Sentences with phrase «relative pittance»

Utah ranks last in the nation in per - pupil spending, and Innovations gets the same relative pittance as Salt Lake City's conventional high schools: $ 3,100 per student for operating costs and $ 3,200 for facilities - related costs.

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

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.

But for Hugh Hefner, who started Playboy in 1953 with just $ 8,000, as he once told Fortune, and was rich by the 1960s, it's a relative pittance.

Yahoo shareholders want to reap the gains that the company has made from its Alibaba stock, which it bought a decade ago for a relative pittance.

with Bellator starting to stake a claim of legitimacy, mma fighters should start accepting the fact that even if you're really good (Mighty Mouse) but if you don't bring in mainstream money, you'll fall by the wayside while seeing the company make record earnings year after year while you're still making a relative pittance as opposed to their overall revenue — therefore making the alternative that much better.

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.

That should be a relative pittance in today's game, especially given his quality 2017 campaign.

So, does Ohtani gravitate toward one of the six teams with that much of a pool left — the Rangers, Yankees, Twins, Pirates, Marlins, and Mariners — or does the fact he's making a relative pittance compared to what he would have pulled in under the prior collective bargaining agreement open him up to signing where he wants with the knowledge that more money is coming down the road?

Star players such as Mahrez and Vardy were bought for a relative pittance.

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.

Advocates for supportive housing were not pleased with an agreement that would free up as much as $ 150 million, saying the money is a relative pittance to what is needed.

It may be that riding 30,000 km / year is significantly better than doing no exercise at all (or than doing the relative pittance that the average modern person does), but is still worse for you than riding, say, 10,000 km / year.

You see, I can't get excited about a budget that aggressively cuts the relative pittance we spend on education while punting on hard choices regarding the massive entitlement programs of Social Security and Medicare.

While you might make millions from a particularly high - paying heist, the vast majority of it is automatically transferred to an overseas account, leaving only a relative pittance for you to spend.

While leaving her children a relative pittance, she left Trouble a full $ 12 million so that the canine might continue eating Kobe beef and using faberge eggs as chew toys.

The sub-trades are paid a relative pittance for their contributions to the transaction.

The value / basis 50 years ago could be a relative pittance to the value today.