Sentences with phrase «eking so»

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

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So far rivals have not shown an ability to take advantage of Bloomberg's missteps; the company has continued to eke out additional market share even as its terminal sales have slowed to 1 % annual growth the past two years.

So what we have actually seen is a very aggressive releveraging, overleveraging, of the global debt markets in order to eke out the economic growth that we have seen.

But, as with other classical figures Eke Luther and Calvin, Wesley reveals another side which is illustrated in his dealing with problems of chronology, his understanding of the biblical use of non-biblical sources, his judging of much of the Psalms as «unfit for Christian lips,» and so on.

We try to be virtuous enough to eke our way into the Kingdom — should there prove to be one — but our righteousness is lived so as not to squander this life's pleasure potential in case there is no Kingdom.

But am I just human enough to not be able to fully comprehend heaven and, therefore, be afraid of saying goodbye to my sweet wife, daughters, friends, homebrewing, crisp fall air, laughing so hard I cry, happy little existence that I've eked out?

It took me so long to eke out a few tortured words.

But the weather is still hot, so I'm eking out a few final light and summery salad recipes before we start looking to cold weather recipes like soups and stews.

not just that the motivation is missing but the same weaknesses fans have been talking about for three years are still plain to see... we might even eke a win today but so f ****** what he does nt have a top team that can win shit still

So another weekend brings another massive must - win Arsenal game, as the Portugese bus conductor brings his Man United side to the Emirates to try and eke out a 0 - 0 draw.

So he stayed in Scooba, eking out a living for his family, hunting and fishing, developing offenses that big - city coaches would make fashionable a generation later, and driving his players, whom he tricked out in skull - and - crossbones helmets and short - sleeved jerseys he designed himself.

So what if Auburn wins its other two regular - season games, ekes out a «W» over the Tide in the Iron Bowl and grabs a victory in the SEC championship?

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.

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.

So, if Democrats do manage to eke out a win here, I think it's a safe assumption that Felder could very well be back in play.

«We also appeal to our teachers and school administrators to redouble their efforts so as to cover the second term academic calendar,» Eke said.

«I stayed in Zawe Superata, this place is like an exit point to Italy and so many Nigerians are still being imprisoned there,» Eke alleged.

If so, life could possibly eke out an underground living much like the hardy microbes that surround Earth's hydrothermal vents.

Found - footage has been one of the quickest ways to sit back and make a few bucks thanks to its low production cost that basically guarantees a profit if you release it on enough screens and while As Above, So Below will probably end up eking a small return, it definitely pales in comparison to the successes we've seen in recent years, and audiences should be thanking themselves for that.

If Moore wasn't so in front, and if Cotillard's surprise win didn't please anyone, Witherspoon could have eked out a win.

First - time screenwriter Jason Filardi (Drum, 17 Again) does provide for an interesting premise for a movie, but the situations are far too contrived to be believable, so we are forced to go along with more than a fair share of implausibility to eke out whatever laughs the film has to provide.

The Eco setting is so desperate to eke out every possible bit of efficiency it feels extremely slow to react; Sport on the other hand is way too enthusiastic to hold onto revs.

The SE and XLE are more expensive and heavier, so eking out every last tenth of a mile per gallon isn't the priority.

Doing so didn't seem to hurt our overall fuel economy, surprisingly, with the Elantra eking out one more mile per gallon to 33 combined during a week of mixed driving — pretty impressive.

Some power is cut in the Atkinson cycle, but the computer brain calls it into operation when full potency is not needed, so it's one more clever trick eking out mildly improved fuel economy short of hybridization which produces even better gains.

The S&P Municipal Bond Puerto Rico Bond Index has barely eked out a positive return so far in 2015.

This is the very reason why my colleagues and I focus so diligently on «the little things» like fee and tax minimization or eking out a bit more return in a portfolio.

I loved the feeling of subterfuge that eked out of brown walls, low lighting, brown upholstered chairs and banquettes — it's classic art deco and so so swanky.

Doing so allows you to eke out a full 1 cent per point compared to other options — such as the 0.5 cents / point conversion rate you'd get when using your rewards for cash back or statement credits, for example.

It manages to bring that survivor feeling of eking out an existence that the single player does so brilliantly, this time with 3 other players.

PH is all about sweating the details to an extreme degree so as to eke out every possible Btu and kWh of energy conservation.

Warmest year, day or month is a political issue more than a scientific issue or they wouldn't be picking favored data sets or spending so much time trying to eke out hundredths of degrees.

Obviously, Squillante thinks he can eke some monetary benefit from winning, enough so that it's worth putting up a substantial amount of money to buy votes.

You can actually eke out several more days of use in this mode, so if you forget your charger on a long trip, your watch won't turn into a useless brick.

But you don't use your phone that way, so you can dial down the brightness and decrease the timeout period to eke a bit more time out of your battery.

Even if you're down to a few ticks on your battery, turning it on will eke out enough so the watch will still tell time until you get to an outlet.

But simply putting a quality sensor inside a phone isn't a recipe for success — see practically every Sony phone released in the past four years — so it remains to be seen whether BlackBerry Mobile has managed to eke a win, but the IMX378 alone is a good start.

With fewer processes running, the battery takes less of a hit, so if you lose your Android tablet down the back of the sofa for a few days it shouldn't have run out of juice by the time you find it again - Google says devices can eke out up to twice as much battery life with Doze enabled.

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.