Sentences with phrase «when scrappy»

When Scrappy was examined by our vet, we found out that he had aggressive lung cancer.

But when scrappy filmmakers make it big, the weird little passion projects they once shelved at long last can be dusted off.

But when a scrappy young band calling itself Television auditions for Kristal, the die is cast, and punk, at least in this movie's telling (which excludes any pre-CBGB history from the conversation), is born.

Not exact matches

In a time when tech companies are starting to behave like industry giants of the past, taking their interests — and their money — to K Street to influence legislation (consider Mark Zuckerberg's immigration lobby), it seems natural that several of these scrappy sharing - based start - ups are beginning to band together.

That's when Schaaf and the scrappy Imgur team decided that the years of bootstrapping were over: They accepted a $ 40 million venture capital investment.

«You're going to need to know how to be scrappy, and you don't want to be learning after you've raised a bunch of money or when you're public,» he says.

And what does the star investor and tech industry veteran (who made his first millions when he sold his computer consulting firm Microsolutions to CompuServe in 1990, before a lot of the kids in the audience were born) think about scrappy young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs trying to compete with him?

Of course, taking a scrappy Canadian startup public comes with its own set of challenges — how do you maintain the same energy and innovation when your staff is in the hundreds, instead of the dozens?

That's Stephen Jones, vice president of the Dallas Cowboys, describing to ESPN how Tony Romo behaved when he was just a young, scrappy, third - string quarterback trying to prove himself.

NIKE is great because of things Phil Knight did when NIKE was a scrappy David taking on Goliaths.

But the question is whether T - Mobile would still have the incentive to be as scrappy after the merger — when it would look a lot like the big telecom providers it was forced to contend with as an aggressive upstart.

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Part of the problem is that, back in the days when Facebook was a scrappy startup fighting its way to the top, privacy was not a moneymaker — but plugging users» data into a plethora of outsiders» apps was.

These guys are as scrappy as it gets and every Team in the League knows they are in for a hand full when taking them on.

When the regular season ended, the scrappy lot from Richmond got serious.

He scored when he was back in the center, scrappy as it may be but that, to me, is the sign of a top player.

Team Lutz had shown themselves as a scrappy squad that came up big when necessary while Team Saltzberg really found their stride midway through the Season (and after their ridiculously tough schedule lightened up).

It took just seven minutes for the deadlock to be broken when 37 - year - old Toni spun around three Napoli defenders to net past a hapless Mariano Andujar for a scrappy opening goal.

That's where the definition of world class comes in, players that drag their teams to scrappy wins like suarez scoring 2 free kicks in a match when he was at Liverpool, he dragged them most times then, like Messi does for barca, like hazard did for Chelsea seasons ago and he still does sometimes, that is what makes them legends, standing out and producing special moments that will be printed in our memories for life................

Shelvey wasted a promising opening within seconds of the restart when he sliced his shot horribly wide after Perez, Kenedy and Gayle had launched a counter-attack, although the game became increasingly scrappy as the half unfolded.

Ligue 1 Having managed to avoid defeat since a 3 - 1 loss at home to Marseille in Week 10, Lille's resistance finally buckled when they fell to a 1 - 0 loss in a scrappy and otherwise unremarkable game at Montpellier last Sunday.

The opening goal was scrappy when it arrived just before half - time with Theo Walcott's shot deflected into the bottom corner, continuing his good form in the FA Cup this season, but it was just the sort of thing Arsenal needed to settle themselves down.

When you think of Stoke, you might well think of a scrappy 90 minutes of football that ultimately ends with Arsenal suffering injuries or disappointment.

Bryan John Ellicott, a 27 - year - old bisexual trans man from Staten Island, was honored for his scrappy activism, including suing the city Parks Department when he was forced to leave a Staten Island public pool for changing in the men's locker room, and fighting the tampon tax and anti-choice politicians.

At the second moment, when Maggie enters that customer's cabin, your initial guess is confirmed: she's a «healer» in 1885 New Mexico, scrappy and brave.

The cast works diligently, and Keener is scrappy but calm throughout, with a convincing naturalism as a woman with tremendous strength and a powerful belief in civil rights — at a time when most women were reluctant to speak out against political corruption.

A scrappy American friend of Dhari's, Leroy reluctantly takes in Jas, Marcus and Dhari when things get rough for them.

The four scrappy street - level superheroes are forced to come together as an unlikely team when their paths converge and they discover they are all battling the same mysterious foe.

When it comes to the action sequences, director Peter Berg moves things along with blazing quick cuts and intense close - ups that rattle bones and get the adrenalin pumping as Beck and Scott face everything from Tarzan ju jitsu with Eddie Reyes, who sets The Rock flying like a big beefy whirligig, to a pack of scrappy monkeys with really, really bad attitudes, not to mention a grudge.

The movie was one of those created on the cutting room floor and was just barely ready when it showed at Cannes — the scrappy underdog that could is an irresistible meme in the Oscar race and Silver Linings will be the threepeat for The Weinstein Co in that vein.

The Dashwood sisters of Austen's novel are now Nora and Mary Dominguez, whose affluent, assimilated mansion existence is upended when their father's death leaves them broke, necessitating a lifestyle adjustment to the homier, scrappier Boyle Heights enclave of their Tia Aurelia (Adriana Barraza).

Working from a scrappy, dialogue - heavy script by Anthony McCarten (The Theory of Everything), Wright brings a cinematic dynamism to every scene, even when confined to Churchill's chambers, underground war rooms and the halls of Parliament.

Though Rocky and Rocky have become synonymous with scrappy underdog tales, the movie is upfront about the gimmickry afoot when Balboa is plucked from obscurity to fight reigning champ Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) when a more experienced boxer drops out.

It's here, on a scrappy industrial estate, that we find the old Lotus factory on Delamere Road, which the company moved into in 1959 when the success of the Seven and the firm's increasingly ambitious motorsport activities meant the original facility in Hornsey, north London, became too small.

Chase is the scrappy upstart, trying to challenge American Express when it comes to mileage rewards.

Scrappy also needs to be crated when no one is home.

Even though it will seldom initiate a fight, it will not allow itself to be intimidated by other dogs and can be a scrappy fighter when pushed.

Bedlington Terriers originated in the North East of England, despite their lamb - like appearance they can be scrappy when meeting strange dogs.

The idea goes back to the late 1970s, when women who'd come of age in the era of second - wave feminism began starting scrappy adventure programs, outdoorsy relatives of the feminist music festivals and conferences that were then sprouting up around the country.

In the days when game designers were expected to wear multiple hats, Rieko functioned as story planner, artist, and programmer alongside a scrappy young lad named Yuji Naka.

This display is fleshed out by «A.R. Penck, Before the West,» a fascinatingly scrappy show of early work at the Leo Koenig gallery in Chelsea: paintings, sculpture and collages from the»70s, when Mr. Penck was something of a dissident artist in East Berlin, smuggling paintings out and art materials (and Deutschmarks) in.

It seems the Bruce High Quality Foundation gave up its scrappy, anti-establishment stance when it took part in the 2010 Whitney Biennial.

Like Ravel or Schoenberg, Raditsa happily follows the rules of color and composition, knowing just the moment when to be scrappy and inconsistent and injecting an unsettling leitmotif of instability and anxiety into her otherwise comforting and radiant pieces.

«You have to be scrappy to be an entrepreneur but there is now tremendous opportunity in the industry,» says Nicole Bradick, who founded a firm called Custom Counsel when she saw a chance to match understaffed law firms with the idle talent pool of women who'd left law after having children.

Pebble will soon become less of a smart timepiece and more of a relic of a time when Kickstarter projects were successful and scrappy startups could claim a slice of the smartwatch market.

One common theme arises when studying the business models of dozens of cryptocurrency projects: traditional third - party intermediaries across the board are becoming targets for scrappy, young blockchain - based projects seeking to directly undercut the «middleman» business model.

What happens when Facebook and Twitter wake up with night - sweats from the distant possibility that some scrappy young company could destroy their business model with a new and unpredictable technology?

Show yourself to be scrappy and problem - solving when you go over any gaps and potential red flags, as well.

I'd consider myself scrappy and someone who will keep plugging away towards a goal even when success isn't immediate.