Sentences with phrase «years we spent trying»

Maybe it was habit, but he was overly conscious of only taking «good shots» — probably from his years spent trying to win over new coaches and new teammates.

Brad Edwards, who co-authored the 2003 book, The Space Elevator, that has since served as a template for all elevator discussions, dropped out of the field after years spent trying to make it a reality.

After years spent trying to find what works for me training wise i negleted to get my diet right first - so can i add that when you do decide to get serious with your training make sure you have enough calories each day first... other wise you wont get far.

The years I spent trying to go low - fat left me hypoglycemic and hungry all.

Unfortunately, I suffered some minor bone density loss from the 5 years I spent trying to lose weight, eating low carb and exercising in order to try to rid myself of PCOS (which I didn't even have).

Based on Okrant's blog, Living Oprah, the book chronicles the year she spent trying to «live her best life» as Oprah intends.

But the year I spent trying to market the damn thing had completely drained any excitement I had for the product.

After those years spent trying to hone my craft, I felt I knew exactly what I wanted to do with my writing.

Here's to the fan developers, their awesome creations, how far they got, and the years they spent trying.

3:57 p.m. Updated After nearly a year spent trying to craft a tripartisan (Kerry - Graham - Lieberman) bill aiming to cut America's contribution to the global greenhouse and reliance on fossil fuels, the remaining bill authors, John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman, have rolled out the «American Power Act» today.

All of the bitter disappointment of 13 years we spent trying to become parents suddenly made perfect sense to me.

Not exact matches

Growing your business to a fully evolved midsize structure is a worthy goal, but before spending years trying to make this happen, be sure that your industry doesn't have characteristics that will prevent you from succeeding.

As an example, I worked with a small business company years ago that was developing a new solution to help with baby colic; the company spent years trying to work through all the requirements necessary to be classified as a medical device product, which they had not adequately anticipated.

That's a major global program where they're spending trillions of dollars a year and trying to build this program out for the next decade.

SoundHound has been around for 13 years, and has spent that time trying to build the most powerful voice assistant ever.

After trying out and hating other keyboard models on the market, Seacrest and the team spent two years developing Typo.

He spent nine years trying to crack the happiness code, approaching the task from the logic - driven perspective of an engineer.

Try this historic hotel and hunting lodge in North Wales, in the U.K., which has been owned and managed for the past four years by an American who spends most of his time stateside, running another business.

Many of these suppliers also sell to the defence sector, where spending is likely to decline in coming years as countries, especially the U.S., try to reduce their deficits.

He would spend the next year out of action and then two more years trying to overcome his injuries and strengthen a significantly weaker left leg.

For the next six years, I spent time bouncing from magazine to magazine across sales, marketing, and editorial, desperately trying to find my niche in order to rise the ranks.

If the market has had a down year, try to restrain your spending with a 2.5 % rate.

If so, you may be doing something wrong, according to Victor Green, author of How to Succeed in Business by Really Trying, and a serial entrepreneur who's launched several successful companies and spent the past 15 years consulting with other entrepreneurs.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was offered $ 60 million by Congress from Defense Department funds last year to fight Russian election interference efforts — but after Tillerson waited for seven months trying to decide whether he wanted to spend it or not, the offer was withdrawn, and none of the money was used, according to The New York Times.

«If they try to spend $ 30 and they don't have it, it'll say, «Nope, sorry, you don't have that much money anymore,»» explains CEO Melani Flanagan, who co-founded the company with her former gaming industry colleague Matt Pichette last year.

Hsieh's sudden embrace of the city seemed to come out of nowhere, even to those who had spent years trying to develop the struggling downtown.

So we spent about a year trying to course correct and then it became clear that we weren't going to be able to.

The acquisition comes a year after MuleSoft went public and spent the year increasing sales while trying to manage its growing losses.

So, I spent a lot of my time during junior and senior years of high school researching the process and trying to find «secret» ways to get the most financial aid possible — all the strategies I assumed my peers were already taking advantage of.

If you hire the wrong people, you'll spend the next several years trying to move them out of your company.

If you were born before the 1990s and are like me, you probably spent most of your grade school years trying to build a secret alphabet to exchange messages with your friends.

Blake Irving should know about correcting gender bias in technology — he's spent three years trying to repair GoDaddy's sexist reputation.

Over the years, Google has embarked on countless quests, collected endless amounts of data, and spent millions trying to better understand its people.

Fulcrum BioEnergy has spent years trying to get a factory built in Nevada.

I've tried to spend time with my children through the years.

The late cartoonist's heirs spent two years trying to gain control of the rights to his creations.

That theory fits well with China's lack of domestically developed GMO seeds, though the country actually spent years in the 1990s trying to develop them.

Because consumers are such a crucial driver of GDP, governments the world over have spent the last several years trying to coax consumers to open their wallets to fuel economic growth.

Comcast (cmcsa) spent a little over a year and $ 336 million trying to acquire Time Warner Cable (twc) before being forced to call off the deal.

But while the Coastal brand was built on affordable contact lenses — a side of the business that grew a modest 12 % last year — the company has spent the past three years trying to get the world to buy its glasses online too.

Merger agreement in hand (and the money in escrow), Cline spent the next five months on the road trying to win over CEA's investors, who were looking for a growth company that was well - positioned to go public, preferably with a strong management team and a few years of audited financials.

Morgan Stanley has spent the years since the financial crisis trying to shrink its riskiest business while still staying in the Wall Street game.

Officials have spent a lot of time this year trying to understand why their assumptions were off.

For example, in my real estate investing business, I spent years trying to buy two properties a year.

Mark - I have been trying to launch the following for the past 3 years and believe this is the best way to allow entrepreneurs to bring back the economy while allowing people to still save money and spend money that is put to use on them.

I am extremely lucky to work in a job which causes me to be thanked countless times a day to which i have always replied with «no problem» or «no worries» and although my customers never seem to mind it drives me crazy mostly because I spent many years learning to speak and have spent many years teaching my children and think the constant use of one or two phrases over and over is limiting so just recently I have tried to use different phrases such as «your welcome» and «my pleasure» and anything else which springs to mind and is more suited to each scenario.

I work with a great team who buys into what we are trying to achieve,» said Bates, who, before opening his CMIT Solutions business, spent more than 20 years in corporate America.

Earlier this year, Schneider dismissed rivals he said were «spending millions of dollars» trying to replicate the company's size, after it reported an increased market share to 15.9 percent, up from 15.7 percent.

But he's also 16 years old and a survivor of a deadly mass shooting, one that he spent in hiding for two hours, trying to calm down crying classmates until a SWAT team freed them from a classroom closet.

For years, he has tried to create and adhere to a specific annual spending plan, only to blow a hole through it at some point during the year.