Sentences with phrase «years of fighting with»

It wasn't until 2010, after 5 years of fighting with doctors that I didn't have PCOS, that I met with a gynecologist / endocrinologist who knew what she was doing, did the proper blood work and told me I'd never had PCOS, I had HA the whole time.

Although such a move would incur taxes, it would be swifter and more certain than pursuing an Alibaba spinoff that could lead to years of fighting with the I.R.S.

Not exact matches

Stephanie Oh fought for a few years in her early 20s to break into the music industry in New York City, but last year grew disenchanted with her stagnant career in administration of music - talent management firm.

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.

While Canadians enjoyed Balsillie's fight with the NHL these past two years, there is no doubt that he has the fight of its life on his hands in the in the near future and must reinvent his company to remain competitive in this market.

Two years ago, only a handful of Buffalo Wild company - owned restaurants, along with about 70 franchisees, decided to show the Mayweather fight.

Buffalo Wild Wings's struggles led to a fight with Marcato Capital that forced longtime Chief Executive Officer Sally Smith to announce that she'll step down by the end of the year.

In the last few years, the number of clinical trials in this field has exploded, along with the flurry of money from Big Pharma and investors, stirring optimism in the fight against cancer.

For starters, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has promised to fight the federal deficit, expected to reach $ 56 billion by fiscal year - end, with «fiscal discipline» instead of tax increases.

In years past, there might be a handful of teams fighting for last in the NBA and the 25 % shot at the first overall draft pick (and assurance that you'd fall no lower than fourth) that comes with it.

Patron, facing an onslaught of competition from celebrity - endorsed tequilas, is fighting back this summer with a line of pricey drinks as part of the largest product launch in the company's 25 - year history.

Looking back on the last few years, I found myself constantly fighting with other contributors and market participants about the direction of the stock market.

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.

Fox's decision to finally move forward with the film followed a years - long process in which Reynolds, director Tim Miller, and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick had to fight through various obstacles (including the box office failure of another Reynolds superhero movie, 2011's Green Lantern) to get the movie made.

Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf compared the dispute with Apple over potentially billions of dollars in royalties on mobile chipsets to earlier fights Qualcomm has had over the years with other tech companies that were settled out of court.

With the ousting of former potty - mouthed CEO Carol Bartz, the long - in - the - tooth Internet corporation looked like it had a fighting chance at relevance earlier this year when it hired former PayPal president Scott Thompson to take the reins.

«After years of fighting through bankruptcy court, the Jenkins ended up with just 30 cents on the dollar.

Launched three years ago to fight off the threat of deflation, the ECB's 2.55 trillion euro ($ 3.14 trillion) bond purchase programme has kept borrowing costs low to induce spending and investment, all with the ultimate aim of generating inflation.

A 30 - year veteran in finance, McCarthy decided to stay and joked with coworkers that «you don't walk out on friends in the middle of a knife fight.»

With ISIS continuing to fight, Russia and China throwing their weight around, and budget shortfalls becoming bigger and bigger problems, the Department of Defense will definitely need strong leadership in the form of a commander - in - chief and his political appointees in the months immediately following the inauguration next year.

Wayne is a proven senior executive and lawyer with over 25 years business experience, most recently as Executive Vice-President of Kingsdale Shareholder Service, a company involved in providing strategic consulting and other services to companies involved in takeover bids and proxy fights.

That's adding to pressure on Munoz, who has been under fire this year for fighting a fare war with discounters, bobbling the rollout of a new no - frills product and mishandling the furor when a passenger was dragged off a plane in April.

Years of frustration and mounting discontent from Yindjibarndi people about the current applicants and YAC and the endless division and fighting within the community provided respected Yindjibarndi Elders Rodney Adams, Sylvia Allan, Maudie Jerrold, Francis Phillips, Allery Sandy, Ken Sandy and Diana Smith with the motivation and the courage to give all Yindjibarndi people a voice and an opportunity to vote on 23 June.

The decades - long conflict that is currently raging over short - termism and activist hedge funds strikes me as analogous to the Thirty Years» War of the 17th Century, albeit fought with statistics («empirical evidence»), op - eds and journal articles rather than cannon, pike and sword.

There are many years left before deficit problems and euro market problems are solved, so making money from a downward market will be more and more common than going long, instead of fight it, swim with it.

Within just three years of its launch, Amazon's India arm — Amazon.in — has become a top player in the Indian e-commerce space, fighting neck - to - neck with the homegrown Flipkart, which began operations in 2008.

Also last year, Coury took the lead in a bitter takeover fight with Ireland - based Perrigo Co., a manufacturer of over-the-counter medicines, and fought off a takeover attempt from Israel - based Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd..

I had to fight my immediate prejudice and remind myself of something I've talked with others about for years — the increasing size of books, both fiction and non-fiction, to justify the inflated pricing from publishers.

BEIJING (AP)-- Facing the risk of a trade fight with the United States, China announced plans Tuesday to allow full foreign ownership of automakers in five years.

The minister of citizenship and immigration has already picked a fight this year with Amnesty International over his plan to enlist the public's help in identifying and rounding up fugitives suspected of hiding in Canada from their alleged past behaviour as war criminals.

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.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

From the period of 1560 to 1913 we can see that this decision to leave the Gold Standard to allow England the freedom to inflate and fight to the death with Napoleonic France was the most noteworthy price move during more than 350 years of pricing history.

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.

«It's been one of the many challenges I've encountered in the past two years, along with being a first timer with no connections, as well as fighting for my artist visa and getting the script in the right hands.»

And yet they can not seem to eclipse, in the public mind, a morally ambivalent war that ended seventy - three years ago, which was fought with the utmost ruthlessness, and one of whose victors was an appalling despotism of lies and murder.

For hundreds of years, most of the region was under the control of the Ottoman sultans who ruled with an iron fist and ensured that the diverse ethnic and religious groups didn't fight amongst themselves.

In one of his final speeches, King admonished: «If our nation can spend $ 35 billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and $ 20 billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God's children on their own two feet right here...» MLK's talking points of tapping into America's financial resources in order to help the poverty - stricken across the land were directly at odds with the economic status quo, and that is part of what got him killed.

In interviews with CNN, religious leaders from Newtown, the site of last year's school shooting where 20 children and six adults were killed, said that a recent gun control agreement does not do enough to fight gun violence, leading one rabbi to doubt whether Congress was actually working for the American people.

His support for the unborn resonated with Americans fighting the consequences of Roe v. Wade: The right to life movement received a new language and dimension when he first spoke about a «Culture of Life» in 1993 — significantly, during a visit to America — and two years later, described his full vision in his great encyclical, Evangelum Vitae.

If you could rewrite your life, which would you choose: First, you could go with what you have now, and the relationship with God you have now through years of sticking by Him, and struggling with questions and fears, and fighting off temptation, and making wise decisions (that sometimes turn out to be unwise), and persevering through temptation, and learning what you know about God, Scripture, and theology, but ending up as a relative «nobody» in the Churchianity.

Those effected in the northern region of the young country live in an area that has suffered through three years of on - going ethnic violence, with fighting between rebel forces and the government claiming the lives of thousands.

Luckily any given election is never entirely over for either party to the dispute because in two to four years hence the people will be able to fight it out again — even as new unforeseen and important circumstances which must be dealt with will inevitably present themselves for the consideration of the community.

Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.

People often wait for years before they come for help, struggling with the same pattern of fighting over and over again with nothing changing.

Even in the midst of anger and fear, of hatred and violence, when a billion years worth of instinct gears us up for either fight or flight, something calls for us to break the vicious cycle and instead to reach out to the other with caring and understanding.

The ten years (1979 - 1989) of war against Soviet Union occupation, fought with the military support of the USA, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, ruined the country enormously.

The speech was a brutally frank assessment of the state of Muslim societies as weak, divided and ineffective, with the proof being that «over the past 50 years of fighting in Palestine we have not achieved any result.

Underlying the presence of physical barriers in churches and seminaries is a set of still - perpetuated attitudinal barriers — primarily the following: (1) low expectations on the part of both pastors and laypeople of just what a disabled person can do; (2) a psychologically defined negation, usually unconscious, reflecting the Jamesian response of «fight or fly»; (3) simple lack of experience with handicapped persons, and consequent embarrassment; (4) biblically derived sanctions, expressing thousands of years of tradition.

This seems in fact to be the gist of his confession in A Sort of Life, where Greene contrasts his state of resolve at the time of his conversion with his condition more than 20 years later, at a point (which Sherry suggests remains characteristic of the present) when «continual failure or the circumstances of our private life finally make it impossible to make any promises at all and many of us abandon Confession and Communion to join the Foreign Legion of the Church and fight for a city of which we are no longer full citizens.»