Sentences with phrase «after eking»

After eking out a modest living as a piano teacher in Alabama and Florida, Polly Holliday switched to acting, spending ten seasons with the Asolo State Theater in Sarasota.

After he eked his way onto the ballot at the GOP convention in Rochester last Friday, I sat down with Turner and asked him for his opinion on Limbaugh's recent «slut» controversy and whether he had agreed with the sentiment behind the comment.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders opened up a new line of attack in the Democratic presidential primary yesterday, putting Hillary Clinton on the defensive over her liberal credentials just days after she eked a slim victory in the Iowa caucuses.

Not exact matches

In November 2008, an election year that swept a barrier - breaking dynamo of the opposite party into the White House and pumped Democratic numbers in the chamber to 59 (and soon after, a filibuster - proof 60), McConnell barely eked out a win.

TOKYO, May 1 (Reuters)- Japan's Nikkei eked out modest gains in holiday - thinned trade on Tuesday supported by buying in index - heavy stocks such as Fast Retailing and Fanuc, though Sony tumbled after the company issued a profit warning.

TOKYO, May 1 - Japan's Nikkei eked out modest gains in holiday - thinned trade on Tuesday supported by buying in index - heavy stocks such as Fast Retailing and Fanuc, though Sony tumbled after the company issued a profit warning.

Eke was raised in Nigeria, and soon after arriving at Google in 2015, she noticed there was a need for a Google employee group focused on Africa.

The S&P 500 eked out a small gain while the Dow declined after a volatile trading session on Wednesday, with weakness in sectors such as consumer staples and financials offsetting strong gains in the energy and industrial indexes.

«Long, slow recovery»: After 3 years of heavy losses, Canadian oilpatch to eke out paltry gains this year

WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. (AP) Jalen Ray launched a game - winning 3 - pointer with 2.1 seconds remaining, scored a career - best 14 points and Hofstra eked past Monmouth 85 - 84 Wednesday night after coming back from 14 points down.

Boston -LRB--2) is getting just under 50 % of spread tickets but fewer than 25 % of the money, which indicates that the Celtics may be overvalued in this spot after barely eking out a win in overtime of Game 1.

Last season their fêted passing carousel swept all before them but they received an almighty scare that they were lucky to survive when they eked past Chelsea in the Champions League semi-final after seeing their flowing football squeezed half to death by the Londoners» muscular midfield.

Avella refused to endorse the party's nominee for the Conucil seat he once held, Paul Vallone, even after Vallone eked out a victory in the Democratic primary.

The answer he attempts to eke out a crust as a «turn» on the after dinner circuit - a poor man's Jeffrey Archer.

That campaign, like most Democratic primaries in New York City and State, had been staked on getting the paper's backing, and a few days after he got it, Mr. Schneiderman eked out a 2 - point victory over Nassau County district attorney Kathleen Rice, even though Ms. Rice was tacitly backed by Andrew Cuomo and much of the Democratic Party establishment.

However, Gipson has eked out a 47 percent - 46 percent lead in Dutchess, after having trailed there by 11 points.

Tennessee's 6th district (D): Certification of the final vote tally is still pending after last week's GOP primary that saw state Sen. Diane Black eke out the narrowest of victories over former Rutherford County Republican Party chairwoman Lou Ann Zelenik and state Sen. Jim Tracy.

The first - term incumbent barely eked out a victory in 2012 — only pulling ahead of his GOP opponent after late absentee and provisional balloting.

«After the incident, it has been difficult to eke a living.

SCOTIA — Republican Assemblyman George Amedore declared victory in the race for the new 46th District Senate seat, but his Democratic opponent may have eked out a victory after all.

But after that film became Dreamworks» biggest hit (which it remains to this day), Jeffrey Katzenberg and his cohorts sought to eke out the series, providing more money at the expense of allowing genuine creativity to flourish.

The stranger in this case is not an obsessive super-fan, but a vagabond named Jack (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) who Paul (Antonio Banderas)-- a once - popular writer now forced to pen screenplays to eke out a living — brings into his Colorado cabin after Jack saves him from getting beaten up in a diner by an angry truck driver.

The film, which premiered Thursday at Tribeca, follows Martin McCann as a paranoid loner eking out a solitary living in the woods after Armageddon.

But industry executives and analysts say Mr. Smith — who made money investing in troubled companies after the junk - bond market collapsed in the 1980s — is clearly betting that he can eke out profits despite the industry's running troubles.

(March 12, 2014) Ontario Power Generation (OPG) on March 7, 2014, released its results for the year ended December 31, 2013, which claims they eked out an after tax profit of $ 135 million on gross revenue of $ 4.9 billion.

During the weekend, when work emails slowed to a trickle, I eked out a day and a half — after stumbling back to my apartment around 2 a.m. on a particularly eventful Saturday, the Quartz's battery indicator read 20 percent.

ColorOS» aggressive memory management ekes out the maximum out of the 3000mAh battery on the R11, but there were instances where the battery fell below 10 % after about 18 hours of use.

After teasing Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 earlier today, more details on the superhero brick game have eked out.

After the birth of a child, you'll have less energy and less time to yourselves, so the thought of eking out some leisure time might feel like a distant dream that will have to wait until the children leave home.