Sentences with phrase «pittance in»

All of that is believed to have translated to poor sales for Essential, and reports that the company could only muster 50,000 unit sales — a pittance in a world dominated by Apple and Samsung, which both sell millions of units each quarter.

The cost of El Monte renters insurance relative to the protection it provides is a pittance in many cases.

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.

When Liberia opened up to investment after a devastating civil war, the government struck land deals with companies without the consent of the people who lived on the land, and many communities received a pittance in return for it.

They will only give state and federal coffers a pittance in extra revenue to fund better education, health care, etc., so state governments are putting our climate, our communities, and our aquifers and farming land at risk for almost no financial benefit.

The biggest increase in reserve balances at the Fed — banks lending to the Fed to receive a pittance in interest, because they have nothing better to do for now.

In that category, you have money market funds (etc.) lending to the Fed to pick up a pittance in interest.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

State Senator John A. DeFrancisco, a Republican who is chairman of the Finance Committee, said he supported extra money for the judicial conduct commission, noting that its request — an additional $ 273,300 — was a pittance in a $ 150 billion budget.

While # 20 million for a player you will lose for nothing just a few months later may seem okay, or it may have done just a year or so ago, it is a pittance in today's transfer market, so will Arsenal be keeping Sanchez for the whole season?

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.

The male lead earned $ 750 per day, the female lead $ 1,500 per day (top money for the industry)-- a pittance in the whole financial deal.

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).

To enter, a startup needs to have raised less than $ 4 million, which is a relative pittance in Silicon Valley terms.

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.

Known for his steely determination in business, Khodorkovsky bought up floundering state companies for a pittance, turned them around and used his resulting power to squeeze out rivals and minority shareholders.

That fee might be a pittance for a very wealthy person — regardless of what Trump's net worth actually is, $ 130,000 probably didn't make much of a dent in it.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

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.

This translated into a crushing debt load, even at present depressed rates: what forced Apollo GM to the negotiating table was a measly US $ 60 million interest payment, a pittance compared to what's coming due in 2019.

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

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.

«Small - scale mining is the second biggest global employer, and many of those mines force their workers to labour long hours in dirty and dangerous conditions for a pittance, whilst we enjoy the high value, glittering jewellery made using their gold.»

This means in the novitiate living on a pittance, working with the poor and having nothing to call your own.

Even Paul's storied 500 is a pittance, considering that there were a couple of million people living in Israel at that time.

So despite the fact that Arsene Wenger managed to keep the Gunners in the top four and qualify for the Champions League with a pittance to spend compared to others, there were plenty of grumpy Gooners who felt that a club like ours should be pushing for a trophy.

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.

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.

A bizarre move considering funds aren't in short supply, according to the owners anyway, yet they opt for a man with absolutely no managerial experience at this level and whom will cost them pittance to keep on.

AND he brought in for a pittance (ie: under # 4 mill) Viera, Petit, Jens, Freddy, Pires, Flamini.

The 66 - year old is not trying to throw a spanner in the works of Gonzalo Higuain's future at the same time, but he is not going to let the striker leave for a pittance either.

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.

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 time for justice for people who keep these buildings running, the cleaners toiling for a pittance to make these places fit to work in.

And while $ 100,000 would make a yuuuuge difference in your average state legislative race, it's a pittance at the presidential level.

The salary drawn for members of Congress is a pittance compared to what they make by other means while in office.

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.

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.»

Mr. Woolf has spent only $ 204,911 — a pittance compared to the more than $ 1 million spent by the Republicans in the race.

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.&raquIn 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.&raquin 2013.»

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.

An illegal war Uncontrolled immigration # billions leaking every year via new quangos Students (in England) now have to mortgage their futures to get to University 24 hour binge drinking breakdown of the family vast increase in licensed gambling External debt quadrupled to $ 11 Trillion making us the second largest debtor nation in the world after the USA at $ 12 Trillion (we may overtake them later this year) Pension funds pillaged for # 5Bn a year Gold reserves sold for a pittance Children leaving school unable to read or write NHS a basket case - 1 in 10 leave hospital sicker than when they went in.

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.

``... 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.

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.

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.