Sentences with phrase «make meager»

And that wreath... I really have to get on the ball and make a meager attempt at trying this!

I make a meager income doing freelance work, but depression and anxiety make it very difficult for me to be productive, so my income isn't reliable.

For many of us, it's a February frenzy as we try to scrape together some funds to make a meager RRSP contribution.

If you have nothing but long shots in your portfolio, you are likely to make meager returns or lose money over long periods, rather than making the high returns you seek.

Although I make a meager salary, I'm still fortunate and privileged enough to be able to save 8 % every month.

He said in an interview that «the club can't make a meager 20 # and spend 40», indeed he is correct.

Arsene Wenger made a meager couple of changes, which were forced due to injuries, from Saturday's clash against Crystal Palace.

At the World Cup for Germany, Ozil made a meager 0.8 crosses per game, which is way below than Robben's (1.8), Valbuena and Di Maria's (3.7), and Neymar's (2.0).

On an environmentally ravaged coast, Nailer makes a meager living as a light crew scavenger tearing up old hulks of ships.

It's often easy to forget in this day and age of high definition graphics and 5.1 surround sound that Role Playing Games made their meager start with a pencil, paper and dice.

Not exact matches

Facebook released its third - annual diversity report Thursday, showing, once again, the company has made little progress in employing African Americans and Hispanics and only meager headway in finding more roles for women.

Will big banks suddenly start making all the relatively meager loans that aren't very lucrative for them?

All of them were looking for insights to help them kick - start their companies, trying to find cost - effective solutions that make their rather meager resources go far.

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.

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grew up in a big family, meager means, made to believe she was deficient according to the standards of a grossly outdated education system, betrayed by a boyfriend and then went on to become a BOSS in real estate.

The total number of daily Bitcoin transactions has lingered around 60,000 since the beginning of the year, and consumers paying with currency make up a meager percentage of total sales for companies like Expedia and Overstock.

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.»

Given China's meager participation in US steel trade, it's hard to see how Trump's tariffs are going to make much of a difference on that score.

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!

What seems specially noteworthy in this connection is the meager use that the philosophy of organism makes of its own central concept of organism.

The Immigration and Naturalization Service seems to have found additional ways to stall, pass inequitable regulations and judge cases so harshly that even those who have some slight hope of making it into the meager allotment from Africa will not get processed during fiscal year 1990.

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.

I also recall the satisfaction that has attended the experiences in which I have been able to make even a meager contribution toward bettering a tragic situation.

I would love a cookbook to add to my meager collection — the few I have are half battered from use and it's always a thrill to page through crisp pages and want to make everything all at once!

But obviously the AKBs usually don't understand how real statistics work and will usually cherry pick their data to support some meager point they make while ignoring the bigger picture.

Sports Action will make $ 100,000, admittedly a meager sum for one year's work.

Below is a breakdown of some of the state's top teams of meager enrollment and the gridders who make them special.

357), a book like this would make a great addition to our meager collection.

So how do schools make «healthy» affordable food kids will actually consume on the meager allowance the federal government gives them?

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

In contrast, when the Japanese students realized they would need sugar to make uranium hexafluoride (from which they could extract the uranium) they had to bring in their own meager rations.

What's left over makes it deep under the surface and supports a meager population of microbes, which is too small to deplete all the oxygen.

Last July, in an effort to bring attention to the oversight, two pediatricians published a review in the Journal of Adolescent Health discussing the meager strides made in the two years since the creation of the diagnosis.

It is such meager dietary differences that make up the time differential between a gold medal and dead last.

Eggs made up the bulk of my diet during graduate school as they were one of the few whole, unprocessed foods I could afford while living on a meager budget of $ 400 / month.

The excellent option settings and the great controls make up for the somewhat meager content.

The ones that do are the ones you'll remember and there are at least a dozen of memorable sight gags and funny lines interspersed throughout Naked Gun 2 1/2 to make it worth the meager 85 minutes spent.

It made only about $ 2.8 million at the box office and currently stands at a meager 39 percent on the Tomatometer.

In any event, the meager stated cost mixed with highly respectable grosses ($ 53.6 million stateside and another $ 34 M overseas) made Insidious one of the few certain hits in a year that has seen budgets soar while surcharges and returns fizzle.

As in years past our favorites came mostly from the indie sector, where imagination and heart made up for meager budgets and fewer f / x.

We see her jumping out of bed, huddling in a blanket while trying to light the stove in her meager apartment; she works in a department store where the management makes everybody wear winter Santa hats indoors; and when her sweet dope of a boyfriend (the always - great Jake Lacy of Girls and Obvious Child) tries to make plans for the two of them, she brushes him off by saying, «It's too cold, I can't think straight.»

At night he and his wife (Kristen Wiig) watch TV pitchman (Neil Patrick Harris) talk about the latest craze, called downsizing: Shrink yourself down to a few inches, and move to a planned community — called Leisure Land — of tiny people and tiny houses where meager savings can stretch almost infinitely and make you effectively rich.

As Variety notes, the initial estimates and expectations prior to the film's release had Black Panther making around $ 100 to $ 120 million in its opening weekend — a number that looks positively meager compared to the final figures.

We still like all of these actors, and they are still a talented bunch, yet they are also a forgotten crew of thespians who sadly have to settle for rather meager films like HEARTBREAKERS for them to continue to make a living.

The weekend's sole new wide release was the Morgan Freeman film «Just Getting Started,» which launched to a meager $ 3.2 million from 2,161 theaters and barely made the top 10.

Westworld made back that meager investment and...

Perhaps counterintuitively, flagrant disregard for the law proves itself an invaluable asset in this new enterprise, making these felonious Robin Hood - types uncommonly effective in protecting the meager from the powerful.

So, the struggling mother of two has to support her five (James Reilly) and fifteen year - old (Charlie McDermoott) sons alone on the meager salary she makes working part - time at a dollar store.

The bad news is that America's highest - performing students have made very meager progress during this time period.

We have an obligation to assess the true value of that technology, however, before using our often meager funding to make purchases.