Sentences with phrase «receiving pittance»
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...]
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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.
The Lakers have huge local rights deals, while teams like the Grizzlies receive a pittance.
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.
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.
We supplied an abundance of documentation and received a pittance from Travel Guard after they took a month to «review» our records.
Not exact matches
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.»
These specialist teachers receive a salary of # 40.000, while we have a mere pittance.
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!
It's a subtle but much - appreciated change — I can't count the number of times in SW4 I was annoyed by receiving an inferior version of a weapon that I already had in my possession, and my only recourse was to sell it for a pittance.