU before finishing the year with Citadel and South Carolina.

Conte will surely prove a tough act to follow at Chelsea after his immediate success with the club last season, when they strolled to the Premier League title in his first year in charge.

The reigning player of the year is a pretty tough colleague to measure yourself against right off the bat following 300 days away from the game, but Tiger held his own against Thomas on Thursday.

It is certainly interesting thought that all the great managers would want to work for Arsenal, but Wenger would be a very tough act to follow, considering he has lived and breathed Arsenal for the last 21 years.

KEY FACT: Burnley are unbeaten in their last four league matches played on New Year's Day MATCH ODDS: Burnley 13/2 Draw 7/2 Liverpool 1/2 bet365 Pick: Liverpool to win & Over 2.5 goals @ 5/4 ANDY SAYS: Tough game for Liverpool here but they should take the win... 0 - 1 GRAEME SAYS: I don't see Liverpool not winning here... 0 - 2 SILKY SAYS: Burnley won't be easy to beat but should be three away points... 1 - 2 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: Sadio Mane at under # 3 looks a huge bargain

Part of that advice would have been — «look, Arsene, I love you, and I love your zeal and the vision that you follow — but I think for the next couple of years, you should forget austerity the dream and just tough it out, play hard and dirty, win a couple of Premier Leagues, just to spite that tart Maureen, and then get back to following your dream.

After such a wonderful season last year, it was always going to be tough for Ramsey to follow it up with another stellar campaign.

James Troisi has admitted he is weighing up the possibility of moving back to the A-League on a short - term basis in a bid to secure some regular first - team football following a tough couple of years in Italy.

The Spanish number one had a tough time in his first season at the Theatre of Dreams and with Ferguson refusing to drop the player after some questionable performances, that belief in him started to come through the following season with De Gea improving year on year.

Following a successful, yet extremely boring Champions League group stage finale in midweek, Barcelona are back in action on Sunday night with what has become a really, really tough away match in La Liga over the last several years.

The author has followed some of urban America's poorest young people through their secondary school careers over some years, tracking their rocky road towards higher education and revealing how their teachers are compensating for the missing investment in their early years by fostering what Tough sums up as «character».

Last month, Patricia Hackett, a Consumer Product Safety Commission engineer who has followed the issue for years, wrote to the group that sets voluntary standards for cribs and urged it to establish tougher tests.

Having succeeded Ian Paisley last year, Robinson knew he had a tough act to follow.

That tough language follows Cuomo's declaration in his State of the State address three years ago that prisons should no longer be used to boost economic development in rural upstate communities.

This means that postgraduate students who plan to make an application for the next academic year, and undergraduate students for the following year, will face a different and slightly tougher process to get their visas.

That slump, along with an 8 % drop in the number of new grants (see table, below), confirms predictions of tough times following the recent 5 - year doubling of NIH's budget if NIH received annual increases of less than 6 % (Science, 24 May 2002, p. 1401).

I had a tough choice to make 25 years ago: follow my logical mind to medical school or follow my intuition to India.

So she had a very, very tough life, and root chakra imbalances are something that will follow you if you've had just a lot of uprooting, and instability, especially in your childhood years.

Yes, the characters are types (the Brooklyn wiseguy, the tough Jewish kid, the Southern sniper), but as such, we can identify and engage with them quickly — and, a dozen years on, it's actually easier to follow the characters now that the men who play them have all met with some degree of success.

In the following year, her projects included Rob Cohen's The Fast and the Furious, an urban adrenaline extravaganza in which she played the tough girlfriend of a gang leader alongside Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, and Jordanna Brewster, and 3 A.M., a made - for - cable drama which cast her as a taxi driver and was screened at the Sundance Festival.Striving to maintain the balance between sexy and tough, Rodriguez would take on zombies in Resident Evil (2002) before hitting the waves in Blue Crush.

What You Need To Know: In the years following the 2004 release of the gritty, hard - hitting «Anchorman,» which shockingly exposed the nefarious behind - the - scenes wheeling and dealing at tv news station in the»70s, and made an instant hero / icon out of tough, uncompromising newsman Ron Burgundy, the public clamor for a sequel only grew louder.

Eric Bialas just tweeted to me the following: @AwardsDaily - Putting together early predictions, and the supporting categories are tough as F. — Eric (@ericbialas) September 28, 2015 Indeed, this year is still wide open, thus any...

In the 45 years that followed, Yates» movie gained the worldwide recognition as one of the best and toughest crime films of the whole period.

Tough life) and not very soon but maybe later this year in Jeff Nichols» Midnight Special a father and son sci - fi - tinged drama (his follow up to Mud so one assumes he'll get bigger budgets now) so it surely won't be focused on her.

She was a tough act to follow, and leave it to last year's Best Actress winner to acknowledge exactly that.

In many ways, Michel Hazanavicius always had a tough job creating the follow - up to his Oscar conquering movie The Artist, though it's been 2 years since the silent movie dominated the field at the Hollywood and Highland Center Theatre in Los Angeles and the Frenchman has had plenty of time to plot his comeback.

Adapted by Slumdog Millionaire writer Simon Beaufoy from Ben Fountain's novel, Billy Lynn follows the titular 19 - year - old soldier (Alwyn), who along with his squad has survived a tough battle in Iraq that made headlines and turned the troops into instant celebrities.

Tarantino himself knew what a tough task he faced in following it up when he joked that he was «gonna pull a Terrence Malick» and for 20 years.

Following «Starlet,» his 2012 drama about the unlikely friendship between a 21 - year - old aspiring porn actress and an octogenarian woman who missed her own shot at Hollywood celebrity, Baker has once more delivered a tender yet tough - minded look at little - remarked - upon lives in the margins of L.A.'s sprawling sex industry.

The rise follows a crackdown in pupils missing schools, which includes tougher rules on term - time holidays introduced two years ago.

After a tough first year of learning and experimenting (sometimes with the help of Edutopia and sometimes with the help of other teachers like Sara Krauskopf, on whose project the following lesson is based), I have become more confident in assigning projects and letting students take them as far as possible.