Even the ritual attack by her opponent, Labour's Jeremy Corbyn — "the prime minister has scraped through phase one of the negotiations, scraped through after 18 months" — came off as a grumpy compliment.
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Rescuers scraped through the rubble, racing to set her free.
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"Keep Forsyth white!" scraped through the air like fingernails on a chalkboard.
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Japan narrowly scraped through, advancing ahead of Senegal because it had fewer yellow cards.
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Argentina scraped through to the next round with a late winner against Nigeria, having drawn to Iceland.
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Of all the games that Portugal scraped through, their quarter-final triumph over Poland was the closest.
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Sanchez (3-2) scraped through five and two-thirds innings while still searching for his proper mechanics.
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It scraped through with the votes of 92.5% of delegates, compared with 97.3% for the five-year plan.
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Virtually no other cruise liners escaped the century without having their insides gutted and redecorated, but the America somehow scraped through.
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They will face a Portugal side who scraped through the group with three draws – making them huge beneficiaries of the expanded format.
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So we scraped through the New England Journal of Medicine to find some especially nice examples to get you through the weekend.
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He has scraped through a messy divorce, failing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in alimony and child support to his ex-wife.
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Enkhbold of the ruling MPP, regarded as pro-investment and market-friendly, scraped through to the second round with 411,748 votes, 30.3 percent of the total.
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Tsipras scraped through a confidence motion in parliament last week following the departure of his right-wing coalition allies Independent Greeks (ANEL) which were against the accord.
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The head of Deutsche Bank made a rare public call on Wednesday for cross-border mergers in Europe, weeks after Germany's flagship lender scraped through regional stress tests.
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Ranked 81st in the FIFA rankings, China scraped through to the final phase of Asian 2018 World Cup qualifying with a nervy 2-0 win over Qatar in March.
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His comments come weeks after Deutsche scraped through the latest stress tests for European banks and as European Central Bank (ECB) money printing saps their ability to turn a profit.
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Renault's Nico Hulkenberg took a spin into the gravel in Q2 but scraped through to the final session and will start seventh, his team mate Carlos Sainz two places behind.
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Johnson scraped through his impeachment trial by one vote in the Senate, but for the rest of his term he was a lame duck, repudiated by his party and country.
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That study from a team of British scientists in the United Kingdom scraped through the scienceverse looking for papers on the effects of just light or moderate drinking on pregnancy outcomes.
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They scraped through the group stage with three draws, then beat Croatia in extra-time, Poland on penalties, Wales with two second-half goals and France with another extra-time winner.
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The company scraped through a funding death valley late last year after failing to close a Series C financing round, leading it to 'temporarily' let go of around half its staff.
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"Generation after generation of Americans will hear about the cocky pilot who barely scraped through Annapolis, but then defended our nation in the skies," Mr. McConnell said in uncharacteristically personal remarks.
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The landscape is gloomier for Argentina, which scraped through qualification with a win in the final round, and was only spared elimination in the pool stage by a late winner against Nigeria.
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Italy's FTMIB however, barely scraped through into positive territory as the Bank of Italy's warning of the country's deficit possibly breaching European Union regulations in 2020 weighed on the bank-heavy index.
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In July the bank barely scraped through European stress tests - designed to gauge its ability to withstand a crisis - and has warned it may need deeper cost cuts to turn itself around.
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In the end, the White House proposed a much smaller $2628 billion package that scraped through the House on a vote of 28503 to 22019 and failed Wednesday in the Senate 48-50.
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VICE News Tonight scraped through the internet for the most ridiculous tweets, Reddit posts, and YouTube videos about Jeff Goldblum and presented them for fact-checking to the man who'd know best: Jeff Goldblum.
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To find them, his basic script scraped through all the public posts on any page, made a list of people who often replied to one another, and spit the list out into a spreadsheet.
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France, who the U.S. will meet in Paris on Friday for a place in the semi-finals, scraped through the last 16 with a 2-1 win against Brazil after extra time on Sunday.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk has scraped through the biggest challenge to his leadership so far, lawmakers said on Wednesday, but still faces an uphill battle to achieve reforms that Western backers demand.
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He will often try to drive straight into half guard anyway, but when an opponent has closed their guard on him with the guillotine grip he has scraped through by the skin of his teeth.
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Mr. Lieberman, whose party scraped through the last election with just five seats, strode into a news conference on Thursday with the air of a winner, appearing relaxed and self-confident, having dented Mr. Netanyahu's aura of invincibility.
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The bank only scraped through European stress tests in July and has warned it may need deeper cost cuts to turn itself around after revenue fell sharply in the second quarter due to challenging markets and low interest rates.
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The bill, which scraped through the Budget Committee, would raise the limits on domestic spending by 5.7 percent, to $631 billion in fiscal 2020 and $646 billion in fiscal 2021, compared to a 2.6 percent increase in military spending.
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In 2010, Murkowski scraped through a tight election, losing the Republican primary to tea party challenger Joe Miller before winning a razor-thin general election through the first successful write-in campaign for a U.S. senate candidate in 50 years.
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Modi's ruling alliance barely scraped through an election in his home state of Gujarat last month and is now faced with elections in eight states spread over 493 and a general election that must be held by May next year.
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A state senator from Iowa's rural northwest, he had scraped through a tight, four-way primary, largely—as he himself would later acknowledge—on the popularity of an English-only law he had browbeaten through the Republican state house that very year.
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Vinci had set points in the second set but Garcia avoided the potential for another match interrupted by bad light, as happened the previous night against Cepelova, as she scraped through a tense second-set tiebreak for a 6-2 7-6(8) win.
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The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks: Indicated 2.9 percent higher Germany's flagship lender scraped through the European Union's banking stress test, showing a reading of 7.8 percent in the adverse scenario, just above the 7.5 percent that analysts had seen as a threshold because of its designation by regulators as one the world's systemically most important banks.
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CONMEBOL eventually began organising the qualifiers in 2017, under a new title. Brazil won the championship, with the hosts Uruguay taking 2nd place. Third place Argentina scraped through to move on to play in the 2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Dubai, United Arab Emirates along with the two finalists.
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A History: An Unauthorised History of the Doctor Who Universe (3rd Edition), p. 709. Mad Norwegian Press, Des Moines. . where he met Drax, with whom he attended a Tech course as part of the class of '92. In the Armageddon Factor, it is revealed that the Doctor scraped through the Academy with 51% on his second attempt.
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Necmettin Erbakan and his Welfare Party saw a party of religious background returned for the first time in 14 years. Welfare had a greatly increased share of the vote and took several key provinces, including Istanbul in 1994 local elections. Bülent Ecevit's Democratic Left Party also scraped through to win seven seats. Voter turnout was 83.9%.
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As a student, Yeng excelled in Chinese and art classes at Catholic High School, Singapore, but scraped through or failed everything else. He decided to embark on writing after submitting a sonnet in lieu of an essay on any subject in Chinese class. His teacher gave him a good grade, and the poem was published in a newspaper.
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Williams qualified for the Season Ending Championships and was placed in the Red Group with world no. 1 Lindsay Davenport, Anastasia Myskina, and Elena Dementieva. Williams played her first round robin match against 5th-ranked Dementieva. Williams scraped through in straight sets, winning the first set in a tie-break and the second set in the twelfth game.
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Women's U17 2008 Schedule , CONCACAF official website. At the 2008 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, the United States lost their opening match to Japan. They scraped through the opening rounds of play with a draw against France, and advanced through the tournament to the final, where they lost in overtime to North Korea. Taylor Vancil was named the best goalkeeper at the tournament.
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Williams began her US Open Series at the JPMorgan Chase Open. She received a bye in the first round as the top seed and then faced Greek Eleni Daniilidou. Williams took the first with ease, but scraped through the second in a tie-break. She then took out Arantxa Sánchez Vicario in the following round in straight sets, with a bagel in the first.
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The Wildcats slumped to last spot in December (7–9 record) as the team's injury toll started to have a significant impact. Long-term injuries to Martin, Jarrod Kenny and Matt Knight hurt the Wildcats, while early-season import shuffles disrupted the team's cohesiveness. The Wildcats only just scraped through to the finals after beating Melbourne United away in the final round. The victory extended Perth's playoff streak into a record 31st straight season.
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Claire Skinner was born and brought up in Hemel Hempstead, the youngest daughter of a shopkeeper and an Irish-born secretary, and was shy as a child. Her dream was to be an actress and she immersed herself in her ambition. She acted, neglecting school work at Cavendish School, and "barely scraped through [her] A-levels". She went on to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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They faced and eventually lost out to the Belfast Giants Devils captain Brad Voth was given the honour of being named captain for the South team for the 'All-Star Spectacular'. The Devils scraped through to the playoff semi-finals in Nottingham after beating the Belfast Giants with an overtime goal in the Cardiff Arena from Captain Brad Voth, ending the series 6–5. The Devils then lost to the Sheffield Steelers 5–2 in the Playoff semi- finals.
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France won a close encounter 1–0 in extra time thanks to a golden goal scored by Laurent Blanc. In the quarter-finals France faced Italy who had also scraped through to the quarter-finals with a 1–0 win over Norway. A tense match ended 0–0 after extra time and France won 4–3 on penalties after Italy's Luigi Di Biagio struck his penalty onto the crossbar. In the semi-finals, France faced tournament surprise Croatia.
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2009 was a turbulent year for Kerry football. After being knocked out of the Munster championship by great rivals Cork, they were on the brink of elimination from the All Ireland series by minnows Sligo. On a dramatic evening in Tralee, Kerry were saved by heroic performances by O'Sullivan (0-04)and Paul Galvin (0-03) as they scraped through by a single point. Following another labored victory over Antrim, Kerry progressed to an All Ireland quarter final against old rivals Dublin.
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The signing was significant in that Emerton became the first player to directly exchange the FA Premier League for the A-League by terminating his Rovers contract one year early. The season however, only provided minimal success as the club scraped through to the finals series with a 3–2 win over Newcastle Jets in the final round of the regular season. Before the end of the season the club announced that head coach Lavicka's contract would not be renewed for the following season.
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Boher Ash, a brindle dog owned by Mrs Molly Stokes won his first round heat by 8 lengths in a time of 30.70 sec at a starting price of 8/11. He continued his winning ways in the second round when winning by 5 lengths in a time of 30.59 at evens favourite. In the semi-finals, Fabulous Figure inflicted a 3 length defeat on Bendeemer (10-1) in 30.76. Boher Ash scraped through to the final after the Edinburgh dog missed the break.
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Nagase played ippon judo in his first two fights, however narrowly won by shido against Egypt's Mohamed Abdelaal. He then faced Korea's Lee Seung-soo in the quarter-final, where he used kouchi gari to throw Lee for waza-ari, then followed up with kuzure kesa gatame for ippon. He once again met Tchrikishvili, in the semi-final, and scraped through to the final with a yuko. He defeated Pietri in the final with a sankaku kami shiho for ippon, making newaza one of Nagase's most effective techniques.
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Leeds beat Hull Kingston Rovers, Rochdale Hornets, Keighley and then scraped through 11–10 against Warrington in the semi-final before meeting Hull F.C. in the final. Rain on the morning of the game meant conditions were against flowing rugby. The scores were level at 7–7 with fifteen minutes left. However, neither team could break the deadlock, and the final went to a replay two days later, again at Fartown, Huddersfield. Leeds made no mistake this time and ran out convincing 26–12 winners having led 16–0 at half-time.
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Shelbourne track record holder Tanist returned to Ireland after an unsuccessful spell at Wimbledon Stadium and within a week of his return he set a new national record for 525yds. He was entered for the Derby and was the firm favourite. Forty of Ireland's leading greyhounds entered the event and the early rounds proved a test for Tanist who found trouble but scraped through to round two where he won in 30.21. Another Dancing Willie won both of his opening rounds and defending champion Marchin' Thro' Georgia made it to the semi finals.
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Williams final French Open preparation was at the Telecom Italia Masters. After a bye in the first round, Williams went against Klára Zakopalová and defeated the Czech with a break lead in each set. Williams then dominated Nathalie Dechy, winning the first set at three and scoring a bagel against the Frenchwoman in the second set. Facing Conchita Martínez in the last eight, Williams scraped through a tight first set winning it in the twelfth game, but made easy work in the second set, dropping only 2 games.
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The Daily Telegraph contrasted Birmingham's "dazzling Cup run" with the manner in which Manchester City "scraped through", describing the Midlanders as "firm favourites". Interviews with players were typically bullish in tone. Manchester City's Bobby Johnstone opined that "Even an unbiased fan must regard Manchester City with favour", whereas Birmingham's Len Boyd gauged opinion quite differently: "They say Birmingham City are the hottest Cup favourites since Wolves crashed to Portsmouth in 1939". During the 1950s the FA Cup final was the only football match to be televised nationally, resulting in heightened media attention for the players and clubs involved.
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Charles Ellet, Jr., the first American-born civil engineer with European education in engineering, campaigned for suspension bridges in United States. While growing up on a farm in Pennsylvania, Charles Ellet, Jr. scraped through odd jobs, but saved enough money to finance an education at the École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in France. After attending four months of lectures, he toured Europe before returning to the United States as the only native-born American with European education in engineering. Ellet announced his ambitions to build suspension bridges in his country of birth by proposing to span the Potomac River with one.
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The third season under Lavicka began with the major signing of Blackburn Rovers player Brett Emerton to a three-year deal. The signing was significant in that Emerton became the first player to directly exchange the FA Premier League for the A-League by terminating his Rovers contract one year early. The season however, only provided minimal success as the club scraped through to the finals series with a 3–2 win over Newcastle Jets in the final round of the regular season. Before the end of the season the club announced that head coach Lavicka's contract would not be renewed for the following season.
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Tragedy struck after this loss with dupreeh getting appendicitis and resulted in him watching the remainder of the event from hospital. Coach zonic rose to the challenge despite having not played the game since ELEAGUE a month prior and Astralis scraped through to the playoffs besting Dignitas 2-1. Astralis were drawn vs the Polish legends Virtus.pro in the quarterfinals, however they were unable to best them despite a strong performance from device going 68-43 in K-D and taking the Poles to overtime on both maps. After the Major Astralis returned to Atlanta to attend the ELEAGUE playoffs but lost to mousesports 0-2 in the quarterfinals.
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2006–2007 was one of the most successful periods in the club's history, and gained them reputation on a continental scale they had otherwise been unable to attain. From 5–9 June 2006, the side took part in the 2006 National Club Championship, and despite losing to Sobou FC in Pool A, the side still managed to qualify for the knockout stages as group runners-up. In the semi-finals, they faced PS Rutz, and scraped through 3–2 after extra time. In the Grand Final they faced Sobou FC again, and were able to hold the side to a 0–0 draw before defeating them on penalties, picking up their first national title since 1998.
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Despite this however, Hypno-Disc still scraped through to go through to the next round, due to Thermidor 2 breaking down, and being counted out by the Refbot. In the second round, Hypno-Disc failed once again to get the disc to anywhere near its full speed, and once again it took damage, notably from Arnold A. Terminegger and Sergeant Bash. However, Hypno-Disc had another lucky break when Pussycat knocked X-Terminator's removable link out, immobilising the recent Semi-Finalists. X-Terminator was counted out, flipped by the arena floor flipper, and Hypno-Disc survived to go through once again, although its movement was minimal by the time X-Terminator was fully counted out.
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The CECAFA Cup is considered Africa's oldest football tournament, and involves teams from Central and Southern Africa. The tournament was originally named the Gossage Cup, contested by the four nations of Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika (modern day Tanzania), and Zanzibar, running from 1929 until 1965. In 1967, this became the East and Central African Senior Challenge Cup, often shortened to simply the Challenge Cup, which was competed for five years, until 1971, before the CECAFA Cup was introduced in 1973. The 2000 champions were Uganda (A), in 2001 Uganda scraped through their group in the third and final qualifying position; they were 3 points behind Burundi and 6 behind Tanzzania, but they were then knocked out in the quarter-finals against Rwanda (A).
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Bamford, having won the World Championship on four previous occasions, was a favourite to win and took the first two games in the best-of-five match decisively, but Mulliner scraped through in the third game, took the fourth with a sextuple peel that nearly went badly wrong, and then took the fifth game with convincing form. In the final match against David Maloof (USA) Mulliner again went 2-0 down, but scraped a victory in the third game to remain in the match and then played solidly to take the last two games. The five games were played over 11½ hours in a single day. The victory made Mulliner the oldest world champion at 62 (he had reached the final on two previous occasions, in 1997 and 2008).
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Judd had previously worked for Brabham on the Repco project. John Judd had based the engine, dubbed the CV, on a Honda block and was something the Japanese company was looking at as it looked to move into the North American based IndyCar racing. Italian driver Stefano Modena, who had driven for the team in the 1987 Australian Grand Prix in a one off drive for the team, drove alongside the more experienced Martin Brundle who was returning to Formula One after spending 1988 winning the World Sportscar Championship for Jaguar. Modena took the team's last podium: a third place at the Monaco Grand Prix (Brundle, who had only just scraped through pre-qualifying by 0.021 seconds before qualifying a brilliant 4th, had been running third but was forced to stop to replace a flat battery, finally finishing sixth).
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This led to a group of 16 members leaving to form the Social Democratic Front. The ADPL had four members elected to the Provisional Legislative Council, which became the only representatives of the pro- democracy camp in the provisional legislature. The pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB) vice-chairman Tam Yiu-chung received the most votes with 345 and Timothy Fok, son of the pro-Beijing tycoon Henry Fok scraped through with 163. Qian Qichen, Vice Premier and Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China, in his capacity as chairman of the Preparatory Committee, condemned the British for their lack of courage in facing the reality of the provisional legislature and said that the election was forced to be held in Shenzhen since the British refused to cooperate in an introductory speech.
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Retrieved on 2010-06-30. A second- place finish at the German Outdoor Championships entitled her to her first World Championships appearance. She retained her university title and recorded 4.50 m for the bronze medal at the 2009 Summer Universiade.van Kuijen, Hans (2009-07-11). World Champion Heidler hammers 75.83m, as Games' records highlight World University Games - Day 4. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-06-30. A few weeks later she made her first appearance on the major European circuit, and set a new best of 4.58 m for third at the London Grand Prix, beaten only by Yelena Isinbayeva and Anna Rogowska.Aviva London Grand Prix Jul 24, 2009. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-06-30. She scraped through the qualifiers of the 2009 World Championships, but did not perform as well in the pole vault final, taking three attempts to clear 4.40 m and finishing in tenth place.2009 World Championships Pole vault results . IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-06-30.
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That decision involved a complete re-roofing in slate, an extended re-working of the masonry, a rebuilding of the front porch and gutters, the building and installation of 493 windows, from 8' to 24' in height, according to the designs of the original windows (still in place at that time), a total re-wiring of the building, new and extended plumbing, new and extended labs, the installation of two new elevators, replacement of most wall surfaces, new heating and pipes, new dire-security systems, new wood flooring in many areas – and professional attention to replacing, in public areas, copies of the original gas-light fixtures. Layers of wall paint were scraped through to find the original colors and designs, and these were replicated. Along the way, it became possible to furnish public areas with antique furniture appropriate to the period, the generous gift of Mr. Richard Driehaus from his collection. The successful campaign's goals included developing an endowment, as well as an annual campaign, to support financial aid.
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Yordan then fought for the WBA featherweight title against Chris John on 17 April 2011 at the Jakarta International Expo, Kemayoran, Central Jakarta where he lost by unanimous decision.. Yordan continued to fight higher level opponents which resulted in him winning the IBO featherweight title after beating Lorenzo Villanueva. He made his first defense of his title against Choi Tseveenpurev, which he won by UD. He then lost his title to Simpiwe Vetyeka after losing to him by a TKO in the twelfth round. After this loss he moved up to lightweight where he instantly won the IBO belt against Daniel Brizuela by UD. He defended the title against Sipho Taliwe where some critics thought he lost as he scraped through to get a SD win. During 2014 to 2017 he went on to win his next 5 fights at lightweight beating questionably lower level opponents which resulted in him rising through the WBO lightweight rankings and accumulating the WBO Asia-Pacific and Africa Lightweight Title, WBO Africa Lightweight Title and the WBA International Lightweight Title after defeating Cristian Rafael Coria.
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He won just 1 of 3 group matches and scraped through as the 64th and final seed. Alcano then defeated local favorite Reyes and defending champion Wu Chia-ching in the knockout stages, proceeding to the final. For winning the tournament, Alcano won US$100,000 which is the largest first prize ever won in the world nine-ball championship. In 2007, Alcano won the WPA World Eight-ball Championship by defeating his compatriot Dennis Orcollo in the final match 11–8. On 16 September 2007, Alcano finished second to Antonio Gabica in the Philippine Nine-ball Open. In an attempt to defend his title at the 2007 World Nine-ball Championship, Alcano was bested in the last 64 by Daryl Peach of the United Kingdom who ultimately won the title. On 11 December 2007, Ronato Alcano won the Philippines' 31st gold medal in the 24th Southeast Asian Games Men's 8-Ball Pool Singles at the Sima Thani Hotel Grand Ballroom.GMA NEWS.TV, Alcano bags gold in 8-ball pool, as RP drops to 6th overall On 25 April 2008, Ronnie Alcano lost his title at the World 8-Ball Championships in Fujairah City, United Arab Emirates. Germany's Ralf Souquet won the $60,000 championship prize, 13–9 final score.
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