Sentences with phrase «year battle fought»
In good shape physically, actually seeking to gain a few pounds stressed off me during the three year battle fought on my wife's behalf.
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Inspiration struck when Turner considered a question from his cousin, whose seven - year - old son was still fighting a battle with leukemia that he'd eventually win.
Procter & Gamble (pg) waged a number of battles last year with activist investor Nelson Peltz, who succeeded in gaining a board seat after months of fighting.
«Without data, you're on the treadmill, battling the same fights you battled 10, 20, or 30 years ago.»
The CBC story rightly points out that, 20 years ago, a young Canadian woman named Gwen Jacobs fought and won a legal battle for the right to go topless — entirely topless — in public.
A battle for control of smuggling routes drove killings up for a roughly year - long period between 2014 and 2015, as Ismael «El Mayo» Zambada, Guzman's partner at the top of the cartel, fought with forces led by Damaso Lopez Serrano, the son of Guzman's former right - hand man.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has told the PLA to prepare to «fight and win» battles, and the Pentagon said the slogan is an indication Chinese leaders are concerned the military, which has not fought a war in more than 30 years, may not fare well in modern combat.
If disruption theory is correct, Tesla's future holds either acquisition by a much larger incumbent or a years - long and hard - fought battle for market significance.
«For us, we have this weird dilemma where we've been fighting this battle for the last four and a half years, and now it's like, did we win?»
The next big battle is in southern B.C., as citizens fight to stop Kinder Morgan's proposal to load more than 400 oil tankers a year in Burnaby.
In recent years, Tesla has fought and won court battles for the right to sell directly to consumers in New York and Massachusetts.
If her government had spent the last three years negotiating on aboriginal title with First Nations — rather than spending millions of taxpayers» dollars fighting a losing battle against the Tsilhqot» in — there would today be more opportunity and benefits for First Nations and greater certainty for investors and workers on where and how LNG related pipelines and plants will proceed.
After seven years of fighting deflation, central bankers may have at least won a battle, with implications for asset prices over the next 6 to 12 months.
And of course, as I began to learn years ago, life's biggest battles are not fought in the realm of the obvious between right and wrong.
He writes, «Ever since my wife and I heard about their work about a year and a half ago, this ministry and the battle they're fighting has been heavy on our hearts.»
Recently a friend described to me her 20 - year battle with cancer, a battle which she had thought she had won ten years ago, but which she has had to begin fighting anew in recent years.
For over one hundred years after the Reformation, the Catholics and Protestants had fought bloody battles in an attempt to crush each other.
The Warriors sent him down to a developmental league, where he fought emotional battles while on long, late - night bus rides, he told an audience at River of Life Christian Church in Santa Clara, California, last year.
Over the years Wiebe has carried his battle to multiple fronts and warmed to the fight in many a disputatious page.
For the past 50 years it's been fighting a losing battle to stay relevant to Western Europe, where churches regularly stand almost empty.
For years, she had used clobber passages in an attempt to correct the flaw and fight the spiritual battle.
After the thousand years the devil is released and a second final battle is fought.
But it is beyond my understanding why people will allow other people [pastors / churches] to dominate their lives so long after the battle has been fought, even battles from many years gone by.
I swear to God, in whose hand is my life, that marching about morning and evening to fight for religion is better than the world and everything that is in it: and verily the standing of one of you in the line of battle is better than supererogatory prayers performed in your house for sixty years.36
He had fought extradition for more than 10 years but in July he lost a High Court battle to stay in Britain.
He will also get ready for battle by assembling his troops... which makes no damn sense because as soon as he gathered his troops, god rains down fire on him and cast him into the lake of fire and brimstone forever... so what's the purpose of releasing him for a thousand years and gathering up troops to fight a battle that will never happen??? Beats me!!
The reality is, gay marriage will be legalized, younger more reasonable and flex able generations will assure that in our life time, problably within the next few years, and those who have a misguided concept of god and think gay marriage is wrong are fighting a battle that they can not win, however, they do have the right to fight it.
I wrote a letter which I read to her and confessed that I felt inadequate as a man, that I felt feminine inside, that I knew this was wrong, that I should have told her but feared she would reject me if I had, that I wanted to be the best husband I could be for her and the best dad I could be for our two sons (our third came two years later), and that I needed her to stand by me to fight this battle.
Shurden, in an article last year in the Fellowship newsletter, put the Baptist conflict into three periods the struggle for national control (1979 - 1990), the fight over state conventions (1990 - 2000) and bitter battles in local churches (2000 - 2010).
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.
I have been fighting Candida for a year now and am not winning this battle.
The transaction comes amid heightened interest in Australian dairy assets, following the hard fought battle for control of Warrnambool Cheese & Butter, which was eventually won by Canada's Saputo earlier this year.
JJPAWN has been fighting a lone battle trying to keep at bay those fools who keep banging on about Arsenal not winning the PL for 13 years.
Football was a backdrop for the desegregation battles of the 1960s, from the fight over James Meredith's enrollment at Ole Miss in 1962 to the integration of Alabama's football team (and Arkansas», and Texas») a few years later.
HBO's Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight, which debuts on Oct. 5 and is directed by Stephen Frears (The Queen), is a glossy and engaging docudrama that focuses on the Supreme Court's inner - chamber battles in 1971, when the justices ruled on Ali's appeal of the conviction that had cost him 3 1/2 years of his career and threatened to send him to jail for five more.
who knows whether a disgruntled Sanchez plus an untested lacazette will produce a better attack than last year and while I have hopes for kolasinac its already clear there will be teething issues with him... but the point is we are not fighting last year's battles we are in this year's EPL against teams that have strengthened over the summer and it was wingers job to bring real quality to two key areas where we have clearly fallen behind in midfield and central defence..
Whilst the north London side are clearly favourites, they will be wary of what a fight they could have on their hands if they underestimate the Championship side — they need only look at their battling semi-final with Wigan last year.
After two years, the fruit of our inactivity in the transfer season will compell our marquee players leave the club... We will be fighting for Europa qulification for two years... After four years we will be fighting relegation battle..
For Years I have pored over accounts of the English prize ring bare - knuckle battles and tried to visualize what those fights were like.
Clearly the best option is the South Bay, so I'd go back to that fight in the meantime and maybe 10 - 15 years or so from now they can win that battle.
But today the sponge fishermen of Florida still recall a bloody battle fought in the Keys 70 years ago
We will be fighting for 4th spot by the looks of it so far, which is a painful battle we've seen over the years, but the ambition of the other teams will make it even tougher this time.
The 2013/14 campaign has undoubtedly been the most competitive in last few years - with less than half a season left, there are still fierce battles being fought in both top and bottom of a table.
I fought the courts for the last three years, it's a loosing battle.
I'm simply a (mostly) happy customer for 16 years, a Prime subscriber since day 1, and a babywearing educator who's been fighting this battle over counterfeits since at least 2011.
It just didn't seem like a battle worth fighting at the time, but years later, it seems like such a pain and my picky eaters aren't getting any better.
Visibly rocked and distressed by what he has seen, Ayan resigns from his job and begins a long, dangerous battle against his former employers as he fights for justice and the truth, which sees his life endangered and go into hiding for over seven years in Canada.
Two days before the closely - fought party leadership battle ends with the successor to Sir Menzies Campbell being announced, Mr Cameron pointed towards cooperation on the sustainable communities bill last year as evidence of the two parties working towards shared aims.
The Brexiteers were divided between the old diehards who had been fighting a lonely battle for forty years — Cash, Jenkin, Redwood — and a young more ruthless crowd outside Parliament — Hannan, Cummings, Elliott and Stephenson.
Unlike MPs elected more recently Watson and McDonnell, very different politicians, have decades of experience, years of mistakes to learn from, battles fought and lost, leadership crises, leadership bids, policies framed and re-framed.