Sentences with phrase «at eke»

Could Fergie's claim just be frustration at eking so little from a player who promised so much?

We already know that bacteria which can not communicate are far less virulent, but no less successful at eking out a living, than their communicating brethren.

Quite simply, the first farmers were not very successful at eking out a living from the land, and their grain - heavy diet was deficient in protein and vitamins — critical for fueling growth of the body and brain.

Each in its own way is an attempt at eking out some ineluctable truth whether that kernel of knowledge be hidden in the history of language, the development of images as objects, the failure of various artistic tropes, or the duplicity of an object that serves both form and function and neither simultaneously.

Not exact matches

But even with this inconsistency, the value at Taco Bell ekes out a win.

With interest rates at historic lows, though, it's nearly impossible to eke out an income by playing it safe.

With equity valuations at historic highs and government bonds barely eking out a return, junk bonds offer solid yields at a good price, he reasons.

All this was just a small part of the party that cost at least $ 1 million in a nation where just about everyone ekes out a meager existence.

Then make peace with them not doing the stuff they hate, or at the very least eking by with it.

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.

Miller Lite eked out a slight volume gain in 2016, as shipments grew 0.1 % as market share in the beer category held steady at 6.2 %, according to Beer Marketer's Insights.

«Lenders will look at your credit history, and late or missed payments can be a huge red flag,» Eke adds.

On the way, when he was at Beth - eked of the Shepherds, 13 Jehu met the kinsmen of Ahaziah king of Judah, and he said, «Who are you?»

And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of Beth - eked, forty - two persons, and he spared none of them.

This is such a huge subject that I must beg indulgence, therefore, if I give my space to but a small fraction of the historic faith — namely its main emphases on God, Christ, the Church, and eternal life — and consider only these in our modem context, in the effort to discover what values they may have for men and women who are tossed about in an unsettled world, with an uncertain future, and doomed — almost certainly it seems — to a doubtful truce of arms, at worst to a war which threatens to annihilate man as we have known him and in any event to leave us a bare existence such as we can eke out on a totally devastated planet.

Or the theft of a meager flock, by which a shepherd eked out a literal hand - to - mouth existence, could easily result in intense suffering from malnutrition for the shepherd and his family, always undernourished at best, if not in the actual loss of one or more members of the family.

Philadelphia had an almost disastrous week; the Flyers lost to Montreal 7 - 1 (their 12th straight nonwinning effort against Les Canadiens) and Toronto 3 - 2, but eked out a 4 - 4 tie at Boston on Rick MacLeish's goal with 24 seconds to play.

At the AmEx he did just enough to eke out a win, his victory march more of a limp because of bogeys on three of the final five holes.

They have eked by Tulane and Tulsa and lost at home to a Houston team that lost to Tulane and Tulsa.

His Fighting Illini were dreadful in 2012, falling to 2 - 10 and 107th in the F / + rankings, but they surged back to 4 - 8 and 74th in 2013, and with new bodies at quarterback, receiver, and throughout the defense, they not only held steady in the rankings last year (78th) but also eked out bowl eligibility.

I say we eke a title winning performance out of him and pay him a bonus at the end of the season when we do.

They eked out home wins over Holy Cross and Tulsa, upset Temple right before the Owls got their own first - year ship righted, and lost seven games by at least 17 points.

Giorgio Chiellini, who was at his tenacious best as always (just missing the bloodied bandage around his head), spoke to the media as well about how Juve dug deep to eke out the win.

We look back at Arsenal's eked - out victory against Montpellier, focusing on Giroud, Diaby, the movement of our forward - line and general silliness.

McLaren Fernando Alonso / Button 16 — Stoffel Vandoorne 3 Race: Alonso Fernando Alonso eked out some more daylight between himself and Stoffel Vandoorne at Interlagos with yet another superb qualifying performance, only eclipsed from the mid-grid by Sergio Perez.

A win for Palace here and I think they will feel they are likely to be safe and I think given their form and the return of Wilfried Zaha, I think they will go to Vicarage Road and eke out a narrow win here, though perhaps not as dramatically as they did at Selhurst Park earlier in the season.

Everton put in a rugged display to emerge with a point from the Emirates, before Arsenal had to deal with some scary situations as they eked out a 1 - 0 win against 10 man Fulham, at Craven Cottage.

When you finally eke out a few minutes alone, whether at night or (lucky you) on a date, allow yourselves 15 minutes to chat about kid stuff, then make the topic taboo so you can remember what it was that made you decide to have a child together in the first place.

When you're at your local fitness club — logging those hours on the elliptical, pushing out another rep of squats, or eking out that last push - up — have you ever thought about the gym you are supporting?

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.

This is a better chance at real change than waiting for the piecemeal, shoddy constitutional reform that various branches of government can eke out over the next decade or two.

Director, Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Sani Usman, explained that the military operations — Egwu Eke II and Crocodile Smile II — like the earlier operations, were not targeted at «any particular ethnic group or group of individuals».

«That you Olagoke Adedamola and others now at large between same period and place at the aformentioned magistral district did unlawfully kidnapped one Samuel Eke and took him to unknown destination in such a manner as to prevent him from discovering the place he imprisoned and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 364 (2) of the criminal code cap 34 vol.

But Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland Jr., who is under a federal indictment alleging corruption for a second time, eked out a victory, at just 37 %, because the field contained eight challengers.

Nnamani, who spoke at his APC Ward 2 in Amechi - Uwani near Eke - tu Market in Enugu South LGA, noted that the tap root of politics is at the ward level.

But M dwarfs are quite different from the sun, and their planets might be rough places to eke out a living — «the low - rent district of the galaxy,» says Victoria Meadows, an astrophysicist at the University of Washington in Seattle.

But here, plants can eke out a living at 17,500 feet.

Once youâ $ ™ ve completed your reps at that weight, grab a weight that is about â... «less than what you were using, and pump out 10 - 12 more reps.. This «drop set» will allow you to push beyond what you were able to achieve with the higher weight, just when you thought you couldn't eke out any more reps.

I have tried everything from chamomile tea to OTC sleep aids, but I still struggle to eke out six (at most) restless hours.

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.

Set in New Jersey in 1985, the film stars Adam Sandler as Robbie Hart, a good - hearted guy who lives in his sister's basement and ekes out a living by singing at weddings and the occasional bar mitzvah.

Arriving in America from his native Australia at the turn of the century, Frank S. Hagney eked out a living in vaudeville.

But despite the limitations of living under oppressive Jim Crow segregation, Tyrone «Pinetop» Purvis (Danny Glover) has managed to eke out a decent living, at least till now.

His college pals have moved on to serious careers while he's still eking out a living as a model at a store where he's now considered old.

Seven years later, Sean's now an aspiring artist who ekes out a living parking cars at a trendy restaurant.

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

I had voiced my objections, at a board meeting, to the lack of a board member on the teams, and eked out a reluctant assent from the Superintendent — my colleagues seemed mildly unconcerned about the issue — that board members could participate.

And let's face it, no matter what top your R8 has, it's never going to be eking out the last tenth of a second for the win at your local club race (and if it is, you should buy an Audi customer racing car, or at least a Spec Miata).

If the CT6 truly can eke in below 4000 lbs, that would make it significantly lighter than the 4700 - lb Mercedes - Benz S - Class and the 4500 - lb Audi A8L, though the Jaguar XJL weighs in at a featherweight 3800 lbs.

At the same time, it ekes out a bit better gas mileage: 14 or 15 mpg city, 20 or 21 mpg on the highway.