"It was a really hard slog - an immense team effort, " said Mr Reynolds.
In recent months, the administration had just said it would be a long, hard slog.
"It was a really hard slog for us today and throughout the game, " he said.
BBC: Australia cling on to draw with West Indies in Adelaide
Progressive enthusiasm for President Barack Obama has been replaced by a hard slog by party regulars.
FORBES: None Of The Above: 2012, A Transformational Political Year?
At best, Uruguay faces a long, hard slog before it recovers its reputation as South America's Switzerland.
The states could push for expanded investigative powers, but they would likely face a hard slog in court.
Now, with a general election possibly only a year away, the real hard slog starts for Mr Howard.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Politics | Howard's 100 day anniversary hope
Now, as David indicated, this is a hard slog, this is hard work.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron Hold a Press Conference | The White House
There were stories of his wife Callista insisting on a Mediterranean cruise rather than a hard slog around small-town America.
It's going to be a tough hard slog for us to dig ourselves out of the hole that we're in.
Turning that idea into a working product has been a hard slog.
Eventually luminaries such as George Soros and Michael Steinhardt emerged from the ruins, but for the industry it was a long, hard slog.
He said making peace would be a "hard slog" but he wanted to listen to both sides rather than come with any big announcement.
It's a milestone worth noting in the hard slog that is - we all hope, as shareholders - the recovery of Royal Bank of Scotland.
The memo says, among other things, that Iraq and Afghanistan will be a "long, hard slog", and that the US record against al-Qaeda is mixed.
"China will not overnight become a very profitable beer market, it will be a hard slog, " said SABMiller's managing director of Asia and Africa, Andre Parker.
But it will be a hard slog, and made harder by last week's announcement from the Reverend Jesse Jackson that he will not make a third bid for the Democratic nomination.
So, it could be a hard slog for investors.
ECONOMIST: Banks are under assault from buyers of mortgage securities
Politicians are no more likely to tell voters that it will be a long, hard slog, however, than King Abdullah is to declare that Saudi Arabia will not do much to help.
His 22-month-long journey to the White House was, to borrow a phrase, "a long, hard slog" that began with beating an opponent who, in a bruising primary battle, earned 18 million votes in defeat.
Even assuming gains for the UMP in June, Sarkozy could face a hard slog dismantling entrenched labor protections -- such as five weeks of guaranteed vacation -- that unions have fought tooth-and-nail to keep.
No one could argue with its cry for justice, but individual stories tend to get drowned out, and the act of watching it comes embarrassingly close to life in the pits a long, hard slog in the dark.
In its conviction that "change" isn't effected through rhetoric alone, but through the hard slog of campaign work, persuasion, inspiration, inclusion and good old, bad old politicking, "Milk" says something about how progress is achieved in America.
So the way is now clear for European heads of governments to sound the bugle for stronger defence when they meet in Helsinki next month and for humbler diplomats and defence-planners to begin a year's hard slog working out what, if anything, all this grandiloquence really means.
ECONOMIST: The EU turns its attention from ploughshares to swords
"That we are in the midst of a crisis is now well-understood, " Obama said, in a speech that warned Americans to prepare for a long, hard -- but certain -- slog toward better days.
After a hard-fought campaign, one which required a long slog with a lot of energy expended, you look at the scoreboard, and the clock, and you realize things are slipping away.
FORBES: High School Football, Politics, And the Sudden, Bitter End
应用推荐