Sentences with phrase «like scrappy»

From the first, it has played the game like a scrappy minor - leaguer — small and athletic.

I like the scrappy detail on your shirt.

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.

Their goal: to have their now - giant tech company feel once again like a scrappy startup, with Page focused on expanding the businesses and Brin touting their most ambitious projects.

Not exact matches

In a time when tech companies are starting to behave like industry giants of the past, taking their interests — and their money — to K Street to influence legislation (consider Mark Zuckerberg's immigration lobby), it seems natural that several of these scrappy sharing - based start - ups are beginning to band together.

Figuring that Monaghan and Inc 500 lions like him are a rare and fascinating breed, we sought their advice on behalf of the scrappy executives who grace this year's list.

It's like the sale of any startup to a major corporation: The new parent company offers valuable marketing and distribution muscle, but the scrappy upstart runs the risk of losing its soul.

How should you think about the relationship between established, large businesses and scrappy upstarts like the one you're trying to build?

The likes of Apple and Facebook were once scrappy start - ups battling to transform how we communicate and handle information.

But the question is whether T - Mobile would still have the incentive to be as scrappy after the merger — when it would look a lot like the big telecom providers it was forced to contend with as an aggressive upstart.

If you're like most HR pros, you're not only forced to be scrappy, you wear the label like a badge of honor.

Generally speaking, if your sales team feels like an easy close is just around the corner, they won't get scrappy and make it happen with the leads they've got.

In spite of all this, many Christians like to imagine themselves as the scrappy underdogs, bullied and oppressed for their faith yet bravely standing for their beliefs.

Most of us like to think of ourselves as the scrappy, beleaguered underdog for whom success is the result of hard work and a strong will to beat the odds.

Jesus desperately wanted us to know that His Father seeks the lost like a shepherd looking for His scrappy sheep.

Plays well in a scrappy game like this one.

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.

You're up against scrappy, die hard players who see this as the biggest game of their season, if not career, whilst playing with team members who are finding it hard to get motivated, having just been battling it out with the likes of Real Madrid and Juve days before.

We know how the scrappy veterans (much like Horford and Mook) can get away with punching, elbowing, pushing, stepping, grabbing against Gianni.

Jack was saying he's scrappy just like Baker.

Looks like Holtmann's been able to string together some scrappy guys to surround Tate and Bates - Diop.

We would have lost that match or get another scrappy draw with wilshere, who like running into other players spaces thereby affecting the team's fluidity.

He is ruthless, fearless, scrappy and energetic like Alexis Sanchez.

That's where the definition of world class comes in, players that drag their teams to scrappy wins like suarez scoring 2 free kicks in a match when he was at Liverpool, he dragged them most times then, like Messi does for barca, like hazard did for Chelsea seasons ago and he still does sometimes, that is what makes them legends, standing out and producing special moments that will be printed in our memories for life................

Rafa Benitez would have liked to play Casemiro for defensive solidity and it would have turned their 4 - 0 humiliation into a scrappy, closer game.

The 1900 match was scrappy, and (like earlier matches) was played with bandy sticks and a lacrosse ball.

At my firm, PR Hacker, we know a thing or two about how to spread ideas in scrappy and surprising ways: we're hired to help brands like Budweiser, Milk - Bone, Smucker's and Del Monte create marketing content that can spread quickly and «go viral.»

Like many other forms of social media outreach, blogger relations is usually cheap financially but expensive in time, a good fit for scrappy campaigns with more enthusiasm than cash.

Like many other forms of social media outreach, blogging and blogger relations are usually cheap financially but expensive in time, a good fit for scrappy campaigns with more enthusiasm than cash.

I like the notion of scrappy little underdog plants helping to transform the face of our planet.

Laughs If I Was on The Bachelor If You're Feelin» Really Gutsy... Scrappy Marathoner Get it Right [Grammar Edition] If I Owned My Own Gym The Day I Ran Next to Justin Timberlake Like Walking A Drunk Girlfriend to the Bar The Scar is So Worth It.

i like going to movies and out to eat.I have a dog names jake aka scrappy doo.

When it comes to the action sequences, director Peter Berg moves things along with blazing quick cuts and intense close - ups that rattle bones and get the adrenalin pumping as Beck and Scott face everything from Tarzan ju jitsu with Eddie Reyes, who sets The Rock flying like a big beefy whirligig, to a pack of scrappy monkeys with really, really bad attitudes, not to mention a grudge.

The second act feels like an entirely separate story from the first act, complete with a new map, a new villain, new allies, a new oppressive government, and a new scrappy rebellion.

Combat in Revolution is a criminally dull, scrappy affair, in which you either spam the enemy with your single melee attack combo — which can only be used once a timer has filled — or use special weapons, items and magic - like «ragnite» abilities to either damage or degrade the enemy, or buff you and your teammates.

Like Game of Thrones crossed with Braveheart but stripped of most of the budget, this scrappy film tells an intriguing story without the usual Hollywood bombast.

They Look Like People: Micro-budgeted and in a single location, THE LOOK LIKE PEOPLE is this year's testament to scrappy filmmakLike People: Micro-budgeted and in a single location, THE LOOK LIKE PEOPLE is this year's testament to scrappy filmmakLIKE PEOPLE is this year's testament to scrappy filmmaking.

The sharp rise of A24 reminds a lot of insiders of another scrappy upstart: Bob and Harvey Weinstein's Miramax, a bold disruptor with a penchant for edgy films like Pulp Fiction.

It feels like just yesterday that this addendum to the venerable Austin, Texas music gathering (which kicks off March 9th) began programming scrappy microbudget indies and a multitude of rock docs for curious visitors.

Like Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm or Matt LeBlanc in Episodes, the Irish actor Aidan Gillen plays an actor called Aidan Gillen in this scrappy, low - fi meta - musing on fame and life as a jobbing actor.

What could have easily felt like a cynical cash - in manages to retain a scrappy charm, undoubtedly due to the efforts of Boyega and Spaeny.

In terms of TIFF, 1992 was the year of scrappy, idiosyncratic mission statements like Reservoir Dogs and Bad Lieutenant and The Crying Game and Strictly Ballroom and Hard - Boiled and Jean - Claude Lauzon's brilliant Léolo.

The straight adventure doesn't glow like Pixar's emotionally meaty movies, but with eccentric characters and a scrappy heart — courtesy of NewsRadio - era Kids in the Hall alum Dave Foley — the movie has a taken - for - granted kid's movie quality: fun.

Thematically, Hollow feels more like a grungy Lifetime movie, with a hoodie - wearing gal uncovering small - town secrets the dickish townsfolk would much prefer she wouldn't, than a scrappy, indie potboiler.

It's encouraging to hear Douglas» enthusiasm for Ant - Man, as watching him get scrappy with the likes of Rudd, Pena, and Lilly was one of the great pleasures of Reed's film, which recently had a very promising debut in China.

Like many of its subjects, Revolutions is fierce, lovable and scrappy.

Following the success of the first Deadpool movie, Deadpool 2 has felt like a looming inevitability rather than a scrappy little franchise - that - could story of heart and determination.

«A dodgeball movie is uncharted film territory,» says Rawson Marshall Thurber, the film's writer / director, «but at the same time it inhabits the same tradition of great underdog movies like «Stripes,» «The Bad News Bears» and «Meatballs,» which follow an archetypal comedy framework: scrappy underdogs take on the socially, financially or athletically gifted and prevail against all odds.»

It's more organic in feel than before, flowing down roads that the old car often felt like it was taking in scrappy chunks.

It's the scrappy little fighters like Nook Color that start off trends.