Sentences with phrase «years of slogging»

Where once partnership was offered (or not) after six years in the practice, now it's more likely to take seven to nine years of slogging.

I think sometimes it's hard to keep that passion burning after months / years of slogging away.

It's every startup founder's dream: being acquired for hundreds of millions without years of slogging away for decades.

Not exact matches

Traditional publishing is a slog — find an agent, pitch a book and if it's picked up by a publisher, sign away the rights to your work, then spend years doing edits and waiting for the book to slot into a publishing schedule — and the majority of these people don't score a deal, because most entrepreneurs «aren't in a position to be commercially published,» says Sattersten.

Building and then operating such a far - flung network of distribution centres took five years of hard slogging, driven by the founders» willingness to spend extended periods of time living overseas while they established those divisions.

We're just slogging away in the traditional investment world,»» says Cordes, who built AssetMark Investment Services to about $ 9 billion in assets, sold it to Genworth Financial Inc. in 2006, and last year was part of an investment group that re-acquired the company.

There are new blogs being started every day but those of us who have been slogging it out for a few years (and more) are burning out.

Decathlon, in first start as 3 - year - old, slogged through mud into early lead, held on grimly under urging of Jockey Gene Martin to nose out Liberty Sun in $ 23,775 Hibiscus Stakes at Hialeah Park, Fla..

Given his perilous health, his disintegrating game, and the depressing slog of each and every round in recent years, this comeback is really already startling.

A young player could have launched a career last week at Annandale Golf Club in Madison, Miss., creating a little buzz in an otherwise static end - of - the - year slog.

Arsenal fans will be hoping that the 26 - year old can now stay injury free, and even better would be if he can start the next season in a similar manner to the way in which he rounded off the last one, after more than a year of real frustration and hard slog for the striker.

Torrey can become a bit of a slog, but this is obviously an opportunity to come out swinging to start the year.

The first weeks of September over the years have been characterised by an abundance of goals; before early season exuberance on flat, grassy pitches in late summer sunshine gives way to a cold, muddy mid-winter's slog with floodlights switched on before half - time.

If that Welfare cap doesn't come down pretty quick then some hardworking family earners slogging their guts out for a pittance, with 2 jobs on zero hour contracts, of # 20 000 a year or less, is going to be feeling pretty miffed that some couch potato is on # 21K and s / he is only on 20k, or less.

But fossil fuel investment performance has generally slogged in recent years as clean energy continues to expand its share of the global energy market.

[6] Clarke, who declined Cameron's offer of the Leadership of the House of Commons, [7] explained that when Cameron asked him to become Shadow Business Secretary in 2009, the men agreed that he would serve in the cabinet for two years, and that «At my age, it is time for me to step back from the slog of running a large department, but I am delighted to have been given a more advisory political role».

Rather than wait for a kindly benefactor to appear and reward your years of hard slog, there is something practical you can do.

This is the time of year that I usually start to crank up my traditional grouse: based on what's available on retailers» racks, they seem to think that we ALL spend our summers cavorting at the beach, or a lakeside resort, or anything other than slogging into the office five (or more) days per week.

I was looking forward to it more than any other summer movie this year, but Planet of the Apes turns out to be the worst movie by a Great American Director since Brian De Palma slogged his way through Mission to Mars last year.

It'll be a long slog but I think I'll go for the BF2 platinum this year, the rest of the trophies look like they need less skill and more luck and persistence, and lots of time and patience since I'm only at level 26!

Slattery is exceptional at silently communicating the tough slog of 15 thankless years of logging in the cold, and Krause, the damaged and dysfunctional mother is outstanding and one to watch.

Perhaps it's because it was less of a just war than its bigger sequel, perhaps it's that it was a particularly gruesome slog of mud and sacrifice, perhaps it was because America only entered the war three years in, but there's no doubt that the conflict has been seen in the movies much less than WWII, or even Vietnam.

Independent filmmaker and underground music aficionado David Markey's films include 1991: The Year Punk Broke (1992) and the Los Angeles punk Super 8 cult classics The Slog Movie (1982), Desperate Teenage Lovedolls (1984), and its sequel Lovedolls Superstar (1986), all of which represent a unique record of the punk scene in Southern California throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

Three features in the back half of the year — Spotlight, The Program and Truth all document the process, with varying degrees of success — of rugged, uncompromising, old fashioned foot - slogging journalism.

«I need to know there is a level playing field for my students who have slogged their guts out over the past year to do each of the 20 - hour controlled assessment tasks without any direction from me as dictated by the exam board.»

He concluded that it was a good thing to see small improvement in the second year of Common Core testing, but that it's going to be a «hard, slow slog» to get the majority of students to the proficient level with only about a third hitting that threshold now.

by Anne R. Allen Maybe you've just finished that NaNo novel and you know you want to publish, so you'd like to get a head start while you slog through the editing process.Or you've been writing for a couple of years, you've published some short pieces, and you've got maybe two novels in -LSB-...]

Those are the blues that can overwhelm the unpublished / underpublished novelist as we slog away, year after year, with nothing to show for our life's work but a mini-Kilimanjaro of rejection slips.

Even after years slogging through the swamp of freelance writing, I'm still challenged by the process of marketing.

It's more like a two - year slog up a mountain, with a full team to help you reach the peak of quality you have in mind.

After logging my dozens and dozens of rejections, slogging through a really painful experience with an agent that wasted three years I could have been releasing books, and with the markets changing so much, I finally realized what I had to do.

After ten years of writing, slogging, submitting, revising, shopping, and marketing, I have two fantastic series coming out in the next three years.

Authors could stop producing for six months, slog through their differences, reform the industry top to bottom — and the readers would still be crawling out from under the mountain of material dropped into the market in the past couple of years.

Most top bloggers have spent years slogging away before they've achieved any level of success.

A new edition of the Nvidia Shield features some cool Hearthstone branding Gamespot give three reasons to buy a Vita this year The Wii U exclusive that isn't so exclusive You may be able to claim free games after the 2011 PSN Hack if you don't mind a slog of paperwork (thanks gameinformer!)

The latest Call of Duty, developed over the last two years by Treyarch — not series creator Infinity Ward — is a brutal slog through a WWII setting unlike any other.

Like last year, The Journey mode was a nice addition but in the end becomes a bit of a slog, career mode gets a nifty upgrade to a game mechanic but nothing more.

It'll be a long slog but I think I'll go for the BF2 platinum this year, the rest of the trophies look like they need less skill and more luck and persistence, and lots of time and patience since I'm only at level 26!

In the 1980's I spent literally years slogging sentence by sentence through his «Critique of Pure Reason» with several other in a study group like atmosphere.

Dislodging the four - year old Slack will be a hard slog, however, even for a company the size of Atlassian.

This year, I used the skills I gained during my internships, followed by a hard dose of slog, and created my own company: Designer District.

Others have been married for many years, and though they have been slogging along — in calm or storm — their days of wine and roses are a dim memory.

The chance to sit back and relax after years of hard slog seems like a dream when one is stuck in the eighth meeting of the day.

Existing - home sales in February rallied, bouncing back from a slog at the start of the year, the National Association of REALTORS ® (NAR) reports.

Soooo, since it felt like we really had to earn summer this year by slogging through about 30 feet of snow this winter, and a chilly, wet spring, I really wanted to play up the quintessential symbols of summer - water, sand, and sunshine.