Sentences with phrase «pay pittance»

-- if you complete the analogy by pretending that the only people allowed into the auto workers» union were the people working for General Motors (at least until very, very recently) and the plant owners told the union rep, «look, it doesn't matter that we pay you pittance, if a plant goes down because of those dealers, we're all out of work.

They charge hundreds for tickets, but pay pittance to their cleaners: how a new trade union took on one of the most famous institutions in Britain.

But its constant obsession with profit had led it to pay them a pittance.

How possible is it, after all, to pay pittance for a burger or a frozen bag of chicken nuggets and expect it to consist of anything but the leftover scraps of animals that, unless minced and squashed together to resemble something far from what it once was, would be completely and utterly stomach - turning to the majority of the population.

And yet many rich people only pay lip service when needed or they might pay a pittance out of their wealth to «show» they can «donate» more than any poor person.

You lose out on the competition — you're just getting your own institution's current rate (we're with a credit union and they beat the market)-- but you don't need to re-appraise and I had only to pay a pittance fee for the trouble; our payback was 1.5 months.

Named after the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery except as «punishment for crime,» the doc uses archival footage and expert commentary to make the case that slavery hasn't disappeared from the U.S. — it's evolved into our modern system of mass incarceration, one in which many prisons are run by for - profit companies and prisoners can be paid a pittance to work for corporations.

They must be paid a pittance.

Leicester won the league paying a pittance and have players hungry for work / success rather than money.

They are paid a pittance.

Offering to pay more than the cheap items were worth earned the trust of the seller, and the strategists also made the most profit overall: they sacrificed comparatively little on cheap deals and paid a pittance for expensive objects.

The primitive Waliangulu tribe of 250 to 300 people had been badly exploited by illegal ivory agents in Mombasa, who paid them a pittance to poach the elephants.

We stop to plunder a tidal riverbed teeming with mussels before paying a pittance for a lunch of fresh lobster at a roadside shack.

Signing a contract that gives away everything and pays you a pittance is considered success.

The premise of the book is how Nintendo employed heavy handed tactics, roping in developers into exclusive agreements to publish on their platform and paid a pittance of royalties.

But as I've shown, paying this pittance of an amount is terrible advice.

«The»80s community left as exiles,» Block said, «forced out by censorship or because they were paid a pittance by the government.

Of course it is not enough to attract «star curators», but the UK is bursting with young curatorial talents who are more knowledgeable about emerging fields and platforms than the out - of - touch directors and senior curators they are often paid a pittance to advise, assist and prop up.

They would have been vastly better off to have paid me the pittance for a well - drafted will than the higher cost of my having to deal with a bad will.

The poor bloke being paid a pittance to harass me could barely speak English, so it took a while to get to the bottom of what he wanted and hang up on him.

Not exact matches

Traditionally, most attention in Canadian government support has been given to technology and product readiness, with scant attention being paid to the fact that without proper commercialization strengths a large number of Canadian start - ups have died or have been acquired for a pittance by foreign businesses which then proceeded to harvest the economic benefits for the innovations initially developed by Canadian companies.

«The comparative pittance you charge for the MSJ has already paid off quite well for me and my younger brother.»

Yes, Crystal Palace were probably not going to pay him what he earns at Arsenal but whatever they offer will not be a pittance and he will still be able to live comfortably and play regular football.

But those dark days are over, or at least we hope they are, with Arsene Wenger no longer having to scratch around to find the money to pay off the Emirates stadium loan and to find decent players available for a pittance.

He may well have been referring to the massive price paid by City for the young England centre back John Stones as compared to the pittance we paid for young Rob Holding.

No one can really be outraged at the Angels for paying him that pittance.

We paid 16mil because it's pittance for a player that ideally will have 15 years at the club.

The Frenchman may loathe paying over the odds for the Polish international after seeing him move for a pittance just six months earlier, but Arsenal are not in the position to quibble over the price too much at the moment.

Meanwhile, Matuidi has joined Juventus for 18.2 million pounds (three year contract), a fee that appears to be a pittance compared to the 45m Everton are expected to pay for Sigurdsson or the 40 million being demanded by Leicester for Danny Drinkwater.

The irony is that — especially with all the domestic skills I've been practicing basically daily over the past decade — I'd accept being the SAHD in a marriage with a career woman (I trained as a historian; we're paid in pittances anyway) in a heartbeat!

It is a billion - dollar commercial industry of studio software, marketing courses, ad copy that uses women sitting in lotus to sell yoghurt, workout clothes, upmarket retreats, 1 %, apps that make money for their platforms but pay their content providers pittances, and now $ 1000 yoga mats made of leather.

When an author gets paid only one - third the normal rate on that reduced price, the word «pittance» seems appropriate.

That may not seem like a lot, but considering the wait times (up to six months +) at literary mags and the pittance they usually pay (contributor's copies won't buy me a burger on the dollar menu), I'm ahead of the game.

Some don't like its pay - per - book - upload business model, but if you're spending months writing a novel, the cost is a pittance, at the most $ 50 per ebook.

But there are forces at work for whom one more life is a pittance to pay for their deepest desire....

(And to wit, most editors and publicity assistants at NYC publishing houses who have any title other than «Executive Editor» are making pittance salaries and pay their Manhattan rent via family trust funds).

The extraordinarily low interest rate that you are paying to yourself with your loan payment is likely to be a pittance in terms of return on investment when compared to the market appreciation that you are missing.

What was once a pittance becomes solid and, sometimes even great pay.

Both clients had been paying mortgage payments close to $ 10,000.00 per month from their retirement accounts for the past year, and both clients were now at the end of their rope, with their retirement accounts dwindled to a mere pittance.

So with the investment returns of our new reality, the amount of withdrawal taxes paid is a mere pittance compared to what traditional wisdom has led you to believe.

-- All the other dogs in that pet store, which can continue in business another day because YOU just paid their rent and salaries and covered the pittance they paid for that puppy.

And if you do get a sidelong glance for not dropping your r's, so what?It's a pittance to pay for the pleasure of putting away a plate of Farnham's clams — their gossamerthin cornflour coating crisped to the goldenest of browns, the briny clams firm but moist inside, tasting ineffably of the shallow waterway - slashed landscape just yards beyond the edge of your picnic table.

While you might make millions from a particularly high - paying heist, the vast majority of it is automatically transferred to an overseas account, leaving only a relative pittance for you to spend.

But in the money - frenzied, celebrity - stoked sprawl that has become the New York gallery world over the last five years, the pittance - paying job of front desk assistant (a k a receptionist, gallerina, gallery girl) has become hungrily sought as an entree into the commercial, rather than creative, side of the business.

The lion's share of all wealth is used to grow the economy, while a pittance is paid to maintain the environment.

Now I know that the home performance industry says that it only costs a small pittance to build homes in a more energy efficient manner and that customers will pay the difference.

YOU SHOULD ALSO BE AWARE that the current weekly maximum that ICBC has to pay a person injured in a motor vehicle accident for weekly wage loss benefits under the statutory regime is only $ 300 per week which is really a pittance and will hardly cover your monthly bills.

As noted above, I dispute that premise, mainly based on my anecdotal evidence that public interest legal employers get far more applications than they can possibly hire for even given the pittance they normally pay.

Not only did they refuse to help us when in The Netherlands, they used every loop hole in their arsenal to get out of paying us anything but a pittance for our travel expenses to return home.

He says Americans send just $ 7.5 billion to each other via peer - to - peer payments — a pittance compared to what Apple could generate in active Apple Pay users spending cash.