Sentences with phrase «meager funds»

Earlier this year, Wisconsin's Democratic Governor and Legislature reduced the already meager funding for the 20 - year old Milwaukee Parental Choice Program.

They can devise application procedures with absurd time - tables or use meager funding formulas to slash the dollar allocations to charters.

The churches, however, were mostly meager funders of their schools; what they gave amounted to only a token part of the budgets each college had to balance annually.

Because Miner has managed the city's meager funds well, and precisely because she is unwilling to kick the can down the road, why should Cuomo threaten to install a fiscal review board over her, thereby disenfranchising the voters who elected her?

Still, the effort's slow pace and meager funding prompted Szilárd and Einstein to compose a second letter urging the president to consider whether the American work was proceeding quickly enough.

And he is doing so with meager funding and only a small band of supporters.

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

But the researchers also note that Provo - Orem's healthcare services can be expensive, and there is meager funding for older - adult programs.

Part of the WFP endorsement deal reportedly included creation of a $ 10 million fund to bolster the DSCC's meager funds.

Despite her enthusiasm, Sclafani offered only a few funded programs, all with (by Washington standards) meager funding.

The washed - up fighter in «Real Steel» is Charlie (Jackman), a former contender who lost his shot at the title and now, in the realm of robot fighting, uses his meager funds to buy cast - off robots and fight on the smalltown circuit.

Could anyone truly imagine that those 2012 reforms, together with whatever initiatives and meager funding may come out of the 2013 legislature, are sufficient for affixing the «Mission Accomplished» banner outside the Capitol complex, proclaiming that the state at long last is meeting its constitutional obligation to schoolchildren?

Apart from South Africa, where some of the Big Five publishers have local branches, the few traditional publishers in Africa tend to prefer buying rights to books that have already sold in the West, instead of risking their meager funds by investing in unknown local talents.»

There isn't much money to go around in the first place and chances are, you're likely to spend the meager funds on purchasing healing items, weapons, and gear just to keep them alive during regular battles.

Again, restricted by physical limitations and meager funds, his sculptures are all exquisite maquettes waiting to be enlarged.?

It is the height of irony that many people who decline to give to charity at the door are the very people who are helped by the meager funds the volunteer canvasser brings in.