Sentence examples for hard early years from inspiring English sources

The hope is that 400 or so will survive the hard, early years of pitching insurance, and then, as usually happens, stay for life.In the past three years, most large American insurance companies have demutualised, among them Metropolitan Life, Prudential and John Hancock.

It's a bookstore in Blytheville, Ark .— called, simply, That Bookstore in Blytheville — where the owner, Mary Gay Shipley, was a fan even in Grisham's hard-luck early years.

Liberace (Michael Douglas Scottt pops round to lunch and regales his soon-to-be-lover with the tale of his hard-knocks early years.

But that changed with Loulou (1980), the first of four collaborations with Gérard Depardieu, whose hard-bitten early years and blend of physicality and tenderness seemed a reflection of the director's contradictory personality.

Zirinsky's hard-charging early years at CBS News inspired the Type A producer played by Holly Hunter in the 1987 film "Broadcast News". Zirinsky was a consultant on the film.

For Lena, this reality hit hard in the early years of her older daughter's life.

Like many stars, she was loaned out on contract from one stable to another, but she made the switches work to her advantage, so that neither Columbia nor Warner Bros., for instance, both of whom worked her hard in the early years, was able to fence her in.

"I went hard early in the year and got my quickest 50 and 100.

The new leaders of East and West Pakistan found the early years hard and the difficulties in creating a constitution that could unite the various provinces were complicated by war with India in 1947.

Now the young in China are doing much better, but many of them still find it hard, especially in their early years, to achieve a decent life.

The early years are hard for everyone.