Sentences with phrase «pittance if»

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«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.»

Perhaps that's a pittance, but the point is that if Jesus was more interested in being politicized, and just being a political ruler — he had his opportunity and knew it, still choosing to die to take our place in judgment, to bring God to us first.

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.

What pittance would we get if we sold him?

He is reportedly being chased by Liverpool and Real Madrid, and may command a hefty price tag if Inter decide to sell, but his current wage is a pittance compared to Giroud's massive new deal.

Looks expensive now but may look a pittance / bargain if he gives us 10 years top class CB service.

You can buy it online for a pittance, but if you're looking to spend your money at a small Chicago business, you can get a great starter kit at Chicago Electronic Distributors.

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.

If that Welfare cap doesn't come down pretty quick then some hardworking family earners slogging their guts out for a pittance, with 2 jobs on zero hour contracts, of # 20 000 a year or less, is going to be feeling pretty miffed that some couch potato is on # 21K and s / he is only on 20k, or less.

If you're looking to attain all of the status that comes with owning a Rolex at the cost of a mere pittance, consider luxury replica watches to be your one way ticket to a more exciting lifestyle; you'll be glad you did.

if you're tired of living life on a pittance and not being able to make ends meet, isn't it time you found someone to be your benefactor?

Let's play Halo for a few hours and then put together some pittance of work and see if he calls us out.»

Lincoln finally realizes that embedded 3G telematics costs a pittance to install, perhaps $ 100 (more if it's 4G, which this is not), so it's a no - brainer.

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.

Furthermore, it would have hurt my career potential if I had signed away the rights of my books for a pittance to a predatory industry.

-- 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.

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.

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, especially if publishers are doling out a pittance for advances, they may not be too invested in your work.

If you put the money in a savings account and you have a total loss after the first year, you've only got $ 200 in that savings account plus a pittance in interest to cover the loss.

If you hold some cash in a self - directed registered account with a discount broker, you've probably resigned yourself to earning a pittance in interest.

If you only require a pittance to obtain you on the short - term financial push on the street, you ought to side - step the actual APR and have a close take a look at what the actual financial mortgage will really price.

If disaster does strike you can access funds, but also don't have the whole amount earning a pittance in an instant access savings account.

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.

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.

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..

If an award ticket costs 60 or 70K points for this one - way route, and the accounting reimbursement is around $ 200 - 500, then how can you be surprised or disappointed that AA doesn't want to give you a F seat for such a pittance?

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.

If you put the money in a savings account and you have a total loss after the first year, you've only got $ 200 in that savings account plus a pittance in interest to cover the loss.

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.