Sentences with phrase «years of trying at»

Though most women who have determined that they are fertile can conceive within two years of trying at least two times per week, many starting in their late 30s and early 40s shouldn't wait that long before consulting their OB / GYN or fertility specialist.

He's got 25 more years of trying at the PGA and I think he's still coming down off the high of that Open finish.

Not exact matches

Trying to compete at the same cost from such a weak position hints at the same sort of hubris that has laid BlackBerry low over the past few years.

Tsarnaev is accused of killing three people and injuring 264 with a pair of homemade pressure - cooker bombs at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, and with fatally shooting a police officer three days later as he and his 26 - year - old brother, Tamerlan, tried to flee.

I've tried over the years to write many times about the realism of the downsides of being an entrepreneur because there is a complete cognitive dissidence between what you read about yourself in the press and what you feel internally about where you're at in the journey.

«Having taught at Stanford now for 30 years... one of the things I think that we're failing even in our elite education — and we're failing at Stanford although we're trying — is teaching people to fight constructively,» Sutton said.

Abe, now in his sixth year in office, had tried to put behind him questions over the sale of state owned land at a huge discount to a school operator with ties to his wife, Akie.

This year, when he tried to dock at the French port of Antibes, Abramovich found the only spot big enough to park the 530 - foot boat was already being used by a Saudi Prince's yacht.

After two years of trying, Facebook's representation of blacks and Hispanics remains at 2 percent and 4 percent, respectively — the exact same representation Facebook held in 2014, when the tech industry began its diversity push.

After 18 years at Alliance, eight of them as president of the movie distribution unit, Theroux was booted out in 2006 for trying to orchestrate a management buyout.

The producers of the film tried to show it again at this year's Telluride Film Festival but were once again stopped by Franklin's lawyers.

At about this time three years ago, it agreed to complete its multi-billion dollar acquisition of European druggist Alliance Boots, and followed that 10 months later by trying (and failing) to buy smaller rival Rite Aid (rad) outright.

This lowers the odds of employees trying to use all their days each year or cash them out at the end of the period.

Gobs of venture capital money have been tossed at the taxi - app space in the past few years, as various companies try to make the process of ordering a cab more convenient and efficient.

Four years on, the F1 boss appears to be frustrated again as he tries to keep one of the most glamorous races on the calendar after the contract expires in 2017, at a time when the city - state is weighing whether the event makes economic sense anymore.

Surely there will be some footage from the next Halo game, expected next year, and possibly an early look at an upcoming Gears of War installment, but beyond that, will the company refocus on games or continue trying to position the Xbox One as a living room device that the whole family will want?

Many in this new wave of same - day delivery companies are trying to emulate Instacart, which has exploded into 16 metro areas across the U.S. in just three years, and was valued at US$ 2 billion in a round of series - C funding earlier this year.

«They have talked about trying to rebalance the economy for 5 or 10 years now, but the imbalances got even worse, so you simply fall back on the model that got you into the difficulty in the first place,» said Peter Elston, head of Asia - Pacific strategy and asset allocation at Aberdeen Asset Management.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The FBI failed to notify scores of U.S. officials that Russian hackers were trying to break into their personal Gmail accounts despite having evidence for at least a year that the targets were in the Kremlin's crosshairs, The Associated Press has found.

Upon hearing about this concept years ago in one of my workshops, a student approached me at a break and realized in trying to sell software to a heating oil distributor, he had lost a software sale to a delivery truck!

That means Trump could find himself staring down the same dilemma in 2020 that Obama faced in 2016: He'll be trying to lock in his touchstone energy policies at the end of a four - year term, with a political rival eager to overturn them.

That would be true at any point, of course, and one thing I have tried to reinforce this year is that the Consumer Bureau is far more than its director.

Ronak Singhal, a senior executive and 20 - year veteran of chipmaker Intel, was trying to get to dinner at Helena, his favorite restaurant in Israel, a few weeks ago.

Me: If you look at the world, and you look at languages, and you look at economies... if you were to try to target those parts of the world that in 15 years, 20 years will have taken a bigger step than other parts of the world, where would you go?

Rather than looking forward, trying to set goals through the lens of your current hectic situations in life, pretend like it's one year from now and you are actually looking backwards at the best year of your financial life.

A year of hellish relations with aboriginal groups; a possibly fatal public - relations cloud over the Keystone project, based precisely on the Harper government's poor environmental record; serious opposition in Europe to any extension in Canada - EU relations at the very same time we're trying to negotiate a trade deal; and a set of controversies that still motivate NDP supporters and the NDP caucus today, another year closer to a federal election.

Perhaps most notable, according to the July 6 notice, is the fact that the IRS is only trying to obtain records on users who have conducted «at least the equivalent of $ 20,000 in any one transaction type (buy, sell, send, or receive) in any one year during the 2013 - 2015 period».

A tit - for - tat trade war could evolve into a full - blown one that hurts everyone, and would be a slap in the face of the global statesmanship, and commitment to globalization Xi has tried hard to display, most notably with his speech at the original Davos last year, where he presented himself as a counter to the newly - elected Trump's protectionism.

In that regard, we tried to gain some perspective on this issue by looking at the behaviour of the foreign exchange market around the time of the flash crash in equities in May 2010 and the sharp movements in the yen just prior to the coordinated intervention in March this year.

I was kind of like I said interested in gambling or at least speculating or figuring things out and then taking a calculated gamble and what they were telling me was don't try, there were saying that no one can beat the market and the stock prices are efficient and just through simple observation looking at the newspaper and they used to have the 52 - week high low prices in the newspaper, it seemed unreasonable that you know the fair price was 51 day and eight months later, it was 120, and that was pretty much every stock had that kind of range every year and it didn't make sense to me that the fundamentals of the underlying businesses were actually changing that much.

As word spread Wednesday morning of Travis Kalanick's sudden departure from the helm at troubled ride - hailing startup Uber, Silicon Valley pundits, investors and analysts all tried in different ways to make sense of one of the most startling developments to come out of the tech world in recent years.

For anyone trying to grapple with the complicated issue of sexual harassment and abuses of male power and privilege, the 44 - year - old Lewinsky's recent essay in Vanity Fair magazine comes at the perfect time...

The officer, Shawn Wilson, claims in the lawsuit filed last week in San Patricio County, that Hitt»... seemed to be trying to cover - up...» an investigation into alleged assault against a 15 - year - old boy at the hands of a Taft official, last year.

Also try and speak at conferences I have spoken at many over the years and it has been a lot of fun along the way and they act as a fantastic way to generate new business leads.

Their managers sell losing securities, match up losses and gains, hold stocks at least a year so that their gains count as long - term, choose stocks that don't produce a lot of taxable dividends, and try to keep taxable transactions low.

When it comes to the add - ons and upgrades dealers try to sell you at the end — or the well - known tactic of stretching out your auto loan to seven years and focusing only on the lower monthly payment — you won't fall for it, and you'll have ample reason to say «no.»

If our friends at Deutsche Bank are right in forecasting the US unemployment rate to decline from the current 17 year low of 4.1 per cent to 3.2 per cent by - late 2019, the US Federal Reserve are going to have a delicate balancing act as they lift the cash rate in trying to keep inflationary expectations under control.

He first tried trading in his second year of studies in 2015, starting with the BP Canada Trading Competition held each October at UCalgary.

Several of his friends, who had started working at Facebook Israel when it was founded a year earlier, tried to persuade him to change his mind.

When you get the financialization of the economy all of these issues that you and I have talked about for years now associated with financial repression have become front and centre of the government trying to manage the economy at the best that it can do.

«I spent my first year in residency trying to balance laying the foundations for my company between the hours of midnight and 5 a.m. while I was working 100 - hour work weeks at the hospital as a surgical resident.

Woods» best finish this season is a tie for second at the Valspar Championship, but said he's still trying to get a gauge for where his overall game is following years of persistent back problems.

Battalions of negotiators for Canada, Mexico and the United States have been working at a breakneck pace trying to reach agreement on a revamped North American free trade pact by the end of the year but so far they have little to show for it.

At the beginning of the year, Trump was trying to weaken the buck while Mnuchin was talking it up.

More surprising to me, though, was the rare public white flag waved by Bezos, one of the richest humans alive, by looking to a brick - and - mortar retailer for help; after 10 years of trying and mostly failing at making grocery delivery a workable business, this was a «We can't do this on our own» moment.

Some of us «born - again» Christians can't «fathom» cigarettes... «That which is born of the flesh is flesh; that which is born of the Spirit is spirit»... CPT Roy G. Moore was my commanding officer in Vietnam in the 504th MP Bn, 188 MP Co. at Camp David Land, near DaNang over 40 years ago and single - handedly apprehended a buddy of mine who had just tried to kill the 1SG.

It reminds me of the time when I was 26 years old and still trying to make a name for myself at the job.

I spent YEARS of my life trying to prove that Christianity was the ruth, and the conclusion I came to (not at all an easy one, and one that took a long time to accept) was that it was not truth.

I'm sure I'm not using the right wording but it is easy to say something is outdated dogma by only looking at the last line of a book that has been in process for 2,000 years (i.e. 9 times older than the government trying to tell it what to do).

Reality... his bones would have been produced and marveled at as proof that he did not resurrect the Jewish leaders at that time for sure would have produced them... providing of course that they were available... why do nt you take the time to study, read the evidence for yourself before spouting like so many other bitter atheists (that I once was for many years)... give love a try you might enjoy it, it gives live meaning and true purpose, everything finds its place in Christ... I hope you find hope some day...