Sentences with phrase «tried hard this year»

I've tried hard this year to take a weekly digital day off and just focus on my family, and the results have been wonderful.

lol gonna try harder this year for my new years resolution.

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In addition to those smaller bets, Dopfner has made it clear that he is also willing to make large ones: Earlier this year, he tried hard to acquire the venerable Financial Times, only to be outflanked at the last minute by Nikkei.

Science shows that the harder you try at a New Year's resolution, the more likely you'll be to fail.

Finally, I've tried for years to figure out why some seemingly smart (and arguably perceptive) people never rise to the highest levels of trust and responsibility, even though it's pretty clear that they are hard workers who are definitely trying to get ahead.

The number of middle - class thieves grew this year, too, as those hit hard by the recession tried to keep up with the Joneses.

I learned this the hard way when I tried to rattle off some pull ups after years of sedentary living and quickly tore a muscle in my shoulder.

No matter how hard they tried, for three years and 98 episodes, the seven castaways on Gilligan's Island never got off the island.

In March 2016, Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years hard labor after allegedly trying to steal a political slogan from a hotel.

But in the end, trying harder for five decades straight must have gotten a little exhausting: Last year, Avis finally dropped the «We Try Harder» tagline from itharder for five decades straight must have gotten a little exhausting: Last year, Avis finally dropped the «We Try Harder» tagline from itHarder» tagline from its ads.

After years of trying to turn rubber into something useful that wouldn't freeze rock hard or melt in the hot sun, Charles Goodyear was struggling.

Over the past year and a half the company has tried hard to reinvent itself, right down to the ticker symbol.

And so I try to pick things that are going to be hard for me to do,» he told CNN last year.

When, in 1962, Avis debuted its famous «When you're only No. 2, you try harder» ads, the rental agency reportedly swung from $ 3.2 million in the red to $ 1.2 million in the black, its first profit in 13 years.

A tit - for - tat trade war could evolve into a full - blown one that hurts everyone, and would be a slap in the face of the global statesmanship, and commitment to globalization Xi has tried hard to display, most notably with his speech at the original Davos last year, where he presented himself as a counter to the newly - elected Trump's protectionism.

In Hugo Chavez's early years, before he ever started talking about socialism, one of the major reasons the wealthy pushed so hard to try to get rid of him was that he gained control of the tax service and actually started forcing wealthy people to pay their taxes.

If GDP growth had not been artificially boosted by credit expansion, then it is hard to understand why Beijing has been trying urgently to get credit growth under control for over five years but has not even been able to prevent it from accelerating.

«Over the past year, I try to stay away from price related tweets, but it's hard because price is such an important aspect of Litecoin growth.

I think that actively managed mutual funds will continue having a hard time trying to outperform the market and within the next 10 year, I can see most of them dying off.

Try hard not to act too surprised when your economy gets overtaken by those that look ahead, not 2000 years behind.

That's why the commercials this year are almost exclusively about economics, and, as movements go, this one is trying hard to be informed and un-demagogic.

Trying to birth the ministry was so hard and I had so much opposition, and for me as a woman in ministry, when I started 40 years ago, it was very unheard of and unpopular... you got a lot of judgement and criticism for it.

It'd be like me trying to believe there was no gravity for a year — I simply could not believe that no matter how hard I tried.

They not only welcomed me, and treated me like a valuable person right from the start, but they got me through two of the hardest years of my life, when I had to leave the job I had to take 10 and a half weeks post op from my second open heart surgery in less than a year, (couldn't get disability) and try one more time to get SSDI.

We need not do anything but acknowledge Him and be grateful I've been struggling with a lot of issues this past year — failing to trust in God with all my heart while falling back into old fearful patterns and trying too hard lean on my own understanding, mixing myself up along the way with, frankly, too many Bible verses and analysis of Bible verses.

After being tortured, tried, and convicted of alleged conspiracy to overthrow the regime, he was sentenced to 25 years» hard labour, along with dozens of other Muslim Brothers.

The scientists can not find a unified theory no matter how hard they try for the last 500 years — there is still mystery.

After a hard year's work at the Centre Européene pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN) in Geneva, the thousands of particle physicists involved in trying to detect the famous «Higgs boson» were able to give some exciting preliminary results at the end of 2011.

Thanks for a really interesting read, learn quite a few tips here, trying hard to improve my credit, i did a consumer proposal 7 years ago and just now i am starting to rebuild my credit slowly but surely and trying to avoid that credit card trap.

I found it very hard to love God, although I tried for years.

Besides, Sephardic Jews are a group who spent a long period of time in the Iberian peninsula (until getting kicked out 1500 - ish), so it's hard to say that modern Sephardic Jews can be used as a baseline when trying to determine the «whiteness» of a Jew who lived 2000 years ago in a totally different place.

I tried my hardest in seminary to ward off the frostbite, but to this day, over six years after graduation, I am not sure whether or not I succeeded.

My proof that a belief in Gods is not justified — is the absolute failure of theists to produce a single shred of hard verifiable, testable evidence, even after thousands of years of desperately trying to do prove God's existence.

Those who were lucky enough to be pulled or pushed, a year or so ago, to the Beatles» first movie, A Hard Day's Night, will recall the enchanting scene in which the four of them escape from the prison - like television studio, where worldly men are trying to get them to perform properly, and flee to an open field for a few surrealistic moments of jumping, dancing, abandon.

While we're all trying to start the year off right and eat healthier, it's hard to complain about a free burger and no one seems to know that better than the home of the Golden Arches.

«I became a Christian, I thought that was the way to deal with this and I prayed hard and tried for 30 - some years and then at the end, I was just going, «I'm still gay.

I have been married for over 30 years, yet the lustful desires continue no matter how hard I have tried to stop them through prayers and petitions to God.

He currently has a business that's been going for 5 years however we both feel very overwhelmed with the fact that we don't have a foggiest clue with a lot of business theory «stuff» although we have a lot of passion and willingness to try our hardest to learn and make it work.

(I eat pancakes maybe twice a year but it might be hard not to eat them more often with this recipe) I may try adding a bit of vanilla but they really don't need it.

This morning (having a two and a half year old, and a 10 month old, trying to struggle with a home business myself) this comment, made me laugh SO hard...» Because new mothers are swimming in free time («new babies are always sleeping!»)

: --RRB- Cynthia: Thanks, it was quite a lunch for a weekday!Kevin: Hope you get a chance to try them soon!Lydia: After I went through my year - long vegetarian stage when I was a teenager, ground beef was the hardest thing for me to start eating again... especially fast food burgers.

I will be trying to stick to a strict budget as I will be relying on money I have saved over the last year or so, so will have to reign in any non-essentials - maybe a Pulsin» bar or two might be an exception I will need to stock up on some store cupboard bits initially but after that I will really be trying hard to stick to a budget, we'll see how this goes and I'll blog about how I get on.

I tried your recipe today using frozen, peeled peaches (fresh peaches this time of year in Minnesota are hard as a rock).

Next you head into the supermarket (remembering that you had to actually dress up, do your hair, fix makeup etc. to do this) and wander the aisles wasting time looking at ingredient lists and trying to remember if the gums, preservatives and additives have dairy / eggs in them... taking the rolls to the counter, working out whether or not you want to go through the self checkout or keep a checkout operator employed for a few more years... pay... get back in the car... find somewhere to buy bottled water for the dogs... drive 50 km home... unpack dogs and buns and suddenly getting up, stretching... wearing whatever the heck you like with your hair in the air, no makeup, dogs within a hard stares range in case they feel like eating the furniture while you are working and that slow measuring out, baking etc. doesn't seem so time consuming any more.

Confession: I try to hold back, I try my best not to overload on pumpkin and practice restraint but it's SO HARD this time of year.

We're trying hard to stick to our resolutions this year (well, at least this month).

This easy recipe has been tried and tested on my «home squad» (my partner and my 8 year old daughter), who are a very hard crowd to please sometimes.

I learned this the hard way many years ago, when I accidentally caused a meltdown by trying to hold his hand on the way to dinner.

I must try harder in the new year;) luckily most of my recipes don't need to be totally accurate (e.g. this recipe would be just as tasty with 1 or 2 cups of rice).

This year, I'm trying extra hard to think ahead with fun foods that take minutes to make but still have that feeling of holiday indulgence.