Sentences with phrase «years of struggling against»

After four years of struggling against a divided and sometimes uncooperative school board, San Antonio Superintendent Diana Lam has thrown in the towel.

After years of struggling against the Kaiju, the world leaders decide instead to build a security wall around the main cities.

Feeling completely beat down by years of struggling against the machine and feeling like I didn't have what it takes to be free, suddenly, one night in a flash of decision, I knew I was going to escape.

The story of Islam in the Soviet Union is the story of four hundred years of struggle against Russian tyranny and oppression, a resistance which has been as tenacious as the oppression has been merciless.

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Over the years Alfa has come out on top in bitter power struggles even with people closely linked to Vladimir Putin: it defended its telecoms empire against Leonid Reiman, Putin's communications minister, who ultimately left the government after a string of disclosures about his links to an offshore company.

Its investment unit has struggled over the last couple of years against increased market competition, in both trading and deal advising.

Since claims of sexual harassment in the workplace ignited the #MeToo movement last year, companies have been struggling to handle accusations against star employees.

Deutsche Bank's investment unit, in particular, has struggled over the last couple of years against increased market competition, in both trading and deal advising.

«After eight years of struggling to outperform the S&P 500, Mike Willis has decided to use the benchmark against itself by equal - weighting all 500 stocks in the index.»

Against the backdrop of safe - haven demand for the yen, Japanese stocks and exchange - traded funds are struggling this year, but the scenario could improve in the fourth quarter.

Lapomarda's own work, along with that of the Israeli diplomat Pinchas Lapide, Three Popes and the Jews, and the eminent Jewish historian Jeno Levai, Hungarian Jewry and the Papacy, is a good place to start for a fair and sympathetic account of the Catholic side of the unrelenting and often bitter struggle waged during the war years against both Nazi and Stalinist forms of atheistic secularism.

Both of the major camps of social conservative reaction to the challenges of the last few years are right in part: We have always had to struggle against the inclination of our liberal society to furiously pound itself into what Edmund Burke called «the dust and powder of individuality,» and to resist its elevation of choice above commitment.

The story runs through Woodrow Wilson's expansive mission to «make the world safe for democracy,» Eisenhower's World War II «crusade in Europe,» and the long years of cold war struggle against «godless communism.»

In the same year, the 12th Anti-Corruption International Conference, which was held at Prague, for the first time included a panel — in which I was invited to participate — about the contribution of faith based organizations to the struggle against corruption.

Three years later in an interview to an Italian journal, Pope John Paul II said, «The proponents of extreme capitalism in any form tend to overlook the good things achieved by communism, the struggle against unemployment and the concern for the poor».

but the woman or our society keep the war against Rome going for 1000 years then another 1000 when England took over the assault, their valiant struggle did not end until Christendom put are woman to the subservient side of the coin, and the dark ages followed, my point is your right men and woman can not do the same things men destroy, women create.

Louis XIV's revocation of the edict in 1685 was followed by a massive flight of some 200,000 Protestants from France, and renewed persecution at home met with a sustained guerilla uprising in the rural area of the Cévennes in the early years of the eighteenth century, which diverted French military forces at a critical moment from their struggle against foreign enemies.

But instead of vengeful invective, over the following minutes, days and years he spoke simple, principled sense, refusing to give up the struggle, armed if necessary, against injustice until Apartheid was dismantled, but articulating a sense of place for all races in South Africa.

Sifton never mentions any of this, but Niebuhr's strident opposition to Roosevelt's preparations for war helps us to grasp the revulsion against war that his generation felt after World War I. Even for Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society did not lead straight to the interventionism of 1940; he had had to struggle for eight years to get there.

One can almost feel the confusion of Satan in the end the Gospel accounts as Jesus, who has struggled and taught and healed against all the death and destruction and lies of the devil throughout His entire three years of ministry, now goes silently to the cross, like a lamb to the slaughter.

Even though resistance takes many different forms (against the MAI, towards a jubilee year in 2000, for the Tobin tax, seeking alternatives, etc.), and even if the struggles are specific in their aims (farmers, workers, indigenous or coloured people, citizens, ecologists or women, the urban poor, etc.) and though the various co-ordination groups are numerous (Peoples Power for the XXI Century in Asia, São Paulo Forum in Latin America, etc.), all of these have a common thread: they all work to highlight the unacceptable nature of the current economic system.

... 2... we need a third CB... Holding is good but still too young to play weekly in EPL, Mertesacker is slow n in his final year, Gabriel is not too intelligent n flops against technical sides like Bayern, City, Liverpool... Monreal like mertesacker struggles against fast forwards plus he gives them too much space in d box with his archaic style of shadow marking..

In wenger we trust COYG u spoilt little brats, you muppets ain't even been tested in your arsenal fan career never seen your club finish lower then fourth every year we play in cl against the big boys and you lot act like were in crisis and things are so bad wow I'm beyond belief just can't get my head around the way you lot act sometimes step back a bit a think a little you twats most of you in your life time have never seen your team finish lower then fourth yes fûc #ing fourth most of you don't even no what it's like to be a real fan wen your team are struggling finishing mid table and still saying you love the club and protect them never in my life have I heard a generation of arsenal fans critise manager players board everything about our club wen things our knowere near as bad as you make out to be and could be.

The Spanish right - back has enjoyed somewhat of a whirlwind year with the Gunners as he struggled on his UEFA Champions League debut against Bundesliga giants Borussia Dortmund 12 months ago and it appeared he wasn't quite ready to make the step up to first - team football at the time.

While Man City may well have opened up a sizeable gap that is unlikely to be made up between now and the end of the season by any of the chasing pack, Chelsea still have to play for second place, and their supporters will be in good spirits for the New Year after such a commanding display, albeit against a struggling Stoke side.

Le Prof's prayers were answered when we were given yet another home game against Lower League opposition in Hull City, the team we struggled against in the Final a couple of years ago.

I fully understand we just lost one game and uts not the end of the world but am struggling to deal with is the consistent lack of mental toughness that are the hallmarks of all title winning teams... we need to be proactive and stop been reactionary, simples... we had what is in all honesty a good couple of matches begining of the season WINNABLE games but we already fell short at the first hurdle now all the talk is about bouncing back, whatever happened to eyes on the ball straight from the off... a Westham side with a new manager, some new players and a 16 year old making his debut beating Arsenal at home is just plain disgraceful and whatever happens next does not in any way mitigate against that.....

Cast your minds back to the 2011 League cup final where Arsenal were looking to win their first piece of silverware in six years against a struggling Birmingham City side.

For most of the next 57 minutes, the Bulldogs, surprise winners of last year's game against Florida, struggled to contain Johnson, Taylor & Co..

The Spurs, as always, take care of (almost all) the bad teams, but they struggled against top talent this year for fairly obvious reasons.

They «struggled» in the first half of the year against the spread despite going 35 - 6, but turned it around in the second half as oddsmakers and public bettors realized that they were men, not machines, and lowered their expectations.

Players playing out of position (Wattenburg and Harris) and struggling players (Kirkland) really hammered our performance against Stanford and PSU last year.

Team Evans Scholar SO struggled to stop anything on defense however in this game, giving up more points than their average of 51.5 points against per game this year.

All three scenarios have happened to us in the last 5 years and let's be honest after how we struggled against Bayern there's no chance of us going through with our inconsistent team.

But the offense did struggle against Clemson in much of last year's title game, just as it had, relatively speaking, against Washington (5.1 yards per play) and LSU (4.6).

Despite the struggles of our betting against the public strategy this season, this is an interesting time of the year for contrarian strategies.

Even though Arsenal have struggled a bit against Villa over the last few years, they boast one of the world's most formidable attacks now that they have an abundance of players to choose from and should be able to display that on Sunday.

the BDO is just a popularity contest, there is simply no justification to include Aguero who wasn't topscorer in EPL, his team struggled into the top4 and did Lil or nothing at the Copa America and exclude an Alexis Sanchez who came back from injury in the 2nd half of the season which was the start of this year, gave many brilliant performances for Arsenal including against Man.City, Spurs went to Copa America to not just perform brilliantly and win the trophy, he was also awarded the player of the tournament that had the Higuain, Aguero, DiMaria, Vidal and even Messi.

He struggled to find his feet in the first two years at the club, a situation not helped by Wenger ping - ponging him between central midfield and defence, and after a difficult outing against Fulham in 2006 he was loaned out to Charlton for the rest of the season.

The 21 year old who was rated the best defender on show for his team in their last weekend clash against Groningen has so far made 26 appearances this season with a goal to his name from his position as a full back for ADO Deen Haag who ate struggling to remain in the first division of Dutch football League.

I have always stood by wenger, but recently I have had to struggle with doubts following the steady decline in the fortunes of the club, most especially when last year arsenal lost the change to win the EPL plus some embassring results this season such as ones against Everton, Watfort, Man City and Man U in the EPL and the most recent 10 - 2 aggregate ECL loss to Bayern Munich.

However, since the 25 - year - olds return to Old Trafford things have not necessarily gone according to plan and he has struggled to find the form that made him such a talent in Serie A. Although he won two trophies last season, the highlight coming as he was the catalyst for United's UEFA Europa League win against Ajax, he was recently dropped for a number of important games for the Reds.

Rafa Benitez and his players have created a massive turnaround this year after the first half of the season when we struggled against relegation and t...

The Scot has won just two of his sixteen league games in charge, two of which coming against a then utterly demoralised and in free - fall West Brom either side of the New Year, and he is currently struggling to rouse the troops during a nine - match barren run which has seen Rovers go nearly three whole months without winning.

Predictions: Argentina has been one of the best teams in world football for best part of last 3 years but they are struggling for form going into the very important qualifier against Brazil.

The 35 - year - old has struggled in games this season but nobody can deny his pedigree and as he proved against Swansea, if the chances keep coming, it is only a matter of time before he finds the back of the net.

A humbling 8 - 2 defeat to Manchester United, struggling to snatch a 4th place finish on the final day of the season, Spurs finally ending out unbeaten streak against them and really believing they could finish above us, — recent years haven't been the best of times for...

And before I started to look at this issue, I'd actually been a breastfeeding mother for seven years, believe it or not and when I started to read about this and talk to other mothers and look at the literature, I was stunned by how ignorant I had been of all the influences on me as a breastfeeding mother and all the messages that are being sent to us about the purpose of our breasts and the idea of the primary purpose of our breasts being about Sex Attraction and you know I didn't realize I'd been fighting a struggle against all these messages as a breastfeeding mother.

New Rochelle Councilman Jared Rice agrees; «50 years later, we are dealing with many of the same struggles that Dr. Martin Luther King was up against.

«We congratulate Nigerians for this important milestone in the long and bitter struggle against the forces of evil that have wreaked so much suffering and hardship on our people in the last few years.