Sentences with word «pittance»

I have settled for pittance for my free lance stuff, and I learned the hard way.

But the first year of implementation, this coming fiscal year, would only have cost the state $ 15 million, a relative pittance of the $ 20 billion the state is expected to spend on Medicaid, advocates say.

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.

I say «curious» because Marathon came under intense scrutiny for its initial plans to hike the drug's price to $ 89,000 per year even though it's available for a mere pittance in other countries (and doesn't actually address the root causes of Duchenne, but rather just some of its muscle - wasting symptoms).

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.

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.

The indigenous peoples have many Bibles of differing «authority», versions, and mere pittances of the land my ancestors started with.

Especially at a time right now when you can accumulate asset - backed debt at such incredibly low rates and when your savings earn pittances.

But that is only because they employed everyone at pittance wages with no freedom.

The country has a festering problem with crack cocaine addiction, because the Colombian couriers distribute the drug as salary to their Belizean assistants, who sell it for a relative pittance on the streets of Belize City.

What ASUU is demanding in terms of allowance is a mere pittance when compared with what the illiterate «legislathieves» are appropriating to themselves on an hourly basis.

AND the calibre of player we rejected for pittance from Ligue 1 (Wengers apparent ace up the sleeve) such as cabaye (5m), sissoko (2.5 m), Lloris (10m).

(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).

Even after receiving pittance of royalty checks for two of my academic books, which finally found a home after being dropped from a contract with Pearson for no reason.

Live lavishly and give pittances a few.

He told us money was there and the new singularly failed to get anything that we needed, and once again offered pittance for players when the asking price to actually get them was clear.

If you've been procrastinating right up to the courts due date next - day certificate delivery can be your's for a mere pittance more.

These examples are a small pittance of the magic that's happening throughout the airfare world and the only thing better than knowing of the stories is grabbing one of the deals... LEARN MORE!!

Utah ranks last in the nation in per - pupil spending, and Innovations gets the same relative pittance as Salt Lake City's conventional high schools: $ 3,100 per student for operating costs and $ 3,200 for facilities - related costs.

It's the thought of giving medicine a go first; now you can't be a surgeon for a year obviously, but you can work with vulnerable people, and this means working for a full year full time, so 40 hours a week, probably for a mere pittance if not in an involuntary sector for nothing.

Even if they do, it's a tiny pittance compared to how much employers were compensating employees back in the good «ol days with actual defined benefit pension plans for retirement.

It's been more or less the same pittance for over twenty years, yet local governments» fiscal situation keeps getting worse.

There's still the usual parade of «Wall Street shenanigans» with mutual funds, but it's a minor pittance compared to life insurance companies.

We are much more likely to pray for people who give more abundantly out of their abundance than to praise the person who gives us a truly heroic pittance.

On Saturday, they'll face Cruz Azul, a wounded giant going through their own pittance this season under new coach Pedro Caixinha, a man whose arrival prompted great expectation but has now resulted in severe disappointment for many fans who thought this was the end of the squad's extended title drought.

In a written statement via text message, Liu said, «$ 26,000 fine imposed now, four years after - the - fact is a laughable pittance compared to the $ 3.5 million penalty unjustly imposed with political motivations on my campaign just weeks before the election in 2013.»

I am aware that some young men and women have constituted themselves into a social media infestation defending and lying for the government for a monthly pittance of N250, 000.

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.

I bought a gorgeous mosaic for a veritable pittance, and good thing because.

In the grand scheme of things, this is really a minor negative pittance, and the initial deaths that caused the gold bags to be in compromising positions in the first place were always the result of my careless play.

(Leaving him, according to Bloomberg, having to get by on an annual pittance of $ 350,000 for the rest of his life.)

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.

That should be a relative pittance in today's game, especially given his quality 2017 campaign.

AND the calibre of player we rejected for pittance from Ligue 1 (Wengers ace up the sleeve) such as cabaye (5m), sissoko (2.5 m), Lloris (10m).

Even after receiving pittance of royalty checks for two of my academic books, which finally found a home after being dropped from a contract... [Read more...]

So, does Ohtani gravitate toward one of the six teams with that much of a pool left — the Rangers, Yankees, Twins, Pirates, Marlins, and Mariners — or does the fact he's making a relative pittance compared to what he would have pulled in under the prior collective bargaining agreement open him up to signing where he wants with the knowledge that more money is coming down the road?

with Bellator starting to stake a claim of legitimacy, mma fighters should start accepting the fact that even if you're really good (Mighty Mouse) but if you don't bring in mainstream money, you'll fall by the wayside while seeing the company make record earnings year after year while you're still making a relative pittance as opposed to their overall revenue — therefore making the alternative that much better.

The money involved, and the comparative pittance that goes to the schools participating, will be very disconcerting to most fans.