Sentences with phrase «for pittance»

Husband and I went looking for a tree later that night, and finally found a somewhat ragged one selling for a pittance.

Do you think a company like IBM would ever be forced by the CB to allow Mom and Pops IT shops to sell their products and services on IBM built and maintained websites for a pittance?

They now have to compete with what is being suggested is a sizeable influx of discount brokerages offering MLS listings for a pittance or nothing.

And here we are all sitting back saying lets help him along with that prediction and share the data and labour of 100,000 + agents with Point2 for a pittance.

CREA sold out their 100,000 members for a pittance, and that may yet come back to haunt them.

While there's no shortage of competition in the wireless streaming marketplace, the Chromecast Audio is among the simplest, cheapest, and most convenient ways to make virtually any audio device in your home wireless, while linking a few together can bring multiroom audio to your home for a pittance.

Pioneer was once king of the budget speaker market, offering a host of car and home audio speakers that pumped up the volume for a pittance.

More likely is the frantic call, late in the day, to cast a quick eye over some material, within an inadequate schedule, but to try not to find too much that needs alteration; and all for a pittance.

He explained to me that «you win some, you lose some,» with flat fees — meaning that sometimes you end up with a crazy high hourly rate at the conclusion of the case, and other times you end up working for a pittance.

With those doubts neatly planted in the press, the public shrugs, politicians push the problem off to another day, and ExxonMobil parries new fossil - fuel regulations, earning more windfall profits in exchange for a pittance to the skeptics and their work.

The whole climate caper is beginning to look like a revenge of the nerds — a mass movement of harmless types, tired of slogging away in the backwaters of science for a pittance, suffering ridicule and cutbacks, who have discovered the cure for their ills.

For a pittance of free conference travel, the possibility of an upgraded office with south - facing windows plus a few other perks the entire scientific community (apparently starting as far back as the mid-19th century) has constructed a nefarious and intricate plot, caring not a whit about their drastic and unfair impact on everybody else!

Okay, Jon Stewart made precisely zero reference to TreeHugger, but it is true you can subscribe to TreeHugger on Kindle for a pittance on ye olde paperless Kindle original flavor, or on the bright shiny K2.

Later, after the Brazilian federal government and the state of Rondí» nia enacted laws to protect the remaining territory, the Suruí themselves began striking deals with illegal loggers and selling the wood for a pittance — largely because, in economic terms, the forest was worth more dead than alive.

Unfortunately, his customary indiscipline and desire for alcohol kept him in a state of near poverty, forcing him to resort to peddling hack copies of alehouse scenes (excellently painted but sold for a pittance) and even painting signs and coach panels.

Her travel was restricted to a small area around Tiananmen Square, so Croës bought a bicycle and roamed the neighborhood buying antique sculptures, calligraphy and paintings for a pittance.

Franz West sold his art with gusto, whether for a pittance or for astronomical prices, like a great Zen master.

There are endless stories of famous artists selling their work for a pittance before they become well known.

For a game that has a decent - size world to explore, a multiplayer option and a friendly upgrade system all for the a pittance is a real bargain.

It's a subtle but much - appreciated change — I can't count the number of times in SW4 I was annoyed by receiving an inferior version of a weapon that I already had in my possession, and my only recourse was to sell it for a pittance.

With nearly twenty years experience of lovingly producing work for a pittance, I think I'm eminently qualified!

Not to mention, it's gone on sale for a pittance quite a few times, including the Humble Monthly Bundle.

If you do own a Wii U though I highly recommend you pick it up for the pittance its worth now as the local multiplayer modes they'll be excising from this updated release are actually some of the best the system has to offer, making actual use of the Wii U's gamepad like no other game has since.

I think the big problem with this kickstarter is that the funding goal feels completely unrealistic — they're showing off a big fancy 3D RPG but they're asking for a pittance.

Used copies of older Madden games can be obtained for a pittance from your local game store, and the first game in the long - running is available to play online thanks to the Internet Archve's preservation efforts.

If you are in, or can get to Florida or Arizona this spring and want to do a little road tripping, car rentals are going for a pittance from most larger Florida cities and at least in Phoenix, AZ..

Which ultimately ended up in me working in a pub for pittance and spending most of my time drinking.

Meanwhile, your friend, relative, or broker, for a pittance, has just bought a placemat or birdcage liner.

Think of AIG writing gonzo amounts of subprime AAA RMBS CDS for a pittance.

Yet the only translators willing to do such demanding, skilled work for a pittance or nothing at all will most likely be inexperienced at best and unqualified at worst.

This was the only expense I encountered, and my cover artist did them for a pittance.

For a pittance, you can purchase something great to read while supporting a writer with a large family and lots of mouths to feed.

For this pittance, you get thirteen months of writing prompts — from the creative minds at Indies Unlimited.

Most of the authors I've discovered are either in the library system or available online for a pittance.

Unless you want to be working 24/7, like some comic artists, for a pittance.

These authors will give their books away for a pittance or for free.

You can grab courses that normally sell for hundreds of dollars for a pittance, on just about any subject.

I have settled for pittance for my free lance stuff, and I learned the hard way.

Furthermore, it would have hurt my career potential if I had signed away the rights of my books for a pittance to a predatory industry.

The performance and excitement you get for that pittance is absolutely astonishing.

Peterson, director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard and Executive Editor of Education Next (of which I am a contributing editor), uses the Mac the Knife reference to suggest that loyalties can be bought «for a pittance.»

In place of Begin Again's insufferably starry - eyed music - industry idealism (where the big innovation that gets record producer Mark Ruffalo jazzed up is selling an album for a pittance and spending nothing on promotion), Sing Street features characters who don't really know what they're doing, to results both hilarious — check out their music video costuming — and poignant, as with Jack Reynor's older - brother subplot.

Leviathan (R for profanity, sexuality and nudity) Legal drama about a humble family man (Aleksey Serebryakov) who retains the services of an attorney (Vladimir Vdovichenkov) to prevent his seaside home with a view from being seized for a pittance through eminent domain by a corrupt mayor (Roman Madyanov).

Gates, we're told, not only connived to get DOS for a pittance, but copied Apple's graphical interface for Windows.

Particularly with the custom of those betters hiring caddies for a pittance to compete against one another on the course, like so many race horses on a track, and winning large sums on the side bets they make with one another.

``... this renaming gimmick is intended to be a cheap diversionary tactic from the overwhelming demand from Ghanaians for President Akufo - Addo to stop mortgaging our sovereignty for a pittance,» the NDC added in the statement.

An illegal war Uncontrolled immigration # billions leaking every year via new quangos Students (in England) now have to mortgage their futures to get to University 24 hour binge drinking breakdown of the family vast increase in licensed gambling External debt quadrupled to $ 11 Trillion making us the second largest debtor nation in the world after the USA at $ 12 Trillion (we may overtake them later this year) Pension funds pillaged for # 5Bn a year Gold reserves sold for a pittance Children leaving school unable to read or write NHS a basket case - 1 in 10 leave hospital sicker than when they went in.

Yup all those uncompetitive industries should just employ child labor, preferably 16 hours a day for a pittance.

``... this renaming gimmick is intended to be a cheap diversionary tactic from the overwhelming demand from Ghanaians for President Akufo - Addo to stop mortgaging our sovereignty for a pittance,» the NDC stated.

WHEREAS this renaming gimmick is intended to be a cheap diversionary tactic from the overwhelming demand from Ghanaians for President Akufo - Addo to stop mortgaging our sovereignty for a pittance.