Sentences with phrase «years of struggle for»

It took 10 years of struggle for him to get Shape made and he's said it was the hardest shoot he's ever had.

Earnest Christians brought them into being and saw them through the discouraging years of the struggle for existence.

3) After years of struggling for meaningful differentiation, our group of parents took to creating a gifted magnet school.

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In the U.K. and Brazil, where it is downsizing to the tune of hundreds of locations, the company has struggled for years.

Following 15 years of struggling with increased competition, sluggish demand, and a high - valued Canadian dollar, many manufacturing industries are not yet prepared to take full advantage for the U.S. rebound.

It confounds me that in a year of record lending by the Small Business Administration, entrepreneurs still struggle to get the financing they need even when all indicators point to the opportunity for growth.

Only time will tell if Under Armour can return its shoe business to the growth of a year ago, but it doesn't bode well that such a young category for the company is already struggling.

Boire, who previously worked at Best Buy and Brookstone (which filed for bankruptcy last year), parlayed his successful tenure of sales declines at Sears into a job as CEO of struggling bookseller Barnes & Noble, where, somehow, we think he'll feel right at home.

Kottke offers a memorable quote from photographer Clayton Cubitt to illustrate this truth: «I think back to my struggles clawing my way out of the trailer park, the violence I survived, all the sh *** y jobs I had to work and the sh *** y bosses I had to tolerate, the extra 15 years it took me, and I find the renewable energy of gratitude for my survival.»

Ride - sharing app Lyft, which has seen its market share surge in the last year as rival Uber has struggled, is expanding outside of the U.S. for the first time with plans to launch in Toronto.

Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, has spent the last two years struggling: to normalize life for her children, to get comfortable accepting the help of friends and family, to regain confidence at work, and to rediscover hope.

Those kinds of struggles had led 53 percent of those small businesses to apply for funding or credit lines over the past five years — and more than one in four said they had sought loans multiple times.

Beyond that, United has struggled to stave bad press for a number of other incidents during the past year.

After having struggled with her weight for years early in her career, Peters lost 70 pounds by carefully restricting the amount of food she ate.

While casual - dining chains have been struggling for years, the industry is now on the cusp of a new restaurant recession — and casual chains will likely be hit the hardest.

Those early years of sacrifice and dissatisfaction and struggle create the foundation for later success... and create a lifelong competitive advantage.

«We're on our second or third generation of entrepreneurial executives now,» says Charley Polachi, managing partner of the recruitment firm Heidrick & Struggles / Fenwick Partners in Lexington, Mass. «They've been moving around for a few years.

The findings, based on an online survey of 26,000 consumers in 26 countries, are potentially good news for major smartphone makers, which have been struggling to maintain the rapid growth of previous years.

Struggling German airline Air Berlin filed for insolvency after years of losses caught up with it.

The sudden proliferation of wireless computing technology in recent years has opened a new front in the struggle for work - life balance, a battle many managers and employees feel they are losing.

«After struggling for the better part of the year, the dollar stores have gotten their groove back,» the «Mad Money» host said.

Despite his having one of the most successful starts in coaching history (including two NBA championships for the Warriors in his first three years as a head coach), the team has struggled of late.

With speculation mounting that Twitter (twtr) will soon have a new corporate owner, the 10 - year - old social networking service — which has long struggled to define its core purpose — may end up heading in one of several distinctly different directions depending on who ends up paying for it.

A year ago, he agreed to do the same for money - losing Mitsubishi Motors that is struggling from a scandal of faking fuel economy test data.

The struggle for our rights is not the struggle of a day, or a year.

Some years back, a small Colorado goat - cheese maker called Haystack Mountain faced its version of a classic growth challenge: National demand was growing for its chèvres and other cheeses, and the company was struggling to find enough local goat farmers to produce milk.

And the Associated General Contractors of America conducted a survey last year that showed 86 % of construction firms were struggling to fill vacancies for electricians, carpenters and other trades.

CHICAGO, May 2 - Global grain marketers have seized upon trade tensions between the United States and several of its top export markets, including China, to turn around struggling trading units following one of the toughest years ever for the industry.

The company has been struggling for years to revive its growth after failing to react fast enough to the rise of mobile and social networking.

Italy, and particularly its poorer southern regions, have been struggling with an influx of migrants for years, however, and has repeatedly called on its European neighbors for help in the increasingly arduous task of patrolling the Mediterranean and processing the numbers of migrants entering Italy.

But in that moment Orr opened the door to a nine - year struggle during which his marriage would end, he would take a company public and then sell it, plunge into depression, drop out of the workforce, and take another company public, all while searching for a way to be a good boss and a good person.

She's been on a very solid track for a number of years, even running good increases over the past year and a half when the women's business as a whole has been really struggling.

«We're at a good time in the cycle right now, but I would suggest that you go back and look at the tougher years in 2009 - 2010 and see how much of a struggle it's been for the entire industry during those down cycles.»

Walt Disney, for example, recently extended the contract of CEO Robert Iger for another year as it struggles to fill the top job.

Poloz, who, like every other economist, has struggled to explain our post-crisis reality, was in Toronto on November 28 to set the stage for the Bank of Canada's last scheduled policy announcement of the year, on December 7.

Not many hear about the struggles of SMEs and solopreneurs that start up in the region (like us at DeCluttr ME) and have no aspiration to expand to have more than a 1000 employees after a year and sell up later for billions.

After the boom and bust of cleantech in Silicon Valley over the past few years, energy entrepreneurs have struggled to find customers for energy efficiency and clean energy products.

A deal for Mednax would be the latest in a string of acquisitions of physician networks, a business that has struggled in recent years to adapt to changes in how U.S. health insurers reimburse providers.

The emergence of further interest in Vocus brightens buyout prospects for a firm which has seen its share price slide in the wake of a May profit warning as it struggles to make the most of acquisitions bought in a three - year $ 2.4 billion shopping spree.

The aging plane had rescued and resupplied American citizens after last year's hurricanes as part of the U.S. territory's fleet, which often struggles to remain mission - ready amid long waits for spare parts, said Adjutant Gen. Isabelo Rivera, commander of the Puerto Rico National Guard.

TORONTO (Reuters)- The owner of adultery website Ashley Madison had already been struggling to sell itself or raise funds for at least three years before the publication of details about its members, according to internal documents and emails also released by hackers as part of their assault on the company in recent weeks.

If you don't have money set aside for medical or health emergencies — or some type of critical illness insurance plan that covers all costs upon diagnosis — you may end up struggling with medical debt for years to come.

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A September study published by the Brookings Institution found that a large share of the growth in the number of students struggling to pay off their loans over the past several years is tied to students borrowing to go to for - profit schools and to a smaller extent two - year community college.

Facebook, the largest social media player and the leading news source for many Americans, has struggled to curb the spread of fake news on its service despite repeated pledges to do so over the last few years and most recently at US congress hearings with Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg.

The study found the living wage for Metro Vancouver increased $ 0.33 over last year to $ 19.14 — a jump mediated by the introduction of the U-Pass, which has helped cut bus transportation costs for some families struggling to make ends meet.

The social media giant has grappled with the criticism over the issue for much of the past year, and struggled to keep public opinion on its side.

The NDP and Mulcair have for years been trumpeting the struggles of average families, often talking about the «kitchen table» issues affecting Canadians.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Pizza chain Sbarro LLC has filed for bankruptcy protection for the second time in three years after struggling with too much debt and fewer customers in malls that house many of its restaurants.

The business has struggled to be profitable for some time and booked a net loss of $ 2.9 m on revenue of $ 126.4 m, down 41 % from last year.