Sentence examples for scramble to pay from inspiring English sources

The frustrations were heightened by the fact that the Grammy producers had to scramble to pay tribute to Whitney Houston, who had died the day before.

Diageo would scramble to pay a top-shelf price for a portfolio that includes some less attractive brands, a few in categories it already dominates.

The promised checks are not in the mail, and a small army of workers, owed hundreds of thousands of dollars, scramble to pay the rent and buy groceries.

Williams's chief executive, Alan S. Armstrong, has already done enough for Southern Union shareholders by forcing a rival to scramble to pay 20 percent more for assets it coveted.

Pressure has been mounting across the Atlantic as Greece, Portugal and a handful of struggling countries that use the euro scramble to pay off mountains of debt accumulated from years of profligate spending.

But a quadrupling of the price of natural gas over the last year will spread its effects through the economy as a whole, as factories, electric utilities and retailers join suburbanites in the scramble to pay their mounting gas bills.

As profits and sales slip, some European businesses are scrambling to pay their bills.

Mr. Schultz, now 30, was living in Brooklyn and scrambling to pay the rent.

Now many are scrambling to pay their bills, and new orders are out of the question.

And then you deal with people who are attuned to scrambling to pay their bills and not the wonders of the creative enterprise.

Addi Feinstein, 23, is a recent Yale graduate, scrambling to pay her share of a five-roommate apartment.