Sentences with phrase «eked out»

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

One of the brightest lights in our universe has eked out its final flicker.

Those remaining behind eked out an existence on the land.

Pereira - Smith eked out a B in the class.

According to Mr. Meyer, one of the best grad students in the recent history of UCLA eked out his bachelor's degree with a 2.2 GPA.

Battleground District: GOP Sen. Frank Padavan eked out a narrow win in 2008, fueling Democratic hopes of ousting the veteran lawmaker this year.

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.

Former Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi has eked out a victory to replace the retiring Rep. Steve Israel in New York's 3rd Congressional District.

The tenth is a House veteran, Rep. Darrell Issa (Calif.), who barely eked out a victory in an increasingly competitive San Diego - area district.

While a Republican mayoral candidate won the borough in last year's general election, President Barack Obama eked out a victory there two years ago.

In the Bronx, Ms. Mark - Viverito eked out a reed - thin 11 - vote win over runner - up Ralina Cardona while fending off challengers by larger, but still uncomfortable, margins in Manhattan.

The real tossup is in Wawarsing, where Republican Craig Lopez eked out a 15 - vote victory over tireless Tim Distel.

Recall that Gallo, brother of the late mayor T.R. Gallo (mayor 1994 - 2002), eked out a primary victory over a one - term alderman by seven votes.

Woolf defeated Stefanik in two counties — Clinton and Essex, his home turf, where he eked out single - digit margins.

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

But the paper - thin margin in the primary — Gallo ended primary night down by six votes and eked out a 708 - 701 victory 13 days later on the strength of absentee ballots — shows a Democratic party that is deeply divided.

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

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.

Meanwhile, Democrat Robin Lois eked out a win by less than 1 percentage point over Republican incumbent Jim Coughlan for Dutchess County comptroller.

In the Finger Lakes, Canandaigua Supervisor Pam Helming appears to have eked out a 32.2 percent to 30.5 percent win against Floyd Rayburn in a five - way primary to replace Sen. Mike Nozzolio.

Ward 3 — Democrat Brad Will eked out a slim win over Andy Champ - Doran, a Democrat running on the Republican line, 329 - 290.

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.

Lindsay eked out a victory on the Liberal Party line, besting Marchi and the conservative Bronx Democrat Mario Procaccino.

Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) eked out a victory over Iraq war veteran Jesse Kelly (R) in a costly and contentious congressional campaign last November.

But in Mr. Silver's old Assembly district in Lower Manhattan, voters chose Alice Cancel, a Democrat, who eked out a win over Yuh - Line Niou, a Working Families Party candidate who had pegged Ms. Cancel as a creature of Mr. Silver's machine.

Mr. DioGuardi eked out a narrow victory in a sleepy race — a sign, campaign analysts said, of the formidable odds facing Republicans as they try to unseat Ms. Gillibrand, an upstate Democrat who has made inroads with centrist voters.

Two more «yes» voters — Sens. Mark Grisanti and Steve Saland — both of who won their Sept. 13 GOP primaries (or, in Saland's case, eked out a victory)-- will face continued opposition from so - called «values voters» in the November general election, McGuire pledged.

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.

And since Latimer eked out a 2014 victory over a complete unknown, I'd say the targeting is spot on and I'll be very happy to see him go.

The Foxes have eked out seven points in their last three EPL appointments and will be very disappointed to come away from Goodison with anything fewer than three points.

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.

It was another massive win for the Reds in the race for the top four, as they eked out a 1 - 0 victory.

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.

Under Mourinho, Chelsea eked out wins like no other team in the league.

In other news, MLB on FOX eked out a narrow increase in viewership over the weekend, and a heavy slate of MLB games mostly declined on ESPN.

However, he could be eked out by Bergeron, who is looking to win his 4th Selke.

The Tide lost their composure in the second half against Auburn, fell by 12, and barely eked out a Playoff bid because of it.

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.

The 2014 team that was winning, but not impressing the numbers, eked out a Playoff bid with seven one - possession wins (five against teams that went 8 - 5 or worse) but got embarrassed.

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.

Would Leicester, trailing Spurs by six going into the last five or six games have eked out those 1 - 0 wins?

This was basically a reversion to 2015 form, only Tulsa took on a lighter slate that year, won its close games, and eked out a bowl bid.

The Islanders eked out their 4 - 4 tie with Calgary on Butch Goring's goal with 21 seconds left.

As it stands Golovkin's only wins of real note are an eked out uninspiring decision over Danny Jacobs and what should've been a close win over Canelo Alvarez.

Few managers could have eked out continuous top 4 UCL qualification on a zero spend.

They eked out a mnumber of narrow but critical 1 - 0 wins.

But Blair calmly plunked in two free throws, and Providence eked out its 14th straight 77 - 76.

No. 4 Ohio State survived over No. 20 Michigan by a 26 - 21 margin in 2012, eked out a 42 - 41 win over the unranked Wolverines in 2013, and lost their starting quarterback to injury and nearly derailed their College Football Playoff prospects in a 42 - 28 win in 2014.

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.

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.