He scrapes his face like an Englishman.

She's just tired of getting me out of scrapes. Got me out of Austria.

I know Bruno's been in some very awkward scrapes but nothing so ridiculous as a murder.

In IFAD s experience, working simply to double the income of a smallholder farmer who scrapes by on less than a dollar a day is poverty management, because at two dollars a day, he or she still remains poor.

Against the backdrop of the financial crisis, and as public support for climate change policies scrapes new lows in many developed countries, we hear less from leaders about the threat of global warming, and more about the supposed economic benefits of climate policies.

The Gulf oil spill dwarfs comprehension, but we know this much it's bad. Carl Safina scrapes out the facts in this blood boiling cross examination, arguing that the consequences will stretch far beyond the Gulf and many so called solutions are making the situation worse.