Sentence examples for scratch meant from inspiring English sources

For hard-bitten horseplayers like the four friends, however, the scratch meant the odds on his rivals would unfortunately drop.

But it said the startup costs of a new national station, and the years it would take to build a substantial audience from scratch, meant any such auction would not have been competitive at all and would have generated little outside interest.

Knowing they would have to build every venue from scratch meant that every stadium would need dual purposes to fulfil the International Olympic Committe's legacy criteria and this is where Putin's vision for a new Russia starts to hit home.

Building a hotel from scratch means "there isn't as much financial upside," he admits.

Failure to bring the work up to scratch means the builder is in breach of contract.

We're not just looking for scratches, it's what the scratch means to the process that's important.

Starting from scratch means you're undoubtedly sweating blood to build your startup but don't expect other people to do any kind of perspiring on your behalf.

The relatively small scale of English and Welsh whisky distilling, as well as the fact that every operation has been built from scratch, means that now is an exciting time to learn about what the future of whisky in the U.K. outside of Scotland might look like.

This delay in the shift away from parallelism in the GPU architecture and the decision to re-design a new Mac Pro from scratch means that the new machine will not be arriving this year, and is instead slated to appear some time next year or further out (Apple did not specify).

Not to mention that causing people to start from scratch means that the U.N. has to process people a second time, which causes extra work and eats at precious resources, Nezer added.

Making soft drinks from scratch means actually purchasing the ingredients that are used to cause carbonation to occur in water.