Sentences with phrase «most meager»

Year - over-year rents were only up 0.3 %, one of the most meager numbers across the nation.

As the cheapest model (sometimes selling as low as $ 30), the Fire 7 obviously has the most meager of feature sets.

Plan on using the payment amount that will fit into the most meager income months.

Even the most meager Raspberry Pi has a good 256 megabytes of RAM.

These games are the most meager the SNES Classic has to offer.

They're charged with providing valuable technology resources, learning opportunities, and of course, books to their communities while working within the most meager of budgets.

Angst - riddled weddings have always been ripe for satire but this rom - com doesn't satisfy even the most meager expectations.

Law determines the duration and amount of these subsidies and they are usually the most meager of benefits.

R. G. Usher has pointed out that the bishops did not possess the right to appoint the men they were expected to govern, the prerogative of determining what sort of men they should be, or the power to discipline them once they had been inducted.74 The decision as to qualifications for ordination had been taken from the bishops by the State, while the right of nomination to a parish post, after ordination, was largely controlled by lay patrons, and the bishops were forced to induct the nominee if he met the most meager requirements.

Only the most advanced forms of wordless communion or the most meager habit - prayers lack this element.

Not exact matches

Most people can't simply «relax and take it easy» because they never do enough to free themselves from the meager existence that comes as a result of mediocre actions.

And, given the huge gains in US markets in 2013, it seemed most were predicting that stocks would pull back, or perhaps eke out meager gains.

It may be held that our earth really provides only meager living for most human beings.

But what profited such a God — remote, selfish, indifferent, jealously watching the presumptions of troublesome man, and at the most conceding certain meager favors that served to redeem human life from stark intolerability?

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?

Comparing the 2013 Pace rankings by SB Nation's Bill Connelly with the meager tempo data we have so far for 2014, it's apparent we might see one of the country's most talented teams go from one of its slowest to one of its fastest.

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.

Because the Dodgers had money to root around for pitchers, they didn't worry so much about what to do with Mike Bolsinger, who would have been the low - cost option that would have allowed most teams to spend their meager budget on something else.

You can't attend them all, but these must - see spectacles will provide the most thrills for a meager fee at the gate.

Playing only five defenders in pass coverage is meager, however, and the reason most teams play straight man - to - man behind a six - man rush is to account for all the eligible receivers.

Highlighting aluminum edges and weighing as meager as 5 pounds, most umbrella models offer a security gadget that alerts unplanned shutting.

One of the most telling statistics in this regard is that the adult female literacy rate, as of 2006, is a meager 44 %.

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.

Astorino, who started his campaign six months ago with a tiny $ 1 million war chest left over from his re-election campaign for Westchester County executive, received most of his meager haul from small contributors from all of the state's 62 counties — some 4,000 donors, a campaign source said.

With the rising tuition at most schools for undergraduate education, the increasing length of time spent in grad school, and the meager postdoc salaries people are getting for two, three, even four postdocs, it's a wonder anyone has money for a beer, much less for a retirement plan.

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 More?).

But many states offer meager financial support to their guardianship system, leaving some of the country's most vulnerable citizens without a guardian and in a perpetual limbo.

Poor teenage Travis gains meager solace in the company of Stanley, his now - dead grandfather's dog, and seems the most affected by the event and the family's isolation.

And progress in most categories has been very meager since the mid-2000s.

I don't know what teachers she is observing, but the teachers I see in the schools today are the best and brightest I've ever seen — and are doing heroic work in spite of the most difficult conditions we've ever faced as a profession: meager resources; dwindling budgetary support; a narrowing of the curriculum leading to cuts to music, art and PE; withering attacks from Rhee, Kopp, Gates and Duncan and friends; an obsession with standardized testing; and much more.

Those same competitors also do a better job of hauling your stuff, as the Yaris» meager cargo space trails that of most competitors (especially the practicality champ Honda Fit).

But that is still a long way from Audi's U.S. high - water mark for sales - 74,061 in 1985 - Its most - recent low point was a meager 12,283 sales in 1991.

With a meager 54 hp, it had just enough to move the Subaru 1000 along, and that model became one of the most important volume cars for the fledgling automaker.

Another stand - out feature of the device is that most of the processing is done at the Visionect servers, which also explains the use of a rather meager 120 Mhz chip to power the device.

We encounter poetry every day, of course, in its most populist forms — song lyrics, advertising — but the meager sales of poetry collections would indicate that few of us are curling up by the fire with a volume of verse.

The battery should be the same meager 1,800 mAh unit found at the One X, and most likely still a non-removable one.

Pocketbook is the second most popular brand and they control 11 % of the market, while InkBook has a meager 7 %.

Yet the Nexus 7's standard configuration, for $ 200, offers a meager 8 GB of flash storage; the most you can get is 16 GB for $ 250.

While this seems relatively meager, remember that inflation was nonexistent for most of this period, making a 3.7 % average annual return fairly attractive until the 1960s.

As for draw downs, the vast majority of our funds are in taxable accounts now, just due to the missus not having a 401k: most of what we invest exceeds the limits of my meager 401k, HSA, and her IRA.

Perhaps this isn't surprising given the high cost of living, relatively low wages, and the meager savings that most of us manage to set aside.

Most traders think they need to do better, so they risk more and eventually lose all their gains — not being happy with their «meager 10 % per month».

Seek out external grants, too, but know that most such aid is relatively meager.

Most basement walls are only partially insulated at best, so even improving the insulation on those walls to a meager R - 16 value will cut total energy use by about $ 130 a year.

Getting 5 percent back on B&N purchases is a great perk of the Barnes & Noble card, but the meager sign - up bonus of a $ 25 gift card and the limited nature of the rewards you earn makes it less appealing than most cashback cards.

You can see that there are a number of attractive options, most with no annual fees, and some with significantly more in rewards than a meager 1 percent.

For most people, the actual amount of rewards can be quite meager.

12 In the middle of the century, there were only a third as many women as men artists, but even this mildly encouraging statistic is deceptive when we discover that out of this relatively meager number, none had attended that major stepping stone to artistic success, the Ecole des Beaux - Arts, only 7 percent had received any official commission or had held any official office — and these might include the most menial sort of work — only 7 percent had ever received any Salon medal, and none had ever received the Legion of Honor.13 Deprived of encouragements, educational facilities and rewards, it is almost incredible that a certain percentage of women did persevere and seek a profession in the arts.

It promised not only a dramatic expansion of the administrative state and a huge increase in the regulatory burden on American businesses, it threatened to put the brakes on U.S. economic output at a time when most economists think the U.S. will struggle to achieve even a meager two percent growth.

His discourse is about the meager role played by the leaders from most vulnerable regions like Himalayas and Andes during this important global conference.