Sentences with phrase «only scrounge»

When the city of Lillehammer could only scrounge up $ 289 million to foot the bill, the oil - rich Norwegian national government ended up bailing out the city with the rest of the $ 1 billion in order to avoid national embarrassment.

Dennis «Bones» Evers, a Colorado prepper, converted a conventional garden tiller into a completely solar - powered version, using only scrounged parts and taking about 6 hours to complete:

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There is only one way it could not be, and that is if you decide that it teaches that nihilism is the truth, revealed here by the pointless failure of Davis's career, so that his having to obtain abortions for women he impregnated is just another absurd, annoying, and energy - sapping aspect of that, his irrational guilt instincts causing him to have to scrounge for money, and so that his learning that one of these abortions didn't occur is just another sort of misfortune, saddling him with sentiments that he will have no way to really act upon (it is unlikely the that the mother of the child wants to see him), and probably causing him to draw some kind of superstitious karmic connection between a random coincidence of having hit a cat that looks just like one he abandoned, and his driving by the town his child may be living in.

Some of my favorite summertime childhood memories include walking barefoot through the small (and only) market in my beach hometown, buying real - fruit banana popsicles with change scrounged from the couch.

Wurden thinks his team has a shot at beating ITER to the break - even finish line, but only if he can scrounge up a little more cash.

I remember before I started blogging, scrounging for last minute ideas on dozens of «holiday gift guides», «gifts for her», «luxury gift ideas» and more — only to be recommended some cheap office do - dads, some kind of zen sandbox - thing, and other equally bazaar gifts that any normal human being would never consider owning in real life.

Keeping wine glasses and bowls at the ready keeps you from digging through your cabinets to scrounge up extras for your guests, and we fell in love with these gold - rimmed glasses that feel extra fancy, even if they were only $ 6 a pop!

She stops at a convenience store for donuts and beer (yeah...) and has to scrounge change from the car to pay for, even then only managing because the clerk takes pity on her obviously pitiable state.

In fact, the only way to teach dogs not to scrounge or worry at food in your hand is by using food in training.

Sure, you can pick up axes or shovels or such and use them to beat another player to death, but the fact of the matter is guns are the dominating force, their power only kept vaguely in check by having to scrounge ammunition as well.

Now if only i could scrounge up the $ 200K for the ticket.

Only small pockets of underground communities now exist, scrounging for a living by any means necessary, choosing stealth and silence over all out combat.

Unfortunately, those are the only details Droid Life could confirm, though it also scrounged up information regarding the new Google Daydream headset as well as a new device called the Google Home Mini.

I also took great satisfaction in the fact that I only purchased the natural decor on the top, and I scrounged around at thrift stores, made, or found among my collections, everything at this table.