Sentences with phrase «people eking»

In the small villages around Pangandaran many people eke out a living producing traditional wares in their homes and an interesting half day tour can be made checking them out.

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The United States is turning into a nation of 1099 workers who eke out a living driving cars, renting rooms and running errands for people who apparently have better things to do with their time.

And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of Beth - eked, forty - two persons, and he spared none of them.

In human terms, this has a disastrous consequence for certain groups of people like the tribals, scheduled castes, traditional fishermen and such other groups who depend on them to eke out a living... They would also be torn away from their natural roots as well as from their community and cultural ties - producing in them a sense of isolation» (Quoted from ISA Journal Dec. 94).

As I sit down to write this, there are actual people of intelligence preparing to watch David Moyes» Sunderland take on Arsenal in the hope that the Mackems will eke out some kind of result.

The latest results, which were the outcome of the bye - election in Eke and Obioma wards, Udi Local Government Area, saw the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Ezeako Lawrence and Mr. Chijioke Ikechukwu, emerging as winners of the two seats contested.

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.

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.

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.

Since the population of cells down there is small, most people thought they would just barely be able to eke out a living, that they were organisms with very few capabilities.

That is, if you subscribe to the conventional idea that Stone Age people were uncultured nomads, eking out a subsistence living in the wild.

Already half its native fish are extinct, and the 30 million people who eke out a living from its troubled waters are facing calamity.

«There isn't a human alive today that can ever win a game anymore against the full program,» Schaeffer says — although he does leave open the possibility that a person could eke out a draw in the unlikely event that she played a perfect game.

One denizen eking his way along is Joe (Joseph Gordon - Levitt), a taciturn, serious fellow who works as a «looper,» meaning he whacks people the mob sends back from the future.

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).

Based on Ernest Gann's novel, this all - American disaster movie, about a passenger jet that ekes its way from Hawaii to California while basically running on fumes, features John Wayne doing what he does best: Giving people orders and saving the day.

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).

It also provides a small glimpse into the lives of these marginalized people painstakingly trying to eke out an existence.

The plot involves a stage magician struggling to eke out a living in a time when people simply have no time for such frivolous entertainment.

His newest customer is Nina Dunham (Andrea Riseborough), a television news reporter who sees a story in the lives of people like Kyle — runaways and abandoned young people who try to eke out a living performing sex acts on the Internet.

However, a subplot about a short - statured person (Peter Dinklage) eking out a living in an apartment basement by shooting porno seemed a little surplus to requirement!

With the GL350's turbocharged diesel V - 6 engine, the EPA says the GL will eke out 21 mpg on the freeway, which is perhaps one way to justify the use of such a massive and heavy vehicle as a people carrier, when for most owners a minivan, perhaps even Mercedes - Benz's own R - class, would suffice.

There were genre writers on both sides of the dispute, but on the publishing side were huddled the biographers, urban historians, midlist novelists — that is, all the people who were able to eke out a living because publishers still paid advances, acting as a kind of local literary bank, in anticipation of future sales.

Most people who write on a laptop turn it off and put it away when they're not using it, but retrieving it and turning it on wastes precious time when you have to eke out a few minutes of writing time.

Private lending is a great way for people in Barrie to eke more income.

People in Guelph are turning to real estate lending to eke an extra income as the industry continues to grow.

Starting from about 1000 B.C., the Samoyed has lived and worked side by side with the gentle, kindly people who managed to eke out an existence in the frozen areas of Siberia along the Arctic Circle.

Far too many people never do the math, and wind up overpaying for items just to eke out a few extra points.

With E3 looming and a cavalcade of big noisy announcements from established studios around the corner, it's easy to lose sight of the passion projects eked out by a five - person team with a tiny budget.

Focusing on global sociopolitical issues, Eke imitates social structures that bring people into negotiation and that foster connectivity.

People barely eke out a living.

Re climate and insightful solutions fer CO2 reduction, well yes, we need ter be wary of the definitive solution fer anything, but conservation farming is a useful contribution ter sequestering carbon from the atmosphere, improving crop yield and feeding people, especially «3rd world» communities that eke out a living by farming exhausted soils.

An enslaved and increasingly impoverished people cause massive deforestation in efforts to eke out an existence in socialist utopia.

Based on our testing of the G5 Plus, most people should be able to eke out a day and a half.

This was presumably set as the default option to eke out additional battery life and to be fair, most people probably wouldn't even notice it's not 2K.

This will likely surprise some people to know, but initial coin offerings (ICOs) are beginning to eke out a path as the preferred way for blockchain e...