Sentences with phrase «meager supplies»

Cookie Figowitz is the cook for a party of volatile fur trappers trekking through the Oregon Territory in the 1820s, desperate to find their way to the newly created Hudson Bay Company before their meager supplies run out.

To appease the red - haired captain, Wedgwood gets cracking with the meager supplies on board.

Some states provide grants or other funding streams to help teachers supplement the meager supplies that some cash - strapped schools make available.

With only meager supplies, Watney must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.

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Struggling to survive with only meager supplies, Watney manages to get a signal to Earth, leading NASA to search for a way to bring «the Martian» home, even as his own crew hatches a daring — and seemingly impossible — rescue plan.

With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.

With meager supplies, he must keep himself alive while NASA and his fellow crew members work to rescue him.

With only meager supplies, Watney must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to survive.

The squirrel tree frog, or Hyla squirella, lives in coastal forests from North Carolina to Texas and works hard to conserve what meager supplies of water it can scrounge during the arid southern autumn.

But our meager supplies fell far short of meeting what they need.

I enjoyed having her feed at the breast but my meager supply totally dwindled with stopping the dom and pumping so I quit at that point.

After trying all of the «home remedies», and even the prescription medication that was supposed to stimulate milk supply I decided to supplement my VERY meager supply.

Buthunger often forces them together when a bumper crop of grasshoppersencounters a meager supply of food and they must compete for it.

The rash of recent sales is depleting the already - meager supply of available homes.

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In October, Oakland was reported to have a meager 1.4 - month supply of homes for sale.

After a few short days, I found my once ample supply reduced to a meager two ounces a day.

The number of trains supplied by the MTA, however, did not keep pace, falling by three percent between 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. and rising by a meager three percent between 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.,» the report reads.

They can go for weeks without food and will survive on meager food supplies and continue to reproduce in their neighborhood.

used their meager budget to purchase supplies and their loyal volunteers came in droves to bring the facility to life, one building for cats, the other for dogs.

Reproducing to the limits of their food supply, they lead meager lives shortened by malnutrition, diseases, trauma and high kitten mortality.

It's a meager detail, for the levels contain generous amounts of heads for the player to replenish its supply.

In my opinion (and hopefully yours, after viewing these numbers), boosting supplies by the meager amounts proposed is not a reasonable solution to help the American consumer.

For example, in areas where climate change has decimated food resources, illnesses associated with mycotoxin molds are becoming more prevalent as people try to stretch their meager food supply over longer periods of time.

Intended to bolster Bangladesh's meager electricity supply, the plant is expected to start producing power by 2021.

With buyers snatching up anything that came up for sale, housing availability in the area had plummeted to a meager one - month supply at the end of 2004 and average annual appreciation had climbed to almost 25 percent.

«Closings were down in most of the country last month because interested buyers are being tripped up by supply that remains stuck at a meager level and price growth that's straining their budget,» says Lawrence Yun, chief economist at NAR.

«Closings were down in most of the country last month because interested buyers are being tripped up by supply that remains stuck at a meager level and price growth that's straining their budget,» said Yun.

Phoenix's meager 2.6 - month supply of homes indicates a supply shortage.

«With supply already meager at the lower - end of the price range, competition from these buyers only adds to the list of obstacles in the path for first - time buyers trying to reach the market.»