Sentences with phrase «took scrappy»

Following their lead, we took Scrappy from the city shelter.

Of course, taking a scrappy Canadian startup public comes with its own set of challenges — how do you maintain the same energy and innovation when your staff is in the hundreds, instead of the dozens?

I'd take a scrappy win in every game for the rest of the season.

I rather take a scrappy 1 nil win than settle for a draw playing pretty football.

You always got the feeling that it would take a scrappy win in order for Spurs to stop the rut, having previously failed to win their last three matches in the league before Wednesday's 1 - 0 victory away from home against an always lionhearted Blackburn.

Not exact matches

In a time when tech companies are starting to behave like industry giants of the past, taking their interests — and their money — to K Street to influence legislation (consider Mark Zuckerberg's immigration lobby), it seems natural that several of these scrappy sharing - based start - ups are beginning to band together.

In the coming years, look for the role to grow exponentially as more established corporations take notes from the scrappier, more flexible startup companies.

That's because in the world of Amazon's series, based on the novel by Philip K. Dick, the Axis powers won World War II and occupied America, where a scrappy resistance movement is taking shape.

Now, the U.S. Justice Department is taking sides in the legal fight — and not with the scrappy startup.

It used to be if a scrappy company tried to take on a local government, it might not have the heft to win.

NIKE is great because of things Phil Knight did when NIKE was a scrappy David taking on Goliaths.

Take the essay in Scrappy Little Nobody that tackles Kendrick's first boyfriend.

Seeing as how we don't actually know one another and personal letters don't generate any blog traffic, I've decided to publicly air my grievances against you in a format that positions you as the powerful elite and me as the scrappy underdog willing to take you on.

These guys are as scrappy as it gets and every Team in the League knows they are in for a hand full when taking them on.

Last year they made the Elite8 but as a scrappy 14 seed and took some Teams by surprise..

The Grizzlies couldn't carry their momentum into overtime, however, as the Spurs took the period 8 - 4, finishing off the scrappy Grizzlies team to take a imposing 2 - 0 series lead as the series shifts to Memphis.

But I would take a 1 - 0 win with a scrappy last minute winner.

The Premier League is no stranger to scrappy goals, but this effort from Calum Chambers today may just take the biscuit.

It took just seven minutes for the deadlock to be broken when 37 - year - old Toni spun around three Napoli defenders to net past a hapless Mariano Andujar for a scrappy opening goal.

In a fairly scrappy first half, Daley Blind's slip livened up proceedings... It took until the second half for the deadlock to be broken, and it was the relative minnows that did it!

Marseille came within a whisker of taking the lead in the 42nd minute, Sarr hitting the woodwork with a scrappy volley from Mitroglou's knockdown, only to find themselves behind at the break.

Liverpool took a bold step closer to the Premier League title with another arse - clenching, scrappy yet stylish victory.

Spurs turned in a scrappy display in the first leg at Rodney Parade and were saved embarrassment by Harry Kane's late equaliser that took the tie to a replay.

There has to be something scrappy about it and the deflection it took from the defender just dented the purity of the move for me.

It takes a longer - term view, far above the scrappy exchanges usually to be found in Westminster.

She is unfiltered, headstrong and scrappy, doing whatever it takes to get ahead and provide for her son, Larry.

Though scrappy in its realism, Clarke has taken notes on how to address awful attitudes to women, delivered with a knowing sense a humour through a female gang member who calls out sexist chat.

A scrappy American friend of Dhari's, Leroy reluctantly takes in Jas, Marcus and Dhari when things get rough for them.

Instead, the Disney - produced and vaguely Disney - inspired Tomorrowland wastes Bird's talent, a scrappy female lead, and Clooney gravitas on what amounts to a feature - length prologue; this movie about a retro - futuristic utopia in an alternate dimension accessed by the world's best and brightest takes approximately forever to get going, marking the first time Bird's whiz - bang set pieces haven't set his movie's pace.

Having Simmons around in Girlboss scratches the rom - com itch and lets him make his mark in the time he's given, while not taking away from the scrappy and motivated message of the show.

Rushed into production to take advantage of tax shelter financing and shot during a grim Montreal winter, Scanners feels at once scrappy and minimalist.

Instead of yuck, we get something wonderful: a scrappy human comedy that takes an honest path to laughs and is twice as funny and touching for it.

Nevertheless it's a strong opener as this scrappy pup is taken in by Apollo's widow Mary Anne (here played by Phylicia Rashad) following the death of his mother and subsequent institutionalisation.

DREAM TEAM (single camera) Not going forward STUDIO: Warner Bros TV / Kari's Logo Here / Here Comes Scrappy TEAM: Kari Lizer (w, ep), Bill Wrubel (w, ep), Marc Buckland (d, ep) LOGLINE: Marty Schumacher coached his last club soccer team for 10 years, ultimately taking them to the National Championships.

The straight adventure doesn't glow like Pixar's emotionally meaty movies, but with eccentric characters and a scrappy heart — courtesy of NewsRadio - era Kids in the Hall alum Dave Foley — the movie has a taken - for - granted kid's movie quality: fun.

Taking four of her sharpest colleagues with her, she swiftly makes the scrappy outfit battle - ready, navigating the tricky personalities — and personal agendas — of her new team members, most notably a mixed - race survivor of a high - profile school shooting (Gugu Mbatha - Raw, the movie's conscience), whose scruples nicely offset her new boss's anything - goes attitude.

«A dodgeball movie is uncharted film territory,» says Rawson Marshall Thurber, the film's writer / director, «but at the same time it inhabits the same tradition of great underdog movies like «Stripes,» «The Bad News Bears» and «Meatballs,» which follow an archetypal comedy framework: scrappy underdogs take on the socially, financially or athletically gifted and prevail against all odds.»

It's more organic in feel than before, flowing down roads that the old car often felt like it was taking in scrappy chunks.

Volvo, which is in no position to risk hundreds of millions of dollars on a fresh design, has taken its cue from Subaru, another scrappy midsize auto maker.

She came to us a bit scrappy with some healing wounds (probably from taking on the demogorgon) and nursing a litter of young ones.

bred for strength and endurance... herd farm animals... A pit bull is a scrappy terrier / bulldog mix... strength from the bulldog, endurance from the scrappy terrier... bred to not tire out, bred to please... unfortunately people took the please ur owner to another level.

I also think 5x cards will take it, but I'm scrappy — and won't give up without a fight.

We wanted somebody who is bright, tough and scrappy and she seems to be the perfect vessel for the player to take in the beauty and all of the mysteries of this world.»

Only YOU can take the remaining few on a journey from a scrappy band and turn it into an unstoppable army as you unlock Soulstones in each battle.

Yukimura is one of the few characters to properly age across the time period presented (something reserved almost exclusively for Sanada clansmen) and the first few times players will take control of him, he'll be as a scrappy young kid with a stick rather than the Crimson Demon he's more famously known as.

Once again this year, I take you from the Armory Show to its partner in Volta, its rival in the Art Show, its challenger in the Independent, and scrappier alternatives in NADA, Spring Break, and Scope.

It seems the Bruce High Quality Foundation gave up its scrappy, anti-establishment stance when it took part in the 2010 Whitney Biennial.

This Bender project is hugely exciting and I take great pride in the fact that a scrappy kunsthalle in northeastern Wisconsin is developing historical content as well as supporting experimental projects and exhibitions by contemporary artists.