Sentences with phrase «barely holding on»

And so, there we were, barely holding on to a dangling couch with no support below.

Life passing by and you're barely holding on?

With the state of traditional publishing at the moment, with the slush out - sourced, with editors tied by sales force demands, with companies barely holding on and trying to make changes to electronic sales, very few high - quality books with top stories are getting through.

Her family is barely holding on and Mom is trying to be realistic, but what Lady Bird needs is some warmth and encouragement.

My car was barely holding on as I passed the finish line, but I'd done what I set out to do — cause mass destruction.

Nixon is the mom who was barely holding on to hope, and is now trying to find her daughter within this stranger.

It's an ominous look into the life of Chris (Affleck), a genius - level accountant who finds himself embroiled into the world of crime while barely holding on to his sanity with his obsessive personality.

I'm barely holding on this week!

It's barely holding on to its spot at # 20.

With 4:54 left in the quarter, the Bengals were barely holding on to a three point lead, up 13 - 10.

The dust has settled and the Browns are just barely holding on as one point favorites, but will it stay that way?

Georgia gained 259 yards (10.0 per play) and scored 20 points in its first four drives against Florida, then gained 155 (4.4) and scored three points afterward, barely holding on for a 23 - 20 win.

Remember, nuclei heavier than iron are so large that the strong force can barely hold on to their outer protons.

The single player mode is an utter mess, and the multiplayer can barely hold on its own.

The bar feels so heavy, sometimes you can barely hold on.

I was especially thankful for the fact that it doesn't require a constant charge after the Watch Style could barely hold on during the week of Google I / O.

Not exact matches

An exchange that used to house more than 5,000 traders shouting out their business now is a mostly docile habitat in which those still left on the floor quietly tap out orders on hand - held computers and barely make a peep at swift changes in market activity.

They hold less than 20 percent of the top roles on Wall Street and some of the largest banks have barely any women executives at all: Citigroup has none and JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley have just one each.

But on the whole, the poor in each nation are barely holding their own, and in many cases they are becoming poorer.

In poems such as «Adventures in New Testament Greek: Mysterion,» which muses on the inadequacy of» metaphor in the face of ultimate questions, we sense Cairns working out ideas and implications that he barely grasps, reaching toward mysteries that refuse to be fully held.

Everytime I make these, my kids are running to the kitchen, barely being able to hold on until the cool off before they take a handful of them and go back to playing.

Kentucky barely maintained its hold on second place in the Southeastern Conference when Guard Terry Mills» 25 - foot jumper, with 11 seconds to play, nipped Auburn 84 - 83.

Recap to the CP game we got shaky at the end trying to hold on, we were desparately lucky against liverpool, and we barely beat a 10 man Newcastle for crying out loud.

Holding the pose now, chin barely above the belt loops on Eaton's soaring khakis, this fellow flier evokes a thrilled tourist at the foot of the Empire State Building.

funny u could boldly defend his «hold - up» plays but could barely comment on his potency and wastefulness in front of goal!

The task won't be easy against a Baltimore team that leads the AFC North, but the teams faced similar scenarios last year, when the playoff - bound Ravens were in San Diego to face a barely - holding - on Chargers team in Week 15.

The Texans barely hold an edge over them, but do enough people have faith in Deshaun Watson to keep them on top of the odds list?

Whereas Bolles was blocking for a parade of barely competent QBs who routinely held the ball too long and having to deal with a terrible guard beside him and no TE help because our right tackles were so bad the extra protection almost always had to be on that side.

Sorry but Arteta should not start any game where Flamini is fit, if you even take the Newcastle game where he was brought on into a 1 - 0 lead situation, a situation thats supposed to suit him down to the ground as a holding player, and you barely see him mentioned for the twenty mins he was on, what has become of him?

Chances were scarce within the opening half hour of the tie; Palace winger Andros Townsend's early effort barely threatened to beat Joel Coleman who held on with comfort, before Tom Ince tried a speculative effort at the other end which was courageously blocked by a red and blue shirt on the edge of the area.

Barely one week after moving to Bournemouth on loan and Jack Wilshere has reportedly already held talks with Arsene Wenger over a possible contract extension at Arsenal.

I spent the summer in a dark room, barely large enough to hold a sink, a rocking chair, and the whooshing machine: a canary - yellow cylinder perched on a three - foot pole.

So literally, on the side of our toilet, we hook up a hose to the valve and it's got a spring handle at the end and so, I hold the diaper, the very tip barely with my finger tips and hold it over the toilet and I spray that poop straight into the toilet and then I just wrap up the soaking wet the diaper and right next to the toilet is where my diaper pail is.

They have held on to barely half the people who backed them at the last general election.

On the fringes of Manchester, the Labour party barely hung on to a seat it has always helOn the fringes of Manchester, the Labour party barely hung on to a seat it has always helon to a seat it has always held.

DiNapoli says on top of the budget barely holding together, there is going to be a negative impact from the storm.

During Mr. Hawkins's closing statement in the debate, he contrasted its singularity with the fact that seven debates had been held in the gubernatorial race in Connecticut, then added that this one «barely touched on the issues.»

A senator held up the budget agreement to alter rules on religious schools critics say barely teach English or math, but the change may backfire.

«I think the most likely scenario is that Michael Grimm wins the Conservative Party line and Donovan holds him off because of money and institutional support on the Republican line but barely and it will make it very easy for the Democratic candidate hopefully Max Rose to win in November,» Elkins said.

BRUSSELS — She had been on the job for barely a few hours, but during a 1 - hour chat with a dozen reporters yesterday the woman who will hold Europe's top science policy job for the next 5 years oozed self - confidence and a can - do attitude.

In contrast, Vivienne — her legs bowed, her knee joints extended — can barely take measured steps and, even then, only with the help of someone holding her hands or with something solid to lean on.

If you want to keep your things strictly stylish, then hold on, coz I can barely seem to hold my horses.

John Dies at the End, a horror comedy from writer / director Don Coscarelli (The Beastmaster, Phantasm, Bubba Ho - Tep), follows John (Rob Mayes) and David (Chase Williamson), college drop - outs who can barely hold out jobs, but who soon find themselves on a journey to save humanity from an otherworldly invasion.

Performances are uniformly not great; the whole thing takes place at night and even scenes inside the house are lit too dark; a PG - 13 rating holds back the violence, most of the action features a weird reliance on cheesy slow motion, and - perhaps the film's greatest misstep - the tech house angle is barely utilized.

Considering that eXistenZ is barely a decade old and is still held in high regard as a kind of modern cult classic, you'd think Echo Bridge would have had a bit more to work with on that front.

John Dies at the End, a horror comedy from writer / director Don Coscarelli (The Beastmaster, Phantasm, Bubba Ho - Tep), follows John (Rob Mayes) and David (Chase Williamson), college drop - outs who can barely hold out jobs, but who soon find themselves on a...

They barely register at first, as the camera holds on an extended shot of everyone in attendance — faces in a crowd of regular people preparing to enjoy a familiar, communal pleasure.

Specifically, she wanted to get on stage and sing, but was held back by the fact that she could barely warble a correct note.

Big ideas and well - backed programs end up affecting instruction barely at all, particularly the teacher - centered approach, which Cuban singles out as especially hard to dislodge (though he holds back from insisting on child - centered tactics as clearly superior).

A senator held up the budget agreement to alter rules on religious schools critics say barely teach English or math, but the change may backfire.