Sentences with phrase «years of struggling behind»

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Would definitely prefer leaving a little extra money behind to having to spent the last years of my life struggling.

Revenuewise, Snapchat is well behind where Facebook was when it went public, and even Facebook struggled as a public company in its first couple of years.

Peterson's family sat behind me and told me some of what he struggled with last year after hurting his wrist.

City have ageing players hence why they're struggling this year but just watch next season when United bring in a new manager and the rich clubs buy new quality players, you will see how far behind we are to even be considered one of the best in Europe.

We are way behind the pace, and I feel we will struggle to stay in the EPL next year, unless we get rid of Kroenke, and have an evaluation of Wenger under a new owner.

While they're not so far ahead of sixth - place Toronto — this is a tight five - team race behind the Montreal superclub — they still, knock wood, are a vast improvement over last year when they struggled to finish fifth.

Quite honestly, they couldn't, finishing the year 19 points adrift of the relegation cut off point and 14 behind second bottom Reading, another struggling team destined for relegation and whom I had the misfortune to see in action quite a lot that year.

Despite their best intentions when they said their «I dos,» each of their marriages ended, and when they started dating and then married, blending families and many marital years behind them (14 for Astro, eight for Danielle), they began to question a lot of the messages they'd been told about marriage and divorce, as well as the one - size - fits - all answers «experts» and the self - help industry had for struggling couples.

Five years ago, when her candidate was still struggling at the back of the Democratic pack, lagging behind front - runner Christine Quinn — who would have been the city's first out LGBTQ mayor — Nixon, who has variously described herself as bisexual and lesbian, headlined LGBT for BdB, a raucous Cutting Room campaign event featuring an impressive array of stage actors and downtown nightlife personalities.

This is the sort of ethnically mixed seat where the Conservatives have struggled in recent years, having fallen further and further behind since first losing the seat in 1997.

While they struggle to pull together know - how and funding, those with the broader view and resources - state agencies - are absent from the discussions: In a study released earlier this year, the Natural Resources Defense Council ranked Virginia as one of 29 states that were «largely unprepared and lagging behind» on planning for climate change at the state level.

After years of struggling with acne and hiding behind layers of thick foundation, I finally feel confident in my skin.

Directors Nick Broomfield and Rudi Dolezal weave never before seen video, candid interviews and behind the scenes performances into an intimate portrait of Whitney Houston, who died suddenly after years of struggling with addiction.

Crumbling under pressure to deliver, Apted — a seventy - six - year - old British filmmaker behind movies such as 007's The World is Not Enough and The Chronicles of Narnia — struggles to find a steady pace throughout and fails to boost this rather generic and by - the - numbers thriller with energy, thought and complexity.

Keys to Success Burdette and Smethurst believe that one of the reasons that some of these students each year have struggled in their traditional classrooms was that they may have had learning difficulties that had not been detected or addressed in earlier years, letting the students fall further and further behind.

«As I have long argued, children who fall behind in the early years of their education struggle to catch up in later years.

Conversely, proponents of the Standards argue that the momentum behind the CCSS coincided with a years - long struggle to increase the rigor of state standards.

Did any of them read The Hartford Courant a few weeks ago, describing the conditions at Milner School in Hartford [March 12, courant.com, «Left Behind: 20 Years After Sheff v. O'Neill, Students Struggle In Hartford's Segregated Neighborhood Schools»]?

Lexus and parent manufacturer Toyota have been increasing the presence of hybrid models for some time now, with many years of development behind the technology that is now looking like a much better choice than diesel considering it's current struggles.

Meanwhile, 15 - year - old Luke is impressed into service on one of his majesty's ships, desperate to return to the girl he left behind and struggling to survive the hard life of a sailor.

In scenes alive with emotional truth, River, Cross My Heart weighs the effect of Clara's absence on the people she has left behind: her parents, Alice and Willie Bynum, torn between the old world of their rural North Carolina home and the new world of the city, to which they have moved in search of a better life for themselves and their children; the friends and relatives of the Bynum family in the Georgetown neighborhood they now call home; and, most especially, Clara's sister, twelve - year - old Johnnie Mae, who must come to terms with the powerful and confused emotions sparked by her sister's death as she struggles to decide and discover the kind of woman she will become.

Lastly, in our experience, homeowners get peace of mind once they make a decision to sell their home and leave behind months if not year's of struggle with their mortgage.

With years of conceptual design already behind it, work started on Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee in earnest, a revolutionary title combining action, adventure, role - playing, stategy and simulation, with vehicle - driving, critter - husbandry, environmental management and exploitable addictions, day cycles and class struggles.

Vogel also did a little research on the price history behind an early Hirst medicine cabinet that had a nice showing for an artist whose market has been soft and struggling in recent years, especially the spot paintings which were meant to have a revival after the worldwide Gagosian show and announcement of a catalogue raisonnée (the one spot in Christie's sale went below the estimate range):

Last year's Pixel phones were regarded as some of the best Android handsets on the market, but the Alphabet Inc unit struggled to keep up with demand and sales lagged way behind Apple and Samsung.