Sentences with phrase «own meager resources»

All of them were looking for insights to help them kick - start their companies, trying to find cost - effective solutions that make their rather meager resources go far.

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

Unanchored as they are to anything concrete outside the self, the values and virtues encouraged by the leading strategies of moral education provide meager resources at best for sustaining and supporting our far - reaching moral commitments to benevolence and justice.

We are homeless in the world, standing over against it, and it is doubtful we ever will find ourselves at home again, at least if we are forced to rely on our own meager resources.

I understand and I acknowledge how well Wenger has managed this club with the meager resources at his disposal but it does not detract from the fact that clubs with smaller budgets than ours and stricter wage bills are able to be successful.

Now, the Republicans have to duke it out amongst themselves before focusing 100 percent on Addabbo, which is good news for the dramatically under - funded Democrats as they try to decide where to allocate their meager resources for the re-match for control of the chamber.

«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.

Cuomo himself did little to motivate turnout, ignoring Teachout, who had meager resources for her own get - out - the - vote efforts and mostly relied on volunteers.

Mr. Lyeo stressed that despite its meager resources, the South Korean embassy was still committed to helping address the numerous developmental problems in the SADA zone.

His words, «We expended the meager resources we have to ensure the morale of the military is raised by getting officers to be on ground with the men but unfortunately for us, as a people; there was abuse of trust at various levels which cost Nigerians a lot of lives and goodwill».

Regretting that while the nation was spending its meager resources to ensure that the morale of security agents was raised, Buhari said it is unfortunate that those saddled with the responsibility of acquiring equipment weapons for the military betrayed the trust adding that his government will not keep quiet about the revelations.

Other achievements, according to the Organized Labour include, «payment of 13th Month salary as Christmas bonus to the state workers; elaborate infrastructural developments of both urban and rural areas of the state through unique fiscal management of the state's meager resources; transformation of the education, agriculture and health sectors, other areas of governance which have improved the quality of lives of the people of Enugu State; approval of payment of arrears of salaries of 731 former staff of some state parastatals and also, the regularization of 42 casual staff of the Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, Parklane Enugu, as permanent staff of the institution», among others.

While the production values are certainly commendable given the meager resources, this story would have produced a stinker at any budget.

The meager resources they get.

We have thus had to spread our meager resources very thin, and have had to ignore the needs of the extremes.

This discussion will focus on DC's Ward 7, where a growing number of schools share increasingly meager resources.

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.

This has impacted heavily on the women and children who now have to walk further to fetch water for household consumption from different water points where they scramble for the meager resource with livestock.

Even with the meager resources students are usually dealing with on a daily basis it doesn't take a lot of money to get started in investing.

Young's project, as well as the other three, emphasized architectural place as a touchstone for cultural memory; stressed community involvement in the construction and reception of the work; and reflected upon how a historically black neighborhood has consistently and creatively attended to its own needs despite meager resources and the continued trauma of structured inequality.

People who live on $ 1.26 or $ 1.27 a day still face painful daily tradeoffs when it comes to spending their meager resources on food, shelter, health or education for their kids.

* Crucially, both Chancel / Piketty and the CERP approach highlight progressivity, and both do so by using exemption thresholds (just like the exemption level in an income tax) below which an individual is judged to have no capacity, or obligation, to expend their meager resources in fighting the climate threat.

Carter then overcame political inertia, antagonism and meager resources to continue working on the agreement with legal advisors from United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

In light of defendant's meager resources and in order to maintain the children in the community in which they have lived all their lives, the husband was directed to maintain the home (with title in his name) until the children are emancipated or have moved elsewhere.

In past years the research and writing staff, skills instructors and clinicians battled over meager resources.

Not exact matches

From this perspective, the article then drew the conclusion that the «meager» results of crusades compared to the great cost in time, energy, and money represented a failed stewardship of God's resources.

Low - level achievement may well be insensitive to this gap either because the original resources are too meager or because there is insufficient awareness of the aims as received from God.

Despite Tuskegee's meager facilities and resources, Carver created a lab from makeshift equipment and inspired skeptical students.

That remarkable turnaround was accomplished through national campaigns to conserve and reuse Israel's meager water resources, but the biggest impact came from a new wave of desalination plants.

He manages to use enigmatic dialogue and characters trying to communicate something deep but with meager verbal resources, like Dixon.

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

Given the meager academic progress of Elementary Turnaround Schools and their high teacher turnover rate, which undermines the basic culture of the school, the researchers conclude that the resources devoted to Turnaround Schools can be better spent by supporting alternative research - based strategies.

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.

Finally, as women, particularly women with meager financial resources, they both experience the injustice of living in a world ruled by men.

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.

Legal aid resources are so meager, Peel says, that only about half of Chicagoans who qualify for assistance get help today.

Oliver Meager is head of the permanent hiring division at Capita IT Resourcing.