Sentences with phrase «from scrappy»

From a scrappy and dispersed open studios festival, Brooklyn's — if not New York's — largest such event, Bushwick Open Studios (BOS), has grown to 161 locations, including 16 information hubs and hundreds of artists over a three - mile stretch of the nebulous neighborhood known as Bushwick.

Only YOU can take the remaining few on a journey from a scrappy band and turn it into an unstoppable army as you unlock Soulstones in each battle.

Set in the US but born in Britain, its evolution over the past two decades from a scrappy, pixelated love letter to crime cinema into a fully explorable, high - definition, living, breathing, society - satirising personal playground has created a medium all of its own.

bred for strength and endurance... herd farm animals... A pit bull is a scrappy terrier / bulldog mix... strength from the bulldog, endurance from the scrappy terrier... bred to not tire out, bred to please... unfortunately people took the please ur owner to another level.

After various tortured drafts drawn from my scrappy 2008 diaries, notebooks and In Contention entries — none of which looked sufficiently reflective or, frankly, right to me — I decided to dispense with notes entirely and start from scratch, using my memory as my sole resource.

Working from a scrappy, dialogue - heavy script by Anthony McCarten (The Theory of Everything), Wright brings a cinematic dynamism to every scene, even when confined to Churchill's chambers, underground war rooms and the halls of Parliament.

Will he straighten up via some tough love from a scrappy gym - owning coach (Forest Whitaker) and make a lucrative televised comeback?

Having Simmons around in Girlboss scratches the rom - com itch and lets him make his mark in the time he's given, while not taking away from the scrappy and motivated message of the show.

As Digicraft, I advise dating startups and investors ranging from scrappy startups to the world's top money managers.

In the decades since, the environmental justice movement has grown from a scrappy army of the poor and disenfranchised into a powerful coalition that united the mostly white and college - educated traditional environmentalists, trade unionists, blue - collar workers and residents of some of the nation's most contaminated neighborhoods.

Yet the company's growth from scrappy little studio to Hollywood mainstay kept threatening to throttle workers» creativity.

SEE ALSO: Chelsea Player Ratings From Scrappy 2 - 1 Win Over QPR: Diego Costa Poor, But Belgian Brilliance Wins It For The Blues.

The Braves will need to transition from scrappy, sorta - interesting team to legitimate contender soon.

DiscoverOrg's content strategist, Charity Heller, sat down with Schuck to ask about how he has handled DiscoverOrg's evolution in the marketing and sales intelligence industry, from a scrappy startup to the industry heavyweight.

On top of the funding, the company announced another addition that might prove to be an equally valuable asset in the long - run: Meg Whitman, the e-commerce pioneer that helped turn eBay from a scrappy start - up to an online behemoth with more than $ 9 billion in yearly revenues.

And most VCs — especially those with the big funding rounds startups need to go from scrappy newcomer to world domination — are white men.

The company is getting squeezed from both the enterprise and consumer sides, and it's going through a difficult transition from scrappy startup to a bigger company with more bureaucracy.

In this candid conversation, Shopify's Harley Finkelstein — one of the most influential and innovative young business leaders in Canada today — shares his experiences scaling Shopify from a scrappy startup to a world - leading provider of commerce solutions, covering, among other things, the key operational, strategic and culture components that differentiate truly great businesses from those that are merely good.

In a little over a decade, it had expanded from a scrappy upstart into a thriving outfit with dozens of employees, a database of 1,500 contractors and such industry giants as Lowe's, Home Depot and Canadian Tire as clients.

Ottawa - based Shopify has grown from scrappy startup to a multi-billion dollar company.

In the coming years, look for the role to grow exponentially as more established corporations take notes from the scrappier, more flexible startup companies.

Genetic material obtained from two pieces of parchment, one from the 1600s and one from the 1700s, show that sheep provided the paper's starting material and that over that century, a big shift occurred in the breed of sheep used in that part of the United Kingdom — from a scrappier, highlands, black - faced variety to a meatier, lowland breed.

For example, in a 2014 study of DNA from two pieces of parchment from the 1600s and 1700s, Collins's team showed that a big shift occurred in the breed of sheep raised in the midlands of the United Kingdom, from a scrappier, black - faced, highland variety to a meatier, lowland breed.

Oozing with personality, it explodes with a style and grace that one might not expect to come from the scrappiest corners of the galaxy.

Not exact matches

A small, scrappy company in Burlingame, California, is quietly rethinking the way the car sharing industry will function in the years to come — and it just got a big boost from one of Silicon Valley's premier VC firms.

Then, in April 2014, Schaaf and the scrappy Imgur team decided that bootstrapping was over: They accepted $ 40 million in investment (primarily from Andreessen Horowitz).

The inherent risk with such acquisitions is that the parent company swallows up the scrappy upstart into what food industry veteran Alan Murray calls «the machine» — a hidebound, groupthink corporate enterprise — rather than learning from its entrepreneurial culture.

His move from fine dining to scrappy upstart is emblematic of the direction many cooks are going today — ditching their pricey tasting menus and oh - so - serious kitchens for a chilled - out, affordable, and approachable style of dining.

Astro Teller, the head of X, had this to say in a statement about the new hire: «Under Mike's scrappy, entrepreneurial leadership, Loon moved from science project to viable venture, and Tom's valuable industry experience will help launch us into the commercial stage of this moonshot.»

Attacking Christianity We can say of many of the secondary lines of attack upon Christian dogma drawn from the modern sciences and modern critique that the interpretations offered of the evidence is never necessary, and that frequently the evidence itself is too scrappy and too little evaluated as fact to be worth considering.

The disruptive spirit of horrible airline company public relations has drifted briefly (very briefly) away from United and over to their scrappy, low - fare competition, Spirit.

: o) Jaime from crafty scrappy happy

It emerges blistered and tender from their glowing hearth and then placed atop a tangle of scrappy bread salad that soaks up the dripping juices as it makes its way to your table.

If we fail to get an early goal, this could well turn into a scrappy affair, but Theo Walcott loves to open up defences in midweek, and I can see him breaking through in the opening 45 minutes, and the game should be much more open from then on.

That's normally the kind of «scrappy» mentality that you see from future guards rather than tackles.

Roaring back from a two - game deficit, the scrappy Boston Bruins whipped the lordly Montreal Canadiens twice and threatened to turn the Stanley Cup series upside down

I don't really blame any of those players at all, first mistake from Wenger was his team selection and secondly wrong players in a wrong position,, its quite sad with all their mouths and boasting of starting the season strongly and aiming for the league just a waste of energy and wishful thinking, am putting the whole blame on Wenger, where is Belerin, why Ozil, Cazorla played out of positions, you should know their weaknesses and strength as a coach, why must we pass and pass to score a goal, many opportunities came from shooting distance but the players will always be looking for the next person to pass the ball to, its quite unfortunate that a big club like arsenal is relying on a scrappy Giroud to lead an attack of a team aiming to win the league.

When the regular season ended, the scrappy lot from Richmond got serious.

They might be able to make the playoffs if they dumped a few vets and went young and scrappy, but they'd still be short on elite talent and that would prevent them from contending.

In this scrappy city, in this contrary rivalry, the shift from green to blue can require more than a New York minute.

The third one before half time was a lot scrappier with Elneny's shot getting a massive deflection from a WSW defender to give the keeper no chance at all...

They've gone from looking like a scrappy team to a night off at this point in the season and they won't be keeping their draft pick this summer.

The Premier League is no stranger to scrappy goals, but this effort from Calum Chambers today may just take the biscuit.

The ball fell to him at the far post after a scrappy corner, with the Ireland international somehow skying it over the bar from practically under the crossbar.

Where the scrappy defensive back who nobody ever thought would make varsity finds his soul - mate in a cheerleader from neighboring Ygnacio Valley?

Marseille came within a whisker of taking the lead in the 42nd minute, Sarr hitting the woodwork with a scrappy volley from Mitroglou's knockdown, only to find themselves behind at the break.

Some scrappy defending from the Swedish helped them clear their lines and block a couple of shots in quick succession from the Ukrainian strikers as the sides went into the half deadlocked at 0 - 0.

An already physical game got even scrappier after that, but Arsenal stepped up their defending a bit and, for a time, kept Chelsea from adding to their tally.

Scrappy first - half goals from Federico Bernardeschi and Khouma Babacar put Fiorentina on their way, before an own goal from Tonel and Rossi's late strike sealed a 4 - 0 victory in Europa League Group I.

However, a goal on the strike of half - time gave Leicester hope courtesy of a scrappy goal from Shinji Okazaki to make it 2 - 1.