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One day, while trying to eke out a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog.

Given the circumstances, what sort of arguments can the French right put forward to eke out a victory?

Eventually, his parents had to invest more money to help their only son eke out a meager living by running his own electronics store.

It would often be better, she thinks, not to try so hard to eke out a few more hours or weeks but to concentrate on quality of life.

The three dollars he received for the triolets he used to eke out a precarious existence against the arrival of the WHITE MOUSE check.

at worst, they are a sign that employees have spent too much time trying to eke out improvements in the wrong areas.

They forged a sense of commonality in their collective effort to eke out a living and to mould a feeling of community and identity.

The empress dowager managed to eke out her life of souvenir in her palace.

In the surrounding countryside, farmers eke out a living growing a variety of crops, mostly rice and peanuts.

He asked about the present condition and I tried to eke out the little knowledge I had collected.

The novel ends with a broken Xiangzi picking up cigarette-ends to eke out a miserable living.

Systematically studying on the choice of instruments in policy implementation will eke out the gap in "Policy Implementation Research" .

Turkey says that as many as 70, 000 illegal Armenian migrant workers, mostly women, eke out a living as servants and nannies in Istanbul.

Not only were they worse than statistical models, they could barely eke out a tie with the proverbial dart-throwing chimps.

I set out one afternoon to go a-fishing to Fair Haven, through the woods, to eke out my scanty fare of vegetables.

North Koreans certainly struggle to eke out a living, but they are not starving.

The nation should still manage to eke out a surplus this year.

This excludes the subsistence farms where 4m black families eke out a living.

Relax the muscles in your jaw, forehead, and lips to keep cool, then eke out a grin.

There are many humble dwellings scattered about the valley and most all of the inhabitants have to struggle in order to eke out a living.

They had to eke out a living on a tiny income.

Microsoft believes it can eke out $1 billion a year in cost savings from the combined operations.

However, you end up spending a lot of money to try to eke out acceptable performance.

Most city refugees must eke out an existence in illegal or informal sectors of the economy.

To eke out a full-time living from their honeybees, about half the nation's 2, 000 commercial beekeepers pull up stakes each spring.

Even top graduates who find a placement in the CTA only eke out a living.

He is a qualified mechanic, but he afterwards but eke out her the international trade.

Amid regular power cuts, Cyprus will be lucky to eke out any economic growth this year.

Families eke out a living by growing what food they can and by fishing.

Chinese producers are focusing on ways to eke out more profits.

Migrants send home cash that helps eke out low village incomes.

Japan's economy has been ailing for 20 years, barely managing to eke out weak growth between slowdowns.

But he harbors doubts about stocks' ability to eke out gains past 2010.

Eventually, the server will eke out a response, and only at that point does your GWT code do the wonderful thing you have planned.

I am SaLuSa from Sirius and look at you struggling to exist, and eke out a living.

Trading simply means naming a spread of buy and sell prices from which they can eke out tiny but regular profits, a business without risk.

The car should eke out 50 miles to the gallon, Mr Tata says.

Cars must eke out 39 miles (63km) per gallon, on average; light trucks must manage 30 miles.

In old China workers and peasants could hardly eke out a living, let alone send their children to school.

Mr. Loshipa and his family eke out living herding cows in what is essentially a desert.

eke out a scanty subsistence by fishing

Eke out a living on a poor salary

to eke out an income with a second job

the crew started to eke out there scanty supply of fresh water