Sentences with phrase «scrabbling for»

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But, on the other hand, Apple isn't some budget hardware maker pushing stuff out on a shoestring and scrabbling for a razor - thin profit margin.

That still leaves Microsoft as a small player, only now scrabbling for market share against the likes of Samsung and LG.

As much as I've talked up the Kickstarter site, most of the people I've mentioned it to — even those in the perpetual cycle of scrabbling for arts funding — have been unaware of it or its potential.

It allows the driver to hook into a turn on a wet road and accelerate without the wheels scrabbling for grip.

The basic principle is to deliver drive to the wheel with the greatest traction — particularly handy when you're powering up a tight mountain pass with tyres scrabbling for grip.

The electronics suite that includes hill descent control keeps things tidy in the rough, and you won't find the tyres scrabbling for grip at any point either.

It's rapid enough to have the low rolling resistance Michelin tyres regularly scrabbling for traction.

Mind you, the sensations you feel driving this car hard are only magnified with the top down — the air whooshing past, the engine wailing behind your ears, the squeaks and squeals of the nearby tires scrabbling for grip as your rocket into and out of turns.

In the wet, the car stood still today on a hill with the front wheels scrabbling for grip.

Firstly, you would only hear «tyre squeal» if the vehicle is losing (or at least scrabbling for) grip during the braking period.

Seamless changes and torque and grip that leaves boy racers left scrabbling for grip at the lights.

Director: Ben Wheatley Cast: Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Armie Hammer, Sharlto Copley, Michael Smiley, Jack Reynor, Sam Riley, Babou Ceesay Plot: An arms deal goes wrong, causing a bloody shoot - out, where everyone finds themselves scrabbling for their lives.

Not everybody's so lucky: Reeve Carney's Dorian is even more adrift this season, and Rory Kinnear's Caliban seems to be scrabbling for angst in the face of Vanessa's much bigger problems.

But every time things get too grand and epic, John Maclean reminds us that while the western landscapes are magnificent, the humans scrabbling for possession of them most definitely are not.

Here, they don't even have anywhere to run / / to / /, and the desperate scrabbling for some Donkey / Puss action results in something that's less of a brainwave than a mind - ripple: as the result of a misfired spell, they... swap... bodies!

Scrabbling for Words That was the first part of the experiment.

Despite several more years scrabbling for Premier League survival they were finally relegated in 2011/12 since when the club has encountered financial difficulties, an HMRC winding - up order and the ignominy of further relegation to League 1.

They scrabble for weapons.

I don't see how any true fan can be happy about the situation we are in The club goes backwards each year but still fans on here and other social media outlets think that the club are doing great, how can you be happy when we see the same thing year in year out, scrabble for 4th, get champions league place, scrabble out the group then get turned over by the next big team For me this is not how a big club should be run (7th richest club in world football) Why don't we act like it.

The scrabble for fourth place in a seat Labour was never likely to win is not a disaster, it's a disappointment.

The consequence of this is to pit services for men and women against each other in an unseemly scrabble for cash, not to mention salami - slicing those much needed resources for women, robbing Petra to pay Paul.

Enticed by this prospect, the community made an unofficial decision to back the collider rather than scrabble for funding of other potential facilities.

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Super Bowl week is always a hard scrabble for movie players, but it doesn't have to be a complete dead zone.

Sometimes out of tight bends, as the front begins to scrabble for grip, the rear gets sent some torque and you can begin to feel the back axle faintly push you round the corner.

Go into a corner a bit faster than you should've and yes, the front tyres will scrabble for grip while going straighter than you intended.

There was little opportunity to test any off - road capabilities out, but even in greasy conditions, the 3008 kept its nose into a bend and didn't scrabble for grip.

As an all - seasons car, the four - wheel drive version of the Vitara is a practical choice — it might not climb a mountain or cross a river like the Land Rover Defender, but it's perfectly capable of crossing a muddy field or finding traction on icy roads where two - wheel - drive cars would scrabble for grip.

The four - wheel drive system does sometimes scrabble for grip, but that's more down to the road - biased tyres, and on the whole it gives you confidence to push the car some way off the beaten track.

The most influential car show in the US attracted the great and the good of the global car industry to Motor City and the big brands performed their usual scrabble for the limelight.

Without it, the car requires more patience with the accelerator as it scrabbles for traction when pressing on too soon.

Accelerate hard out of a corner and the tyres scrabble for traction as the car washes wide.

Even with the XDS electronic differential lock doing its best to stop wheelspin, the inside front tyre does tend to scrabble for traction on the way out of corners.

The scene where boys are forced to scrabble for fake coins on an electrified rug!

«The book industry had a steady increase of costs without an increase in sales,» says Miller, analyzing how conglomeration caused publishing giants to scrabble for the same blockbusters, driving advances higher.

The scene is set in the far future, on an Earth reclaimed by nature, where human tribes scrabble for survival in the shadows of vast mountains and the remnants of long - lost civilisation.

The two billion people on the planet who lack a light bulb or scrabble for firewood for cooking or heat (sometimes getting into knife fights in the process) need affordable, convenient energy sources now — whether from a solar panel or biogas, or from a conventional power plant or propane tank.

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Coming Clean by Seth Haines:: Coming Clean is not simply a book for alcoholics; it's a book for anyone who has dealt with pain and been left scrabbling after God when their coping mechanisms fail or easy answers run out.

The scrabbling nervousness, the claustrophobic feeling of being known, that I am so familiar with, the urge to pack and move and start over and over and over, rises up now and then for me, still.

I mean apparently you two make a great couple of theists... I didn't want to use the A.... save it for scrabble... on me...

We had my parents and older brother over for dinner for Naan Bread Pizza (my favourite), followed by a rousing game of scrabble, watched I, Frankenstein, and ate vanilla cupcakes my mum made from one of your recipes.

So the like of Chelsea, City and United are likely to be top 3 with a few others scrabbling around for the top 6 places with an eye on the prized top 4.

With hours left in the transfer window we appear to be scrabbling around for scraps.

I'm loathed to predict a cup run, because I feel that is something you do when you realise the league isn't going to go your way and you're scrabbling around for an alternative hope to cling to, i.e. the sort of thing Spurs and Liverpool do.

The mornings might still be early but at least don't involve scrabbling around for water bottles and trainers and we have time to play tennis and football in the garden, devour endless ice creams and picnic to our hearts content.

There'll be no more scrabbling about looking for keys - everything stays perfectly in place and easy to find.»

That's not the way our grown - up, classical world seems to work, and physicists have been scrabbling around for the best part of a century to explain the puzzling mismatch.

The mouse scrabbles at the sides of the cylinder for a few seconds and performs the traditional perimeter survey, searching for a way out.

We'd both made our way out of the laboratory not by any glorious trumpet call to our real careers but by scrabbling around for other means to exist.