Sentences with phrase «pittance from»

We supplied an abundance of documentation and received a pittance from Travel Guard after they took a month to «review» our records.

Used copies of older Madden games can be obtained for a pittance from your local game store, and the first game in the long - running is available to play online thanks to the Internet Archve's preservation efforts.

If you are in, or can get to Florida or Arizona this spring and want to do a little road tripping, car rentals are going for a pittance from most larger Florida cities and at least in Phoenix, AZ..

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).

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.

Apple's Washington spending was $ 720,000, a pittance by major corporations» standards, but a noticeable bump up from $ 500,000 last year.

To hear tell from the «right now» industry mavens, no old - line business today is safe from aggressive and disruptive innovators planning to mobilize the masses to do the biddings of others on demand and — albeit over time — they'll be working for a relative pittance.

They will keep him from realizing not only that the payoff is at best the pittance for exploitation but that behind the payoff is a terrible double cost.

He is guaranteed $ 19.9 million from 2017 - 2019, per Cot's Contracts, and if his 2020 and 2021 options are exercised his remaining contract calls for $ 38.4 million over the next five seasons, a pittance for a player of his caliber.

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.

WHEREAS this renaming gimmick is intended to be a cheap diversionary tactic from the overwhelming demand from Ghanaians for President Akufo - Addo to stop mortgaging our sovereignty for a pittance.

``... this renaming gimmick is intended to be a cheap diversionary tactic from the overwhelming demand from Ghanaians for President Akufo - Addo to stop mortgaging our sovereignty for a pittance,» the NDC stated.

Friends of Jacqui Smith say she was attacked by some colleagues over her own expenses when they were published by the Sunday Express, with one cabinet colleague publicly declaring in a cabinet meeting that he had only claimed a «pittance» - only to be disproved by the Telegraph's allegations, which have left Smith looking far from alone.

``... this renaming gimmick is intended to be a cheap diversionary tactic from the overwhelming demand from Ghanaians for President Akufo - Addo to stop mortgaging our sovereignty for a pittance,» the NDC added in the statement.

For too long a nation has benefited from the dedication and enthusiasm of our scientists, engineers, and technologists in higher education, training the next generation of teachers, scientists, and technologists on a pittance.

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.

Leviathan (R for profanity, sexuality and nudity) Legal drama about a humble family man (Aleksey Serebryakov) who retains the services of an attorney (Vladimir Vdovichenkov) to prevent his seaside home with a view from being seized for a pittance through eminent domain by a corrupt mayor (Roman Madyanov).

With the assistance of her mother's smooth operator assistant, Maurice, a ridiculously handsome and suited - up Guillaume Canet, she seeks to separate herself from the downward spiral of her mother's business that could see her inheritance reduced to a pittance.

While 362 hp and 384 lb - ft of torque from a twin - turbo, 3.0 - liter V - 6 is hardly a pittance, the 2016 Mercedes - Benz GLE450 AMG still weighs 4,894 pounds.

This would eliminate all those Fake Authors who are getting pittances for advances from Big Publishers and who sell only a few hundred copies, or those Wannabe Authors who aren't getting any advances at all from their small - press publishers.

For this pittance, you get thirteen months of writing prompts — from the creative minds at Indies Unlimited.

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.

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...]

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.

However towards the end of the year I shifted from Adsense (which earned me a pittance) to another network, which looks like it will be considerably more lucrative going forward.

They would say «we need X and we can afford Y» (usually a pittance) and we'd try to find the writers from our network who could deliver.

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.

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.