Sentences with phrase «side of the tracks trying»

It is the well - worn story of a kid from the wrong side of the tracks trying to make good.

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Whether it's switching to «no till» farming (which stirs up the soil less and requires less fuel), buying GPS - tracking systems to efficiently apply fertilizer or — as the Lambricks do — selling their products at a stand on the side of the road, many growers have already tried squeezing as much profit as they can from their operations.

We also saw Eddie Nketiah in the previous round of the League Cup, come on and score twice against Norwich, so it looks like Le Prof is really trying to fast track more youngsters into the side.

This is according to the Express, who state that the Argentine is eager to make additions to his squad in order to try and get his side's season back on track, and that the club may have to battle Chelsea for one of their targets.

When our child is behaving in off - track ways, we literally can't get through to them by trying to speak to the rational, reasoning side of our child's brain.

On the practical side, organizational guru David Allen says that everything you need to get done belongs out of your head and into a tracking system so you can let go of trying to remember it.

If you're trying to get your hormones balanced, or trying to get yourself back on track hormonally from some of the side effects of being on birth control pill, or trying to avoid it, click on screen, subscribe.

Valerian is remarkably free of side effects, but it can make some people weepy, so if you try it, be sure to keep track of how you feel the next day.

I lost track of which characters were with which side, and the movie even tries to make the same joke, as if knowingly acknowledging this aspect forgives Free Fire for its plotting misfires.

Still, there's an admirable willingness to try anything in these early roles, from his malevolent drifter in Nicolas Roeg's «Track 29» to his eccentric side - character turned protagonist in Tom Stoppard's flop adaptation of his own «Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.»

Excellent performances bolster this ramshackle tale of a champion boxer trying to make good with his life following the loss of the one thing that always managed to keep him on track, his beloved wife, both orphans who met in foster care as they grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen.

Lady Bird is going through a lot of the typical teenage problems: boys, best friends, figuring out who she is, and trying to pretend she isn't from the wrong side of the tracks.

I think she felt that whatever she tried to do wasn't good enough, and why couldn't Lady Bird just appreciate what she had — that comment that Danny [Lucas Hedges» character] made about the other side of the tracks definitely hurt her.

Try to find a local high school or college English teacher who would be willing to copy edit your work (Lord knows most of them could use some extra cash on the side) or track down a copy editor online.

In 2013, I'm trying to complete a couple of series of novels for the Kindle, but I keep getting side - tracked into ghostwriting ebooks for others.

On the other side of McKinstry from the Oxbow Public Market is the depot for the Napa Valley Wine Train, a trip that everyone should try at least once for a sense of history — as it runs on the same tracks used by the original trains from the 19th century — and to drink in the beautiful scenery at your leisure,.

Aiming at someone normally in a game as fast as this is challenging, but trying to keep track of them in zero - g when they can be above, below or to the side of you feels like trying to navigate a street when you're properly shit - faced drunk.

The racing in the game as a whole is all about being patient, overtaking at the right time, and not trying to do too much at once because you will end up hitting the side of the track and slowing down.

On the rhythm game side, the player must try to maintain their position on a ribbon track that elevates the quality and volume of the song.

In trying to name just a few tracks, I ended up writing down most of the track listing actually, the slow and soulful melody of «Meteor», the fun, tricky - snaking beat of «Close and Open, Demons and the Dead», and the absolutely mental performances «Kagerou Daze» and «Two - Sided lovers» — the list goes on and on, and in this game goes on a little bit more after that.

While I would love to see this story arc in the game it's probably best left as a side mission of tracking and trying to create an antidote to cure Dr. Connors.

He's also a supporting character in his DLC after the opening scene, as you play Evie Frye trying to track down Jack through a series of story missions and some new mechanics within side missions.

Anyone tracking the long fight over curbing greenhouse gases can see the tendency of the most passionate advocates on either side to try to build their cases around certainty.

It doesn't speak to the experience of working on different sides of the courtroom, but it does speak the frustration of trying to keep track of too much work, on either side of the aisle.