Sentences with phrase «who eke»

Today, top producers have to fight fee cutting and, unfortunately, poor business practices by the desperate who eke out a living.

A lifeguard (Justin Timberlake) tells us a story that just might be filtered through his vivid imagination: a middle - aged carousel operator (James Belushi) and his beleaguered wife (Kate Winslet), who eke out a living on the boardwalk, are visited by his estranged daughter (Juno Temple)-- a situation from which layer upon layer of all - too - human complications develop.

The Florida Project focuses imaginatively and sympathetically on the «hidden homeless» who eke out a bare - bones existence in the shadow of Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

«A lifeguard (Justin Timberlake) tells us a story that just might be filtered through his vivid imagination: a middle - aged carousel operator (James Belushi) and his beleaguered wife (Kate Winslet), who eke out a living on the boardwalk, are visited by his estranged daughter (Juno Temple)»

Already half its native fish are extinct, and the 30 million people who eke out a living from its troubled waters are facing calamity.

Glacier melt is the most plentiful source of water for the peasants of Ladakh, who eke out a living in a high desert region of the Indian Himalayas.

The United States is turning into a nation of 1099 workers who eke out a living driving cars, renting rooms and running errands for people who apparently have better things to do with their time.

But in Mr. Silver's old Assembly district in Lower Manhattan, voters chose Alice Cancel, a Democrat, who eked out a win over Yuh - Line Niou, a Working Families Party candidate who had pegged Ms. Cancel as a creature of Mr. Silver's machine.

Hugh Jackman plays an irresponsible, washed - up prizefighter who ekes out a living as manager for boxing robots.

Soft - spoken hero Mo (Dylan McDermott), a Mad Max - type who ekes out a living scavenging metal scraps in the desert - like «Zone», buys a dismembered killer android from a mysterious nomad and gives it to his sculptor girlfriend Jill (Stacey Travis) as a Christmas present.

Seven years later, Sean's now an aspiring artist who ekes out a living parking cars at a trendy restaurant.

Not exact matches

In one of the film's most telling scenes, Reine, who during the filming was eking out a living teaching gymnastics to children, signs up for a Toastmasters course.

Those among us who have managed to find professional success and eke out a life actively embrace this philosophy.

«We have a lot of offices in Africa and a lot of projects going on because that's where we see a lot of growth,» says Eke, who wrote papers about the business opportunities in Africa while in college.

On the way, when he was at Beth - eked of the Shepherds, 13 Jehu met the kinsmen of Ahaziah king of Judah, and he said, «Who are you?»

In human terms, this has a disastrous consequence for certain groups of people like the tribals, scheduled castes, traditional fishermen and such other groups who depend on them to eke out a living... They would also be torn away from their natural roots as well as from their community and cultural ties - producing in them a sense of isolation» (Quoted from ISA Journal Dec. 94).

This is such a huge subject that I must beg indulgence, therefore, if I give my space to but a small fraction of the historic faith — namely its main emphases on God, Christ, the Church, and eternal life — and consider only these in our modem context, in the effort to discover what values they may have for men and women who are tossed about in an unsettled world, with an uncertain future, and doomed — almost certainly it seems — to a doubtful truce of arms, at worst to a war which threatens to annihilate man as we have known him and in any event to leave us a bare existence such as we can eke out on a totally devastated planet.

However, he could be eked out by Bergeron, who is looking to win his 4th Selke.

The last six matches have seen each team eke out three victories apiece, as The Gunners are starting to close the gap on The 2012 Champions League winners, who have ultimately dominated us since Roman Abramovich bought the club back in 2003.

Giorgio Chiellini, who was at his tenacious best as always (just missing the bloodied bandage around his head), spoke to the media as well about how Juve dug deep to eke out the win.

Could Fergie's claim just be frustration at eking so little from a player who promised so much?

Two more «yes» voters — Sens. Mark Grisanti and Steve Saland — both of who won their Sept. 13 GOP primaries (or, in Saland's case, eked out a victory)-- will face continued opposition from so - called «values voters» in the November general election, McGuire pledged.

Mr. DioGuardi eked out a narrow victory in a sleepy race — a sign, campaign analysts said, of the formidable odds facing Republicans as they try to unseat Ms. Gillibrand, an upstate Democrat who has made inroads with centrist voters.

«Even if the senator joined later, especially to ensure his second term election victory, what about his deputy, Prince Eze Madumere, the state chairman of the party, Chief Hillary Eke and others who joined the party the same time with him and who are currently part of the coalition?»

Osun State police command has dragged a 28 years old Adedamola Olagoke, who was suspected to have mastermind the kidnap of the two missing Uniosun student, Samuel Eke and Akinduro Robert before the magistrate court sitting in Oshogbo.

But Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland Jr., who is under a federal indictment alleging corruption for a second time, eked out a victory, at just 37 %, because the field contained eight challengers.

Nnamani, who spoke at his APC Ward 2 in Amechi - Uwani near Eke - tu Market in Enugu South LGA, noted that the tap root of politics is at the ward level.

Eke, who is from Bende LGA in Abia State, pointed out that she had not called her estranged husband to inform him about the development, adding that she was not sure if her husband was aware of the stolen child.

«To set the records straight, these are responsible men who had had skilled training under the Presidential Amnesty programme that are currently using their acquired skills to eke out a living.

The tenth is a House veteran, Rep. Darrell Issa (Calif.), who barely eked out a victory in an increasingly competitive San Diego - area district.

Two thirds of the world's poor live in these areas and it is they who are suffering most from the double blow of desertification and climate change as they struggle to eke out a living from the land.

One denizen eking his way along is Joe (Joseph Gordon - Levitt), a taciturn, serious fellow who works as a «looper,» meaning he whacks people the mob sends back from the future.

Set in New Jersey in 1985, the film stars Adam Sandler as Robbie Hart, a good - hearted guy who lives in his sister's basement and ekes out a living by singing at weddings and the occasional bar mitzvah.

A new society has been built by a hand of ruthless opportunists, who live in luxury in the towers of a skyscraper, high above the less fortunate citizens who must eke out a hard life on the streets below.

She's lost custody of their daughter and is now eking out a humiliating living as an avatar in Society, a live - action MMO where she's controlled by a proverbial basement - dwelling slob who makes her grind robotically while wearing skimpy outfits.

Made with a cast of amateurs, the picture deals with life in an Iranian city near the Afghanistan border, where Afghan refugees — who have lived in poverty since the Soviet invasion of 1979 — eke out an existence as laborers.

His newest customer is Nina Dunham (Andrea Riseborough), a television news reporter who sees a story in the lives of people like Kyle — runaways and abandoned young people who try to eke out a living performing sex acts on the Internet.

The stranger in this case is not an obsessive super-fan, but a vagabond named Jack (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) who Paul (Antonio Banderas)-- a once - popular writer now forced to pen screenplays to eke out a living — brings into his Colorado cabin after Jack saves him from getting beaten up in a diner by an angry truck driver.

Check out Adam Carolla who stars as a version of himself, trying to eke out a living on the road as a stand - up comedian while desperately attempting to get back into the world of television.

The few humans who have refused to buy into the virtual life live in a fenced off compound where they eke out an existence with crude, primitive tools.

Despite a strong cast (Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tommy Lee Jones) who manage to eke out good performances, the film is weighed down by a weak script and a story that is both illogical and predictable.

More and more teaching is done by adjuncts, who move from one campus to another each day and who barely eke out a living.

«Through drums, percussion, kids who were on the street, with drugs, eking out their lives as best as they could, they get engaged and it comes out of music and percussion.

There were genre writers on both sides of the dispute, but on the publishing side were huddled the biographers, urban historians, midlist novelists — that is, all the people who were able to eke out a living because publishers still paid advances, acting as a kind of local literary bank, in anticipation of future sales.

Most people who write on a laptop turn it off and put it away when they're not using it, but retrieving it and turning it on wastes precious time when you have to eke out a few minutes of writing time.

Otherwise, you are working with a small press or traditional, large press, who pays all of the production / marketing costs and eke out a small royalty your way.

Norton Perina, a scientist who has recently fallen from grace, recounts in these fictional memoirs an extraordinary journey into a remote Micronesian island where the meat of a turtle called the opa'ivu «eke may hold the key to eternal youth — but it comes with a terrible price.

But industry executives and analysts say Mr. Smith — who made money investing in troubled companies after the junk - bond market collapsed in the 1980s — is clearly betting that he can eke out profits despite the industry's running troubles.

Starting from about 1000 B.C., the Samoyed has lived and worked side by side with the gentle, kindly people who managed to eke out an existence in the frozen areas of Siberia along the Arctic Circle.

The 1800s saw the arrival of colonists who managed to eke out subsistence livings through a combination of farming, ranching fishing and mining.