Sentences with phrase «too meager»

There's also an expansion slot if its 16 GB of storage seems too meager for you.

But a group of five state appellate judges decided this spring that his student loans were too big and his efforts to repay them too meager for him to be a lawyer.

The specifics of an artist's biography and psychological makeup are generally too meager to be related meaningfully to his or her art.

There are hundreds of traditionally published authors (authors with the Big Five and other well - established, respected and recognized publishing houses) who can not quit their day jobs because 1) their advances were too meager and 2) their royalties too low and 3) non-compete clauses prevents them from «traditionally publishing» any other work.

Yet the (all too meager) research and evaluation that have been conducted in this realm — both in the United States and overseas — yield a mixed picture when it comes to the academic «value added» by gifted - and - talented programs and selective - admission schools.

«Despite strong performances from leads Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey, «The Dark Tower» is too meager to feel grandiose, and too haphazard to feel grounded,» Collider's Matt Goldberg wrote.

Presidential hopeful Martin O'Malley argues that climate plans from Democratic rivals are too meager and too late

The state's two largest public workers union, the Civil Service Employees Association, and the Public Employees Federation, say even without the 401k option, Cuomo's proposed Tier VI benefit plan is too meager, and unacceptable.

Low - level achievement may well be insensitive to this gap either because the original resources are too meager or because there is insufficient awareness of the aims as received from God.

Yet even the cultural interest from Solomon's time onward continued to be, so our too meager evidence would indicate, largely utilitarian.

For many it will fall short of a true theistic belief, and appear too meager to serve as a firm foundation for a religious philosophy of life.

Not exact matches

The stock only started to find footing Feb. 22, after another analyst, Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberman, reported that she, too, had been conversing with Oppenheimer and found him willing to meet investor concern through a potential doubling of the stock's meager 2.3 percent dividend.

While the Holy Spirit can and does work through every one of our meager attempts, continually experiencing the Good News in our own soul — especially as believers — is part of God's continual kingdom work, too.

When it has, the answers have too often seemed meager, if not counterproductive.

@munkittrick: You put too much of your «faith» in mankind's meager ability to reject belief for fact.

(There is enough to cover the surface of each shell with about a 1/2 ″ layer of filling, it looks a bit meager compared to standard pastry cream eclairs, but any more is just too rich and peanut - y!)

But Avarelli, feeling that this was too dangerous in view of his meager diamonds, returned to clubs, and Belladonna carried on to game.

It's hard to read the KSHFP report without feeling tremendous empathy for school food directors, who have to juggle an array of competing concerns — financial constraints, regulatory compliance, a lack of equipment, student acceptance, parent input, too - short lunch periods — all on a budget that can be generously described as «meager.»

What's left over makes it deep under the surface and supports a meager population of microbes, which is too small to deplete all the oxygen.

There are, after all, too many planets to name — the hundreds of billions that likely populate our galaxy alone exceed our meager vocabularies.

It's getting a little too hot here to really get a feel for them (our meager two weeks of spring have long since passed), but I thought I'd take them for a brief test run.

I tried to take them on but they proved much too strong and dangerous for my meager combat skills.

We see her jumping out of bed, huddling in a blanket while trying to light the stove in her meager apartment; she works in a department store where the management makes everybody wear winter Santa hats indoors; and when her sweet dope of a boyfriend (the always - great Jake Lacy of Girls and Obvious Child) tries to make plans for the two of them, she brushes him off by saying, «It's too cold, I can't think straight.»

Audiences did too: Punch - Drunk Love did even less business than Magnolia, a meager $ 17 million, Sandler's lowest - grossing star vehicle to date.

I like taking notes on one, as well as reading, but the soaring prices are too high for my meager budget.

Seek out external grants, too, but know that most such aid is relatively meager.

The population is getting too large to support itself on the meager handouts of students, and many kittens starve.

It's probably best not to be too vocal while your on the street about the fact that one of the main reasons you're in a particular country is how cheap everything is and how your otherwise meager lifestyle is elevated to that of a swingin» business mogul during your trip.

That was pretty meager experience, too.

The artists in support of Saatchi are enthused by the decision and vocal too, and these are no meager names: Tracey Emin, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Richard Wilson, and Grayson Perry, to name but four.

The patchwork, too - meager support for clean energy the US government offers right now is on track to dry up.

Meager as the renewable energy goals of the AEPS are, the law is often criticized for going too far.

Instruments related to fixed incomes provide single digit meager returns and that too after tax reductions.

On the downside, Lenovo Vibe X will be coming with Android 4.2 JellyBean which isn't the latest version and a meager battery of 2000 mAh which seems to be a bit too small to carry a 5 - inch Full HD screen, specially considering it's not removable.

The ZTE Blade Z Max is one of those devices that may seem like it skimps on features because of its comparatively meager price tag, but it's a nice little big smartphone for those who consume content rapturously and don't care too much about wielding the latest specifications.

Even after kitkat, xiomi mi note way too better than this crap with exactly same specs except 5.5 screen instead of 5.7, but far more refined at a meager 9999 / -

Of the four measures of economic well - being, New Jersey's outlook worsened in three — the percent of children living in families earning below the meager federal poverty line of about $ 23,500 for a family of four, children whose parents lack secure employment and children living in families paying too much for housing.

And inevitably, one or more of them remark on the poor lot of being a broker, that they could never do it, that brokers, comparatively speaking, make no money and endure too much responsibility in return for meager gruel.

The idea stemmed from a conversation he overheard in the clubhouse; a man with meager golfing ability was complaining that the course near his home was too difficult.