Sentences with phrase «earn meager»

Bitcoin traders were showing some resiliency Monday as prices attempted to earn meager gains following a rough weekend for the No. 1 cryptocurrency.

Classic characters like Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader take a whopping 15,000 credits to unlock while completing matches online and offline will only earn you a meager 100 - 200 credits per match.

You can do so even if you earn a meager salary, or even if you are a starving college student.

Also, it was his way to earn his meager living expenses.

Prisoners earn meager wages and have no recourse if they're mistreated, LeBaron argues.

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

She earned a meager salary, barely enough to support her family.

I was born in the California desert to a woman who had earned a meager living working as a stripper.

Dwayne (Liam Hemsworth) earns meager wages while working for his girlfriend's dad, played by Billy Bob Thornton, in «Cut Bank.»

Earning a meager income selling maize (corn) on the gridlocked streets of Kampala, the family members return home to the slums of Katwe where they eat a meager meal and settle in for another dark night.

Independence Day: Resurgence has so far not been a hit with either critics or filmgoers, earning a meager 34 % on Rotten Tomatoes and taking in a disheartening $ 41.6 million domestically in its opening weekend.

This mother of two in India earns a meager living, but sadly, much of her income goes to medical bills due to a water - borne illness.

Aside from earning meager wagers, diamond miners often go without access to adequate health care or insurance.

General spending, on the other hand, earns a meager rate of 1 point per dollar.

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It was a way to keep them in their place, willingly contribute their meager earning and enrich the minority lords and the church alongside.

Just about everyone I met was working some sort of angle for money in excess of the meager salaries they earned in their real jobs.

During the summer, teachers are either teaching summer school for a meager amount of money over what they earn during the school year, or they are paying money for continuing improvement courses that they can not afford on their teacher's salary.

Shott made do with a meager income from the Federal Work - Study Program and earned money working in local preservation archaeology.

It has earned nearly $ 77 million at the global box office from a meager production budget of around $ 3.5 million.

With a meager budget but memorable moments of suspense, decease the film marks a return to form of sorts for the writer / director, who earned accolades for his work on the Oscar - nominated film The Sixth Sense.

Unhappily married Depression - era waitress Cecilia (Mia Farrow) earns the money while her inattentive husband, Monk (Danny Aiello), blows their meager income on getting drunk and gambling.

Ever heard the tale of the traditionally published debut author that didn't sell enough books to earn out his meager advance?

The middle class elderly need to stretch the meager incomes that they have amid low interest rates (courtesy of the Fed), and are tempted by those offering plans where they can earn more on their assets.

EE savings bonds are paying a meager.10 %, however if you hold EE bonds for 20 years you are guaranteed to double you investment and you will earn 3 % if held for 20 years.

I looked at my meager income (at the time) and saw a wide gap between what I earned and what it would take to pay off the loans.

Picture this: You're earning $ 50,000 a year but for one year you decide to stretch your budget to the max and live off of a meager $ 20,000.

Interest rates have been so low for so long that fixed income investments such as CDs and savings deposits lost money since the meager interest earned didn't offset inflation all of those years.

That trounces the meager 1.88 % we're earning with our cash - back Freedom card.

Getting 5 percent back on B&N purchases is a great perk of the Barnes & Noble card, but the meager sign - up bonus of a $ 25 gift card and the limited nature of the rewards you earn makes it less appealing than most cashback cards.

Otherwise, the meager 1x points you earn will not make up for the fees!

Charge $ 20,000 to earn 10,000 BMW reward points, which you can exchange for the meager «reward» of $ 100 — which, depending on how quickly you pay off that card, won't even cover the card's interest payments for long, given the BMW Platinum Visa's variable APR of 2.99 percent to 13.99 percent on top of the prime rate.

It probably doesn't make sense to get a reward card just for the purpose of earning extra points on your phone bill or gym membership, because the amount you spend on those are probably meager compared with other categories.

For Virgin America's Elevate members the earning rates for Singapore Air - operated flights are pretty meager:

These competitions require Rally Tickets to play (earned by completing Tour stages and collecting coins), but losses will also cost Toads from one's personal stock, a gut - punch that doesn't exactly encourage players to take on higher - level opponents, for fear of eroding their already meager population even further.

Because June honestly discloses that she earns $ 4,000 each month mining BitCoin out of the laundry room, while Ward earns a robust and era - appropriate, but comparatively meager, $ 10,000 annually at his 1950s company job, June tops him up substantially.

Contrast this meager return with what the beneficiary would have earned had the same amount been deposited over the decades in a 6 % savings account, or in mutual funds paying a long - term average of 12 %!

Of the four measures of economic well - being, New Jersey's outlook worsened in three — the percent of children living in families earning below the meager federal poverty line of about $ 23,500 for a family of four, children whose parents lack secure employment and children living in families paying too much for housing.