Sentences with phrase «scraping by on»

There are tons of people who are just scraping by on on $ 100,000 a year.

This means that for those of us who have been scraping by on the Core, Arcade or 4 GB Xbox models, this might just be the best time to update.

And Elvin, new to New York City, finds himself barely scraping by on the streets, utterly alone and locked out of his apartment after his grandfather is mysteriously attacked.

Retired from the rodeo circuit and scraping by on piecework as a bounty hunter, warrant server, and divorce snoop, Rodeo doesn't have much choice but to say yes when offered an unusual case.

the veteran teacher asks his students, most of whom come from families scraping by on below - poverty - level incomes.

Take the two main female characters in Mudbound, which writer - director Dee Rees adapted from a screenplay by Virgil Williams (based on Hillary Jordan's book) to be a story of two families, one white and one black, scraping by on a Mississippi farm.

Simon Yam has a brief appearance reprising his character from the first film, this time as a damaged casualty scraping by on the streets.

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.

It's a hard, crushing story about people scraping by on the back roads of life, showcasing an America that is often forgotten about, especially on screen.

It's a great setting — for the vividly tacky mini-golf atmosphere of the motel and surrounding businesses (lots of plastic apes and pirates, towering over their strip - mall domain), but also for the men and women sheltered within, scraping by on hustles and hard jobs.

Tommy dreams of something more than scraping by on the largesse of his betters, represented by the president of St. Andrews, Alexander Boothby (Sam Neill).

Sully (Newman) is a 60 - year - old man who emotionally seems to have never quite emerged from adolescence; scraping by on part - time work in construction, Sully has built a life around avoiding responsibility.

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.

An enormous 70 percent of the world's poorest people — those scraping by on less than $ 1.25 a day — live in rural areas.1 These communities depend on the earth in a more direct way than many of us will ever understand.

So people who have been scraping by on a few hours of sleep a night might not be in as good as shape as they would like to believe.

Or: Washington chain - saw massacre — we must scrape by on 97.7?

(and if anyone is still reading this, thank Gd that by my second child I was able to scrape by on just nursing until 6 months, thanks to fenungreek and bitter thistle.

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.

Her father couldn't get money to the family, so Timiras scraped by on lire that she earned by translating scientific articles from French and English into Italian.

Retired and trying to scrape by on his retirement check, Joe Harding (Michael Caine) is about to hit an unexpected brick wall.

Nor can you scrape by on memorization alone; sentry movements are always changing.

Today, residents of these remote towns often scrape by on subsistence farming and fishing, and children in the area can find themselves several hours — or days — boat ride from the nearest town with a schoolhouse.

Many singles turn green with envy when they see their dual - income friends easily pulling in a combined six - figure income while they have to scrape by on half of that.

Don't scrape by on meager blue - chip returns and Social Security checks.

Don't scrape by on meager blue - chip returns and Social Security checks, wondering whether your retirement income will be enough to pay the bills.

Your soon to be laid off employees will appreciate that you're doing everything you can for them instead of turning them loose with little more than a few months of unemployment to scrape by on.

Many of those women are single mothers working to scrape by on enough to support their children.

Not exact matches

Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together, says, «People's relationship to money is not rational, it's emotional... We need to focus more on the psychological blocks and triggers that stand in people's ways, instead of just explaining how to budget or the importance of compound interest.»

On Wednesday, Facebook added fuel to the fire by disclosing that «malicious actors» had abused a feature to likely scrape the public profile information of the company's two billion users.

The letter, written on Jacobs's behalf by his own lawyer, Clayton D. Halunen, describes how Uber's web scraping was used to lift competitor ride sharing companies» driver information, pricing structures and incentives.

As it pedaled by, a man from the Downtown Austin Alliance sighed, snapped on a pair of plastic gloves, and began scraping a «Legalize Marijuana» sticker from parking meter.

In an interview with press on Wednesday, Zuckerberg said he expects most of Facebook's users who had a specific search function enabled had their public data scraped by a third party.

After promising to unveil changes to make it easier for users to control their privacy, Facebook said recently that it would begin notifying users who may have had their data inappropriately scraped by a third - party app on the site.

Facebook said on Wednesday that it believes most of its users could have had their public profile scraped by third parties.

Facebook also said in the blog post Wednesday that «most people on Facebook» may have had their public profile information scraped by malicious actors.

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.

The company says it discovered the feature was abused by «malicious actors», writing: «Given the scale and sophistication of the activity we've seen, we believe most people on Facebook could have had their public profile scraped in this way»

With a little coding know - how, you could use this script to repeatedly mangle all your Facebook posts over a period of several months, to make the bulk of Facebook's data on you virtually unusable (though it doesn't do anything for the data that's already been scraped by third - parties, like the kind Cambridge Analytica allegedly gained access to).

Not to mention, when you first start out, you'll be relegated to posting on low - authority sources, scraping by with minimal yield until you build up enough of a reputation to start posting on bigger, more prominent publishers.

By continuously verifying contact info, conducting interviews, and engaging in research activities, DiscoverOrg overcomes the shortcomings of web - scraping for hard - to - find data on the SMB space, ensuring the intelligence customers receive is highly relevant and immediately useful.

The prohibited uses include commercial use, «screen scraping», «database scraping» and any other activity intended to collect, store, reorganize or manipulate data on the pages produced by or displayed on this website.

when 25 % of the work in the lab is done by undergrads who's main priority is partying / getting laid on the weekends, 25 % of it done by graduate students who hate their life, and 50 % done by postdocs who are barely scraping by, we can't really expect much: -LRB-.

Its rigid compositional attempt to define a rational space is undermined by the floating figures and particularly by the raw application of paint, which sits on the surface of the canvas and reminds us of its autonomous nature as scraped pigment.

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

Add in the stock and quickly deglaze the inner pot (by scraping the bottom with a wooden spoon) in case anything is stuck on.

One tip that I've found useful for icing cakes is that I'll finish off by scraping gently with a bench scraper or similar to get a nice clean finish on the side of the cake (if you're looking for that kind of finish!)

Deglaze the pan by adding the wine, making sure to scrape the brown bits on the bottom of the pan; reduce until all the liquid has evaporated and the contents have taken on a rich chestnut color, 15 to 20 minutes.

Large bakeries can save money by on - site production of margarine, shortening and bakery filling cream with the SPX scraped surface heat exchangers.

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.

They scraped through the first round only to be knocked out by Romanian minnows Astra on Thursday, losing their key striker Enner Valencia while doing so.