After a rough Olympic trials, she barely made the team.
The television programmes that investigated them, Rough Justice and Trial and Error, have also been the victims of cost-cutting by broadcasters.
"The business is going through a rough period of trial and transition," said the two executives, whose statement pointed to the growth of piracy and the effect of social media on film viewing as factors challenging studios.
Having produced rough tracks via trial and error, she honed the finished songs in collaboration with other writer-producers.
Perhaps we don't need to answer that for a while; a rough date for the trial hasn't even been set.
This tends to be especially true of those companies with real products, real market share, real earnings and a real consumer, all of which have been through the trials of rough patches in the past, and whose current management has an established history of navigating tough times.
Operating from rough airstrips was also trialled at nearby RAF Bircham Newton, where the aircraft proved adept at traversing boggy ground and taking off from a variety of temporary ground coverings.
But it is Scott McClellan, the White House press secretary, whose credibility is already on trial amid the rough justice of the briefing room.
The experts' subjective and often vague judgments are captured quantitatively through a rough number based Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) method.
The pair approached Honda with a rough, low-budget 30-second trial film inspired by the children's board game Mouse Trap, Caractacus Potts' breakfast-making machine in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and a 1987 Swiss art film by Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go).
