Sentences with phrase «who scrape by»

Shoplifters (review here) is the story of a family, both blood and cobbled together, who scrape by with multiple jobs and supplement their survival with minor thievery that threaten to tear their family apart.

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.

Not exact matches

It also revealed that most of Facebook's users probably had their public profile information scraped by malicious actors who used a tool that the social network has now removed.

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

Rents were also hit by a drop in demand as most people who could scrape together a downpayment rushed to buy.

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.

(But one question: Why would he target the muffins to people interested in baking when it is the people who don't bake who need access to muffins most of all????) While muffins are a lot like Facebook in that even though they are bad for me and I consume them anyway because I enjoy the little sugar rush they provide to my system, the risks around our muffin data being scraped by bad actors and upending democracy are basically nil.

A few questions caught Zuckerberg off guard, including one by Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington, who asked him if data analytics company Palantir scraped Facebook user data to allegedly aid Cambridge Analytica.

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.

Many, though, are being filled by older workers who lost more lucrative jobs in the recession and were forced to take something to scrape by.

In addition to giving users a quick way to check if their information was scraped by the analytics firm, the site has launched a data abuse bounty program to report app developers who may be misusing data.

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-.

I see a family who has scraped by all these years, taking two steps forward, now finding themselves three steps back.

A wage - earner who loses a full - time job and scrapes by with forty hours from a couple of part - time jobs would still have access to catastrophic health care insurance.

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.

This is what we've become now, an average team who gets thrashed away by good teams and can only scrape home draws.

The only Premiership team that didn't make it through was the holders Man United, who were beaten by Bristol City last night to earn their semi against Man City, but Chelsea only managed to scrape through thanks to an injury time winner from their sub Alvaro Morata.

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.

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.

(Prepare to be grossed out by the baby in Africa who poos on his mom's knee and she scrapes it off with a corn cob.)

Having read all the books I could find (and there are only four of them as of today's count) on the matter, I was impressed by the courage of these parents, who'd scraped together all they could learn from the internet and a few like - minded friends.

Farther out, the researchers found furrows left by trawl fishermen, who had scraped the sea floor clean, even in areas where trawling is supposedly forbidden.

► A giant caged gorilla is placed into a military cargo plane, accompanied by a man and a woman in handcuffs who argue with soldiers and an agent; the gorilla growls, snarls, and roars, showing large sharp teeth until he breaks apart the cage and several soldiers and government agents fire rifles and handguns to no avail as the animal roars and throws pieces of metal, striking some of the men, tosses several men against the bulkheads of the plane, and stands on the chest of an unconscious agent, who wakes up and shouts; a sliding military vehicle in the cargo hold pins the gorilla to a wall, the man and the woman in handcuffs break free and don parachutes, placing one on the agent and after the plane crashes in smoke and flames we see few bloody footprints of the gorilla leading away from the crash site (we do not see the bodies of the other passengers) and the agent has a cut on his forehead and the other man has lots of blood on the back of head and his T - shirt while the woman's face is scraped on one cheek and one side of her forehead.

There is a strangely moving moment between Katja from the father of one of the accused, a decent man who's own soul has been scraped empty by the knowledge that his child had grown to become, as he puts it, «wicked, cowardly and stupid.»

It's about characters who have been around the block one too many times and they're exhausted, full of dreams deferred, just trying to scrape by.

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.

Willem Dafoe has earned well - deserved raves for his role as the hotel's manager, a man who tries his best to look after the people who are scraping by and struggling to stay living on his property.

The artist formerly known as Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is now a boozer who limps, wears glasses and scrapes out a living by chauffeuring bachelorette parties.

The Jackson family may technically be able to come and go as they please, but in living on McAllen farm as sharecroppers who barely make enough money to scrape by, the prospects of freedom don't seem as potent as they could be.

Instead, this movie paints a picture of Huck's life where he is wearing out his welcome with friends who are tired of being asked for hand - outs, enduring threats for not paying overdue debts (which include rough - handling resulting in a scraped up face) and surrounded by other uncontrollable gamblers (such as a man who takes a bet to have breast implant surgery done and live with the physical alteration to his physique for six months).

In a way Almereyda's film, shot prior to most of the tech stocks going belly - up, anticipates the downswing: Its Wall Street is ghostly and devastated, full of glass tombs that scrape a dismal sky and inhabited by, among other Gloomy Guses, a Hamlet (Ethan Hawke) who's hollowed - out like so many victims of modern materialism and parental loss.

If one stops to think about it for a moment, there's something depressing about these characters, who have little for which to live and are barely scraping by in their lives.

Hugh Jackman stars as Charlie Keaton, a former boxer who must now scrape by as a fight promoter for the very things that ended his career.

But she knows by the time she reaches her last year of primary school she will need to convince her father, who is ill and unable to work, to scrape together enough of the family budget to buy her two hard cover exercise books to take notes with.

Unfortunately it got scraped on right rear back by someone cutting a corner who did not bother to leave info.

During that trip, we were scraped by a sports car going ~ 130 mph who kept driving, and we managed to speed up to that speed and overtake the car who hit us.

As it turns out, most of them are either by authors who have never been a part of the program and are speculating about whether it's a good idea or not, or by people who are blogging their epic quest to get as many nominations as possible during the 30 - day window (which I think is a bit silly, since the decision is mainly based on the publishing team anyway — Beauty's Songbook scraped by with only two days in «Hot and Trending» and pretty much no support from my fans).

Many people who rent in Kentucky are just scraping by.

Workers who don't will probably be scraping to get by and deciding whether or not to pay the heating bill or buy their prescription medication.

I have friends who make more than twice your salary with similar debt obligations, and they barely scrape by month to month.

This is often performed by unlicensed and untrained trained individuals who only scrape tartar from the outside of the few visible teeth while your pet is awake (assuming your pet will hold still).

Dogs with serious tartar and calculus build up will require a cleaning by a veterinary dentist who will use a dental pick to scrape away the build up and polish the tooth surface so bacteria have less of a foothold in the future.

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.

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

That may be a vague term, but artists who are «managing to scrape by» are not a good fit for this pitch.

We've reached a point in this society where paranoid bubble wrapping is turning our kids into a generation of couch potatoes whose natural inclination to explore and take moderate risks is being stifled by parents who are terrified of a few scrapes and bruises.

And graduates with strong credentials will find more opportunity than those who just scraped by.

Kira Systems: The Canadian darling of the contract due diligence world, Kira barely seems a startup but just about scrapes in, having been founded in 2011 by former Weil, Gotshal & Manges lawyer Noah Waisberg and Alexander Hudek, who holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Waterloo.

Initial reports from The New York Times and The Guardian put the figure at as many as 50 million users who had data scraped by Cambridge psychology professor Aleksandr Kogan's survey app via Facebook Login.