Sentences with phrase «give pittances»

Live lavishly and give pittances a few.

As noted above, I dispute that premise, mainly based on my anecdotal evidence that public interest legal employers get far more applications than they can possibly hire for even given the pittance they normally pay.

«The plan boosts the incomes of the wealthy with surgical precision, but gives a pittance to most working people.

Not exact matches

Traditionally, most attention in Canadian government support has been given to technology and product readiness, with scant attention being paid to the fact that without proper commercialization strengths a large number of Canadian start - ups have died or have been acquired for a pittance by foreign businesses which then proceeded to harvest the economic benefits for the innovations initially developed by Canadian companies.

We are much more likely to pray for people who give more abundantly out of their abundance than to praise the person who gives us a truly heroic pittance.

The manager has previously talked about not being able to find the right players for the right money but here you have a proven Premier League player of quality for a pittance who would allow Wenger to give Ozil a rest every now and then.

Looks expensive now but may look a pittance / bargain if he gives us 10 years top class CB service.

Does it mean what it says - # 8bn of extra funding over five years, a mere pittance given the huge funding requirements of the service?

Or are they going to continue to get the pittance that Big publishers give them now?

Signing a contract that gives away everything and pays you a pittance is considered success.

Because traditional publishers are often foolish in how they handle ebooks — insisting on seeing them as contenders for paper sales rather than a different market entirely and generally overpricing them, in addition to generally giving the authors a pittance of a royalty on them.

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

The original interests in the company were priced at a pittance, giving large profits to those who sold them.

If an award ticket costs 60 or 70K points for this one - way route, and the accounting reimbursement is around $ 200 - 500, then how can you be surprised or disappointed that AA doesn't want to give you a F seat for such a pittance?

They will only give state and federal coffers a pittance in extra revenue to fund better education, health care, etc., so state governments are putting our climate, our communities, and our aquifers and farming land at risk for almost no financial benefit.

Or they may try to buy your silence with low dollar amounts; money that may seem like a lot but is in fact a pittance given all that you have been through.