Sentences with phrase «while toiling»

While toiling at the news desk, she plans the fictional stories she will write in her spare time.

Watching Inter lift trophy after trophy while toiling in Serie B, Europa League, being ousted with impunity by Fulham, and by Bayern in Champions League.

It's time for our semi-annual look at players who have excelled this season while toiling for the dregs of their respective divisions.

Though the Castro name still rules Cuba, the island's treatment of religion today appears to be a far cry from the days when young clergymen baked under a hot Caribbean sun while toiling in work camps because of their religion.

In 1965, 23 - year - old Johnson, a former graduate student in anthropology, became Nike's first employee, while toiling full - time as a social worker for the city of Los Angeles.

They see your new car, hear of you redecorating your house, see you away from the store at your beach house while they toil away, and they resent you for it.

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.

I completely understand why her colleagues were infuriated by her pushing off to the jungle from the Village, while they toiled long and hard in the lobbies.

Freed either by working with the man responsible for her breakout role or by the chance to use her actual accent for once, Collette makes a triumphant return to the big screen, reminding audiences of how much we've missed her while she toiled away on Showtime's «United States of Tara.»

During the day, while he toiled away at Bank of America, Aaron began spending more time with one of his co-workers: a beautiful young brunette named Andrea.

While they toil their selves hard to fulfill their business - related writing need, we, at Clazwork take pride to announce that they also have a helping hand.

You'll feel more like a sailboat that's using the wind to tack and go in the direction you want to, with less effort, versus not understanding the environment and having your sailboat tossed about while you toil and fight to stay above water.

From being able to make hands - free video calls and viewing lyrics while listening to songs, to watching cooking videos on YouTube while you toil away in the kitchen, Amazon boasts that the Echo Show will provide users with an incredibly compelling user experience.

While they toiled (and bickered and stabbed themselves in the foot with their needle and cried a lot because their daddy had let them stay up late watching the Olympics), I -LSB-...]

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She held fast to that dream throughout high school, toiling over her art portfolio and racking up painting awards, all the while maintaining top grades, earning her grade 10 Royal Conservatory of Music certification for piano, and playing saxophone in seven different bands.

While his professors toiled away on floppy drive computers with 20 megabyte hard drives, Elop — who worked for the faculty of engineering as a student — was poking his head through ceiling tiles up and down the halls, getting his hands dirty hooking people up «to this new thing» called a computer network.

Now, in 2002, with Mozilla 1.0 failing to cause a stir, a question presented itself: Was it possible that while most of the team had been toiling away on a doomed Internet suite, Ross and Hyatt had quietly thrown together the basis of an IE killer?

Dan Schawbel, author of «Promote Yourself: The New Rules For Career Success» says the photo makes her seem like she is on vacation while her staffers toil at work — an unfortunate message, he says, for someone who's done away with flexible schedules.

It's sole purpose is to keep the poor from storming the castle walls and give them a reason to keep toiling in the fields while their masters grow fat off the fruit of their labors.

If I were royalty, and living a life of luxury while the commoners under my rule toiled to survive, I might worry that they could become discontented.

He writes with feeling to a parent of the school, «I often think what poor creatures we priests are, who, like gentlemen of England, sit at home at ease, while you, married men, have all the merit of anxiety and toil which the care of a family involves.

The explosion of Mount Vesuvius was so sudden, the residents were killed while in their routine: men and women were at the market, the rich in their luxurious baths, slaves at toil.

Those who toil and live in want all their lives are taught by religion to be submissive and patient while here on earth, and to take comfort in the hope of a heavenly reward.

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.

While Wenger did do a great job of keeping Arsenal within the Champions league places since 2005, Arsenal have toiled away without any reward.

Choices, choices, choices, that's what happened to our once free - flowing, beautiful on the eyes brand of football... the move from Highbury was a friggin hoax played on all Gunner fans... North London football is now for the fat cats and wannabes, not for those of us who rather watch from home because we love the game and we would rather not pay a weeks wage to get a seat a 1/4 mile from the field of play... much like a high - end business that once cared deeply for the artisans who toiled to create something quite brilliant, they have become an assembly - line factory trying to get the most for the least while still raising the prices of their product..

The Texans are deepest at linebacker, where a trio of proven veterans — Wong, outside rush specialist Keith Mitchell, formerly of the Saints, and inside linebacker Jamie Sharper, the potential breakout star of the bunch after toiling for five years with the Ravens in Ray Lewis's considerable shadow — will keep things close, if only for a while.

She worked two shifts a day as a waitress at a Howard Johnson's in Times Square to support his schooling, while Charlie toiled part time at the same restaurant, manning the soda fountain.

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.

It was a brave decision for the experienced player who knew that the Black Ferns had great backrow talent who had been making strides while she'd been toiling in the front row.

It can't be argued that one man has thrived by keeping it simple while the other has toiled attempting to create an overwhelming masterpiece either as some might have it.

«A Teachable Moment,» August 17, 2008 «While it is true that for decades the children of New Orleans toiled in a substandard school system, they have also continually faced countless other obstacles to success — inadequate health care, poorly educated parents, exposure to high rates of violent crime and a popular culture that often denigrates mainstream achievement.»

There has been ample speculation about why the Senate decided to pack it in early on the evening of Monday's special session while the Assembly toiled into the wee hours of Tueday morning and then returned later Tuesday afternoon to pass, among other things, the NYC OTB bailout bill and a hydrofracking moratorium that had been passed by the Senate earlier in the year.

They will now have something substantial on which to build their lives on while the families of those who have passed away benefits from the sweat and toil of their relatives who served the nation with distinction.

I am being stripped of my pension funds and assets by a government that thinks redistributing the toils of my hard work is somehow beneficial, and because no positive changes ever happen I am getting out while I can.

Jeff Alderman, who has toiled on a range of local races, will be the PAC's field director, while Jonathan Davis will be field representative.

The Democratic takeover of the Erie County Water Authority has triggered a messy breakup with the public relations firm that toiled to protect the agency's image while in Republican hands.

«It is my hope that our actions can help spur a resolution that benefits everyone, especially the working men and women of this hotel who toil every day so that management can put its best foot forward and continue to serve the public while they visit our beautiful and wondrous state Capitol,» he said in a statement.

Toby reckons that being able to write up his PhD in biochemistry at Bristol University in 3 months, while others toiled to complete theirs, was a significant sign.

And while neurologists toil in their world of double - blind experiments, practitioners and patients search for more immediate remedies.

And thus began a pattern that would persist throughout Crick's career: While Watson did most of the data - gathering (building models, toiling in the lab), Crick simply thought — using his prodigious mental machinery to analyze existing theories, parry those of his partner, and churn out his own.

In the US, there are 20 million shift - workers toiling away in factories, power stations and hospitals while most people sleep.

You can take vacations, shop, contribute to a retirement plan, shop, save, pay off your student loans, shop, and buy all those things that your friends bought while you were toiling away, broke and broken, in graduate school.

With the hustle and bustle of day - to - day clinical work and treatment taking place, few patients and visitors pay close attention to the details that Andrew Healy, director of McLean Hospital's Facilities Department, toiled over for months while a hospital program was being constructed.

Pre-2008 market crash, Evan lands a job at a prestigious hedge fund where he was involved in some not so above board deals while Julia toils away as an assistant at a charitable foundation.

You've seen it before: Women will do all of the work and toil away at something, often while dealing with some form of criticism or backlash in the process.

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.

He heads an ensemble of crack actors, each with a gift for finding pathos in comedy, and the absurd in the tragic, starting with Shirley Knight as Ned's equally compassionate, equally «idiot» mother, and working through Elizabeth Banks as the sister desperately trying to sell out to make good at the magazine where she toils while missing the cues from the neighbor (Adam Scott) who is willing to literally drop anything to do her household chores; Zooey Deschanel as the pan-sexual sister with truth issues that involve both her girlfriend (Rashida Jones) and the artist (Hugh Dancy) for whom she both poses and poses a problem; and Emily Mortimer, as the earth mother who lost track of what makes her happy and why she wanted to be married to a smug and profoundly disinterested husband (Steve Coogan).

While many of these proud black women might have toiled as lowly domestic servants during the week, they would invariably arrive decked out on Sunday.

Young Sophie (voiced by Emily Mortimer) pretends to be a dutiful daughter in her late father's hat shop, yet she's secretly a romantic soul resigned to a life of dreary toil while longing for something more.