| Kilmarnock fared little better as the match descended into a scrappy affair of bad passing, close marking and bloodthirsty challenges. |
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| A derby match is seldom a pretty affair, with so much at stake games become scrappy. |
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| The last ten minutes was a scrappy, even bad-tempered, affair, which offered little in the way of pretty football. |
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| The possibility that this scrappy specimen has also undergone very significant deformation should be considered. |
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| His rambunctious, charismatic appeal does call to mind the scrappy sort of life force so present in American folklore. |
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| The game began to descend into a scrappy affair with play the balls getting messy and players getting confrontational. |
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| So it's a meaningless mismatch punctuated by spite, scrappy goals, cards and, with the exception of the peerless Pires, no flair. |
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| His spent his off season shipping of the slugger for the scrappy but slumpy speedster. |
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| He makes Eduardo and Hernandez look like the scrappy, ill-bred urchins they are. |
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| A scrappy move in a disjointed first half gave the home side their best chance of the half. |
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| Only in a bruising period of the second half, when the game turned scrappy, did Hibs lose their composure and control. |
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| The big Canadian cut inside and, with a typically scrappy attempt, sent a deflected shot spinning wide of the left-hand post. |
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| The stage is lusterless, the direction inert, the action scrappy, and every invitation for theatrical excitement turned aside. |
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| Despite Ruth's goal, however, play continued to be scrappy with few scoring chances created at either end. |
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| The result was a rather scrappy, disjointed affair, where space in midfield was at a premium. |
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| The appealing fragments are short and scrappy, the unappealing prose verbose and sometimes impenetrable. |
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| While it may have been a scrappy game, this performance was not riddled with the disappointment of the display at Fratton Park. |
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| Speeches and letters survive entire, though the other fragments are scrappy. |
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| A male opponent small enough for Diana to handle would have to be a scrappy waif of a flyweight. |
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| The material is subject to some wildly scrappy editing, with incidental characters brought in and summarily dropped. |
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| It was scrappy and messy but ultimately triumphant as York City Knights progressed to the last 16 of the Challenge Cup. |
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| The fold is off-centre giving it a scrappy, unfinished look at odds with the design's refinement. |
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| What she knew about China then was limited to the Great Wall and some scrappy information learned from school textbooks. |
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| Certainly, the first 45 minutes were scrappy, untidy and bereft of anything resembling skilful football. |
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| A pair has made a scrappy, twiggy nest around six metres from the ground in one of Williams' pine trees. |
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| However, there was nothing scrappy about the wonderfully executed goal that finally broke the deadlock at a critical juncture. |
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| The general impression was of a scrappy and superficial campaign, facing a coherent and single-minded Government. |
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| Still in control their concentration wavered to the point that the game became scrappy and disjointed. |
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| They like scrappy players and are willing to put up with temperament that goes along with it. |
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| The press remains scrappy and defiant, but its skepticism about lawyers has been embraced by the mainstream. |
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| Climbers I'd gotten to know took me out to a climbing area called Clifton Gorge, where we top-roped some scrappy little cliffs. |
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| In the earlier semi-final, Sheffield Steelers got the best of a scrappy game. |
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| Ronnie O'Sullivan breaks to get the final underway but the opening frame proves a scrappy affair lasting half-an-hour. |
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| Mirroring the South Side's rough-and-tumble image, the team consists mostly of scrappy, low-priced, no-name players. |
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| If we go out and play a solid defence and get that scrappy goal we will take that. |
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| Murphy edged into a 2-lead after a scrappy first frame, but after settling was able to find his potting range and put friendship aside as he forged ahead. |
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| The front offices of both teams have a strong sense of the type of basketball they want played and consistently bring in scrappy players who fit their systems. |
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| There's something a bit jittery about the entire enterprise, with its jumpy images, homemade presentation and scrappy ephemeralness. |
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| The scrappy and disjointed play continued after the restart as the Reivers pack began to exert more and more pressure, and began to control events. |
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| There was plenty of effort from both teams but overall this was a scrappy match and too many stoppages prevented either side from establishing any sort of pattern. |
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| Even in the scrappy draw with Everton last Monday, there were signs that it has given them a bit of their old zip, and they will approach this afternoon in good spirits. |
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| After a scrappy compromise was reached to avoid introducing a nationwide minimum wage, he openly accused Ms Merkel of party politicking. |
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| Photocopies of handwritten notes look scrappy and tend not to be valued. |
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| Unable to make sense of what was happening to them, they reacted tetchily and their play degenerated into niggling, scrappy attempts to win the ball. |
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| Richmond's recent dominance over Brisbane has continued with the Tigers scoring a comfortable 79-point win in a scrappy affair at the Gabba. |
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| If you want something more kinetic or scrappy feeling than you can go handheld and shoot looser. |
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| She described her quarter and semi-final matches as exciting but a bit scrappy, but now turned her attention to the final. |
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| For round two, Devi was scrappy but patient, and gained two points after a leg grab resulted in Huynh being flipped. |
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| He remains the symbol of the scrappy Canadian fighter pilot who faced danger like it was tomorrow's dinner. |
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| Schools can use programmes such as Word with scrappy knowledge of English but would need to know more to follow an online mathematics course. |
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| It was an opening period marked by some rough play and a handful of scrappy chances on both ends. |
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| Spurred on by the crowd, Sergio dominated a scrappy first-half as Ruben struggled to contain his nerves. |
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| A muddy band down one side congested play in the middle and made for a scrappy first half on a water-logged surface. |
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| During one hot summer in 1934, a love affair transformed a scrappy band of self-published poets into the biggest literary celebrities in the country. |
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| It was a very scrappy affair due to both teams being guilty of slowing down the ball at the ruck, an offence that the referee did not penalise often enough. |
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| The worst part was that she felt bad for Jake. The scrappy redhead, despite his size, had bettered the Cooper boy in the few moments of the tussle. |
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| With a 14-scoreline in almost as many minutes it looked like the Cougars were going to run up a cricket score but the game disintegrated into a scrappy affair. |
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| The game was strongly contested all through, two totally committed teams going for every ball with intent and this led to a degree of scrappy, stop-start hurling. |
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| The destruction of the old regime has triggered scrappy battles for power and influence, as chancers, coalitions and militias move into the vacuum left by the war. |
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| Ebdon kept himself in contention with a magnificent 123 break in the eighth but Gray won a scrappy ninth to move to within sight of the 82,500 first prize. |
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| It was scrappy and funny and insidery, all before celebrity-news saturation and the Internet made on-set goss as easy to procure as a weather bulletin. |
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| Now, India's scrappy generics industry is hoping for a bigger conquest. |
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| In a scrappy first half neither team seemed to get out of first gear. |
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| He is also well known for his ability to win scrappy frames with his tactical play and picking out shots to nothing. |
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| To date, our small, scrappy, all-volunteer initiative has provided more direct relief to current and former Corinthian students than state and federal agencies combined. |
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| The game became increasingly scrappy as the final whistle approached. |
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| It has the same underslung mouth and brawny shoulders as the redfish, and puts up a scrappy fight on light tackle. |
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| The scrappy kids who were there wanted to mix it up with whoever came in. |
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| It's about small teams, really scrappy, that iterate, iterate, iterate… speed defines everything, so the team focuses on building the highest performance, but as quickly as possible. |
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| After that, the seemingly immutable laws of the game dictated that the side on the back foot should take the lead, Roger Guerreiro netting a scrappy goal to hand Poland the lead on the half-hour. |
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| Unthreatened by the muggings that were routine a decade earlier, we claimed the identity handed down to us: a certain shabbiness, along with a good dose of brains and a scrappy sense of local pride. |
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| Madeleine's garden was perfunctory, compared with ours: there was a patio swing with chintz cushions, and a birdbath on the scrappy lawn, a few plants in the flower beds. |
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| There are egghead or intellectual firms, country-club or white-shoe firms, sporty or fratty companies, and gruff and scrappy corporations. |
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| But decisions to scrap directives and to improve scrappy directives are a process involving Parliament, and we expect a say in withdrawing or re-writing laws. |
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| Underscoring the scrappy end to the parliamentary year, the education minister fronted the Bolt Report on Sunday morning with an explicit appeal for party unity. |
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| The scrappy five-foot-eleven right-hander, who is sure to move up from his current career-high ranking of No. 22 in the world, has turned away several hot, young upstarts during his career-best Rogers Cup run this week. |
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| The roads in West Africa at that time were scrappy little affairs, mostly built in the 1970s and repaired since by occasionally plastering uneven lumps of macadam over the gaps that opened up after the rainy season. |
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| The best thing that has happened in golf, this is a product that is good enough for at least 20 rounds, and doesn't look scrappy on course. 5 stars from me! |
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| After the program, however, both boys became irritable and scrappy. |
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| In a couple of years this scrappy former industrial site has been transformed into a sophisticated boat haven with an eye-catching, modernist building. |
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| Forward Daiki Takamatsu's powerful back-post header 23 minutes into the second half gave Oita the lead before Brazilian Ueslei's late strike settled a scrappy final. |
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