Sentences with phrase «by meager»

It is the height of irony that many people who decline to give to charity at the door are the very people who are helped by the meager funds the volunteer canvasser brings in.

China's status in the world of cryptocurrency mining is made possible by meager prices for electricity.

In my opinion (and hopefully yours, after viewing these numbers), boosting supplies by the meager amounts proposed is not a reasonable solution to help the American consumer.

There really is a strange sense of satisfaction when you win a demon in a bid against imaginary bidders, and in contrast, a frustrating sense of loss when you lose a bid by a meager amount.

He secured victory by a meager six seconds.

The number of hotel rooms in the country is expected to increase in 2016, but only by a meager 1.9 percent, PwC said.

Doing so every month boosted them by a meager 0.15 %.

Mother, roused by the meager achievements of Vladimir's first quarter - century, was officially on the warpath.

We can make a better case for the V - 6, actually, because a really well - equipped one will cost less than $ 50,000, which puts it up against a less well - equipped BMW 530i or a fully loaded 525i powered by a meager 184 - hp in - line six, hardly a match for the Caddy's 3.6 - liter, 225 - hp V - 6.

«It was pure character assassination,» fumes Hintz, who won by a meager three - point margin.

In the end, we may need to accept the fact that the school's - and the state's - role in this domain is simply limited: by its meager portion of children's lives, by its pedagogical weakness, by the absence of political and intellectual consensus, and by the modest capabilities of state standards and tests.

Say you, like many people, excitedly signed up for a recurring $ 4.99 a month payment to gain access to EA's new subscription service for the Xbox One, only to be underwhelmed by the meager early offerings.

The number of trains supplied by the MTA, however, did not keep pace, falling by three percent between 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. and rising by a meager three percent between 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.,» the report reads.

Team Rosenberg just missed out on getting that key # 6 Spot by a meager 5 points — which would have allowed them to skip this Opening Round all together..

They just missed out on that by a meager 3 points..

Some readers may be dissuaded by the meager 41.3 % winning percentage, however, because you are often betting moneyline underdogs, you can turn consistent profits even if you're hitting on less than half of your bets.

Poch cant tie wengers shoes he hasnt proved nothing yet we qualified top four 20 years poch has done so once by a meager one point and if so this year is beacause he inherited the players bought by previous managers who have finally aged

Sure does look like the entire thing was written, changed, manipulated, interpreted and translated by meager humans in the first place.

Carried over from before the Revolution, it might have also been fortified by the meager, perilous years of the Civil War.

Spain will keep public sector wages frozen for a fourth straight year, while pensions will grow by a meager 0.25 % next year.

In fact, over the past 5 years, EPS has increased by a meager 5 % (not annualized... total!).

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.»

Price adds that profit sharing plans can cause resentments if, for example, large payouts in some years are followed by meager ones in subsequent years.

Not exact matches

Singapore has achieved this dazzling growth by stretching its meager means and using some extraordinary techniques of statecraft.

By the same token, small shops and independents sometimes have more meager track records.

Barbara grew up in a big family, meager means, made to believe she was deficient according to the standards of a grossly outdated education system, betrayed by a boyfriend and then went on to become a BOSS in real estate.

GDP grew by 0.55 percent in the second quarter of the year, which, although a meager growth rate, was welcomed because it signaled Nigeria's exit from the recession that it plunged into due to the oil price crash.

So far I've more than doubled my initial investment in the past couple years, much more than the meager returns offered by dividend stocks.

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.

First off, the company is looking to build on its budding e-commerce business (which currently accounts for a meager 1 % of sales) by enhancing its Website and launching a mobile platform (expected in the fiscal third quarter).

He dislikes Obama's continuation of many of President Bush's policies and he is disillusioned with Obama's meager leadership skills, but his criticism is fairly low - key, characterized by a sense of quiet restlessness.

I thank the powers of the Godly ordained to have made my sub-microbial celestially built body and the social generalist ambiances leavening for giving me an afforded life to be so lived out upon an Omni - celestial portion of planetary worldly passions felt by self - loathing critiques of renounced meager reckoning!

By contrast, when I attended a gathering of pastors from much smaller churches, nickel - and - dime operations with meager attendance on Sundays, barely able to support their pastors, I did not hear the pastors talk about improving their facilities or putting together a smoother operation for Jesus.

Unless amended by the Senate, the law's conscience protections will be more meager than those currently afforded in the case of abortion.

Second, my major ministry, the San Francisco Network Ministries, is among people long ago abandoned by the church — the frail elderly poor, the homeless, addicts and alcoholics, illiterates, people with AID»S / ARC who are living in poverty, prostitutes and other victims of our culture's «sex industry,» and people with various mental and physical disabilities struggling to live on meager benefit payments.

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.

The book is The Friends of Meager Fortune by the Canadian author David Adams Richards.

Every Nigerian city that I saw has its meager skyline overwhelmed by enormous mosques constructed by the Saudis.

It should take an average mathematician about fifty - five minutes to discover the above «truths,» working only with the meager figures provided by the Almanac [op.

This philosophy of the will which traverses all the levels of objectification, universalization, and realization is to my eyes the philosophy of the will, with much more justification than the meager determination of the Wille by the form of the imperative in the Kantian philosophy.

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.

Several commenters mentioned war and oppression caused by religion, while only a meager few spoke of the benefits of being religious.

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.

Or the theft of a meager flock, by which a shepherd eked out a literal hand - to - mouth existence, could easily result in intense suffering from malnutrition for the shepherd and his family, always undernourished at best, if not in the actual loss of one or more members of the family.

With America's meager pro-life protections under daily assault by the Obama administration, why give such a dismantling the imprimatur of an international «human rights body,» staffed by ideologues and committed to policies more radical than those of the most liberal Democrats?

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.

The amount of money he needs to make the land purchase isn't much by North American standards, although virtually unattainable on his meager salary.

We see certain qualities which have been realistically preserved and recreated — this utterly noneuphemized story of the sojourning Levite and his concubine, the degenerate townsmen, the women's tragic fate and the unhappy mores which dictated the circumstances (cf. Gen. 19), the Levite's shockingly dramatic response, the attrition of Benjamin, and the episodes of that tribe's very meager reconstitution [was Benjamin in fact depleted by Philistine massacre over the years?].

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.