Sentences with phrase «more meager»

Ingvar Kamprad's heirs will have a more meager fortune derived from family - owned Ikano Group, a collection of finance, real estate, manufacturing and retail businesses.

They will have a more meager fortune derived from family - owned Ikano Group, a collection of finance, real estate, manufacturing and retail businesses which had total assets of about $ 10 billion in 2016.

The Mega will come with a more meager 8 GB of internal memory but will have a microSD slot for expansion.

You pay a fixed percentage of your (probably regrettably more meager than you would like) discretionary income and at the end of 20 to 25 -LSB-...]

For years Fred Sandback or Sheila Hicks has transformed empty space into color with a single thread, but what could sound more meager?

Some small banks and credit unions still offer rewards on debit cards, but they tend to be more meager than current credit card reward offers.

Not all store cards are created equal — some offer 5 percent off every day, while others might have more meager rewards that are a certain percent off on first use, plus occasional coupons.

This gave me somewhat more meager returns on the warrants, in the 3.8 % -8 % range.

But if you avoid piling on debt, save consistently and track your progress periodically — which you can do with a good retirement calculator like this free version from T. Rowe Price — you'll reduce the chance that you'll have to live a more meager lifestyle than you'd envisioned in retirement.

In these instances, however, the actual flow of new dollars into poor districts is more meager than when Democrats are in control.

Thus, no matter how precisely she specifies the event or her response, she can not exhaustively specify the event in its full concreteness before it occurs.8 This is why Hartshorne says that «the fulfillment of a plan, which is always an outline only, implies the plan, but the latter, being more meager in definiteness, can not imply the fulfillment» (CSPM 122).

Unless amended by the Senate, the law's conscience protections will be more meager than those currently afforded in the case of abortion.

By the same token, small shops and independents sometimes have more meager track records.

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.

The meager outlook comes as U.S. television networks and cable providers are struggling to keep hold of viewers as more watch shows and movies on smartphones and tablets.

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.

More recent buyers may not like the meager premium.

So far I've more than doubled my initial investment in the past couple years, much more than the meager returns offered by dividend stocks.

True figures are more in the range of 130 billion barrels, stretched out over many years with relatively meager flow rates (aka demand - driven rising prices).

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

Part of the difficulties of Cartesian philosophy, and of any philosophy which accepts [presentational immediacy] as a complete account of perception, is to explain how we know more than this meager fact about the world although our only avenue of direct knowledge limits us to this barren residuum.

In a book of 430 pages, the role of Judaism gets no discussion whatsoever, early Christianity receives little more than two pages, and Luther and the Protestant Reformation appear on a meager three pages.

This philosophy of the will which traverses all the levels of objectification, universalization, and realization is to my eyes the philosophy of the will, with much more justification than the meager determination of the Wille by the form of the imperative in the Kantian philosophy.

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.

More likely you would soon be out of mind For grief is but a meager hoard to spend And in a month she'd have no more ofMore likely you would soon be out of mind For grief is but a meager hoard to spend And in a month she'd have no more ofmore of it.

Inadequate numbers, unhealthy divisions, meager financial support, unprophetic leadership, lethargic congregations — all these and many more symptoms of ill health are found.

Or the theft of a meager flock, by which a shepherd eked out a literal hand - to - mouth existence, could easily result in intense suffering from malnutrition for the shepherd and his family, always undernourished at best, if not in the actual loss of one or more members of the family.

With America's meager pro-life protections under daily assault by the Obama administration, why give such a dismantling the imprimatur of an international «human rights body,» staffed by ideologues and committed to policies more radical than those of the most liberal Democrats?

Informed opinion, however, agrees with Gunnar Myrdal in An American Dilemma that there is a vicious circle at this point.8 Denied the cultural, educational, and economic advantages held by others, underprivileged groups tend to remain in this status, as in America the restriction of Negroes to unskilled labor and meager educational facilities has prevented their advancement to positions of leadership comparable with the more privileged.

These grand claims and promises are, alas, not met and thus are clearly overstated given that the authors find such meager evidence of health benefits of religion in the more than 1,200 studies and 400 research reviews they examine.

(There is enough to cover the surface of each shell with about a 1/2 ″ layer of filling, it looks a bit meager compared to standard pastry cream eclairs, but any more is just too rich and peanut - y!)

The trade yielded meager return for an All - Star starter, even more so after the Bulls included their No. 16 pick to sweeten the deal.

Though Willis will most likely land a contract worth more than $ 7million in arbitration next winter, there's no urgency to further slash theteam's meager payroll (a major - league - low $ 15 million) this season.

The data is unambiguous on current economic conditions - GDP growth in the last quarter of 2015 was a meager 2.11 % with full year growth of 2.79 % according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS); inflation rose sharply to 11.4 % in February with prospects of reaching 12 % by March; capital markets have remained bearish; according to UNCTAD Nigeria's FDI fell by 27.7 % to $ 3.4 billion in 2015, and on current trends may fall even more precipitously in 2016; the de facto exchange rate of the Naira for most producers and consumers is now N322 / $ even though CBN maintains a nominal N197 / $ for privileged persons; several economic sectors - construction, government, manufacturing, oil and gas and hotels and restaurants are in recession or barely out of it; government's official foreign reserves is down to $ 27.8 bn; and unemployment and under - employment rates have worsened 10.4 % and 18.7 % by the end of 2015.

Woloz's cash - gathering was substantially more subdued last year, amassing $ 16,650 for de Blasio and almost $ 5,000 for Scott Stringer, and distributing relatively meager amounts among Corey Johnson and two of his rivals.

«We do think that going forward to 2018, having looked at what happened in the past, Enugu State of Nigeria will be more determined to ensure that it sustains the tempo of peace and good governance with the meager resources at its disposal», he said.

Resentful of even his relatively meager R&D expenditures in the face of disappointing sales, some of his more senior co-workers wanted him to resign.

Although specifics are meager, the new budget would bolster earth sciences, keep on track a new rocket to replace the space shuttle after 2010, and provide more funding for robotic probes to visit other planets.

So, we rely on our diets for most of this essential nutrient, even though few foods are naturally rich sources of vitamin D and only a few, such as milk, are supplemented with anything more than meager amounts (see Should Foods Be Fortified Even Mormore than meager amounts (see Should Foods Be Fortified Even MoreMore?).

The maturity can be an alluring factor as it is known that women tend to get older faster and are more appreciative of the meager things in life.

Housed in a regular Amaray case with partially hollowed - out spindles (to use less plastic), Wild Cherry comes to DVD with a complementary cardboard slipcover, presented in a 1.78:1 aspect ratio, with a Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound track that more than adequately handles the title's meager aural requirements.

Peerce was already years ahead of American culture's comfort curve by 1967 (in the ensuing decades, his more prominent titles include a meager attempt at mounting Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, the Oscar nominated disaster flick Two Minute Warning and the two The Other Side of the Mountain films).

The measure also provides a meager $ 400,000 increase for the Education Department's office of educational research and improvement, and, more important, it severely...

The old career ladder programs failed because the best teachers were honored with new titles and more work, but with meager, if any, extra pay.

Across the participating districts, there has been meager progress in both subjects and both grades for more than a decade.

That means Florida's has lower membership and more - meager financial resources than many other unions.

San Diego Unified was fortunate in that the district had already invested in technology (through school bonds), as the «state investment» in Common Core was so meager after years... Read More

Jettison their current approach to retirement benefits in which teachers accrue relatively meager benefits through much of their careers, and then abruptly become eligible for much more as they near retirement age.