yakka

• While there are always opportunities for those willing to put in the hard yakka and position themselves strategically, there are also increased risks from postponed spending, decreasing margins as a result of cut throat competition and falling confidence. —  ARN News
• One wonders what a requirement that unemployed people had to do some hard yakka to earn the dole would do? —  Henry Thornton Blogs
• But there are also opportunities for those willing to put in the hard yakka and build relationships. —  ARN News
• There is a sage school of thought in these parts that England arrived with a misplaced arrogance, unwilling to accept the West Indians 'steady improvement, initiated, curiously, by some hard yakka undertaken during preparations for the Stanford Super series. —  Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
• Having struggled for breakthroughs in a tough 19-over session on the second evening, England's bowlers fully anticipated another day of hard yakka, but - with victory essential if they are to secure a share of the series - each of the five frontline men rose to the occasion. —  Cricinfo news from Cricinfo

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