Sentences with phrase «years slogging»

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.

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

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

After more than five years slogging away without success through traditional channels, she'd had enough.

The recession in Canada lasted just eight months, far shorter than the United States» projected two - year slog or even Canada's own recessions in the early»80s and»90s.

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.

«I see policy making not as a one - year slog, but making changes over 10 years.»

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.

Throughout Keystone XL's tortuous, seven - year slog at the White House, the pipeline — this pipeline — was a symbol, a foil the administration used to help keep the professional activist class activated and the world climate community applauding.

Not exact matches

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

Last summer, Siqi Chen decided to give up on Heyday, the social media app he'd been slogging away at for the last four years.

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.

«In areas where homebuilding has severely lagged job creation in recent years, it's going to be a slow slog before there's enough new construction to cool price appreciation to a pace that aligns more closely with incomes.»

After slogging through 2009 and 2010, the downstream operator has rebounded nicely to achieve record revenues and net income over the past two years.

I got ill after glandular fever which gave me POTS / ME 31 years ago and it's been a hard slog keeping my body together!

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.

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.

His trip to San Diego this time around will last two days longer than last year's depressing slog.

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

It will be a slog, and this Arsenal side is mentally and physically better prepared than in previous years.

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.

«For the next five years there will be a real hard slog for this economy and the chancellor has not set out the path we need,» Cable ends.

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.

In a party that produced such talented speakers as Mario Cuomo, Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, this year's presidential race looks like a slog through an oratorical desert.

[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.

«Were in for a long slog and if 2008 wasn't the year you made adjustments, then 2009 will be.»

This happened to me for YEARS as I slogged my way through 60 + minute BodyRock.tv workouts every day.

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 definitely used words like «slog» and «repetitive» when I reviewed it last year.

If it can't manage that, then the next few years are going to be a long, dull slog for them.

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.

Chris O'Dowd After slogging away on Channel 4 since 2006, O'Dowd has hit the big screen three times in the past two years.

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.

If The Wendell Baker Story had as much good fortune as its protagonist, it wouldn't be slogging into theaters two years after bowing at South by Southwest.

Unfortunately, Red Sparrow, Jennifer Lawrence's valiant attempt to kickstart a second, potentially lucrative franchise after the billion - dollar grossing Hunger Games series ended three years ago (practically an eternity in Hollywood), feels exactly like the aforementioned, 10 - part torturous, interminable slog.

This was a good thing when we were watching the first trilogy — a thrill to see these iconic films through his 4 - year - old eyes — but has proven to be an endurance test now that we're slogging through the prequels.

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.

Following last year's «Insurgent,» this one's just a total slog.

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.

Flash forward three years, and he's a grunt recruit slogging it out in some inconsequential battle on a mudbound planet.

In Spanish we spent weeks watching the «educational» and horrendously acted soap opera La Catrina and more weeks slogging through call - and - response lessons recorded 20 years earlier, on cassette.

«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.»