(1) The shoelace-and-one-Velcro-strap closure gives easy access and a secure, adjustable fit with minimal shoestring / Velcro entanglement.(2) It was comparatively cheap to other courses but was always run on a shoestring .(3) Her organisation, already operating on a shoestring , is likely to close, after nearly six years of campaigning.(4) He ties rope, old shoestring , clothes hangers around his waist to keep his pants up.(5) Though if I use a stiff arm they'll fall down and shoestring tackle me.(6) However, despite throwing a walloping £19 million at a system that worked very well thank you on a shoestring , the corps has not been an unqualified success.(7) Many of the small neighborhood stores and restaurants, particularly those in poor areas, were already operating on a shoestring .(8) All its success is built on a shoestring , and now it must make more cuts.(9) Readers might well ask how on earth it can be that a website operating on a shoestring is left to provide such a vital and basic service to the public.(10) He said the eclectic team included ‘students, young graduates, bank managers and housewives’, all operating on a shoestring .(11) I don't want them living on a shoestring unless they absolutely have to.(12) It brings prestige to Scotland on a shoestring , and a great deal is done by people for whom it's a crusade, not a job.(13) As we were taking the field, in front of a crowd between 30,000 and 40,000, I tripped on my shoestring and fell flat on my face.(14) My fingers stumble a little as I knot the shoestring into a bow, like dancers in an unfamiliar routine.(15) It was such a rags to riches story which the brothers did on a shoestring .(16) But Hansen got back onto his feet in the blink of an eye, somehow got downfield, and dove to make a game-saving, shoestring tackle at the seven-yard line.