Sentences with phrase «scrapheap by»

An otherwise entirely forgettable tablet, Tesco's Hudl 2 is rescued from history's scrapheap by virtue of its stonking value - for - money.

Not exact matches

Then there was a week ago at Indianapolis, the site of his last Cup victory, when he clearly had the superior car before a bobble by quasi-teammate Martin Truex Jr. on a restart sent both crashing and turned the No. 18 Toyota into a mangled mess destined for the scrapheap.

And yet this is the same government that passed an emergency budget that could put more than a million workers on the scrapheap, that jacks up a VAT that lands heaviest on those who are the most hard - up, that floats shrinking some public services by up to 40 % — that almost gleefully drops the guillotine of cuts on the necks of the poor.

Every time the kid looks at a field of numbers and symbols that start jiggling across a screen to clicky music, but not jiggling as fast as his brain, he's exiling the kind of hero played by Willis to the scrapheap of history.

To the chagrin of the seasoned and artificially maintained models Gigi (Bella Heathcote) and the more neurotic Sarah (Abbey Lee), who are already facing the scrapheap in their early twenties, Jessie's natural look and virginal glow is the source of the magnetism instantly recognized by a cynical booking agent (Christina Hendricks), a vampiristic photographer (Desmond Harrington), and a salivating designer (Alessandro Nivola).

Saved from the scrapheap, this special unit has been brought out of retirement by ARIA to enforce her will... and Kilgore obeys.