Sentences with phrase «on meager»

We just bought tiny cottage, trying to deocrate on our meager salaries... would love to see anyone of these hanging over our table!

We live on a meager Army paycheck, but we have no monetary stress like so many others that we know.

When you are on a meager furniture budget like I am, nothing saves the day and pulls together mismatched and neglected or abused furniture like PAINT.

By holding to her pledge to live on that meager food stamps allocation, Helman, who started selling real estate in 2006 after a 20 - year career in mortgage banking, made a small but important dent in the area's need, raising thousands of dollars in just that one week.

They're content to drift in at 10:30 a.m., plan lunch, eat lunch, make a few calls, talk about last night's game show winner, and then head home at 3:30 p.m. Those salespeople make far below what they're capable of but enough to fund their life, as they've learned to live it on a meager income.

Eleven months later, Android 8.0 (Oreo) is still only on a meager 0.5 % of Android devices — Android 8.1, just 0.2 %.

Apple captures nearly two thirds of the smartphone industry's profits and Samsung accounts for almost a quarter while Huawei and Chinese rivals operate on meager margins of about 4 percent, Counterpoint Research estimates.

Such judgment as yet is largely a prophecy based on meager and uninterpreted experience...»

Based on this meager sample, Mr. Garrow uses his purblind analysis to trump up a charge that Justice Blackmun committed a «scandalous abdication of judicial responsibility.»

In Tokyo, 14 percent of all trips are done by bike, every single day — all on a meager 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) of dedicated bike lanes.

Panda bears may be cute, but on a meager diet of bamboo shoots, their preservation as a species is questionable.

Many do not have a family who can support them and starve on meager pensions.

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

The population is getting too large to support itself on the meager handouts of students, and many kittens starve.

At a 5.25 % interest rate my loan will not go away on my meager North Country New York teacher salary (of $ 50K in my 9th year).

I used to be very scared of investing the little money I could put aside (on a meager starting salary in an expensive city) into the markets where it could erode.

Don't scrape by on meager blue - chip returns and Social Security checks, wondering whether your retirement income will be enough to pay the bills.

Don't scrape by on meager blue - chip returns and Social Security checks.

Laurie Bridges: Nook Simple Touch Reader I have a bachelor's degree in English, but you would never know it based on the meager number of books I have read over the past ten years.

Many college students complain that the university years are a time of deprivation, when students survive on meager savings, ramen noodles, and thrift store finds.

The mother of two - confident, beautiful teenage Hortense and shy, babyish Zoé - is forced to maintain a stable family life while making ends meet on her meager salary as a medieval history scholar.

As the state's policymakers begin to work on the meager changes to the system supported by this ruling, community engagement and insistence on quality public schools for all children must be strongly and persistently communicated, and attempts to saddle this state with mediocrity rejected.

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.

Meanwhile, John Turturro brings great life and truth to his role as actor struggling post-Great Depression to support his four kids (including a newborn) and his wife (the great German actress Barbara Sukowa) on his meager pay, although he hopes that landing the lead in «The Cradle Will Rock» will turn things around.

6:05 am — IFC — Umberto D Vittorio De Sica's neorealist classic about an aging man struggling to live on his meager pension in post-war Rome.

The buzz is short - lived, however, for soon the Point Break - ish plot (undercover cop must infiltrate world of street racing to nab some high - speed truck hijackers / robbers) takes over and the film must rest on the meager talents of pretty boy Paul Walker, who plays cop Brian O'Connor.

When looking back on the meager list of black Best Director nominees, his name is a glaring omission.

If you're on a meager budget but do not wish to compromise when it comes to features, The SeniorPeopleMeet App is the one worth to look out for.

On my meager salary, I learned that cheap, plain office clothes were the way to go.

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.

While an Egyptian pharaoh built majestic temples filled with sparkling treasures, the lower classes performed backbreaking work on meager diets, new evidence suggests.

For example, placing lab animals on a meager diet that replicates food scarcity in the wild extends survival in many species.

He began with a single bacterium — Escherichia coli — and used its offspring to found 12 separate colonies of bacteria that he nurtured on a meager diet of glucose, which creates a strong incentive for the evolution of new ways to survive.

And if the thought of not putting any money away for retirement does not aggravate some postdocs, having to live on a meager salary does.

But she warns that the case for the fossil belonging to H. sapiens rests on meager evidence.

TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said reports by the CBI and other groups that generous pensions were unaffordable, missed the point that many people in all sectors were struggling on meager pensions while executives such as Sir Fred Goodwin, the disgraced former boss of Royal Bank of Scotland, enjoyed large state subsidies.

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

Another friend called a lactation consultant, sobbing, worried that her newborn daughter (who was born with a pinched nerve in her neck, leaving her unable to nurse) was starving on the meager amounts of breast milk she was able to pump and feed through a tube.

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.

Is one, for example, mentally healthy if he leaves his family because that family will fare better on ADC than they ever could on the meager unemployment compensation checks he receives?

Second, my major ministry, the San Francisco Network Ministries, is among people long ago abandoned by the church — the frail elderly poor, the homeless, addicts and alcoholics, illiterates, people with AID»S / ARC who are living in poverty, prostitutes and other victims of our culture's «sex industry,» and people with various mental and physical disabilities struggling to live on meager benefit payments.

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.

First, I convinced my mom to let me buy all those teen magazines (okay, so I hid some in the cart and snuck them on the conveyor belt when she wasn't looking), and then I mapped out elaborate charts with the coolest outfits I could afford on my meager babysitting salary.

Not exact matches

Focus on profit, no matter how meager, before you dedicate your mental faculties to things like scalability.

Not only have sales been meager, but the pill and its manufacturer — Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx)-- rate poorly on several measures that should be of concern to women and doctors, according to an advocacy group that on Thursday released a report card for the drug's one - year anniversary.

«The night of sleep we were hoping for turned into a few meager hours before we rushed into the office to add capacity to the service,» he wrote on the company blog.

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.

Morgan Stanley lowered its ratings on several chip stocks, citing lower flash memory prices and meager earnings growth next year.

Morgan Stanley lowers its ratings on several chip stocks, citing lower flash memory prices and meager earnings growth next year.

The hope was that antisense oligos for everything from cancer to HIV would roll off the pharmaceutical assembly line — but despite a generation of valiant effort, the successes on this front have been meager.