Sentences with phrase «eking by»

To put that in perspective, that's the lightest 10 - inch tablet in the world, and it's the thinnest tablet period (just eking by the iPad mini's 7.2 mm frame).

He says he's been eking by on $ 1,120 a month from his job working for a law firm on Court Street in Brooklyn, plus another $ 2,270 a month from pension and other benefits - and $ 1,100 of that money goes to paying alimony and restitution.

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

They eked by No. 6 Purdue, 14 - 10, in late - October, then shut down No. 4 Notre Dame in a 12 - 3 win to finish the regular season.

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

Doolittle eked by little - known challenger Charlie Brown (D) in 2006, despite the strong Republican nature of this northeastern California district.

The slightly lighter front - wheel - drive model ekes by with a four - star overall rating, but the differences are minute and require a lengthy study of the NHTSA's findings.

Not exact matches

European stocks eked out slight gains by the close on Tuesday as political concerns eased and investors digested new data releases.

By the time Waugh became CEO, Scotia had eked out just a 3 % share of the wealth - management market in Canada, the smallest of the Big Five banks.

Even if the stay supporters eke out a narrow victory, the sentiment stirred by the vote could stiffen the growing resistance to control from Brussels.

Global growth is seen rising 3.4 percent next year, with China slowing to a 7 percent annual pace, Europe expanding by 1.2 percent and Japan eking out 1 percent gain in GDP.

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

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.

The savings such austerity measures are supposed to achieve will be upstaged by the dwindling revenues eked out by a shrinking economy.

By the closing bell, the S&P MidCap 400 managed to eke out a 0.2 % gain.

Has life on earth labored along for two or three billion years in lonesome struggle eventually to eke out by accident the human species which has to gather itself together in various fragile social arrangements in order to protect itself from the intolerable muteness of the universe?

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.

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.

Cleveland won the Finals by the skin of its teeth with LeBron and Kyrie just eking out enough points.

Shawn Elliott's first Panther team thrived in close games, beating Coastal Carolina, South Alabama, Georgia Southern, and Texas State each by one possession and eking out bowl eligibility despite playing only 11 games.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Also interesting to note: Kwatra played a key role in helping Sen. Eric Schneiderman eke out a victory in the five - way Democratic AG primary, landing 34 percent of the vote to the 32 percent received by his closest competitor, Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice.

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.

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

Our manual water - maker broke on day 88, and by eking out our emergency supply we finished with three days of drinking water left.

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

Democratic strategist Jim Manley, a former spokesman Senate Democratic Leader Harry ReidHarry Mason ReidMcConnell not yet ready to change rules for Trump nominees The Hill's Morning Report — Sponsored by CVS Health — Trump's love - hate relationship with the Senate Trump to press GOP on changing Senate rules MORE (Nev.), said he believes Clinton will ultimately eke out a victory in Nevada because the state is «tailor - made for her» with its large population of minority voters.

Tragedy struck on Saturday 26th of August as three persons met their untimely death during a protest by Owerri natives following the demolition of the Eke Onunwa market by Imo state government.

In 2014, Slaughter almost lost re-election, eking out a win by less than 1,000 votes.

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.

These same police operatives shot and killed protesters in Owerri few months back when the people resisted the demolition of Eke Ukwu market by the Governor Rochas Okorocha's administration.

This was contained in a statement by the Deputy Director, Public Relations 82 Division, Nigerian Army, Enugu, Col. Sagir Musa, entitled «The objectives of exercise Egwu Eke 11 (Python Dance II).

Speaking through a press release issued in Enugu and jointly signed by its President, Mr. Val Eke and Secretary - General, Mr. Agbo Ngwu, BEYA enumerated the numerous undoing of the Sullivan Chime led administration in the State which, it noted, has led to massive debilitating of the influence of the State and an impoverishment of its people.

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.

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.

«Anyone concerned about keeping down the cost of Trident should surely welcome attempts to eke as much life out of the existing warhead by modifying it rather than going straight for a replacement,» he said.

Researchers speculate that primitive life could eke out an existence there, subsisting on a bare minimum of dissolved organic carbon — a notion bolstered by the recent discovery of bacteria within refrozen ice in a core drilled to 100 meters above the lake under Vostok Station (ScienceNOW, 9 December 1999).

This is also why levodopa — the chemical building block of dopamine — is the go - to drug for PD: giving the surviving dopamine - producing neurons more building blocks allows them to eke out more dopamine, going a long way toward correcting the subset of PD symptoms that are caused by loss of dopamine - producing cells (particularly in the early stages of the disease).

That could be the ground being prepared by her to win your sympathy and eke some money out of you.

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.

Clever, kindhearted Kubo (voiced by Art Parkinson of Game of Thrones) ekes out a humble living, telling stories to the people of his seaside town including Hosato (George Takei), Hashi (Cary - Hiroyuki Tagawa) and Kamekichi (Academy Award nominee Brenda Vaccaro).

THE RED TURTLE France, 2017 North American Premiere, 81 min Director — Michaël Dudok De Wit A castaway ekes out an existence on a deserted tropical island guarded by an enigmatic red tortoise in this magnificent animated fable from the imagination of acclaimed Dutch animator Michael Dudok de Wit (FATHER AND DAUGHTER) and produced in part by the legendary Studio Ghibli.

Clever, kindhearted Kubo (voiced by Art Parkinson of «Game of Thrones») ekes out a humble living, telling stories to the people of his seaside town including Hosato (George Takei), Akihiro (Cary - Hiroyuki Tagawa), and Kameyo (Academy Award nominee Brenda Vaccaro).

A new society has been built by a hand of ruthless opportunists, who live in luxury in the towers of a skyscraper, high above the less fortunate citizens who must eke out a hard life on the streets below.