Sentences with phrase «paltry budget»

Mention the MAC to an athletic director in another conference, and he'll credit its schools for making the best of their lot, recruiting on the Big Ten's turf with relatively paltry budgets.

The war years wrought changes in the motion picture market that favored expensive «prestige» features over shorts, serials, and B movies, whose paltry budgets were reduced even further.

Despite the spate of hefty price tags for government bailouts, military actions, and economic recovery, an effective climate change response at the grassroots level will require more than paltry budget leftovers.

The Office of Electricity Delivery is hit hard, with its program on Energy Storage facing a 74 percent reduction to its already paltry budget.

Even making small changes under the weight of burdensome regulations, paltry budgets, limited staff and equipment can be exhausting, and just like all of us, sometimes school nutrition professionals need a little encouragement to keep up the good work.

In fact, space experts see several ways the «paltry budget» argument could end up backfiring.

Abstract discussions of NASA's paltry budget might play well in some community halls, but they are unlikely to change many minds in Congress, which constantly hears the same argument from just about every agency in the country.

Never mind that Bush offered up a paltry budget increase of $ 1 billion over five years to help seed the effort.

With only a paltry budget at his disposal, director Brad Anderson (who would go on to make The Machinist) milks the natural spookiness of the set's locale, the true - to - life Danvers State Mental Hospital in Massachusetts, making Session 9 an exercise in making the most of what you've got.

It's easy to spot that the film was made on a paltry budget and a shame to see that it didn't even make $ 50,000 dollars in US theaters but what can you expect from notoriously choosy American audiences (who would rather spend their money on Lone Ranger or another junky Hobbit flick).

Produced with a paltry budget of 70 grand, Mike Flanagan «s eerie husband absentee horror tells the story of a wife whose spouse has been missing for seven years.

In the early»70s, the Andromeda Strain author accepted a paltry budget and a tight schedule to direct his screenplay about catastrophic breakdowns at a high - tech vacation spot.

But while it did wonders in the engine and chassis department with what must have been a paltry budget, Ford seems to have missed the opportunity to make something more special out of the XR6 Sprint.

Considering they've had to develop a brand new engine on a paltry budget in a short space of time when they could have easily borrowed existing assets from previous games, the team have done a commendable job with the mammoth limitations.