Sentences with phrase «run on a shoestring»

Coloni was now running on a shoestring (the entire team consisted of only six people!)

Pardew had consistently been let down by Mike Ashley selling off his best players, so he is running on a shoestring — he had no proper striker before Cisse came back.

Across the country in Los Angeles, the town that put the «bi» in bi-coastal, the Lasers» owner lets his 26 - year - old son run them on a shoestring.

All the Arsenal and Wenger critics conveniently forget that the club has been run on a shoestring budget in the last decade and lots of clubs that have spent much more have done much worse.

The Democrat was running on a shoestring, the Republican on a million - dollar check provided by the Republican Senate Campaign Committee.

One of the big questions that emerged from the 2012 White House race is whether down - ballot candidates running on shoestring budgets would ever have access to the same data and technology President Barack Obama used to target voters.

These were neighborhood private schools owned and operated by African Americans, often run on shoestring budgets, and often featuring Afrocentric or multicultural curricula.

I run on a shoestring budget.

There's not a lot of money to be made, and most small presses are labors of love run on a shoestring budget.

They're run on a shoestring,» says York University's Paul Axelrod.

«It's run on a shoestring and shown in a haphazard way in ministries and embassies, but what better way to open it to the public than at the Whitechapel Gallery in east London, in one of the most diverse communities in the country.»

If you look for the cause of that, you will find that the Earth Sciences at NASA are not just run on a shoestring, but on a shoestring that has broken and been tied in square notes many times.

Climate Hawks Vote runs on a shoestring budget, opting for phone banking and door - to - door campaigning instead of running more expensive print and broadcast ads.

This illustrateded one of the challenges facing the Legal Help Centre: running on a shoestring budget, lacking even the funding to purchase licenses for the necessary software, and relying on open source and freeware like Google docs applications instead.

Still, Canada was for a long period a provincial outpost, so any printing operations could be expected to be run on a shoestring with second - hand machinery.

Perhaps the most surprising thing I learned about Signal when I spoke with Moxie Marlinspike, the encrypted chat service's creator, last year at Disrupt, was that it was essentially running on a shoestring budget.

Not exact matches

«Sumner reached out to me and I needed capital, so I invited him to come by to see what we were working on,» said Freston, who at the time was running MTV on what he described as a shoestring budget.

Today's startups may take many forms: some are run as side hustles on shoestring budgets, while others may be backed by venture capitalists at multi-million dollar valuations even before a cent of revenue is generated.

The second mistake is to trade beyond one's financial resources, to try to run up a fortune on a shoestring» Bernard Baruch

She pays all her bills, but she also runs everything on a shoestring and lives humbly.

What annoys me is that the fans are milked dry yet Wenger runs the club on the shoestring.

This was despite being a political outsider and running only a regional campaign on a shoestring budget.

Though she ran her campaign on a shoestring and with scarcely any organizational support, Ms. Teachout was on pace to record the strongest challenge to an incumbent governor since primaries for the office were established in New York in 1970.

• Most candidates run for school board on a shoestring.

The Little Shop of Physics has been run forthe past sixteen years on a shoestring budgetof grants and donations.

Of course you can't run one on a shoestring, but they don't break the bank either if you are half competent with the spanners.

Even cherished examples will cost plenty to own, so although the Discovery 3 and 4 are brilliant cars, running one on a shoestring simply isn't an option.

Many are like the one Glogovac's son turned to — small, niche operations run by passionate people doing admirable work on a shoestring budget.

This resourceful approach to assisting artists resonates today in like - minded organizations such as Artist Curated Projects, West of Rome Public Art, Summercamp, and basically all the groups that participated in last year's Los Angeles Collective Show, an event showcasing the efforts of artist - run venues who do fantastic things, both inside and outside «art spaces,» on shoestring budgets.

And your excuse that you can't insert information about your funding and support on this site because you are running «on a shoestring on a public server» is frankly laughable.

Over the past 5 years, Lawyers for Literacy has raised more than $ 60,000 for WBYO, which runs pretty much on a shoestring budget of approximately $ 80,000 per year.

This year, I ran a successful software release on a shoestring budget.