Sentences with phrase «from meager»

Coinbase has beefed up their customer support to around 180 people from the meager 24 it had at the start of 2017.

This practice boosted the carbon content of the soils from a meager 0.5 percent to 9 percent.

The number of volcanoes erupting across the planet has been steadily rising from a meager number of just 55 recorded in 1990.

Don't let his meager, long - locked look fool you; Vayne is far from the meager man he presents himself.

Adding in this far more powerful battery will supercharge your GamePad from a meager three hours to a whopping eight.

Considering the breathtaking art of Hollow Knight, we would have expected an entire team of animators would be needed toproduce this quality, but shockingly the game comes from meager beginnings.

's Nursery, from its meager beginnings to the groundbreaking phenomenon that it is today.

Started in 1977 by a pair of dedicated animal lovers who were rescuing cats off the street, Felines Inc. has evolved from meager beginnings — a basement apartment — into a comprehensive two - story facility that is currently in the process of a much needed makeover.

From the meager app offerings to the clunky UI and cumbersome build, it's a device that feels significantly older than it really is at this point.

They could study at home from a meager selection of textbooks if they chose, but their father valued practical skills more.

From its meager per - pupil allocation, Omega had to pay for all staffing, food services, special education, facilities, instructional materials (books, computers, etc.), and other expenses associated with running a school.

Still, Collateral certainly ranks as one of the best thrillers of recent years, drawing a wealth of entertainment from its meager storyline through terrific characterizations and the occasional moment of pithy contemplation.

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

Her father, a retired factory worker, sells cigarettes and vegetables from a meager stand in front of their house.

Suddenly I «konprannéd,» to borrow a verb from my meager Creole vocabulary.

Astronomers must deduce their properties from the meager pinpoints of light they reflect.

Now a team of scientists has been able to reconstruct their entire genome from these meager fragments.

According to them, the insurance package, which will see a monthly deduction of GH cents 15 from their meager allowance, was launched without due consultation with personnel.

The NSS announced the insurance package, which will see a monthly deduction of GH cents 15 from the meager allowances of service personnel, some whom have...

If bottom placed & mid-table teams can afford to spend from their meager income to improve their teams, why won't arsenal do the same?

The true minimalist would disregard the Genesis — 2 Kings narrative altogether and attempt to determine what can be known from the meager epigraphical references and archaeological remains alone, interpreted without any prompting from the Bible.

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.

I've heard some great stories about entrepreneurs who came from meager beginnings only to rise and prevail against poverty.

Not exact matches

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.

Last year, women comprised a meager 7 percent of directors for the top 250 films, a two - point drop from 1998, according to the Center For the Study of Women in Television & Film.

The hope was that antisense oligos for everything from cancer to HIV would roll off the pharmaceutical assembly line — but despite a generation of valiant effort, the successes on this front have been meager.

After meager beginnings with a few small newspapers, Dilbert gradually grew, growing from 100 newspapers in 1991 to 400 in 1994.

And few company founders come from such meager beginnings.

In response to such a call from the G - 20 in Washington, D.C. last week, Germany's finance minister side stepped the issue and talked about the need for the ECB to start withdrawing its money market liquidity — i.e., whatever remains of a meager life support to economies crushed with 19 million people out of work and 3.6 million of young people unable to find jobs and make a living.

In 2011, the median hourly wage rate for this job was a meager $ 11, a slight drop from 2010.

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.

For the time being, however, when many of these entrepreneurial young people graduate, they are more likely to be collecting a meager hourly wage from behind a cash register than they are to be starting businesses.

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.

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.

The government's modest increase in this payment is tied to a correspondingly meager rise in the Consumer Price Index from the third quarter of 2014 through the third quarter of 2016.

The Harper government also made Canada the only country that lowered its ambition in the lead up to the Copenhagen COP but nonetheless is far from getting even close to meet even that meager target.»

Revisions from the Bureau of Labor Statistics flipped Decatur's jobs growth from negative to positive over the year, though the growth was meager.

But 12 months from now, valuations may cool down to a meager one percent increase,» says Westfield.

However because I was a student I was ineligible for any assistance other than the meager student aid that I got from the government that barely covered my tuition.

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.

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

Grey emerged from the meeting with the support of more activists — individuals and small groups that had been fighting lonely battles with meager resources.

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.

From this perspective, the article then drew the conclusion that the «meager» results of crusades compared to the great cost in time, energy, and money represented a failed stewardship of God's resources.

But what profited such a God — remote, selfish, indifferent, jealously watching the presumptions of troublesome man, and at the most conceding certain meager favors that served to redeem human life from stark intolerability?

Yet even the cultural interest from Solomon's time onward continued to be, so our too meager evidence would indicate, largely utilitarian.

As best as I can tell, from your two meager sentences, you have experienced nothing more than I did.

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.

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.

And why are there only meager remains from Solomon's supposed capital Jerusalem, the centerpiece of his building projects, that can be dated even approximately to the tenth century?