Sentences with phrase «pittance of»

These sites generate a pittance of Real Estate traffic in comparison to the sites some of the top web savvy Realtors use to promote homes.

it's great that he's living inside his means, but people shouldn't thunk he's look going off like some pittance of a paycheck.

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.

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

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!

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.

This massively multiplayer experience takes place across the expanse of the Milky Way, which should be plenty enough space for you to expand your own narrative starting with just a ship and a pittance of credits.

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!!

After being with a pet insurance company that had lengthy, complicated claim forms that it always seemed to find mistakes on which only added onto the eternity it took to process the claim, receive the refund and onto the angst of finally receiving that pittance of a claim check, with Healthypaws, I'm in Heaven!

Nearly $ 200MM was spent to repurchase far more expensive IMN shares prior to 2008 while a pittance of IMN capital has been deployed to buyback shares when the stock is trading for less than its net cash value.

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

Yes, we are a pittance of the book market, and the e-book market particularly, but statistics clearly show that libraries play a significant factor in driving readers to purchase books later (I can't find the statistic but heard this at ALA) So what we do counts in sales for publishers later.

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...]

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.

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.

The premise of the book is how Nintendo employed heavy handed tactics, roping in developers into exclusive agreements to publish on their platform and paid a pittance of royalties.

Would - be prognosticators said this signified a «race to the bottom,» a scenario in which all ebooks would eventually be 99 cents or even free, leaving authors a pittance of an income for all their work.

Magnet schools, with a few exceptions, have failed for more than 40 years to achieve more than a pittance of diversity.

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

He lives in a 10 - by - 12 foot wooden shack, and appears genuinely startled when Maud shows up on his doorstep, negotiates a tiny pittance of a salary and starts cleaning and cooking for him.

The Walk brought in $ 3.7 million in its second week of release, but has made back only a pittance of its $ 35 million costs.

Hell, that's barely put a pittance of what I'd spend on other things like blackjack and hookers.

There's just little pittance of copper in those products.

«The federal dollars spent on brownfields redevelopment are just a pittance of what is required to clean up and redevelop these sites.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

For instance, legislators like Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Jeff Merkley of Oregon recently warned that Cures amounts to a big pharma giveaway which will weaken regulatory standards on drugs, provide a mere pittance to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and do nothing to confront the rising tide of high drug prices.

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.

The device itself costs about $ 235, but that seems a pittance for the ability to use Skype sans PC — and for the right to scold your mobile - phone provider for not thinking of this first.

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).

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.

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.

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.»

«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.»

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.

And yet many rich people only pay lip service when needed or they might pay a pittance out of their wealth to «show» they can «donate» more than any poor person.

Nevertheless, hundreds of thousands of parents can not afford to lose the pittance that a four - year - old child can earn; thus even free primary education is an unaffordable luxury for many.

«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.»

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

Arsenal will have to release players on a free or sell for a pittance other wise no one one will take players off our hands because of their high wage demands.

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).

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.

The manager has previously talked about not being able to find the right players for the right money but here you have a proven Premier League player of quality for a pittance who would allow Wenger to give Ozil a rest every now and then.

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.

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.

is this the same striker that lots of us on here were calling for wenger to sign last summer for a pittance.

Not only would the Gunners be spending a pittance compared to our main Premier League rivals, we would often end up losing one of our best players to them.