Sentences with phrase «pittance as»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

«If he returns with a concession, he will be seen as having succumbed to China and to have abandoned long - standing good relations for a pittance.»

As veteran Japan watcher Richard Werner (author of Princes of the Yen) recently described the situation to me, «while Japanese small firms were killed by the continued refusal of banks to expand credit (and many a small firm president was killed by having to sell a kidney to the loan sharks he was forced to resort to), foreign speculators received ample yen funds for a pittance.»

That's a pittance compared to the wire houses, but size doesn't matter so much as viability.

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).

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.

Too bad we'll never see him fight in the Octagon (or anywhere else), as I think he'd potentially ragdoll anyone at LW or WW with a pittance of training.

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.

That was not enough to save his career as an Arsenal player though, so Wenger sold him on to the German Bundesliga side Werder Bremen for an undisclosed fee that was probably a pittance in the modern game.

hes now spying on what pittance i have to live or if i get any money as i sold something, he tries to control that too, and looks round the bedroom spying on me for god nos what looking for something.

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!

Cuomo eventually agreed to $ 450,000 in funding a few months before the anniversary of the war's start, an amount described by the New York Times as «a pittance compared with what some other governments are investing in their commemorations.»

Advocates for supportive housing were not pleased with an agreement that would free up as much as $ 150 million, saying the money is a relative pittance to what is needed.

When such e-waste is exported to places such as Guiyu in China, it ends up in vast recycling centers where laborers earn a pittance smashing, cracking, melting and cooking old electronic goods to extract the valuable materials they hold, ranging from gold to plastics.

by Bill Chambers Two Family House and Panic, a pair of overlooked films hopefully not destined to become overlooked DVDs, have more in common than a passing glance suggests, and their joint failure to earn even a pittance sounds the death knell for independent cinema as we knew it in the early -»90s.

In place of Begin Again's insufferably starry - eyed music - industry idealism (where the big innovation that gets record producer Mark Ruffalo jazzed up is selling an album for a pittance and spending nothing on promotion), Sing Street features characters who don't really know what they're doing, to results both hilarious — check out their music video costuming — and poignant, as with Jack Reynor's older - brother subplot.

The levy credit functions to take local funds out of the education finance system, and returns a pittance to local property tax payers as higher needs schools are in desperate need of resources.

If however, you keep the car for 15 years or more, as some Volvo owners have, $ 16,000 likely will seem like a pittance in the year 2001.

Because traditional publishers are often foolish in how they handle ebooks — insisting on seeing them as contenders for paper sales rather than a different market entirely and generally overpricing them, in addition to generally giving the authors a pittance of a royalty on them.

A headphone jack and speech chip on the Paperwhite would have cost a pittance, even if a speaker wouldn't fit — or Amazon could have offered a speech - capable model as an option.

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

If you do own a Wii U though I highly recommend you pick it up for the pittance its worth now as the local multiplayer modes they'll be excising from this updated release are actually some of the best the system has to offer, making actual use of the Wii U's gamepad like no other game has since.

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

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.

We will have reason for hope when, as a people, we understand that our endowment of the future extends far beyond the pittance of time that is granted ourselves and our immediate offspring.

For a pittance of free conference travel, the possibility of an upgraded office with south - facing windows plus a few other perks the entire scientific community (apparently starting as far back as the mid-19th century) has constructed a nefarious and intricate plot, caring not a whit about their drastic and unfair impact on everybody else!

While leaving her children a relative pittance, she left Trouble a full $ 12 million so that the canine might continue eating Kobe beef and using faberge eggs as chew toys.

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.

As for the sound, these things fly high above the uber - affordable (and quite fantastic) UB5 speakers we've raved about, which cost a pittance of just $ 500.