Sentences with phrase «who scrounges»

A nocturnal rambler who scrounges for anything he can steal and sell, Lou is a motivated self - starter.

After responding to a roadside accident, Thornton's fortunes are improbably entwined with those of Combs» dirt - poor widow, Halle Berry, a waitress who scrounges desperately for rent money while trying to manage her obese son.

Astro meets the surface dwellers, young Oliver Twist orphans (Kristen Bell voices one) who scrounge busted robots for the Fagin - like Ham Egg (Nathan Lane).

Part of the problem is visible around refugee camps in this West Darfur city or particularly around the Kalma camp near Nyala in South Darfur, where a forest of baobab, acacia, palm and other trees has been largely decimated by the displaced, who scrounge for firewood or logs to sell.

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Sandeep Maity, who grew up scrounging in the dumps of Calcutta before becoming a Compassion child, says the thought of Compassion leaving the country «strikes my heart so hard.»

Laugh all you want, but as someone who makes a lot of fires in the winter, it's really inspiring to think there could be a better way than scrounging wood from my neighbors upstate, or getting those sad little bundles from Stop and Shop.

Because of this cargo, it can be argued that the wreck in the hole was not a revenue ship at all, or at least that it was not bound back for Spain at the time; yet, strangely, 64 years ago Cayman Islanders who were scrounging the area for scrap brass did find about $ 6,000 in gold bars and coins near the southwest edge of the blue hole.

Therefore, I dedicate this post to all you other slacker moms out there who find themselves scrounging around for last minute Easter basket ideas.

A new Compass pamphlet cheekily reclaims the Osborne lexicon, blasting «scrounging» employers whose low pay is topped up by benefits, and corporate «shirkers» who dodge their tax.

It's difficult to imagine anyone as personable and attractive as Rose, who still has her prom queen allure, having to scrounge for work in the biohazard business.

Frankie Shaw writes, directs, and stars as Bridgette Bird, a single aspiring actress who is raising a toddler, juggling tutoring jobs with whatever free childcare she can scrounge, and staving off abject poverty.

In Apocalypse, you play as a new hero who joins the Hunters - a group that works for the people, scrounging for food and offering aid to those in need.

Felicity Jones («Like Crazy») is sweet Emily; dutiful and proper while Maggie Gyllenhaal is terrific as Charlotte, a hot - tempered suffragette who is always scrounging for money to help the poor.

Being a survivor of World War II, being someone who spent years — approximately the years I am now experiencing — scrounging for food while traversing Europe barefoot, she is acutely, desperately aware of weights: of bodies, of presences, of things that do and don't exist.

(Washington Post) But banks got burned on these loans because people who couldn't scrounge up a down payment were more likely to default on their loans (duh), which is part of what caused the mortgage lending crisis.

A little more than one hundred years after his fateful encounter with a young soldier on the streets of New Haven, Connecticut, the animated film Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero tells the tale of Stubby, a brindle and white pit bull - type dog, and Robert Conroy, the soldier who found him scrounging for scraps near a military camp.

I had visions of a sniper out in the field who had to scrounge everything he could to make new rounds for his gun, and thus ammo conservation could play an important part in how you tackled missions.

The games are not aimed at cheapskate vultures like yourself scrounging around for deals or free stuff; the games are intended for those who regularly use an XBL Gold membership.