Sentences with phrase «as meager»

Stepping outside of ourselves and helping those that are less fortunate enables us to really appreciate the good in our lives, as meager as it may be, and also to recognize that there is always someone that has less.

As the meager contributions to the GCF demonstrate, it's difficult to address climate change when 80 percent of the global population lives on less than $ 10 per day.

As they found when they looked at their finances and compared it with the cost of living abroad, you can take what you may think as meager savings and make them go much further in destinations like Hua Hin, Thailand, Cuenca, Ecuador, and Playa del Carmen, Mexico.

It was all there... their successes as well as the meager attempts.»

Although Oklahoma teachers have descended upon the capitol nearly every year to protest what they see as meager public education appropriations, it's no surprise that rallies during state election years are much larger.

When it comes to bonus features, this is as meager a 2 - disc set as they come, but what is there manages to compliment the film well.

Highlighting aluminum edges and weighing as meager as 5 pounds, most umbrella models offer a security gadget that alerts unplanned shutting.

Nation - states of considerable as well as meager development are variously located along the pluralism axis.

Now, top CEOs look at $ 100,000 as meager compensation for a week's work.

Not exact matches

A meager 37 percent see her as honest and trustworthy, while 57 percent say she's not.

It wasn't long ago that Warren Buffett dismissed airlines as businesses doomed to earn meager profits — or none.

Shorter - term cash rates remained dismally meager as well: a 30 - day term deposit went from paying 0.90 % to start the year to 1.00 % at the end of it.

Nonetheless, the percentage of government contracts going to women - owned firms remained a meager 3 percent as recently as 2002.

The meager outlook comes as U.S. television networks and cable providers are struggling to keep hold of viewers as more watch shows and movies on smartphones and tablets.

Most people can't simply «relax and take it easy» because they never do enough to free themselves from the meager existence that comes as a result of mediocre actions.

Expectations are muted: the recent consensus among economists surveyed by Bloomberg was that our GDP should expand by a meager 1.8 % in 2013, a pace commonly known as «stall speed.»

Westergren set out to license the genome to other sites as a recommendation engine, but after more than a year his efforts resulted only in a meager $ 20,000 development fee from Barnes & Noble.com.

Despite improving profitability, upcoming product releases (detailed below) and strong economic trends, HAS» current valuation implies meager profit growth, as we'll show below.

Among the stalwarts, Goldman Sachs and Lazard Freres advising Tribune and Methuselah Advisors, firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meager & Flom, as well as aggressive strategic communications firm Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher advising Gannett.

New, smaller brands will flourish in 2018 as the consumer seeks differentiation and retailers seek relief from the unprecedented promoting that drove the meager increases from the mega brands.

WDAY could reach profitability by cutting those two expenses to the same % of revenue as Oracle; however, the company's after - tax profit (NOPAT) would be a meager $ 40 million.

As every post is written to the Bitcoin Cash blockchain there is currently a meager limit of 74 characters per post.

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His battles are just abysmally meager because, If he has ever had a revelation of the universe and how the earth as huge as it is yet filled with pride and opinions; if destroyed is not even comparable to a match stick light spark from just a mile away, He will realize there is a Superior being Named Jesus who gives him the free air that he breaths.

For many it will fall short of a true theistic belief, and appear too meager to serve as a firm foundation for a religious philosophy of life.

Besides these methods for interrogating the text to yield up indications of its probable development, we do have some external evidence to rely upon, meager and disappointing as it may be.

While the Holy Spirit can and does work through every one of our meager attempts, continually experiencing the Good News in our own soul — especially as believers — is part of God's continual kingdom work, too.

Not only are the meager materials in the Gospels which deal with his earlier life obviously legendary and late, but even within the brief compass of his public career no certainty is possible as to the order of events and little as to the historicity of a great many particular events.

Part of the difficulties of Cartesian philosophy, and of any philosophy which accepts [presentational immediacy] as a complete account of perception, is to explain how we know more than this meager fact about the world although our only avenue of direct knowledge limits us to this barren residuum.

It is meager and scattered, as was recently demonstrated to me by my 22 - year - old cousin, and a lot of it I learned through character work and scene study.

These who may have few funds put aside gradually become penniless as rising prices and taxes absorb meager savings.

Simón does his best to help her while working for meager wages as a stevedore and pursuing a half - hearted relationship with another woman.

As a matter of fact, definite criteria of its date are meager.

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The literary evidence that the expectation of a «Messiah,» in so far as such an expectation existed at all, took these several forms is indisputable, although at points meager, and can be found cited in Charles and other writers on Jewish eschatology.

Quite obviously, we do not know all that he meant by it — we can not hope to, separated as we are by twenty centuries from his time and dependent as we are upon a few meager records — but we are by no means altogether in ignorance of his meaning, and as historical research enables us to recover more fully the mental climate of Jesus» environment, our understanding becomes deeper and more adequate.

Men may seem detestable as joint stock companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meager faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

As the generations passed from bare sustenance to meager surplus, a class of men emerged who were particularly adapt at manipulation of the spirit world.

We may dismiss his rigidness as excessive, but the question remains: Why does laughter hold such a meager place in our religion?

Unanchored as they are to anything concrete outside the self, the values and virtues encouraged by the leading strategies of moral education provide meager resources at best for sustaining and supporting our far - reaching moral commitments to benevolence and justice.

is a mere logicker, fastening on a word as the sole expression and exact equivalent of truth, to go on spinning deductions out of the form of the word (which yet having nothing to do with the idea), then he becomes a one - word professor, quarreling, as for truth itself, with all who chance to go out of his word; and, since words are given not to imprison souls but to express them, the variations continually indulged in by others are sure to render him as miserable in his anxieties, as he is meager in his contents, and busy in his quarrels.

Also (9) and (10) are at best rather meager sentences, with (11) only as their one logical consequence of interest.

Informed opinion, however, agrees with Gunnar Myrdal in An American Dilemma that there is a vicious circle at this point.8 Denied the cultural, educational, and economic advantages held by others, underprivileged groups tend to remain in this status, as in America the restriction of Negroes to unskilled labor and meager educational facilities has prevented their advancement to positions of leadership comparable with the more privileged.

My resume has as many gaps as jobs, and our meager belongings have shrunk rather than increased over the past four years.

Just as green - grabbing, millionaire musicians are never asked why the masses should give up their meager comforts to save the planet, while they themselves are permitted to grow ever - richer from their energy - hogging concert tours, Tebow could play a brightly - lighted night game every week and take a knee five times a yard to nothing but cheers, if only he embraced this year's anti-establishment, smart, and cool narrative.

Low - level achievement may well be insensitive to this gap either because the original resources are too meager or because there is insufficient awareness of the aims as received from God.

R. G. Usher has pointed out that the bishops did not possess the right to appoint the men they were expected to govern, the prerogative of determining what sort of men they should be, or the power to discipline them once they had been inducted.74 The decision as to qualifications for ordination had been taken from the bishops by the State, while the right of nomination to a parish post, after ordination, was largely controlled by lay patrons, and the bishops were forced to induct the nominee if he met the most meager requirements.

Any reconstruction of the primitive church's ministry — as indeed of any other phase of its outward life — must rest upon what are regarded as the implications of a very few scattered passages in a very meager literature.

If average qualifies as shooting well in his mind, it explains his meager improvement as a player, and also why he looks so disinterested much of the time.

Clemens has almost single - handedly pushed his team — which was hitting a meager.233 as of Sunday — to the top of the American League East.