Sentences with phrase «scraping by at»

The Frenchman has been in fine form since being reinstated, but you could argue that his inclusion has had a knock - on effect on the rest of our team, and we seem to be scraping by at present.

If you're itching to play Lego games then it's not a complete failure as it manages to scrape by at being a reasonable game to play.

Where else can someone who is working at unskilled things like serving tables, washing dishes, driving a delivery truck, working at an auto assembly plant or other factory, telemarketing at some boring office or who is otherwise working at any minimum wage job due to a lack of education and / or meaningful real - life experience etc., get to go to real estate classes (hoping that a few months thereafter to be guiding uneducated consumers through the most expensive and most important financial transactions of their lives in trade for big fat commissions) often with a minimalist education (maybe just scraped by at that after multiple attempts to pass grade ten or eleven) and expect to instantly be labelled a professional operative upon passing the real estate courses» exams via penning memorized responses to forewarned - about - exam - questions by instructors who need to display a suitable passing percentage of students to keep their part - time teaching jobs?

Not exact matches

Benenson, who says he is a lead data engineer at Kickstarter, barely skated past his funding goal, scraping by with just $ 176 extra dollars.

Facebook says it believes most of its 2.2 billion users had their public profile information scraped by businesses or various malicious actors through this technique at some point.

Facebook also said that most of its 2 billion users probably had their data scraped by «bad actors» at some point.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

Especially if you're scraping by, take a close look at the fee schedule before you open an account.

Royce scraped by financially at Berkeley on scholarships, managing to graduate at the top of his class in 1875.

Yet many who found Dr. Gruber's condescension akin to fingernails scraping down a blackboard were even more appalled by a paper Gruber wrote in 1997, which came under scrutiny during a recent congressional hearing at which the MIT professor was a witness.

Add the water and deglaze the pot by scraping up all the brown bits at the bottom of the pan.

By stirring the puree with the whisk you can push the puree through and scrape the bottom of the sieve at the same time.

Followed by vanilla and salt Mix in baking soda and flour a bit at a time (be sure to scrape sides intermittently) Finally stir in rainbow sprinkles.

Check it at the thirty minute mark by pulling one out and scraping the flesh with a fork.

Next deglaze the pan by pouring in the red wine, a little bit at a time, stirring well to incorporate and remove any lumps, scraping the brown bits off the bottom of the pan (these babies are full of flavor!)

Make sure the beef bones are covered by at least four inches of water: As the stock reduces, you want to be able to skim impurities from off the top of the liquid without scraping the ladle on the bones.

Arsenal have just about managed to scrape by so far, but do you think we can somehow get through the next month or so until Wenger can bring in at least one decent defender?

You keep scraping around at the bottom of that barrel — you must have hit rock bottom by now with that ludicrous statement — with Podolski we could have been top of the PL!!!!?? Come on, tell us you are joking....

He cleared the propeller, came up at mid-hull, scraped along the keel and emerged beyond the bow, unseen by Fisherman Kingsley and Mate Kunewa, who were saying last rites for him on the stern.

Although the team has not been firing on all cylinders we have been creating the chances and have been scraping by in all our wins, but as Theo Walcott says, it is getting the points that matter at this stage of the season.

And away, LFC away, Swansea at home, Norwich, Stoke, these are just games off the top of my head lol all these dropped points, if we had just managed to scrape a win here and a draw there, we would be top by now!

This season his «accusations» could be levelled at just about every team including Chelsea who went out of FA Cup and the CL, City who ARE evidently bottling it on every level and Utd who are scraping by with occasional performances but out of all competitions.

Man city have a squad that we can only dam of, I'm negative because Im tired of scraping through and yet paying more than any other fans for my season ticket, im fed up with hearing bullsh!t from our manager, had enough of losing by embarrassing score lines to clubs that have more ambition than us, Im annoyed at haring about players that became world wide successes that Wenger turned down or could have got but didn't, I hate that there's never any positive news on Arsenal, and most o all I am gutted that we have only on one tropy in ten years and ta its not sowing any ign of improving but plenty of signs of going backyards.

Burnley are surviving off their home form and were boosted by that victory over Middlesbrough on Monday and somehow the Clarets are scraping out the results at home and it is going to have appeal on them doing that again.

By this reckoning either us as fans are Insane expecting anything different In Wenger and the boards transfer policy or they are expecting their transfer policy to deliver anything else but the now customary scrape with them at the over end of the Seven Sisters road for 4th place.

In front of a disappointing crowd of 4,040 at Ulsan Munsu Football Stadium, Shanghai SIPG managed to scrape by with a 1 - 0 win over Ulsan Hyundai.

Borini was first booked for throwing the ball away in frustration at a decision by Oliver, and four minutes later the Italian scraped his boot across Cazorla's chest for a second yellow.

By their standards, tuna scrape is suitable only for pet food, which is at least cooked to kill pathogens.

For a single mother at the poverty level, who scrapes by on just $ 14,700 per year, formula could suck up roughly a quarter of her monthly income.

Minor first aid issues like bumps and scrapes can be taken care of at home, but if baby has a severe fever, is vomiting non-stop, or has developmental issues that need to be addressed by a professional, mom should do what is necessary.

When you remodel one of these homes, by adding on a new room, scraping off paint, or tearing down a wall, etc., you may disturb lead paint and it may put your child at risk for lead poisoning.

IMAGINE if cancer could be kept at bay by killing off precancerous cells every few months, much as dentists scrape away plaque to prevent tooth decay.

The data show «why you can have people at universities where the university ranks 30th or 40th in total NIH funding coming in, and they feel like they're barely scraping by,» Pickett says.

Cleaning oil spills could be as easy as scraping frosting off a cake, thanks to a nanoparticle coating developed by Philip Brown and Bharat Bhushan, engineers at the Ohio State University.

It may be that what does survive down there is scraping by on a larder that is virtually bare, effectively pushing at life's lower limits.

The paper by Goldston, a top scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and former director of the Laboratory, showed that the width of the scrape - off layer depends on how rapidly plasma moves across the magnetic field — due to well - understood classical «drifts» — as it flows into the divertor chamber.

Add the water and deglaze the pot by scraping up all the brown bits at the bottom of the pan.

I'm sure my hairdresser gave me a temporary face lift by scraping my hair back really really tight, and then of course there was the obligatory can of hairspray to make sure a single hair didn't come astray during the day — as for taking the hair down at the end of the day don't even go there!

We also added up in the Master out at the Island a wider plank that is softly scraped by Mohawk with more of satin sheen at http://www.mohawkflooring.com/hardwood-search/Brookedale%20Soft%20Scrape%20Uniclic/Country%20Natural%20Hickory/ in the natural.

The makeshift family scrapes by, living one hustle at a time, until the discovery of a mobile home community offers an alternative life.

Lady Bird is «from the wrong side of the tracks», which means that unlike the rich kids at her Catholic school, her family is scraping by on mum's nurse's salary.

The screenplay by director George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, and Nick Lathouris scrapes away at the distracting tissue of a barebones plot until only the marrow remains.

The front brakes are enormous six - piston Brembos (the brand favored by Ferrari) shielded by even more enormous 20 - inch wheels that will instantly get scraped at the McDonald's drive - thru.

I scraped it off the blade by hand, cursing at the delay.

What happened to photography is about to happen to writing — it's going to go from a field where a select few, selected almost at random by publishers, could make a decent living, to one where a much larger number of people can just scrape out a poverty - level wage if they really work at it.

When you have already cut corners and are barely scraping by, saving any money at all can seem impossible.

Robert @ The College Investor writes Things Not to Spend Money on in College — At a young age your money is worth a lot more than when you're old because of how long it can work for you; invest it wisely and it will grow rapidly, squander it on frivolous things and you'll end up barely scraping by your whole life.

At a young age your money is worth a lot more than when you're old because of how long it can work for you; invest it wisely and it will grow rapidly, squander it on frivolous things and you'll end up barely scraping by your whole life.

Option B: Don't care to invest or manage money until late in life, barely scrape by from paycheck to paycheck, and finds yourself miserable at work... You don't have the option of just saying, «screw it.

By scraping the bacteria under the gumline with this special instrument we take care of the problem at its core.