Sentences with phrase «pittance when»

Sure, just a pittance when it comes to government spending without having to produce results!

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.

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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.

He told us money was there and the new singularly failed to get anything that we needed, and once again offered pittance for players when the asking price to actually get them was clear.

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.

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.

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.

When an author gets paid only one - third the normal rate on that reduced price, the word «pittance» seems appropriate.

The Anti-Piracy Group began to wonder when a series of big cases were settled out of court and they were only getting a pittance.

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.

Especially at a time right now when you can accumulate asset - backed debt at such incredibly low rates and when your savings earn pittances.

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.

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.

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.

The Economist points out that four is so few that even when one of them engages in highly questionable, even criminal, behaviour, the government can not afford the fall - out of shutting them down or to take them to court beyond fining them amounts that, for them, are relative pittances.

A lot of people, especially when the amount is a pittance, fail to claim their piece of the pie.

Not only did they refuse to help us when in The Netherlands, they used every loop hole in their arsenal to get out of paying us anything but a pittance for our travel expenses to return home.