But still you slog on until there's nothing left to slog, until one of you finally admits that it's over.
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"This one was real slog with no understanding of why it became a slog," Mr. Jones, the antipoverty advocate, said after the news conference.
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" Owens Corning: "It's going to be a rough slog.
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Will you have to slog through an unpaid internship first?
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Hopefully, these investors realize a tough slog that lies ahead.
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If you've driven across Kansas, you know it's a slog.
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Instead, it's going to be a hard slog at best.
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The endless slog of fashion month is now behind us.
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is a joyless slog.
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It's a long slog, but women have to stay engaged.
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He's the rare exception to the slog I described above.
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It's not all a linguistic slog for the effervescent Clarke.
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Because a lot of people just — they just slog on.
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Critics said "Eragon" (2006) was a dull, thinly written slog.
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Kentucky Republicans faced a long slog to return to relevance.
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The hard slog is made up for by magic moments.
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"We've got a tough slog ahead of us," Bannon said.
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The sheer horror stands out from a largely undifferentiated slog.
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Yes, paying down loans is a complete slog, and it sucks.
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Most people slog it out for years, and sometimes even decades.
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The autonomous car has freed me from the slog of commuting.
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The general reader might find it a bit of a slog.
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From here, it's going to be more of a difficult slog.
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As a result, the march to independence is becoming a slog.
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He's not daunted by the legislative slog that may lie ahead.
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After a long slog, Firefox is finally a competitive browser again.
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But it's a slog even on its own crushingly puerile terms.
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"It's just going to be a long, hard slog," said Lucas.
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But on Monday — the final day of the long slog — Mrs.
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Scientists face few incentives to engage in the slog of replication.
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But at least the way I do it: writing's a slog.
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After the 153-hour slog, I'm not angry — I'm just disappointed.
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In a lesser actor's hands, it could have been a slog.
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Bernie Sanders' "revolution" was always going to be an uphill slog.
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Most importantly, the game's structure and rhythm make it a slog.
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But it's going to be a long slog to the nomination.
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Harlo: It's a slog because Windows hates you, but it's possible.
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But it's also an effort to move beyond her recent slog.
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There's nothing going on but the long slog of baseball season.
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But barring any sudden collapse of ISIS, taking Raqqa will be a long slog that may drag on into 2100 -- a slog made longer still by the failure of the many enemies of ISIS to work together.
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The last four years of negotiation have been a bitter, unrewarding slog.
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In the beginning she enjoyed it, but soon it became a slog.
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That meant they could get more documents and slog through more forests.
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But in this gray, grim slog of a punishing slugfest, who wouldn't?
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There were missteps along the way that investors had to slog through.
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But Voyage is a slog—humorless, dense with cliché, and very long.
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Inside the industry, it's called the design process, and it's a slog.
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Today, artists slog through this process, outputting a few models per day.
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The first episode of Mosaic felt like a bit of a slog.
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That mesmerizing growth engine, though, is starting to face an intense slog.
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This is something we took a long, hard slog at for decades.
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Building it was a long slog that was initiated by the liberals.
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It is a hard slog to 1,237 delegates and a simple majority.
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They will just have to slog it out in the play-offs.
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How long a slog and punishment it had taken to get there.
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Concerts can be transporting, near-religious experiences — or just an endless slog.
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It's going to be a slog, but if this goes past Dec.
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Meanwhile, Flake is preparing for a long slog to next August's primary.
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Abrams would have likely faced a tough slog to the Democratic nomination.
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And then it was an unmitigated slog that even Bronn couldn't save.
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Still, military officials acknowledge that the battle will be an uphill slog.
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Getting here felt like a slog and Canadians need a goddamn break.
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And it taught him how to pace himself to survive the slog.
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The first five hours or so of Divinity 2 are a slog.
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Getting to this point has been somewhat of a slog for Nadella.
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Every day, people slog over inputting date from invoices and other forms.
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But don't come here expecting a mournful slog through P-Orridge's life.
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But it was a tough slog to get valuable work experience starting out.
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For a President and his aides, foreign travel can be a grueling slog.
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Up north, we don't have to suffer through the same sort of slog.
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These long-slog races aren't all about gigantic lung capacity and muscle measurements.
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I would say the first six years out of college were a slog.
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But Mr Musk may not have the stomach for more years of slog.
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But in other ways, The King is a fucking slog of a movie.
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Improving the lot of women who want jobs will be a hard slog.
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He'd be one of many exhausted soldiers, girding himself for a muddy slog.
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So it was a real long hard slog to get to (the launch).
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Every day after a sweating, shuddering slog of times tables and irregular verbs?
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Once more, too, it was she who did most of the hard slog.
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Then began a slog in 90-degree heat through this permanent world's fair.
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There are some sectors that are proving a tougher slog for foreign companies.
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Florida Governor Rick Scott turned the state's clemency system into a hopeless slog.
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Progress out of the ranks of the nonprime can be a hard slog.
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It's equally challenging when it's a slow, sodden slog, like Florence or Katrina.
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Netflix's fourth season of Arrested Development was, by all accounts, a total slog.
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What had been an exhilarating initial surge has now become an exhausting slog.
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Even for die-hard Watergate nerds, the movie can be a tough slog.
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They required no serious commitment and there were no tutorials to slog through.
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A weaker one could mean a long slog to the convention this summer.
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Friday was the culmination of a weekslong slog of bickering and unflattering headlines.
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It's most people's first time with the material, and it's admittedly a slog.
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But the rebuilding of Route 495 promises to be a much longer slog.
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In Destiny 2, much of what made that process a slog has been excised.
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Court. But there used to be a recognition that the elongated slog of the
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The results come as investors slog through the busiest week of the earnings season.
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ODST was a cool experiment, but I think Reach was more of a slog.
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This is why China's recovery is going to be a slog, not a snapback.
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But that's what happens when you find yourself in the middle of a slog.
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"That's the dispatch I'm sending back from exactly one year into this shadow-slog."
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But improving British management will require a lot of hard slog and unspectacular work.
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Basically, the perfect shoes to begin your epic slog towards achieving Teyana's enviable abs.
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The actual business of world domination turned out to be a long, hard slog.
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For a president and his aides, foreign travel can be a particularly grueling slog.
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Investors in China's chip firms need to get ready for a long, hard slog.
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For months, her campaign has publicly predicted a long slog through the Democratic primary.
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Second, African governments need to keep up the hard slog of improving the basics.
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He continually reiterated a vision of life as a slog of sadness and misery.
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Not what we were expecting, which was just a sturdy slog through the summer.
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But perhaps just rejoice in that headline, and get back to the next slog.
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Critic's Notebook Is it a sprint to the finish or a long slog home?
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Obviously parts of "Paradise Lost" are a total bore, but it's worth the slog.
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Mets 7, Yankees 03 For two Mets players, the season has been a slog.
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News Analysis It has been a long, painful slog out of the Great Recession.
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What follows that heavy opening is a thunderous slog through the sludge of Americana.
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Market euphoria after his election may not reflect the looming slog, fund managers say.
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As for what churns beneath its opulent surface, it's still a rather dreary slog.
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Rather, at nearly three hours, "Good for Otto" is a long and shapeless slog.
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I've tried it multiple times, and never once managed to slog past 5 miles.
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But this time, rebuilding government safety rules will be a long and unnecessary slog.
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Wheeling my shawarma machine down Dalhousie Street in downtown Ottawa is a sweaty slog.
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That could be fine — a slog, sure, but one with plenty to look at.
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The winner faces an uphill slog against Cornyn, even as Texas becomes more competitive.
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However wonderful it may be to perform, it's a hard slog to sit through.
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It's an utterly insane four year slog of pressure and social anxiety and hormones.
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Yes, the road to new gun legislation in any form will be a slog.
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Given the available quarterbacks, this game has all the makings of an offensive slog.
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It was the perfect opener to this CliffsNotes version of the traditional Oscars slog.
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With seven theme entries, it was a slog trying to get a clean fill.
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But even ignoring training, pre-trained models can still be a slog to deal with.
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We are already expected to slog through this kind of formulaic jargon in our inboxes.
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Look, Barack, SXSW can be a real slog if you don't play your cards right.
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RHP Lance Lynn had a rough night Tuesday as the Cardinals continue to slog along.
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The euro area's long slog will carry on, and debtor countries will bear the burden.
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All the elements of the original were there, but the game felt like a slog.
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I found some solace on the elliptical and slog through twenty minutes of floppy cardio.
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Yet, all of Glow season 2 isn't a depressing slog of harassment and racial bias.
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Like the ride-sharing business, auto financing is a slog and requires country-specific solutions.
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Despite the long days of domestic slog, Titi wants to stay with her current family.
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After a long slog through the book, Murray and Herrnstein arrive at their central point.
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Social Medium, as compared to previous texts from this publisher, is a slog to read.
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Most know that it will be a long, hard slog if they are to succeed.
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And without that musical element, Mary Poppins Returns eventually starts to feel like a slog.
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Jeb Bush can slog on to South Carolina but must pull off an upset there.
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It will take a long, difficult slog to get Trump out of that White House.
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If you remember the slog to pass Obamacare, you might be feeling some déjà vu.
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The real life filming was much more mundane and a real slog for the actors.
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Doing a party every month is a lot of fun but it's also a slog.
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It is, after the euphoria of this book's Beatles material, a long and winding slog.
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It's going to be an uphill slog, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
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He pulled Syndergaard after watching him slog through two of his innings with poor command.
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Madden said Romney's campaign made hats with the slogan "The Long Slog" for a reason.
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It's been an impossibly long slog for the victim in the case, the Tennessean reports.
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Both those men caught a spark, if not quite fire, during that long primary slog.
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JEFFRIES AND THE THREE WISE WOMEN (Berkley Prime Crime, $25), is more of a slog.
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Yet, this initial deal was no miracle but a hard slog, with harder battles ahead.
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What could have been a revisionist slog opens into a more ambitiously ambivalent buddy movie.
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But now it's clear the journey to robot cars will be more of a slog.
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It may look glamorous from the outside, but Banderas spoke the truth: It's a slog.
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"It'll be a long slog," she said a year ago, and wow, was she right.
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A weekly release also makes it less of a slog to actually watch a show.
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Senators are bracing for a three-week slog as they jockey for leverage on immigration.
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One called it "so superficial" and a "slog," giving it two stars out of five.
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And it set the tone for that season well, because that season was a slog.
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The hard slog of reform will test his skills, and his country's new goodwill towards him.
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It's neither safe nor entertaining for football to slog on for five full periods (or more!).
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But others said it was more likely the anxiety-inducing, growth-slowing slog would continue apace.
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It made for a slog for voters there, but about a quarter-million still cast ballots.
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The service industry is always a slog, but December was its own special kind of hell.
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It was a slog, with no momentum, where the characters simply lived underneath Negan's iron fist.
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Readers may wonder whether 700 pages of debunking—some of them a slog—are worth it.
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It's the last slog of summer, and with each hot, sticky day we become more panicked.
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I think it's going to come from more of a long, slow slog and cultural shift.
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Last year was a slog for Rogers, whose play was limited by back and knee injuries.
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American strategy should be based on a long diplomatic slog that cannot be circumvented with ultimatums.
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At the same time, the film is an often intimidating slog through jargon and computer code.
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But he has a long slog ahead to get the nomination in a field of progressives.
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Marker's questionable methods yield a meandering, solipsistic slog that spoon feeds its messages to the viewer.
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In its high-tech yet one-note grimness, the Met's presentation can feel like a slog.
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Getting that approval represented just the first step of a steep slog for the new hospital.
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The weather on their unexpected day off was also unusually balmy after a long winter slog.
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The regular season is a slog, especially for teams that are coming off extended playoff runs.
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Heading to grandma's house on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving is always going to be a slog.
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N.L.," writing that this cameo "was arguably her most endearing moment in an otherwise dreary slog.
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He was about to address yet another loss in a long slog of a losing season.
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The story is a slog, though, and I think it's the biggest hurdle viewers will face.
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"But it&aposll be a two or three-year slog to really get there," he said.
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" But, he adds, "maintaining this"—he points at the two of them—" this is the slog.
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Wordplay TUESDAY PUZZLE — A fairly laborious workout today, but not because the puzzle is a slog.
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The Cincinnati Reds hired David Bell after he took a dutiful slog through minor league managing.
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For some tech companies, AI's place may be most valuable for shortening the slog of application vetting.
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Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who reported having more than $33 million stockpiled for the primary slog ahead.
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"This evening could be different, though," she said, saying she was prepared for a tougher slog home.
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Like any career, celebrity journalism can be a slog and very unrewarding, not to mention low-paying.
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Tech-related movies can often be frustrating to slog through, as everything is either oversimplified or overcomplicated.
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That could help her in a race that promises to be a longer slog than she anticipated.
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Especially in the first few days, returning players can forget how long of a slog Survivor is.
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But the critical work of gutting flooded structures so rebuilding can begin is still a daily slog.
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Rocket's eventual reconciliation with his team is a Ravager-riddled slog for both him and the audience.
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But the last quarter of 22017 has been a long, wearying slog through other people's sweaty pants.
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Figuring out which of these services is right for you, however, can be kind of a slog.
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Digging into Hayes after the hard slog of Grant was — like any political campaign — all about momentum.
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Evangelical voters understand that regaining lost ground in the culture wars will be a slow, slippery slog.
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The battle for gay rights in Africa and Asia is going to be a long, hard slog.
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Reading Three Women is at times a slog, like doing homework for a necessary but terrifying exam.
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That meant a one-lap penalty from NASCAR and a long slog to get that lap back.
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The war turned into a slog as my armies shrank and were filled-out by expensive mercenaries.
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But this campaign's demoralizing slog will still leave us in need of a program of national recovery.
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They said it was "basically, disgusting" and "reprehensible" (The New Yorker) and "a joyless, soulless slog" (Slate).
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"There's a massive slog of potential first-time home buyers about to hit the marketplace," he said.
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The major mid-game boss fight at the end of Act 2 is frustrating and a slog.
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Still, executives have warned that a recovery would be a long, hard slog that would take years.
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About 000 runners began to slog through miles of sand toward the darkened mouth of the canyon.
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The most likely result is a slog between Biden and Sanders with Biden coming out on top.
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But capturing and holding hundreds of kilometres of territory will be a costly and perhaps bloody slog.
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After a lengthy slog, in January 2019, the three countries announced that Instex had come into existence.
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For the next three years the two men, unlikely partners, made the bloody, fitful slog to Appomattox.
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Rest areas have been added to ease the slog to the end of the piers and back.
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I'd slog through fasting days subsisting on calorie-free black coffee and 5-calorie-a-stick gum.
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Who needs to recover from exercise when we can just recover from the grueling slog of life?
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The six-month, 82-game slog is not unlike a cross-country road trip with your family.
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It destroyed nearly 9 million jobs, and it's been a long, slow slog to recover from it.
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Troops would then have a long slog over Taiwan's western mudflats and mountains to reach the capital, Taipei.
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Just be forewarned, the first season can be a slog, but every season after makes it worth it.
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But he is no performer, and his awkward delivery makes the show something of a slog (1:20).
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But he is no performer, and his awkward delivery makes the show something of a slog (2811:922).
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Served sizzling, the steaming caldrons are the perfect antidote to the long, dreary slog from February through April.
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It was a brutal slog to execute it all and ship it, but the design was so good.
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She faces a slog to keep the seat in a state that has grown more favorable for Democrats.
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He faces a slog to hold his seat in a state where Trump coasted to victory in 2016.
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While Trump is free to raise spend money on his re-election efforts, Democrats face a long slog.
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Modern batsmen look to slog their loopy 50mph (80kph) deliveries out of the park from the first over.
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It marked not the end of the road for its residents, but another obstacle in an implausible slog.
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The campaign knew it would be a slog in the beginning before they started to rack up victories.
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BearBuzz: BearBuzz is building an influencer marketplace that moves things along much more quickly than today's negotiation slog.
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Despite a lot of effort to make it exactly that, the end result is a painful, austere slog.
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" Ken Ilgunas: "Getting to the end of an environmental book is almost always a difficult and depressing slog.
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This election has been an exhausting slog, winding down to the final days of anxiety and apocalyptic fears.
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But if the current state of things is any indication, encryption defenders are in for a long slog.
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It was a long slog, but when they got to Bangladesh, they knew it had been worth it.
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Wallace said it would be a "long slog" if the U.S. tried to rejoin but it's not likely.
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It's a perfectly good way to experience the Odyssean slog without having to, you know, do the work.
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Wrangling your Facebook privacy settings—fine-tuning what data friends, advertisers, and apps can access—is a slog.
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In the early days we had a real hard time, we used to slog all over the country.
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It's hard to say what Jason has ahead of him beyond many more years of this specific slog.
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It also offered a contrast to the desperate slog between Andrei Arlovski and Stefan Struve an hour earlier.
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The executive order is only the beginning of what's likely a lengthy bureaucratic slog to abandon the rule.
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Happily, a lot of companies have conspired to make the slog not just easier but also more attractive.
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Ultimately, achieving gender parity in Congress is only seen as a slog because it's being treated like one.
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The next day our ride along a deserted, hazy stretch of beach turned into a 25-mile slog.
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This election has been a long, painful slog, and even in its final hours, divisiveness and tension reign.
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But the 17-year slog to realize the work the artist calls "The First Plane" is still ongoing.
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Every time I try to read a Jane Austen novel it feels like a terrible slog to me.
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Working in the field was a constant slog for us as we lived and worked with the troops.
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Ever since then, they've been mired in an endless slog of litigation both inside and outside the agency.
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Even so, analysts noted that gaining traction with fuel cells was going to be a long hard slog.
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For those living in what has essentially become a train station desert, traveling is often an aggravating slog.
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O.K., so the game itself may have been a slog to watch, and the halftime show was forgettable.
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In another, this game is a defensive slog with neither short-handed offense able to find a break.
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And I think — it's going to be, obviously, a long slog, but I think we're gonna do it.
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Despite the near impossible slog of being a rock musician in the modern era, Nance is unmistakably thrilled.
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The decision likely stems from Google's effort to streamline its more ambitious projects, an ongoing slog at the company.
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After their exhausting slog, Weertman and Rasovszky were given the same time of one hour 225 minutes 28.2 seconds.
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"AIDS is slipping down the policy agenda because we're also now in the long slog phase," Simon Rushton says.
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Maybe she was trying to be like the rest of pop and turn every good time into a slog.
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Leaked internal documents showed that Uber's New York team even had a formal name for this project: Operation SLOG.
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Instead, Mr. O'Connor presides over a somber slog, full of gorgeous vistas nicely captured by the cinematographer Mandy Walker.
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The film has been a long time in the making, but the hard slog seems to have worked out.
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Crimes of Grindelwald viewers have three more to slog through, covering 17 years of history, before the final battle.
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Mr. Kelleher has arguably had more of a slog: The fixed-income-trading franchise was more of a mess.
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It's going to be long, hard slog through the next couple of quarters, but Apple always works it out.
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It came a day after the Iowa caucuses, the first step in the long slog of presidential primary voting.
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Mazes was a total slog... nothing ever came easy really, so this band has been a breeze in comparison.
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That was one of Ramsey's takeaways after our slog through the transit hub: the lack of a unifying theme.
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Hopefully they have more planned to address the systemic issues that make the Grammys such a slog every year.
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In the Senate, the bill faced an uphill slog even after it cleared the House with near-unanimous consent.
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Efforts to achieve a better balance in the working world, especially at the highest levels, have been a slog.
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Sorting through the claims and counterclaims with regard to statements made by the targeted lawyers is quite a slog.
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It was a tough slog in those early years, and Mr. Ehrlich nearly decided to shut down in 2008.
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Their efforts were a welcome diversion from a series that had, until then, been an inartistic, defense-minded slog.
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But a rule change would face an uphill slog, since neither GOP or Democratic leadership appear open to it.
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Life's too short to slog through some smarty-pants attempt to demonstrate a mastery of mechanical engineering or botany.
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But mostly, it is a repetitive slog that cries out for the traditional synthesizing journalistic function of an author.
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"We're in for a long slog," said Kelly Dietrich, the founder and CEO of the National Democratic Training Committee.
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Mr. Mayer said he could still remember the relief he felt after such a "tough slog" to find it.
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What a refreshing episode after the crushing slog that was "Shut Up and Dance," that had to be purposeful.
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It was a long, hard slog through 8 hours of people I increasingly disliked doing increasingly inane, harmful things.
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Especially reporters and editors who slog away at local newspapers, which are an essential endangered species in smaller communities.
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But even worse, it's all in the service of a slog of a story about irritating and unspecial characters.
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And Amazon, along with Apple and Google, has far deeper pockets to slog it out over the long term.
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No matter how much you sweat, slog, and suffer on a treadmill, you can't out-train a bad diet.
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Expect a physical slog, and expect how loosely (or not) the referees officiate the game to have an effect.
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Abandoning the current multimonth slog would give voters across the country an equal say in choosing their party's nominee.
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When she makes the long slog by bus to see her bestie, Joann, Betsy often brings something to show.
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Any turnaround at the company will probably require "a long, hard slog," said Steven Winoker, an analyst at UBS.
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If all this makes "A Disappearance in Damascus" sound like a depressing slog, it is not that at all.
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Second most likely is a Biden sweep, and third most likely is a long slog with Sanders beating Biden.
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The men's qualifying road is a two-year, 22015-game slog across North and Central America and the Caribbean.
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One minute, the show was a grim slog, a repetitive ritual that threatened to drag on forever, like baseball.
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But it's worth remembering that even successfully implementing a small fraction of these plans would be a long slog.
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Through her characters' eyes, summer camp is the more euphoric of the two; activism is largely a hopeless slog.
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The long-suffering feminist heroine would make history not in a festooned lovefest but in a dreary, mechanical slog.
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On Baseball The race for the second American League wild-card berth has been a slog of the mediocre.
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If Biden wins South Carolina and can get a shot of financing, Sanders will have a tough slog ahead.
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Cinematographer Adam Arkapaw captures the slog and carnage of war in a way that feels fresh and ironically, beautiful.
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LEDE: A multi-year slog to update the law that gives the public access to federal records is over.
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Workers there prepared to slog through the mud Friday to try to see what sweet potatoes could be salvaged.
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He was taking a routine day off to rest his legs after an extra-inning slog the night before.
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The N.B.A.'s 82-game regular season, which began in October and will end in April, is a slog.
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So the months-long Republican slog to repeal and replace Obamacare will drag on another week — and maybe more.
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That is the day-to-day slog of making meals, and feeding people, and dealing with different food preferences.
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No matter who Clinton faces this fall, Plouffe, Obama's 2008 campaign manager, predicts a tough slog in the general election.
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And as the candidates swept across the icy roads of New Hampshire, Democrats began to settle in for a slog.
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Mario hasn't run out of steam yet, but he seems to be finding mobile gaming a bit of a slog.
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Unfortunately, it was a mostly drab and heartless slog, but the sequel manages to fix most of the original's problems.
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The real political slog will be garnering enough support from their respective rank-and-file members, particularly in Ryan's case.
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Jeb Bush vows to slog onward, but his town halls in the state carry the sadness of a pending surrender.
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As much as I loved "Mornings," a loose 52 minutes of that material very likely would have been a slog.
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A protracted battle for Democrats The crowded, and growing field, of Democratic candidates faces a long slog to the nomination.
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The month long slog of runway shows has officially kicked off with the first day of New York Fashion Week .
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This is a long term slog into the future, you are there the foot soldiers of change and scientific collaboration.
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"They have a good chance to make a successful, profitable business, but it will be a long slog," he said.
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They added that Trump had time to straighten out his message for the long slog to the November 2020 election.
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Those hours and years of slog and ingenuity—all to produce a few small passages of lifelike, nearly impossible grace.
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The former secretary of state will slog overnight to New Hampshire, where victory looks much more difficult to pull off.
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We'd slog our way across the United States and Europe, and go back to Australia and just about every continent.
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The 'EWY' is at its highest level since August 2014, completely reversing a two-year slog amid the political scandal.
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One common thread among business titans is the ability to slog through the eventual tough times and never give up.
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"Unless there is some extraordinary event that occurs, this will be a slog from now until the end," said Sheinkopf.
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February is the notorious low-point of winter — a month-long slog of puzzlingly incurable chapped lips, and grey slush.
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If you'd like to catch up on some theories during the four month slog between now and July, click here.
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But understanding that your brain might actually be (temporarily) impaired might help you slog through the rest of the day.
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The whole process seems like a slog to British voters, who have already endured more than seven weeks of campaigning.
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And even after a slog against Texas in the Red River Rivalry, the Sooners' offense is very much championship material.
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It's why the 2016 campaign was such a joy for Trump and the presidency, to date, has been a slog.
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But despite nearly a year of campaigning, his team before Mr. Manafort's arrival had not prepared for a delegate slog.
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The Trump administration should do all it can to keep Moscow and Beijing apart, and prepare for a long slog.
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Republican Senate candidates will find that winning exclusively on the strength of angry white men will be a tough slog.
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They say they'll have a big head start with general election fundraising and organizing as Democrats slog through the primary.
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So it seems fitting that when this two-year slog toward Election Day finally comes to its conclusion on Nov.
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With boats racing upwind for a majority of the race, the Transat will be a hard slog for the skippers.
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NEWARK — Some New Jersey commuters are planning to add an hour to their 60-to-90-minute slog into Manhattan.
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This time it was Joanna Jędrzejczyk and Claudia Gadelha in the gutsiest slog in the history of their young division.
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That is incredibly important, and that can be kind of a long slog, but we've made a lot of progress.
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But mostly we'd suffer through the slog, knowing that Taco Tuesday was getting closer and closer with each passing day.
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And I've talked to a number of critics who found the early going a slog, too decompressed and slow-moving.
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At the very least, they worry, he could turn the primary battle into a politically damaging slog to the nomination.
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The Kavanaugh hearing was one tough slog, given the way the whole thing devolved into a wildly partisan yelling match.
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It is not clear if President Trump and his charges fear Mr. Weissmann as they gird for the slog ahead.
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I thought the book would be a dense read, a slog, with a struggle for my brain on every page.
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But in the process, it will have started a major war, and "now you have the long slog," Baker said.
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The baseball season is a six-month slog: 162 games played over 183 days, many over the hot summer months.
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The traffic is truly horrendous and can turn what should be a 30-minute drive into a 90-minute slog.
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It is a slog, it is exhausting, and there is no clear path forward or defined finish line in sight.
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The show's greatest virtue may be that, unlike too many serious dramas of the last decade, it's never a slog.
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Americans could be experiencing hearing fatigue after sitting through the day-long slog for other high-profile Trump-era testimonies.
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In comparison to that slog, Friday's votes were lightening fast: Nadler introduced them, one by one, shortly after 10 a.m.
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In comparison to that slog, Friday's votes were lightening fast: Nadler introduced them, one by one, shortly after 22019 a.m.
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But whether Biden bests Bloomberg on Super Tuesday could well determine who is strong enough to slog forward against Sanders.
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Most songs hover between 95 and 105 beats per minute, something more than a slog but less than a gallop.
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"It's better to grow those skills doing things kids find interesting than forcing them to slog through worksheets," he said.
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A steamy, humid night at Estadio Rommel Fernández four days later turned out to be much more of a slog.
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Eventually, America's long-slog presidential primaries will end, and the world's most powerful country will turn to the general election.
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Like Livy's works, it could also be a giant slog whose grasp on that wider world was shaky at best.
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Let me put it this way: By most standards, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 is a formless, lifeless slog.
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Clinton delivered a different, more cohesive speech, one that sounded determined to move forward for what will be a long slog.
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It will be a tougher slog for those who have only a few million on hand, though that dynamic is changing.
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It can also be a slog, with films starting at 8:30 in the morning and lasting until well past midnight.
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People remember the beginning and the end much more acutely than they remember the middle slog of any experience, he says.
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After decades of heavy slog with no promise of success, quantum computing is suddenly buzzing with almost feverish excitement and activity.
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Both main questlines conclude with boss fights against each of the opposing tribe's leaders, and both of them are a slog.
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Anyone would be seduced by the opportunity to turn the hours long slog of airport security into something breezy and painless.
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You click yours into autonomous mode and spend the slog getting ahead on work emails, or even catching up on sleep.
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Barring the complete (and unlikely) collapse of ISIS resistance, the final assault on Raqqa will be a street-by-street slog.
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The Idea of Knightley, then, is the beautiful, periodically blissful, yet ultimately tragic and timeless slog of living under a patriarchy.
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There was a LOT crammed into less than an hour here (a nice change of pace after last night's Square slog).
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Foy does her best with what she's given to work with, but it's not enough to save such a dreary slog.
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The Grammys can be a long slog, but Cabello & Co. made sure the ceremony opened with a jolt of pure fun.
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And most worrying, would the slow slog of his asylum application grind to a halt the day he becomes an adult?
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It's still a tough slog, according to many singers, but some stars are realizing the need to embrace new digital platforms.
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For Richard Spencer and those who share names with people who are largely reviled, life online can be a cruel slog.
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You find ways to cut through that slog however you can, including doing something nice for a then-19-year-old.
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They keep the pace quick and the arrangements chugging, avoiding the mid-tempo trap that made that album such a slog.
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"Life's crazy that he's now there and on the same fields that I used to slog it out on," he said.
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I'm Cate Martel with what you missed during the morning slog -- and what's on tap for the rest of the day.
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It can feel like a slog to scroll through paragraphs of text when all you want is a list of ingredients.
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They're actually a year-in, year-out slog aiming to capitalize on any major news story to fracture the U.S. public.
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So why not gift something to really look forward to at the end of that slog: access to an airport lounge.
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The Republican presidential primary race, once a frenzied sprint of rallies and retail stops, has become a grind-it-out slog.
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As Thursday's hearing came to a close, he reinforced the slog ahead with a message to the attorneys: "Get your rest."
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School is a seven-year slog of puberty, ill-fitting clothes, and the most ignorant brats you'll meet in your life.
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The Schedule C slog was much like the one for TurboTax, a smooth ride until I reached the home office deduction.
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The director, Frank Stiefel, draws on Ms. Alper's artwork for visual flair, but the film is a bit of a slog.
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The first round of debates are just the first major turning point in a long slog of a presidential nomination process.
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You don't have to slog through all the self-involved prose that you and I used to be paid to produce.
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Struggling stores can slog on for years, as shopper traffic declines and their 40-percent-off sales begin to feel permanent.
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But thanks to recent expansions of multiplayer features, what might otherwise feel like a mundane slog instead becomes a shared adventure.
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But his mistakes, coupled with the high expectations he raised, have made his campaign more of a slog than a sprint.
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Get ready for a slog — one that might include portfolio modeling assignments, distracted university leadership and maybe even some name-calling.
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Never made sense, because Cherry wasn't on the final slog — all he did was stand around waiting — but we never cared.
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It will not make for a very good, eventful movie, and it will be a long and at times unfulfilling slog.
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Most ambitious startups assume they will turn to venture capital to fund their early growth — or else slog it out bootstrapping.
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But in addition to a possible uptick in foreign investment, Jefferies believes fears of a decadelong slog for stocks are overblown.
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Who really wants to slog through endless open houses, face off in bidding wars or contend with a co-op board?
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Tax experts are expecting a slog that could drag well into 2018 and even cast a cloud over the midterm elections.
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If they can't perform, the next two years will be a brutal slog for the blue parts of our political map.
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When she finally returned, she had to slog her way through lower-tier tournaments because her ranking had fallen so far.
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But even I'll admit a show that was once kinda fun even when it was actively bad is now a slog.
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It was the culmination of a decade-long slog through the middleweight division, and it was very hard not to smile at.
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A period that wasn't the arduous fucking slog life usually is, when, for whatever reason, everything was just going right for you?
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In manual mode, there's a lot of technical know-how to slog through, and this course can teach you all about it.
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They are pseudo-events — PR opportunities manufactured by parties and news organizations to provide turning points and tension during a long slog.
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The result is a boring slog that thinks it's doing more interesting work than its paint-by-numbers stories could ever allow.
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It's helpful for me to have things to look forward to, especially when life feels like an endless slog through perpetual pain.
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Wifi on the Switch, in particular, is also pretty dang slow, which makes downloading updates or new games an hours-long slog.
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I will say that the setup process can be a bit of a slog for a feature designed to make everything easier.
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The conclusion comes via a wonky slog through issues and terminology ( "regime change" anyone?) that only an avid Fed follower could love.
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Travel should be fun, not a hellish slog through dystopian security checkpoints and zombie-service employees with penal institution levels of charm.
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Life since has been a dragging process, a tedious slog involving paperwork, federal agencies, community meetings, permits, and then, inevitably, more paperwork.
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And the long-delayed victory of the Chicago Cubs can offer inspiration to anyone struggling to get through a slog of disappointments.
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Travelers will likely continue to slog through long wait times, he said, because the agency is anticipating a surge in summer travel.
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The race back then was a bitter slog, but hadn't yet deteriorated into the mud-fest it's become in the final stretch.
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You can toggle which apps appear on and off, but it still means that finding what you want can be a slog.
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In its attempts to make the game less of a slog, Bungie has created a more streamlined and accessible MMO-shooter hybrid.
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We see Brienne make the slog to King's Landing with her beloved prisoner Jaime, and the Hound marching Arya all over Westeros.
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Think about the slog in which she's been through to get us here and I think we're all so grateful to her.
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We've endured a long, hard political slog this week, so it's only fair that we get a bit of respite this weekend.
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It is about the appearance of being tougher, without the hard legal, ethical and political slog that getting tougher would really require.
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It is hard to see coercion as a good substitute for an inspirational candidate, or even for the hard slog of education.
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But that slog only really happened in countries, like Japan and Ireland, which already had a relatively strong foundation of social capital.
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PARIS — Eugenie Bouchard's slog across the continents to regain her best form took a significant hit at the French Open on Thursday.
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Maddon brought in closer Aroldis Chapman to get the final four outs, protecting Arrieta's work and capping a slog of a game.
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If the tax cuts had trouble gaining traction with the public before McConnell's pronouncement, they will face an even tougher slog now.
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Today's cold, corporate world, in which gray-faced hunched-over adults grimly slog through life, is depicted in severe, rectilinear computer graphics.
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On Monday evening, approaching the end of a brutal primary slog, the Associated Press effectively declared Clinton the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
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Back in 20163, people were actually worried that this go-round would result in another slog between familiar names and tired narratives.
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Awash in blood and revoltingly misogynistic dialogue, this latest redneck ruckus (his seventh feature) is a grindhouse slog of unrelenting bad taste.
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Nevertheless, the Austrian is not expecting an easy time of it and is braced for a hard afternoon's slog in sweltering temperatures.
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The 2020 Democratic primary will be a long and brutal slog, so early surveys should be taken with a grain of salt.
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But tonight still suggests it could be a long slog à la 103, with Clinton playing Obama and Sanders playing 2008 Clinton.
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That gentle slope stretching in front of VR offers cold near-term comfort; it translates into looming years of long hard slog.
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However, the sheer amount of ground to cover with this project would have made that kind of writing approach a miserable slog.
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So, does King Aerys plus Bran's whispers equal every single problem that we've ever enjoyed or had to slog through on GOT?
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Respect the beautiful slog, use the communal spirit inherent in Dr. Naismith's game, and go outside and connect with your fellow humans.
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Yet in lifting rates, the Bank of England has slightly added to the headwinds assailing Britain on its continued slog toward Brexit.
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As I've alluded to several times in this review, the first five episodes of Altered Carbon are a bit of a slog.
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Given the hardships of his métier—the sheer slog of it—he envied the output of certain contemporaries, the English in particular.
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The Oscars come at the end of a monthslong slog for many in the industry, campaigns pursued with military rigor and zeal.
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But nearly everything else about Denis Villeneuve's latest (a rare miss for him, amidst a sterling track record) was a joyless slog.
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The idea, said Joshua James, one of the founders, is to deliver useful news without making readers slog through a dozen sites.
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As the world increasingly falls apart, as existence itself feels like a slog, maybe just close your eyes for a small siesta.
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I envision a long, impossible slog like the heartbreaking one we had with the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and '80s.
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And her third-place showing in Iowa does not appear to have helped boost her campaign coffers for the primary slog ahead.
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Even if he somehow limps to the nomination, the general election will be a grim slog, like racing on a wounded horse.
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Of course, if recent press reports are to be believed, dos Santos did not get her fortune by years of tough slog.
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Its condensed narrative is a slog to wade through, all for the sake of wedging it into a "bingeable" Netflix serving size.
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Restoring the clinic has been a chaotic, exhausting slog that has required doctors to double as home renovators and water desalination experts.
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If the message of "War and Peace" was merely that to everything there is a season, why slog through its thousand pages?
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I realize this makes the series sound a little like Philbert, at least in the sense that it's a self-important slog.
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This takes up a lot of time and could be a grim slog, but Turturro can sparkle through even the grungiest sequences.
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After finishing high school, the artist threw himself into the slog of the workforce; his last drawing was completed at age 22.
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Bruised, wheezy, and worn out, he crafts a brutal slog for all the quasi-apologetic fuckups out there in the world. 3.
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Media have only been given the first five episodes of the season, but the initial pacing is a slog to get through.
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Both of the two leading candidates, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, carry baggage that would make winning the general election a tough slog.
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The middle chunk of Firestarter might be a slog, but watching Charlie set everything ablaze is almost enough to make you forget that.
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It's been a long slog for science: the field essentially collapsed after the death of a patient in a clinical trial in 1999.
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Like any job, it can be a tedious slog loaded front to back with tasks you do not want to complete, but must.
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As we leave his friend's Westchester home and slog through the late afternoon traffic, it's clear that he knows every inch of pavement.
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Similarly, flat-earthers are so entrenched in the conspiracy theory, getting out again is a slog that they can only do for themselves.
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At the inaugural spaceport event—the result of Ruppel's and others' six-year slog through the FAA application process—others echoed this idea.
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And for so many who feel browbeaten by the everyday slog of modern adulthood, the nostalgic getaway is a ticket worth paying for.
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Trust me: Work's a lot more enjoyable when you're not forcing your brain to slog through assignments when it's not in the mood.
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The willingness to slog through office chores rather than strategically nullify them is why Zenefits grew so fast, then suddenly hit a wall.
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Professional types, with legal and financial skills in demand across the globe, have in recent decades come under the greatest pressure to slog.
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At a minimum, the country is looking at a long slog of a special counsel investigation through the rest of the Trump administration.
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Considerable difficulties remain on all these fronts, but Pence has underscored the administration's commitment in what will concededly be a long, hard slog.
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After a slog to the majors, Henderson had a breakout season in 2013 at age 30, recording 28 saves for the Milwaukee Brewers.
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The move follows criticism that Facebook underpays content moderators forced to constantly slog through the worst digital detritus that humanity has to offer.
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Today's cold, corporate world, in which gray-faced, hunched-over adults grimly slog through life, is depicted in severe, rectilinear computer-generated animation.
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And fixing Sharp, the loss-making Japanese electronics manufacturer, will be a tough slog for Foxconn, the Taiwanese giant led by Terry Gou.
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The movie is earnest and twisty (as with "The Warning," one plot element requires math calculations), but also a bit of a slog.
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To ease the mile-long slog across the cold, damp parking lot, FanDuel chartered buses to ferry would-be bettors through the rain.
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The bar could scarcely have been lower given that the previous movie, "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," was such an interminable slog.
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The lack of an outright winner or obvious coalition promises a long and wobbly slog before a government, most likely unstable, takes shape.
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The subterranean journey has become an existential slog, with semi-regular power outages plaguing train riders and traffic jams clogging the Holland Tunnel.
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By comparison, Sunday night was an interminable slog at four hours and 39 minutes — nearly the length of Friday's and Saturday's games combined.
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Visually, this translates to a video-game-style slog from Will's crash site to a tower where the titular switch will be flicked.
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Finding the best deals from across the internet doesn't need to be a boring slog, as we've done the hard part for you.
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It may be an uphill slog for companies to again be able to deduct exploration costs in the same year they are incurred.
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It has worked, and it has buoyed the Mets while players like Jose Reyes, Neil Walker, Cespedes and Granderson slog through slow starts.
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Even Ernst & Young, the big accounting firm, acknowledges that putting the new rule into effect could be a tough slog for many companies.
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While there are few doubts about Thiem's stamina, he will head into the match after eight hours of slog against Nadal and Zverev.
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The premiere especially is quite a slog, delivering a feature-length story that feels fundamentally different in tone than everything that follows it.
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For some, whittling down every expense to the bare minimum would turn those years leading up to financial freedom into a miserable slog.
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But trying to master the vast array of wine producers from almost all corners of the earth is a long, though fascinating, slog.
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What lies between that moment and the miniseries' end (which is 15 hours away at that point) can be a long, brutal slog.
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But while I may respect James's choice as a critic, as a reader, I found much of Black Leopard to be a slog.
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But others are likely to be a slog reminiscent of the drubbing Clinton took in the Rust Belt, like fights in Wisconsin and Ohio.
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If the marathon slog of a presidential campaign has you wondering if Election Day is ever going arrive, just imagine how Cecilia Vega feels.
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The endless slog of this political season has taken its toll on us all no matter which side of the party line you're on.
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For Booker's campaign staff, Booker's decision to speak out marked an affirming moment in a tough slog that so far has offered little payoff.
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We get a bit of a break today, but this slog of a week continues with more showers by this evening and again tomorrow.
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Now that the slog of fashion month has finally come to a close, it's time to sit back, relax, and soak in some culture.
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But I'm unwilling to slog through the obsessive blog posts that spell out in detail why one card is slightly better than the other.
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Nevertheless, The Handmaid's Tale as a whole has become something of a slog, burdened by aimless plotting and a seemingly endless onslaught of trauma.
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That would put Russia in the unpredictable position of supporting Damascus through the long, most likely bloody slog needed to dislodge the Islamic militants.
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"But if it's this slow, steady slog, that's when you want to be in tech and consumer discretionary, the big growth names, " he said.
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They slog for more hours than their counterparts in any other member of the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries, apart from Mexico.
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It's a hard slog for any band who bear the burden of an entire generation's worth of emo nostalgia to exist in the now.
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Not to mention the emotionally taxing and personally exhausting slog of duking it out in a PR battle for our hearts, minds, and sympathies.
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Stefan's life is distinct from the everyday slog of most artistic careers, which rarely involve anything as exciting as hallucinations, murder, or time travel.
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That means states and the federal government will face a slog of litigation and red tape as they try to bring fire risks down.
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But it wasn't all a joyless slog, there were some decent finishes, some slick transitions, some neat set ups, and a few good scraps.
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It also means we're finally at the end of a four-day slog of press conferences from some of the gaming world's largest publishers.
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The long slog from the Brady shooting to the Brady Bill showed that any attempt at gun regulation is a marathon, not a sprint.
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These moments break up the flow of the game, and usually feel like a slog, even with some cool new guns to play with.
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It was a slog of a game, lasting more than 3 1/19003 hours in temperatures that felt like triple digits all afternoon long.
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The song's notable in that it addresses his creative shortcomings not as a series of one-off misfires, but as a constant, Sisyphean slog.
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Boosters say that improving Vietnam's human-rights record is bound to be a long slog, and that gaining the regime's trust is a prerequisite.
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A two-hour-and-12-minute slog from San Francisco to San Jose would become a breezy 15 minutes by flying car, Uber theorizes.
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But while politicians slog it out at the negotiation table, Cypriots on both sides of the divide have taken matters into their own hands.
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" In an email, Matt Bors, an editor of The Nib, said the update was commissioned because "2016 has been such a gross, depressing slog.
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The Trump administration, if it desires to achieve equivalent TPP benefits, will have to slog through bilateral negotiations with a number of additional countries.
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Ortiz still managed to make a slog out of it, and both men fell over themselves throwing punches at various points in the round.
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We found 11 pets that are just excited for the weekend as you are, even though they don't have day jobs to slog through.
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She has about $2 million more in the bank than Hawley does and would instantly turn his cakewalk through the primary into a slog.
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What was planned as a leisurely family stroll through Old Havana became a soaked slog over slippery cobblestones on Sunday under an unexpected downpour.
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That one twenty-five minute slog did little to rain on the parade of artistic attack which marched through the weekend's fight fixtures though.
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The Ohio State vs Michigan game was a long slog through double overtime that saw emotions swing back and forth in a heated exchange.
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Its later stages see the gameplay shift from a sometimes-hilarious hodgepodge of bloody knuckles and bananas melee weapons into a generic FPS slog.
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Watching Ms. Warren, I got the sense that even the long slog of a presidential run could be done with good humor and exuberance.
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The grind of an 82-game NBA regular season makes it a difficult mandate to enforce, even without the extended slog through the playoffs.
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With that said, if season three had been another slog through the oppressions of Gilead, we'd inevitably have a completely different set of complaints.
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Despite Liverpool's smart (and expensive) recruitment, City's playing resources remain deeper; Guardiola has more options at his disposal for the long slog of spring.
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Then there are the weekenders seeking to avoid the slog on the Long Island Expressway and reach the Hamptons in less than an hour.
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All of this means that the economy is still weak and that recovery will mean a longer, harder slog than Wall Street first assumed.
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Pressure has mounted on him to withdraw as Biden looks to consolidate moderates ahead of an anticipated long delegate slog against Sanders and Warren.
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Now, back in Brooklyn, my runs are growing longer, and the summer slog — 10, 11, 13 miles in the heat — is finally paying off.
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Anyone who isn't prepared for the slog needs to be weeded out early on and convinced onto a bus or the last train home.
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Shopping at this time of year can feel a bit like a slog, as there aren't that many deals around to get excited about.
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His was a long, hard slog from the warm embrace of the speaker's platform to the cold realities of life as a presidential candidate.
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Whether you're gripping the handrail, cradling an infant, or guarding a bag, these mobile games will get you through that slog of a commute.
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I have no remembrance of my outfit, except for a new pair of navy and white spectator pumps, which were ruined by the slog.
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But if you know its limits and keep your eyes on the road, the feature can make your daily commute less of a slog.
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They found that the half-mile or so walk to the Metro, along pleasant streets with old-growth trees, didn't feel like a slog.
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"The afternoon commute will likely be a slow slog, as roads will remain slick with any residual ice and freezing rain," New Jersey Gov.
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Yet the slow and halting slog toward finalizing FY18 funding has been defined by dangerous proposals to underfund or even slash these critical programs.
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Corpse Fortress is a wonderfully joyless slog through zombie hell; its 11 depraved tracks crawl on bloody stumps, and lurch along with claws outstretched.
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If you've been following the long slog that is the Democratic primaries, chances are you'll have heard the phrase "Medicare for All" by now.
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Tomorrow night — more than 590 days after the first major party politician declared candidacy — this long slog of an election season should be over.
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It's no secret that the road to the NBA Finals is an attritional slog, but injury luck seems especially unforgiving for this Clippers group.
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During its days-long slog from the Pacific to the Atlantic, Willa will also unload heavy rain in places that really don't need it.
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Meanwhile, Clinton has watched Trump slog through wave after wave of personnel drama, culminating in the dramatic dismissal of campaign manager Corey Lewandowski last week.
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The U.S. Senate votes on Treasury Secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin's confirmation on Monday night, capping another partisan slog over a President Donald Trump Cabinet nominee.
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The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Steven Mnuchin as Treasury secretary on Monday night, capping another partisan slog over a President Donald Trump Cabinet nominee.
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The dead Guinea worm has been there for most of Hopkins' tough slog against a disease that he is finally on the verge of vanquishing.
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Thomas Reeves' Gentleman Boss is a hard slog through New York state politics, the machines that ran them, and Chester A. Arthur's role in them.
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Finding them was a slog, but now, he said, he has a new farmer every month messaging him about a crop, hoping he'll buy some.
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AirPods lose some of their magic if you use them on Android — pairing and device switching involves the traditional slog through Bluetooth menus, for example.
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It armed teams of independent contractors with burner phones and credit cards to book and cancel Lyft rides, in a coordinated effort called Operation SLOG.
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Velasquez needed 24 pitches (21970 strikes) to slog through his abbreviated outing, allowing two runs and four hits while striking out six and walking three.
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The process can be a bit of a slog doing it this way, but if something goes wrong, it can help you isolate the problem.
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In the long slog of an Oscar campaign, the media was notably silent on Casey's allegations, running glowing page-one profiles with barely a mention.
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Voters in the most populous state have to slog through 17 such questions this Tuesday -- some colorful, some gravely serious like repealing the death penalty.
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Whatever the case, this is the biggest fight of Michael Bisping's career and he can be disciplined and conditioned enough to make it a slog.
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The game's first big raid was a slog to get through and even less fun to repeat, and the competitive Crucible felt flat and uninspired.
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But all around baseball, we see the immediate gratification of a splashy contract turn into a crippling, painful slog for the team and their fans.
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" The NYT's Maggie Haberman pointed out on Twitter: "This meeting took place at a pivotal moment for Trump, winning Indiana but facing delegate slog prospect.
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It will be a long slog to retake control of Congress and even to put a significant dent in the size of the Republican majorities.
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No matter how well-regarded a particular airport happens to be, the slog from curb to cabin is pretty much the same wherever you go.
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No matter your response to a Trump presidency, the events of last week mean one thing: The long slog of the election is finally over.
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Why slog through an entire five-minute video when you can just hop from one exciting moment to another, as determined by other Facebook users?
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Despite solid performances by Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner as Ruth Madoff (the series' only other notable role), the miniseries as a whole is a slog.
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Arlovski snapped a five-fight losing streak in a flaccid slog against an opponent who decided to roll his Reebok shorts up into a nappy.
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It accurately reflects the transformation of the climate movement into one akin to the civil rights movement: A long, hard slog that will ultimately prevail.
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I don't know, but there there's a momentum here, so I don't think -- it's not starting from scratch... I don't see a huge slog here.
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Now this may seem like just another step in the usual slog of government bureaucracy — or part of the administrations agenda to cut government regulation.
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The best sequences are their capsule biographies, which free Mr. Ayer from the slog of action and allow brief bursts of wit, energy and color.
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Sunderland's team, Moyes knows, must rely on the patience and understanding of its fans during a season that promises to be a particularly hard slog.
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Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó's 2014 canine revenge story White God is a misanthropic slog, but its choreography of a dog army is a breathtaking accomplishment.
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This poses the prospect that Trump could keep stockpiling a massive general election war chest while Democrats battle through a long slog of a primary.
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The script is uneven, the acts don't flow together particularly well, and it becomes a bit of a slog as it draws to a close.
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The Dan Trachtenberg-helmed "Playtest" episode moves at the speed of a paranoid thriller, while James Watkin's "Shut Up and Dance" is a repetitive slog.
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Once the novelty wears off, though, "Marwen" becomes a tedious, rather predictable slog, one where the music seems to swell enthusiastically at every available opportunity.
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It is a 10-mile slog, sometimes through rain or snow, before she reaches the warehouse where she earns $9.52 an hour operating a forklift.
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I find this stage of the show such a slog, when the romantic dynamics are crystallized and the producers start ordering in partners and rivals.
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For some in California, that may simply require a slog on the 5 Freeway or a shorter, if still annoyingly traffic-packed, trip across town.
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A looking glass foretellshow you are going to leave —by a miserable slow slog,a quick stroke or heart attack,or driving off a precipice.
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The summer hardcourt season, in steaming, humid conditions, can be a monthlong slog for Isner, who is known to suffer the heat more than many.
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A burst of energy arrives on September 19 as Mars connects with Pluto, helping you move through Neptune's slog—just watch out for big tempers!
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POLITICO surveyed more than a dozen veterans of the 2016 campaign, and less than 25 percent said they could envision returning for the 2020 slog.
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A depressing slog that could have been so much more, "Youth in Oregon" suggests that loving someone gives us the right to override their decisions.
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Resigning myself to the car slog I turned a practically free BMW into nearly a thousand dollars and 60 hours of wasted resources every month.
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I wasn't the only one offering ominous forecasts of electoral longevity: The word "slog" reverberated through the lobby of the Courtyard by Marriott in Manchester.
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A last-minute night session at the storied Electric Lady Studios, to record a song for a movie soundtrack, was a gift, not a slog.
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The South American country continues to slog through an economic crisis precipitated by years of government mismanagement and exacerbated by a prolonged oil price slump.
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It was a reward for the 28-year-old's years of slog which had seen him win 15 Hungarian titles but never a global medal.
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The holiday season may be full of cheer, but let's be honest: Sometimes getting through cold and dreary winters is a bit of a slog.
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They are also supposed to be paid long-term cash benefits, which are typically received months later but only after a slog through government bureaucracy.
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The Patriots claimed their sixth title in 18 seasons by edging the Los Angeles Rams, 13-3, in a slog of a Super Bowl LIII.
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Yes, but: Deploying automated vehicles in a single city is a costly slog, notes Brian Collie, head of Boston Consulting Group's automotive and mobility practice.
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Browsing Netflix is a joyless slog and despite the presence of micro-genres like "cerebral visually striking romantic comedies," Netflix's lists always look repetitive to me.
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The little drone that could flew from one "Skyport" to another at 45 mph, turning a half-hour slog by truck into an eight-minute hop.
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For some, it's a numbers game: Dating, online or IRL, can be a slog, and joining more than one service increases the pool of perspective matches.
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There's nothing inherently wrong with the show, but it's so aggressively harmless and eager to please that it ends up being a bit of a slog.
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In truth, a lot of the book is a dull methodological slog, but the Kochs should have at least paid someone to summarize it for them.
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For anyone who's endured a slog of a Tinder-arranged date, these scenes rip open the stiffness and awkwardness of internet dating in a cathartic way.
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There were all the irritations that frequently turned it into a slog, and then there were the endings and the grace notes that kept me going.
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Equal parts tangible and ethereal, they're the plastic bag caught in a gust of wind; a sense of escape grounded in cold, hard, modern day slog.
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It's a treat for viewers who get to watch Pugh lose herself within a role, even as the show itself starts to feel like a slog.
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In the language of football, while Obama looked for long passes, Clinton would probably have to slog through short running plays and defend yardage already gained.
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Even so, analysts noted that gaining traction with fuel cells was going to be a long hard slog partly due to a lack of charging infrastructure.
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Now that you've been there a while, it's also likely the workday feels more like a long slog than the fulfilling career move you had envisioned.
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The prospect of total Democratic control of government is a tantalizing one for liberals, who have imagined Clinton's presidency as a slog of gridlock and obstruction.
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After the thrill of picking your starter — Squirtle, of course — the first few hours are a bit of a slog, with a surprising amount of grinding.
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Or it may just be lobbyists trying to set the early framework for a long slog ahead, which could be adjusted if they get concessions elsewhere.
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"It's the kind of swath-yourself-in-bubble-wrap thinking that has turned modern pregnancy into a nine-month slog of joyless paranoia," Ruth Graham writes.
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It's going to be a hard slog, but privacy folks still seem to think for some reason that the states are going to provide them relief.
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The end result, with a varied color palette designed by the graphic artist Milton Glaser, looks clean and simple, but the path there was a slog.
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All presidents have to deal with the gulf between their soaring rhetoric and the grinding processes they must slog through in order to achieve their aims.
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The web became a dazzling hellscape of shoddy Garfield memes, content remixes designed to make us laugh as we slog through the collective project of living.
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This is a common theme on a host of issues in Washington, but none is more pronounced than in the deregulatory slog President Trump has promised.
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The trend around consumerization of IT has slowly allowed new technologies to be adopted by government – without having to slog through the traditional government contracting process.
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Over the summer, a long slog of digital sleuthing into the cyber attacks on the Democratic National Committee and others improbably led to this isolated spot.
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Sanders defeated Hillary Clinton in Michigan in 2016, a win that rejuvenated his campaign at the time and turned the Democratic race into a long slog.
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Not until Antonio Banderas arrives to play Maestro, the crucial voice coach who knocks Amos into shape, does this metronomic slog to stardom muster a pulse.
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It has been a particularly tough slog in the Caribbean, where soccer has been blighted by corruption, and the women's game especially has been widely dismissed.
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The Toronto Raptors moved to the brink of their first N.B.A. championship Friday night by outlasting the favored Warriors, 105-143, in a Game 4 slog.
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Early Sunday morning, a few hours before I was going to begin my slog through the Mojave Desert back to Phoenix, my computer kicked the bucket.
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The only running I did was when we were forced to slog around our bright blue track for a mile to complete the Presidential Fitness Test.
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While tax cuts for business have garnered the most headlines, lobbyists and lawmakers have conceded that rewriting the corporate tax code will be a long slog.
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After slamming the Gulf Coast, Michael is expected to slog through Georgia and into the Carolinas, parts of which are still reeling from Hurricane Florence. 2.
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So long as 41 Democrats stick together, they can force Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, to slog through cloture repeatedly on just a single bill.
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But the cartoonist said trying to exert his control over his cartoons had become "an uphill slog," and that he hoped the new website would help.
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The House passed a new North American trade deal on Thursday, ending a more than year long slog to iron out Democratic concerns about the agreement.
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Otherwise, it's a long slog to a second duet, "I'll Never Fall in Love Again," that at least sends Chuck and Fran out on a high.
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To make your next business trip less of a slog, check out the three travel missions below, and the simple approaches Han recommends to achieve them.
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Behind closed doors, however, another former McKinsey consultant, who recently left the firm, explained that getting on these projects is a competitive slog that requires lobbying.
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She and Ransom slog through the sucking mud, brushing biting ants from their backs and shoulders, to measure the distance from the rebar to the water line.
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Some are related to gameplay; Loot Lake was always a slog to get through in its original incarnation, which is likely why it's seen such dramatic changes.
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Europe, however, remained a slog for the world's second biggest mobile operator, with revenue down 1.4% year-on-year, the same rate seen in the previous quarter.
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And I stuck to the new stuff, which means it was a delightful, chintzy slog through more "Jingle Bells" remixes than one person should have to endure.
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That still leaves the problem of having to slog through 100 freakin' levels of content as a new player if you want to experience the new stuff.
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On a day when they expect another hard slog in training, Allardyce will suddenly announce that they are having a pool tournament or going toilet-seat racing.
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The last two dungeons are a slog, forcing you to solve a series of similar puzzles long after they've lost their ability to either challenge or intrigue.
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The 2012 presidential elections, a joyless slog, saw President Barack Obama traduce the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney as a heartless plutocrat and thus "not one of us".
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While every week has felt a bit more like a fight since a certain presidential administration began in January, this week seemed like an especially difficult slog.
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It's so convenient and easy that getting iPhone users in the US to use something else just to talk to their Android-using friends is a slog.
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Ultimately, though, if the victims of terrorist acts win a court judgment against a foreign government, other cases have shown that collecting damages can be a slog.
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Making progress on any of these items is going to be a hard slog, even if Democrats hold the White House and, less likely, retake the Senate.
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I knew I was in for a helluva long slog between the concept, the research, the interviewing, the transcribing, writing, cutting, and endless shaping of the material.
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I am no doomsday prep-er, nor do I watch the endless slog of reality shows about people living at one with nature and a film crew.
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IM JUST THINKING, I COVER M & A, ODP STAPLES IS BEING CHALLENGED AND THEY ARE GOING TO COURT HALLIBURTON, BAKER HUGHES HAS BEEN A REALLY LONG SLOG.
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It's five states in just over 2000 hours (shout-out to that little sliver of West Virginia I cut through briefly), and a slog of a drive.
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The 2100-year-old big man had surgery to repair a partially torn meniscus during the preseason, and it's been an uphill slog for him ever since.
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Nah. The quests themselves aren't "bad," really, but there's too many of each, and it becomes a slog to start filling out everything there is to do.
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The coming week--which represents the first in a four-week slog for lawmakers in Washington--will also bring more testimony on Trump's fiscal 2018 budget proposal.
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Good footwear can turn a day on the trail from a slog to a skip if it fits well and is designed for the task at hand.
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The founders on the 2018 CNBC Disruptor 50 List have had to balance the disruptive potential of breaking rules with the long slog of sustaining their companies.
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" Spicer adds that a long nomination slog "will only pull Clinton even further to the left and prevent her from laying the groundwork for the general election.
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An avid golfer who plays most weekends in the United States, Trump will begin his 13-day slog through Asia with at least some semblance of familiarity.
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"Adaptation is just this long, ugly, hard slog," said the study's lead author, Simon Donner, a professor of geography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
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Now, incredibly, the same president has been snatched by terrorists again, in the new "London Has Fallen," and this time the rescue is an unimaginative, repetitive slog.
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It's been a tough slog for firefighters battling a the Horns Mountain fire along the United States-Canada border, but it also provided a moment of levity.
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"It was a tough slog," Mr. Watson said of the four years it took to build back attendance to its pre-Katrina level of 350,000 annual visitors.
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But to the director Emma Miller's credit, that bout is a long, real-time slog up and down the piste, effortful and tough, and a little ugly.
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Tokyo Disneyland on a hot day was a long slog through mobs of squealing children clutching melting ice cream cones while executing repetitive choreography in bulky costumes.
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After a lively introduction, he falls into a dutiful slog of sausage making, devoting long sections to plot summaries and production details that are dead on arrival.
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The legislation turned into a long, hard slog that Trump was unprepared to lead because nothing they said about their plan was even remotely close to true.
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Digital media's cousins in the tech industry have faced a slog of their own as they've sought to organize in the libertarian coding farms of Silicon Valley.
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Part of the reason was the grueling slog of practice: the long hours, the intense workouts and the interminable team meetings — day after day, week after week.
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The Syrian Democratic Forces, the Kurdish-led militia fighting the Islamic State in Syria with the United States and its allies, is nevertheless preparing for a slog.
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Instead of considering the warm shower I was about to take, or even dreading the slog of classes that awaited me, I was still thinking about Michael.
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Its first act holds up to this well, but I found myself dreading the last section, which is a slog of surrealist corridors interspersed with unnecessary exposition.
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The White House's attempts to alter the Obama administration's plan to raise federal automobile fuel standards could be a slog and ultimately yield little change, experts say.
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Creative writing teachers tell beginning writers to avoid adverbs because, on some level, bad imitations of Hemingway are easier to slog through than bad imitations of Proust.
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On the other hand, Hindricks added that it's a bit of a slog to get through the immigration process in Greece, Australia, Sweden, and the United States.
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After a slog of death and loss, it was cathartic as hell to see all three of Dany's dragons fly, or Ramsay get ripped apart by dogs.
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"It's the kind of swath-yourself-in-bubble-wrap thinking that has turned modern pregnancy into a nine-month slog of joyless paranoia," Ruth Graham wrote in Slate.
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If clumsily constructed, this type of book can become self-parodic, a PowerPoint slog through the Five Things You Need to Do to Become More Dynamic and Creative.
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Then again, do we want a miserable slog to disaster under Theresa May, or an exciting, what-could-have been Brexit goalfest under the management of Jeremy Corbyn?
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As for the larger novel and the doctor's Odyssean journey through the blizzard, it devolves into a tired slog through waist-deep and seemingly endless drifts of snow.
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There's also a concern that campaigns could burn out donors, staff, and volunteers, or at least limit their potency for the general election after a long primary slog.
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This article originally appeared on VICE Sports UK. After months of competition, a season of exhausting slog, the title race could finally come to an end this weekend.
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It's without a doubt a handsomely made period piece, if a bit of a slog, but it remains to be seen whether it'll have traction beyond Oldman's accomplishments.
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Theresa May, the prime minister, began the hard slog of trying to whip up support for her deal ahead of a crucial vote in Parliament on December 11th.
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That unwillingness to engage with the potential richness of its universe is what makes the sequel Fantastic Beasts directed by Harry Potter alum David Yates, such a slog.
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Your commencement speech can be either a high-point of the college graduation experience or the low-point in an interminable slog of funny hats and uncomfortable chairs.
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This scene, on the other hand, adds to the slog of law and order that The Night Of has been trying so hard to convey from the start.
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The pair are evenly matched on long-run pace while the grueling race, a slog in sweltering temperatures, can also take a toll on the tires and cars.
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Meanwhile, in the real world, harsh sentences are handed down to the hoi polloi if they are caught daring to gain some hallucinogenic respite from the daily slog.
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And while Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception upped the dramatic action even further, its levels felt rushed compared to its predecessor, making the game's latter shootouts a draining slog.
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To a certain extent, there have always been throngs of poor youngsters who work for minimum wage, toil as unpaid interns, or slog through as chronically underemployed baristas.
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If working on Batman v Superman was a slog, I'm sure the prospect of coming up with a dozen new scores over the next 10 years is unappealing.
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About two weeks later, The Verge obtained internal documents from Uber that showed an internal program called "SLOG" used contracts to systematically book and cancel rides on Lyft.
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"Perhaps it just speaks to the hardiness of women that put on your boots, put your hat on, get out, slog through the mess that is out there."
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The closest thing to CES for jet-setters and frequent fliers, the show rolls out innovative—and sometimes pricey—toys that can help improve the traditional airport slog.
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There's still about two feet of snow on the ground, but it's melting, so it can be a bit of a slog during this spring break-up phase.
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The first half of this season is hitting the dreaded midpoint slog, where the plot seems to drive around in circles and tell us things we already know.
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But Walker has sprinkled his hearings with an array of colorful comments, much to the enjoyment of political aides who think the legal fight has become a slog.
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Sunday night's chaos was one of the few times this season has been worth watching, even if it came at the close of a slog of a game.
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Already this fire season, major highways were shut, causing severe disruptions for commuters and businesses along major arteries where, in normal conditions, traffic can slog like a snail.
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It could look more like a slog of slow earnings growth that jolts investors out of companies with the weakest value propositions and into those with the strongest.
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The trailer for Christopher Nolan's follow-up to the 2014 sci-fi slog Interstellar is here, and it looks like a WWII epic to rival Saving Private Ryan.
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For viewers, it's a long slog through some of the worst commentating imaginable—for F's sake, the crew was giggling at the names "Beavers" and "Bush" earlier today.
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But I think it's highlighted more questions surrounding the case—it's been a hard slog for nearly 20 years to make some sense out of all of this.
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The passages are creeping and repetitive cycles, the sort of slow slog that echoes the despair of the situations they're describing, an immense weight, with no easy escape.
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Why you should skip it: It sounds like promising premise, especially after Amazon's "The Man in the High Castle," but Apple's series is a bit of a slog.
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Add the magnificent Christine Baranski to the mix and "A Bad Moms Christmas," while still a slog of base sight gags and lazy profanity, becomes marginally more bearable.
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On Sunday, the third-seeded Federer beat the unseeded Leonardo Mayer, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3, in only 1:42, a light workout compared with Wawrinka's slog.
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Third, the tax cut that has lifted corporate earnings and economic growth in 2018 won't be repeated in 2019, meaning a harder slog for companies seeking higher profits.
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Fair warning: The first episode, the only one directed by Luhrmann, is an overstuffed slog that lacks focus and energy for most of its 75 minute run time.
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I slog the three blocks to the drugstore in a toxic haze of germs, and halfway there my rheumy eyes focus on a dress in a shop window.
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But in a movie that's more about processing grief than finding a killer, his quest is no more than a soggy slog from one damaged soul to another.
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In particular, the Golden Globes has been one long slog, with fun moments of celebrity interaction lost to, well, awkward speeches, egregious award snubs, and, well...Ricky Gervais.
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The hitch with tales of endurance, onscreen, is their unfortunate habit of becoming endurance tests for the viewer, and, after a while, "The Revenant" turns into a slog.
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But if it had come at the beginning of the campaign, rather than after the 2628-day slog through southwestern Pennsylvania, it would have been a true shocker.
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The expectation in the law is clearly that products that make it through the long hard slog and gauntlet that is the clinical trials process would be approved.
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But just a few flights of subway stairs later and that superstar strut can rapidly transform into a struggle slog before you even make it to your destination.
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"I won't lie; there are days when I think, 'if I see the word 'Trump' one more time …' It can get to be a slog," Ms. Harris said.
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Finally, there were expressions of pure, raw fear about losing your money and reputation, particularly if you had to endure a long, hard slog to get good credit.
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To my knowledge, however, there is not an existing phrase in Latin that means the seemingly endless slog of weeks before birth when you are confined to a bed.
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Suzuki records 3,000th hit as Marlins outslug Rockies DENVER — The pursuit of history had become a bit of a slog for Ichiro Suziki but ended with a triple Sunday.
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We have to take this state by state, it's going to be a long slog… This is going to certainly go well into April, there's no question about that.
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But as I was viciously murdered once more because of an ill-timed strike I realized that this boss fight, like life and this doc, is an endless slog.
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The process is largely starting on the House side of the Capitol as Senate Republicans slog through confirming Trump's Cabinet nominees, which Democrats have slowed as much as possible.
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As the battle for Mosul enters its third month, the Iraqi military's rapid advances over open territory in the initial weeks have been replaced by a slow, hard slog.
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Although the loss was not unexpected, Clinton's campaign sure seems like one long slog of speeches, handshakes and voter selfies on the way toward the 2016 convention in Philadelphia.
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Whenever a student turned in an essay that led with a dictionary definition of a word, I would audibly groan because I knew I was in for a slog.
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It feels like I didn't get a huge break or relaxing weekend due to the freelance yesterday, so I'm not thrilled to be starting the next five-day slog.
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It's even more disheartening to realize that I'm looking at Blizzard's RNG-based slog of random loot boxes to even have a chance of getting my favorite skins again.
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Nick: It's a relief to have gotten through the slog of bad things happening to good people that season seven seemed to relish in presenting over and over again.
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Unlocking content like new characters is a slog — though not a costly one, as there are no in-app purchases aside from a one-time purchase fee of $9.99.
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It's been a long four-year slog at Yahoo (plus me driving her nuts!), so Mayer gives herself some kudos, but overall it's a gracious memo given the situation.
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Commence the long slog: Over four years, Josephson has swapped out all but three of the 45 employees who were at Bitly when he joined, and added another 30.
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When Larry Sloven heard last year that U.S. tariffs threatened his China electronics business, he knew that setting up shop elsewhere would be a slog rather than an adventure.
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It's also a refreshing release following the disappointing slog that was "Episode Gladiolus," and provides some hope for the third and final chapter, "Episode Ignis," which launches in December.
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Bullard said that recent events in Washington, on their own, have not changed his expectations for an economy anticipated to slog along at a 2 percent annual growth rate.
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While Persona 4: Dancing All Night's long cutscenes and additional story was a slog for me, I found Dancing in Moonlight and Dancing in Starlight impossible to put down.
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In practice, though, finding decent smartwatch apps, watchfaces, and complications requires a slog through a morass of subpar options and a slow, infuriating interface to find what you want.
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If President Trump wants to get a meaningful deal with North Korea, he needs to stop looking for a fast victory and begin preparing for a long slog ahead.
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While the performances were as solid as ever, the writing in this finale continually turned into a slog that often seemed like self-congratulatory circle-jerking on Kelley's part.
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During the long, cold slog from January to spring, it's a time-honored tradition to stay inside, snuggle under blankets, and watch competing Fyre Festival documentaries back to back.
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While her actions towards the end of Season 2 can be read as the start of a redemptive arc it's almost guaranteed to be a tiresome and unsatisfying slog.
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Look at the average Pelicans box score, and you might imagine a slog, Davis lurching into shot after contested shot while help defenders run at him from all directions.
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Again, she doesn't let the repetitive slog get her down, demonstrating years of carefully honed talent: Take after take, she delivers her one banal line differently. Every. Single. Time.
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What follows next is certain to be a grueling campaign slog through details and allegations that voters will be hard pressed to track and, indeed, may soon tire of.
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They had watched Mr. Trump slog through a tough couple of weeks, taking criticism for, among other things, his feud with the family of a slain Muslim American soldier.
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The second-quarter fundraising totals could offer a clearer picture of which campaigns are preparing for the long slog through the primaries and which ones may have to reevaluate.
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They might (might) have a point when it comes to impeachment, a long slog that could get spun into the idea that the Democrats aren't much interested in governing.
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You can't be blamed for missing the Nets and the Nuggets slog through an early February game in Brooklyn but, as it turns out, there were plenty of highlights.
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Lest we forget, James also joined his teammates for training camp as they prepared for Tuesday's season opener against the Knicks — and, more important, for the long slog ahead.
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In the slog to September's primary elections, the Stonewall Democrats are just one among a bevy of groups that have weighed in on the closely watched race for governor.
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The win gave Miami some hope of getting a wild-card spot, though it will be a tough slog as several teams are bunched up with 7-6 records.
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The race is then likely to become a long slog toward Milwaukee, heading through six contests on March 10, another four on March 85033 and 11 more in April.
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Seattle, Washington (CNN)As the summer slog gives way to an expected fall frenzy, the Democratic presidential primary campaign is beginning to shape up as a three-way contest.
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And for the past 50 years, this process has started in Iowa, moved to New Hampshire, and then headed to other small states on this slog to the conventions.
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And then phase three, if the nomination is still contested, will be a long, slow slog for the remaining delegates until early June (or until someone wins a majority).
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Millman had beaten Federer in the fourth round of the 2018 U.S. Open, a four-set slog in humid conditions that left the normally unflappable Federer dripping with perspiration.
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The extended tour for "Fear Fun," a decadent slog, with a band whose members have, for the most part, since been replaced, had netted Tillman only four hundred dollars.
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It was time to return to wandering around, where I saw things like "selfie rooms" that I assumed were designed to break up the slog of navigating the place.
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In 225, a group of Canadian workers began the hard slog of constructing the world's longest bridge, across the Saint Lawrence River just south of the city of Quebec.
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"This is going to be a long slog, as the technology continues to improve, more content becomes available and awareness increases," said Jan Dawson, an analyst at Jackdaw Research.
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If you're consumed by the everyday slog of surviving in the post-apocalyptic United States, you're going to want to give that mind a rest every now and again.
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Periodically clearing your cache, or temporarily stored internet data, from your Google Chrome browser ensures that it functions efficiently, as an overloaded cache can considerably slog down browsing speeds.
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If campaigning and fundraising were a slog but being a distinguished member of the United States House of Representatives were still a plum job, it might be worth it.
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Taking a punt on major regime changes, distressed debt investors in general are happy to slog it out, though the latest market developments have seen some rethink their position.
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After a slog through depression and hallucination, a comeuppance and a love story, Jack's narrative arc is drawing to a close, creator and show runner Genndy Tartakovsky tells Creators.
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They have a few key allies who envision a future where you put the pedal to the metal on the open road, but the robot handles the slog to work.
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Park and Wong are both innately likable, which makes the movie pleasant enough to watch, but also a bit of a slog given the ostensible inevitability of where it's heading.
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The optimism comes from the belief that despite the political sideshow, the economy is only beginning to gather steam after the postcrisis slog upward during former President Barack Obama's term.
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As such, the team's 107 points per game on the season has plummeted to around 100 in the month of March, but the Bucks have undeniably excelled at the slog.
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But when Brown fought Robbie Lawler, Lawler had his work cut out and quickly changed the complexion of the fight away from the nightmarish swarming slog that Brown normally brings.
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These women (and they're almost all women) are powering a digital age reinvention of direct sales companies like Avon and Mary Kay, minus the slog of selling door to door.
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Apple could buy any number of major U.S. companies without even thinking about it—which makes Apple Music's slog of a show Planet of the Apps all the more unacceptable.
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"From a logistics point of view, it's quite a long slog for the chefs to plough through the sheer volume of people we are cooking for," he said via email.
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The reason for Gladio's absence adds nothing to the character (I'm still not sure why he had to keep it a secret), and playing as him is largely a slog.
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There's a line in Philip Roth's Great American Novel, an otherwise forgettable slog through a boringly imagined fictional baseball season, in which the barnstorming team plays against a prison squad.
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But all around baseball, and especially with the Mets, we see the immediate gratification of a splashy contract turn into a crippling, painful slog for the team and its fans.
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James Corden's opening number, a cheeky hymn to live performance mixed with an oddly passive-aggressive dig at scripted television, was a slog that went on for far too long.
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According to Walters, biases don't really "come into play" with EyeDetect, and the test takes a brisk 30 minutes as opposed to the polygraph's 2- to 4-hour-long slog.
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The common narrative is that infrastructure just got lost in the scrum of the failed effort to kill the Affordable Care Act and the ongoing slog to pass tax cuts.
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Should people be asked to sacrifice their physical and mental health — and their experience of life as something other than an exhausting, hopeless slog — for the survival of their families?
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But there's a trick — something those in the know have been doing for years — to make your time online less of a depressing slog of clicks and spam: burner emails.
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For each list, researchers have vetted dozens of brands; there's a whole slog of information to back up their choices on Project Just's website, should you want to look deeper.
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Separately, another official suggested Tillerson will want to help Trump get through his November slog through Asia, an exhausting five-country tour that includes a high-stakes visit to Beijing.
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A single punch knockout, a drawn out slog, or maybe even a gogo choke submission... Whatever the case, get back here Monday and we'll talk about how it went down.
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His blessing would unleash big primary money, experienced campaign talent and a strong, charismatic campaigner to help in the long slog toward the nomination in a jam-packed Democratic field.
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Buck Martinez, the former catcher and manager who now broadcasts for the Toronto Blue Jays, cited Colon when asked why so many pitchers now struggle to slog through the schedule.
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It's a slog of a presidential trip, one that became longer this week after Trump announced he would spend an extra day in Manila to attend the East Asia Summit.
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"That's like saying in baseball that you're a run behind and now you want to add three innings," said Mr. Coats, after conceding that the process has been a slog.
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" He went on: "So even if the best Democrat wins the White House and has a bold vision it's still going to be a huge slog to undo the damage.
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The fundraising numbers are important because they provide early insight into which candidates are amassing the money necessary to power their campaigns through the long slog to the Democratic nomination.
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But "At the Edge of the Orchard" is a bumpy wagon ride, a slog through mud followed by a mad gallop, including some ludicrous trips up and down a mountainside.
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For all its strengths, though, the series proves a bit of a slog, at times, as the wheels turn along the dusty, blood-specked road to wherever this maze leads.
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Nonetheless, adapting Civil War seemed to me like a recipe for a self-serious slog with lots of long speeches about Important Themes — basically, the Marvel version of Batman v.
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Youth and inexperience can create unrealistic expectations for the daily slog of governing, but they can also energize the electorate, and remind people that politics can be inclusive and optimistic.
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The defeat confirmed that the Jets will not win the division title this season, as if that should surprise anyone who has watched them slog through the last three months.
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It will not waste your time with a dreary slog through a graveyard, which is how biographies traditionally begin, dutifully resurrecting long- forgotten ancestors whose relevance is not always clear.
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It is the gathering of the bodies that's most important in our collective experience of music—and DUST remind us that it's good to slog around in the pit sometimes.
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The praise stems from his cinematic mastery and treatment of profound themes; the misunderstanding, from the conventional wisdom that because Bergman treated profound themes, his work must be a slog.
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Still, Riley continued to slog through an agonizing, almost immobilizing struggle — even during later studies at the Royal Academy of Art — to make art she could genuinely call her own.
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Even as I read that last sentence, I recognize that it's the sort of recommendation that would make me think a book is Good and Important but probably a slog.
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A drive to the west side can be a much longer slog — as much as an hour and 50 minutes — but in off-peak hours, can take only 30 minutes.
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Under siege for much of a riveting four-hour slog, the defending champion found himself behind after three sets for the first time in eight finals at Rod Laver Arena.
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To get there, they will have to slog through thousands of pages of raw intelligence held by the C.I.A. and devote untold hours to grinding committee work behind closed doors.
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That would allow Democrats to avoid a long and costly slog toward a runoff when a Republican candidate is likely to be heavily favored in a one-to-one matchup.
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If a "kindness begins at home mentality" takes hold in places such as the United States, it could mean a tougher slog raising money for the Yemens of the world.
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But it will be a hard slog to reach a fourfold increase of current monthly exports to China to meaningfully narrow annual trade deficits of $350 billion to $400 billion.
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But if Apple truly, seriously invests in content, it has the opportunity to bring these efforts full circle, and elevate user-created content above the slog of the Facebook feed.
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As the Democrats take over the House and Democratic presidential hopefuls begin the slog toward the 2020 primaries, their party is also debating its economic policy vision for the future.
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Even as certain pages proved a slog, certain scenes repetitive, even as I entertained heretical thoughts about pruning certain sections, or striking them entirely, these choices follow a certain logic.
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The Walking Dead's seventh season has often felt like an endless slog through a zombie-infested quagmire, where even the zombies are too stuck to do much more than moan.
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It's a multi-year slog of trench warfare that began in Virginia last year, and will spread to many other states this fall, and last for two more years after that.
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With that long slog now complete, the next step would be to use gene-editing technology to put this newly-sequenced DNA on the genome of a related creature, reports Newsweek.
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Like many sitcoms about careerism and the slog of American professional life, it's considered an insult to have to do boring, seemingly meaningless tasks just because some higher power demands it.
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But the production is the only thing that saves Lost in London from being just another middling slog about a rich man confused by the state of his previously enchanted life.
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Despite the slog, what Payne found might stun some cynics: In 25 years, both Democratic and Republican lawmakers in Congress voted in accordance with their platforms 20113 percent of the time.
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"It's going to be a continued difficult slog, at least in the first half, against a relatively decent macro backdrop, which has got to be concerning to these guys," Perkins said.
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The course, a 237km slog featuring 5,000 meters of climbs along Rio's verdant coastline, has everything from cobbles, lung-burning climbs and tricky descents and a flat blast to the finish.
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Each of them was keen to produce break-out moments—of the kind that might fly on social media, inspire cash contributions and bolster campaigns ahead of a months-long slog.
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But for the soldiers in Netflix's War Machine, war is more like purgatory: an endless Kafkaesque slog through bureaucracy, punctuated infrequently by moments of actual fighting, with no end in sight.
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While most people on daily medications for chronic conditions don't think twice about traveling, people who take methadone describe the experience as a stressful, tedious slog that takes weeks of preparation.
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That sure differentiates it from Snow White and the Huntsman, a dreary, humorless slog from 2012 that starred Kristen Stewart as the first title character and Chris Hemsworth as the second.
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After a long, painful slog trying to make ends meet, American workers' paychecks are finally getting bigger with wages showing their biggest gain in seven years in the October jobs report.
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Living In 9 Photos View Slide Show ' Mike Knapp, 25, was a systems analyst living in Hoboken, N.J., and working in Basking Ridge, N.J., a 4963-minute slog to the west.
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And so it made sense to accept an invitation to meet with the one person who can actually make decisions instead of repeating the, sort of, long slog of the past.
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That&aposs exactly what happened, creating vast ponds that residents initially had to slog through or take long detours around before the Corps pumped the water away and built sand crossovers.
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For the most part, thinking about the future in 2017 sucks—a Sisyphean slog against existential dread smacking you back down with the ping of each news alert on your phone.
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The first half was a slog and Bama went into the locker room with a 10-0 lead and then came out and started pounding the Spartans in the third quarter.
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But if enough people take it to heart and begin the hard slog to institutionalize protections against harassment—then we will create a culture where everyone knows that pussy grabs back.
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For example: The debate over whether the Emoluments Clause applies to Trump's business interests has been tons of fun for the wonks, but for most people, it's been a confusing slog.
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To break through the slog of fundraisers, which were getting considerable attention from the media, the Clinton campaign was eager to get reporters to dig into Trump's questionable history with race.
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Trump remains focused elsewhere The White House insists that Trump's focus is elsewhere -- namely, his upcoming push on tax reform and the 12-day slog through Asia which commences on Friday.
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Relaxing with music or games during your commute is a great way to recharge in the morning and de-stress at night; it makes it much less of a boring slog.
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Outside of an occasional press conference announcing a Cabinet appointment, the slog of combing over obscure federal agency rules, filling hundreds of federal posts and preparing to govern attracted little attention.
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From them, he learned the importance of compartmentalizing over the 82-game slog of the regular season, of not getting too excited about victories and, especially, not flogging himself after defeats.
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Even though you need to slog through a Venus retrograde—and, yes, Saturn is in your sign until December of this year—shit's changing for you, Sag, so don't get discouraged.
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As a result, running around the country pays smaller and smaller dividends — a festival in New York is as much a slog as one in California, but at least it's closer.
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The layoffs underscore the difficulty mature e-commerce startups can encounter as they transition from being a hot new brand to the long slog of building a more traditional retail business.
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The forerunner of the modern day Europa League, this was a three-year slog that teams could only enter if their home city hosted – wait for it – an international trade fair.
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A week after we signed the contract for the house we watched the Weather Channel in horror as Hurricane Andrew began its long, methodical slog across the Atlantic toward Fort Lauderdale.
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We know the lawyer Kendra Smith by her mastery of an alphabet of toxins, her slog through documents and her ire as Range Resources refuses to disclose all its proprietary chemicals.
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Delta Vasquez, 22, spent several hours trying to slog through Oregon's unemployment claims portal on Monday night after she was laid off from her hosting position at Bamboo Sushi in Portland.
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Which is actually not a moment at all, but an extended nationwide slog characterized, at least this time around, by hope, anxiety and possibly despair, depending on your point of view.
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Labor Day comes tomorrow, and the day that follows will be hard shoes and school buses and the long slog toward the fourth quarter, holidays stacked like cordwood along the way.
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Kevin Draper: Uruguay is a stout defensive team and missing one of their strikers, and so the conventional wisdom says they would bunker down and turn this game into a slog.
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Now establishment-minded Republicans are looking at a long slog that could go deep into the race if one of their preferred candidates is to emerge to challenge Trump or Cruz.
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Today, however, when I turn on the news and attempt to slog through the impeachment inquiry, I'm reminded of some of the inane conspiracy theories my wokest college classmates considered gospel.
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On the other, after years of trying to slog out of a deep recession, Ms. Yellen and her colleagues don't want to act prematurely and stop the expansion in its tracks.
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Adapted from a graphic novel by Charles Forsman, the series follows Sydney as she discovers those powers, which she grapples with alongside family tragedy and the awkward slog of high school.
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After a brief rain delay, Thiem, who looked to be still shaking off his four-hour 10-minute slog against Nadal, dropped the first set in a flurry of unforced errors.
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Mr. Trump conceded that the very nature of what he had promised to do — eliminate Mr. Obama's health care program, which serves millions of Americans — made the effort an uphill slog.
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The amount of planning I did at the beginning was a slog for me, but I think that was mostly about the kind of cooking my pantry was built to support.
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So unless Warren can find a way to pull African Americans her way or — at the very least — away from Biden, she could be in a long slog for the nomination.
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Of course, by the end of "Episode 1," when Marie is hanging above the raging waters, it's reasonable to feel as though the show is going to be an unrelenting slog.
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The game was a long slog that transformed into a shootout in the fourth quarter, when two touchdowns gave Clemson (290-1) its first lead with less than five minutes remaining.
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So, the early days, it was really a slog about how are you gonna educate people about genetics and what exactly does it mean and why would you even be interested?
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That's why this week's negotiations are a hard slog even though nobody wants a shutdown, and it's also why we really can't be too sure that a shutdown will be avoided.
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"Real median household income has finally completed its nine-year slog of digging out of the ditch," IHS Markit Executive Director Chris Christopher said, with more gains expected in 211 and 2511.
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Yet that slice of theater and other latest developments remain incremental steps in a long, slow slog toward retribution against Trump that seems unlikely to satisfy a growing Democratic minority demanding impeachment.
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He deserves his due for winning, but there are also questions about his strength going into what could be a five-month slog to the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee this July.
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With such an unengaging protagonist, on what is more or less a hill-walking holiday, "Iceman" can sometimes be as much of a slog for the viewer as it is for him.
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AND PERSONALLY WHILE I THINK WE CAN MAKE PROGRESS POTENTIALLY ON CERTAIN ISSUES OR NARROW ISSUES AROUND TRADE, THIS IS GONNA BE A LONGER SLOG TOWARD REALLY REBALANCING SOME OF THESE ISSUES.
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THERE WAS little grace to the Grace 1's journey, a 12,000-mile (19,000km) slog around the Cape of Good Hope that came to an inelegant end off the coast of Gibraltar.
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But the rest of Man of Steel is a boring slog of titanic struggles and epic battles, pitched at such a volume that there's no room to feel anything other than numb.
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For those reasons, there's a long and ongoing slog being fought by lawyers and labor groups to try and make Uber—and others like it—treat their workers as employees rather contractors.
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The normally careful candidate was dancing on television, celebrating her birthday with gifts of tequila and seemingly having fun during a campaign that, at times, seemed to be a slog for her.
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Last weekend's victory over Leslie Smith wasn't just a fight, it was the culmination of a long slog through professional disappointment, promotional sleight-of-hand, unfair fights, even slander and character assassination.
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The downside of this transit is that self-oriented motivations — like wins, promotions, and quickie hookups — will be less rewarding and a few minutes of exercise may feel like a heavy slog.
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Before starting a lengthy slog of street fighting and urban warfare, the ISF had to encircle Tikrit; a brutal but effective three-month siege resulting in widespread starvation preceded operations in Fallujah.
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Pence's latest foreign trip -- a 10-day slog through South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, and Australia that amounts to 53 hours flying aboard Air Force Two -- is his second trip abroad since January.
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Compared to the slow slog of testing first-year students in a laboratory, Mechanical Turk offers the opportunity to collect hundreds of responses at a modest cost in a matter of hours.
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Their daily slog contrasts with the lives of other local women benefiting from a push to revive weaving as a less taxing way to earn an income amid climate pressures on agriculture.
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Schedules against the NFC North and AFC West mean a tough slog for those two; the Texans and the Colts could again be locked in a December drag race to nine wins.
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Replacing Obama with another Democrat was always going to be a hard slog, and what is impressive is that Hillary Clinton won a sizable popular vote victory despite losing the electoral college.
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Appearing on both NBC Sports and Canada's Sportsnet, Barkley talked about his love of the NHL, how exciting the playoffs have been, and directly contrasting them with the NBA's ongoing postseason slog.
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Mr. Trump's team, thinly staffed and ill equipped for a professional delegate slog, is now preparing to work with the existing system even as his campaign questions the integrity of the rules.
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But little has been disclosed about what it was actually like for the two hunted men during their 30-mile slog in the deep woods between the prison and the Canadian border.
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Weather has long been a factor in trying to predict election outcomes because only the most determined Americans will slog through heavy snow or stand in lines in relentless rain to vote.
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But a border package could face a tougher slog in the House, where progressives are wary of supporting anything that could, directly or indirectly, help enforce Trump's immigration and border policies. Rep.
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Without her, the Ravens' half of the campaign turned into a dispiriting slog that left me increasingly unable to tackle each challenge, because my fighters were coming into every fight already wounded.
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Rather than accelerating, the campaign became a messy slog, exposing the deficiencies of Mr. Rubio's bare-bones operation in states like Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Michigan, where he placed third or fourth.
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Donkey Kong 64 is a notoriously difficult game to play to completion, requiring a dedicated gamer to slog through hours of minigames and collect hundreds of coins, golden bananas, and obscure collectibles.
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Washington (CNN)Two days into the unprecedented and embarrassing delay in results from Monday night's Iowa caucuses, tensions throughout the Democratic Party are defining a chaotic slog to release the full results.
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But despite its flood of ideas, of thoughtful sounds and textures, this "Gospel" remains, particularly in its second act, a brilliant slog, steadily losing your interest even as it holds your admiration.
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Das says he's noticed that more and more physicists are trading the difficult slog of academia—which can involve a decade of financially dicey postdoctoral work—to take cushy jobs in tech.
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This uphill slog to getting the green light was referenced in a happily ridiculous "For Your Consideration" video that Mr. Reynolds tweeted out last week, which cites 42 rejection letters from Fox.
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He said that shortcoming is already impeding productivity, pointing to the daily slog that he and thousands more commuters experience on a much-maligned suburban railroad to New York from New Jersey.
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But, while I found "Vinyl" to be a slog, I can't stop watching "Billions," which, under its lurid surface, is smartly paced and frank—even thoughtful—about the disconcerting fantasies it provokes.
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The slog, according to members of leadership, could force Congress to pass a stopgap measure in order to give lawmakers time to finalize the bill and navigate around the Senate's procedural hurdles.
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"It's been a tough slog for HPE since the breakup, but now both parts of the old Hewlett-Packard seem to finally be firing on all cylinders," the "Mad Money " host said.
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A five-year minor-league slog, topping out in Double A, sending me back to the couch again at thirty years old, would only put more miles on that same psychological tire.
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But though there are moments of brightness, the movie's a slog, with a central conceit that feels more like a sophomoric film school exercise than the work of an established writer-director.
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Aja: So, a thought I've been musing over, as I slog through all Dolores's monologues, is that all the speechifying is actually her computer's way of doing some heavy-duty background processing.
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Any new appointments will have to be approved by Congress, a lengthy process in the easiest of times, but a potentially months-long slog when there are dozens of envoys to get through.
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"Now that the has gone negative for the year, let me give you one warning: I think we're going to have to slog through these volatility sessions for a bit, " Cramer told investors.
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She also ran scared of the TPP-bashing wing of her own party, stirred up by the old leftist who made her Democratic presidential primary such a slog, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
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The nascent Transformers cinematic universe is already off to an odd start, with Transformers: The Last Knight's attempts to build out the canon of the franchise backfiring into a slog of a film.
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Back in ye olden dayes, rich people collected masses of land (usually through force) and then forced vassals (that'd be us) to slog away for them and hand over money for the privilege.
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Related: The CNN delegate trackerDespite the campaign's upbeat assessment, Trump still faces a tough slog where he'll have to win by healthy margins in several key states in order to become the nominee.
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Unlike some other recent car startups with questionable futures, Lynk & Co at least has a lineage that makes one believe the company can survive the slog of making cars at a significant volume.
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Similarly, while many Pokémon games force you through a slog of fighting pigeons and rats early on, in Sun and Moon you were able to capture strong and recognizable monsters from the outset.
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Mr Philippe and his labour minister then did the hard slog of negotiations and arbitration, spending their summer in some 100 meetings with union leaders, before unveiling a new labour law last year.
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But the event in Orlando, Florida, on Tuesday will kick off a 244-month slog in which Trump will try to knock off a Democratic challenger intent on denying him a second term.
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" Charles Bramesco, The Guardian: "While sitting through this uniquely flavorless slog, a viewer jolts out of a waking sleep every five minutes or so to realize that they have not internalized a thing.
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Plus, switching isn't actually a slog like it used to be; new, green energy companies know exactly what they're doing and have rebuffed the traditional energy supplier model for an online, easy experience.
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The opening area to The Ringed City, the latest downloadable content for Dark Souls 3 and possibly the final expansion of the Dark Souls universe, is a brutal slog, even by Souls standards.
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After a months-long slog through multiple plans that divided the Senate GOP caucus, Senate Majority Mitch McConnell appears to have little desire to take on Obamacare repeal again under a divided government.
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Boosters say that improving Vietnam's human-rights record is bound to be a long slog; that the regime's trust is a prerequisite; and that weapons sales are far from America's only bargaining chip.
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Tasha: Humor has been such a necessary part of MCU stories, and it's helped them create enjoyable, distinctive characters, and lose the self-important oppressiveness that's making DC's superhero films such a slog.
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But you don't have to slog through the entire stage show to see the most important stuff; we've cut down today's WWDC event to cover only the biggest announcements and coolest new developments.
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That's what the aptly named Waze Carpool service hopes to do: pair riders and drivers looking to share a ride and whiz through traffic — or at least slog through it a bit faster.
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On its surface—and there is plenty of surface on this sixteen-song slog—it's an attempt to reposition Timberlake as a soulful, salt-of-the-earth guy reconnecting with his Memphis roots.
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Van Gogh's muscular stabs and dense ponds of paint were the antidote to academic art, requiring no need for visual tutorials: a rush of radiance for the masses toiling in their umbrous slog.
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ZVI J. DORON Pittsburgh To the Editor: As these primaries slog onward, I find I don't want to elect a new president nearly as much as I want to elect a new citizenry.
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With plenty of new series popping up all the time, it's a great way to dig into stories in the summer without feeling like there's a mountain of homework to slog through first.
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Your average regular-season Yankees-Red Sox matchup is a slog, a five-hour gauntlet of 10-pitch at bats, compulsive pitching changes, longer-than-normal commercial breaks, and John Kruk's heavy breath.
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He watched the relative nadir of the sport's meandering slog through the late 90s and aughts and is still around now, analyzing the action through what he thinks could be another Golden Age.
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Play is the name of the game here, and the most invigorating offerings inspire a youthful nostalgia that's welcome after a long slog through discussion of art theory, emerging markets, and name-dropping.
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The opening area to The Ringed City, the latest downloadable content for Dark Souls 3 and possibly the final expansion of the Dark Souls universe, is a brutal slog, even by Souls standards.
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After a weeks-long slog, Congress united on Thursday night to pass a massive federal spending bill that averts a second shutdown, just weeks after the longest government closure in the nation's history.
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The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday released an $81.6 billion veteran benefits bill, making clear that it will not wait for a GOP budget before beginning its months-long slog of spending bills.
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But the long slog of negotiations has a purpose, allowing the two sides to stake out positions, sometimes in public, then horse-trade privately as they search for a mutually acceptable bottom line.
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On Washington WASHINGTON — It was an unsightly and painful yearlong slog, but Republicans are finally getting what they so desperately craved — a major legislative victory in the form of a consequential tax overhaul.
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Whether it's an Ibiza getaway or a three-month slog on the sleeper trains of Eastern Europe, if you're that inclined, it's likely you'll try to score something or other along the way.
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The special takes the comic's anti-wokeness schtick to a new level, and the whole thing is repetitive and exhausting enough that it's a slog to even make it to the Q&A.
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Last year an estimated 300 million pounds ($367.98 million)was wagered on the four-mile, 514 yards slog which features 30 fences including the brutal Becher's Brook, The Chair and the Canal Turn.
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While the rest of the cast members have shared stories about hanging out with the global pop star and have reconstructed their quests to become her friend, she's somehow escaped the interview slog.
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And in Greece, they loved the food but the hike up to the Parthenon was a slog, unlike the Athenian high jinks of the children's Greek mythology graphic novels and Percy Jackson DVDs.
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Trying to get to New York from New Jersey and Long Island this summer has become an unpleasant slog with emergency repair work at Pennsylvania Station disrupting the commutes of thousands of riders.
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Our first leg of the trip was from Astana, Kazakhstan, to Moscow, a 60-hour snowy slog, with only six hours of daylight per day and no entertainment except books and our laptops.
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Several people in European tech describe him as a determined diplomat, fighting an uphill slog against European industries and politicians reluctant to accept digital deregulation, or the accompanying benefits to Silicon Valley firms.
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Watching Westworld can be a bit of a slog, but the gunfights, A-grade monologues, and indiscriminate nudity make it way more fun than just reading George Berkeley and Nick Bostrom's philosophical tomes.
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But "the Obamacare replacement is just going to be a long hard slog and it's fraught with political peril for the Republicans because some of it's just hard to reconcile how it works out."
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Though some on staff might argue the release of Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroines Infinite Duel has been the reason to slog through the rest of 2016, most of us can probably take a breather here.
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And though Resident Evil 7 technically takes place after Resident Evil 6, a 20-hour slog where players fought a kaiju-sized insect thing on the top of a building, it's essentially a reboot.
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The Punisher and the 2008 movie Punisher: War Zone are arriving on Hulu and Amazon, in case you haven't already caught the series on Netflix, but be warned, people consider it quite the slog.
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They're similar to the fitness and nutrition tests O'Brady went through before his Antarctic slog, and they help determine which foods might promote inflammation in Besaw's body, which could hamper her recovery during training.
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The doors have finally opened after a slog through federal courts, where judges blocked President Trump's ban on transgender military service and ordered that transgender people must be allowed to join starting on Jan.
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I'm already going to be late as it is, and today is the day New York is getting the remnants of Hurricane Florence, so it will be a slog to commute in the rain.
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Instead, the distraction of road-show bells and whistles (70mm projection, overture, intermission), a few overly hammy performances and at least a full hour of fat made this one a slog to sit through.
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There will be no contested convention, no long slog through the final primaries this spring—Trump will be the GOP pick for president, simply because more Republicans voted for him than for anyone else.
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But teams with title hopes begin managing minutes and fatigue in training camp, according to Dr. Souryal, meaning both Golden State and Cleveland have been preparing to survive the full playoff slog for months.
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But recent history suggests that in the longer term there are no shortcuts to boosting exports—it's just more of the old slog of flogging a product that people want at the right price.
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Defenses aware of his perceived short fuse and the Giants' relative lack of other offensive options have tilted heavily, and physically, in his direction, and the attention has turned the schedule into a slog.
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That dynamic creates a number of difficult decisions for the 28500-year-old Biden, who would enter the primary as the front-runner but who also faces a long, hard slog to the nomination.
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The fast-talking Horbaczewski, 35, helped turn Tough Mudders, a quirky half marathon in which people pay to slog through artificial quagmires, into a more than $100 million business as its chief revenue officer.
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The site's delay has been a slog for Cadet and the six writers who were hired during Whitlock's regime and have stayed — putting stories in a bank but seeing the site remain stubbornly dormant.
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But it would be a tough slog for Democrats, who would then need to gain even more seats to win a majority, perhaps by winning the open seat left by the retiring Arizona Sen.
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Like an overdesigned boat burdened by too many gadgets, the opening chapters of "The Left-Handed Fate" are a bit of a slog, with an excess of characters, arcane terminology and puzzles within puzzles.
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The indifference of many of the riders came from another source: The hot, 190.5-kilometer (118.3-mile) slog here from Arpajon-sur-Cère came one day before the race moves into the high mountains.
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And though Resident Evil 7 technically takes place after Resident Evil 6, a 20-hour slog where players fought a kaiju-sized insect thing on the top of a building, it's essentially a reboot.
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All of which is to say that rather than a slam-dunk that provides a boost for Republicans heading into the midterms, taxes are likely be another humbling slog for Trump and his party.
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The problem has been finding a pharmaceutical company that is actually willing to go through the long slog of getting one of its own drugs approved by the FDA for over-the-counter use.
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The Cubs' Mike Montgomery filled in for the injured Yu Darvish with a strong start in Saturday's 14-inning slog, and the Cubs won Sunday while resting the sluggers Kris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo.
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But in recent years, the warmer autumns and deeper snow, which acts as an insulator, have made for much thinner natural lake ice, making road construction a cautious slog and delaying openings to traffic.
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The negotiations slog, according to members of leadership, could force Congress to pass a stopgap measure in order to give lawmakers time to finalize the bill and navigate around the Senate's procedural hurdles. Sen.
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Big churches and golf courses still do much to set the social tone, and homegrown conservative talk-radio personalities like Herman Cain and Erick Erickson help commuters assuage the increasingly painful slog through traffic.
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Clinton kept pushing, kept trying to smile through what had long since become a joyless, demeaning slog, and still found a moment, on the last day of her campaign, to FaceTime with her granddaughter.
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In California, in addition to the surge in mail-in ballots, the slog of counting provisional ballots is partly why Hillary Clinton's share of the popular vote kept ticking up long after Election Day.
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Its 93-minute, Baz Luhrmann–directed pilot episode was a slog, and the show kept up a snail's pace until finally getting good in the last episode—if audiences even made it that far.
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Those moderates, combined with conservatives won over by a separate amendment last week, appear to have given leadership just enough votes to advance the bill out of the House after a months-long slog.
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WINNIPEG/BEIJING, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Canadian canola meal shipments to China have jumped to their highest level in five years, boosting profits of crush plants and firming prices as farmers slog through a difficult harvest.
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One thing that stands out about The Flaming Lips's work is longevity—not it because it implies a certain kind of long slog, but because there's an urgency that builds on whatever came before it.
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Otherwise I suspect I'd have found myself in agreement with Jason Schreier's exasperated reaction on Kotaku, where he found the last few hours to be a grinding slog through endless waves of poorly-designed enemies.
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But this is a big market, and there already is some activity — it just hasn't picked up a ton of traction just yet because it is a slog to get everything all in one place.
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By Tuesday afternoon, they had cleared about half the block of snow, part of the long slog back in parts of cities like Baltimore, Washington and Philadelphia that has left many residents frustrated and angry.
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Prime ministers are also foreign-policy tourists, focusing on the big powers and set-piece events but ignoring the hard slog of cultivating relations with foreign leaders of every description, minor as well as great.
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According to one Baker resident—who had to abandon her home and slog to safety through biblical flood waters whilst a police officer carried her six year-old daughter—the snakes are out in force.
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While we know the HiPPO approach (highest paid person's opinion) hasn't worked, it's been a slog trying to get data in front of the right workers to propel more data-driven decision making inside organizations.
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It's easy to forget as we slog through the repercussions of Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal, but for the first couple months of the year, the biggest concern in tech spheres wasn't data privacy, but attention.
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Trump's stops in these blue-leaning states also helps bolster the campaign's message that Trump's candidacy is on the rise and that the campaign is going on the offensive the final slog to Election Day.
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Oil's in for a long slog; conditions will get "incredibly ugly" for fundamentals in the next 90 days, Tom Kloza, Oil Price Information Services' global head of energy analysis, said to "Closing Bell" on Thursday.
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When I arrived near the Apple store on 59th Street about an hour after the parade had started, only a couple of dozen people huddled under apartment scaffolding to watch the sodden march slog on.
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And now we are getting information, we are bringing in witnesses, we are getting documents, but it is a hard slog and the administration is raising nonexistent privileges and using every delay tactic they can.
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As much as their music has indulged in chaos, mirroring the oppressive slog of pushing onto another day, those feelings—or the staticky tape loops, or blinding saxophone blasts—tend to be abstract in nature.
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Getting a demo cut is tough work: the cost, the slog, the hours of work to get a scratchy white-noise tape down that might do just enough justice for your sound to peer through.
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The mellow purr of the distortion and the silvery atmospherics of James Iha's guitar have aged very well, especially when compared to "Birth Ritual," the trudging, wailing slog that is Soundgarden's contribution to the soundtrack.
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In contrast, the Warriors have so many weapons that they can play prime talents like Andrew Bogut, Andre Iguodala and Festus Ezeli less than half the time, keeping everyone fresh over an 82-game slog.
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Both ultimately hew to a distrustful, stark, combative, zero-sum view of life — the idea that making it in this world is an unforgiving slog and that, given other people's selfish natures, vulnerability is dangerous.
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The congressional primary season essentially draws to a close on Tuesday with contests in Delaware, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, ending a long slog of state races that produced few upsets despite the volatile electorate.
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After pointing out the obvious — things were looking bleak again — he would remind everyone that they still had an obligation to put out the best possible product, even if that sometimes felt like a slog.
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Keep going, slog away, work through lunch, soldier on, stay an extra hour — it may seem logical to squeeze as much as you can out of your employees but it's actually counterproductive, according to Wouterson.
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