While eking out a meager living,

They built it well with meager production budget.

As a result, their output is meager and insufficient for their subsistence.

Shareholders used to put up with relatively meager dividends compared to today.

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

By 1980, his meager 1970 income of 50,000 had increased to, say, 50 million.

Sometimes too meager, sometimes excessive, the rainy season is an ongoing concern in Niger.

France s meager growth is surprising. Until recently, the economy was doing fairly well, outperforming many EU countries.

Impoverished communities are cheering the prospect of a rapid ramp up in girls education, if meager resources permit.

The EU s budget today is no larger than it was 30 years ago a meager 1 of GDP.

As a result, the spread of the Colombia Plan, despite its meager and ambivalent results, has remained obscured.

Specifically, between 2005 and 2006, overall aid to Africa, excluding debt cancellation operations, increased by a meager 2 .

Mexico needs to grow at roughly twice the rate that it did under Fox (a meager 2 per year).

Good to be creative to supplement the meager pay earned by the police force other than the greedy politicians.

Haiti s infrastructure was meager before the earthquake (hence the shocking mortality rate), and most of that is now rubble.

Beginning in 1930, some 1.3 million people starved in Kazakhstan as their meager crops were requisitioned according to central directives.

Far from the frontlines, these women now refugees in Jordan are struggling to support their families despite meager financial means.

While crusading against illiteracy in a war weary hinterland, Soriano is keen to expand his meager English language book collection.

But the evidence for this claim is meager and anecdotal. A recent survey found that most small businesses support the reform.

The meager professional rewards for breadth, coupled with the inaccuracy and reputational risk associated with forecasting, leads to disengagement for most academics.

Many counter revolutionary families were forced out of their homes to live in buffalo sheds so that their meager assets could be requisitioned.

The very small island nations that rely on meager royalties from the foreign longline catch in their EEZ are caught in a paradox.

Despite these examples, economic and financial commentators appear increasingly puzzled about the weak US recovery, with its modest GDP growth and meager employment gains.

Moreover, the Japanese language is not widely spoken, and Japan s meager English language skills make it difficult to attract international talent to its universities.

Although the meager rate hike was presented as a consensus of the ECB s Governing Council, it soon became apparent that the decision had been controversial.

US government funding for renewable energy technologies (solar, wind, geothermal, ocean, and bio energy) totaled a meager 239 million, or just three hours of defense spending.

In early 2006, when the Ifo indicator foresaw an economic upturn while the German Federal Statistical Office reported meager quarterly GDP growth figures, some commentators scoffed.

This meager effort, however, is an insufficient response by Europe s democracies to the full panoply of Lukashenka s dictatorship his docile courts, brutal jails, and corrupt police.

This meant that fasts could mean an especially meager diet for those who could not afford alternatives to meat and animal products like milk and eggs.

He comes to the market when prices are lowest, with the meager fruits of his hard labor, just after the harvest, because he has no choice.

But Japan remains extremely vulnerable. The most immediate regional threat is North Korea, whose unpredictable dictatorship has invested its meager economic resources in nuclear and missile technology.

Today s Russia, which thinks of itself as a great energy state, laughs at its previous meager desire to catch up with little Portugal in terms of living standards.

In pressing the case for such a tax, the developing countries should not accept the meager excuses offered by the US and other countries in order to protect their bankers.

For example, according to the most recent data from the International Energy Agency, in 2006 the US government invested a meager 3 billion per year in energy research and development.

China has shown how quickly progress can be made on infrastructure. But, unlike China, Africa s domestic savings rate is a meager 15 of GDP, grossly inadequate to finance the infrastructure gap.

On our current complacent path, with a meager 2 billion of public funds spent annually worldwide on researching and developing green energy sources, the necessary breakthroughs will not happen in time.

Despite its meager beginnings in the sandbox of the Holy Roman Empire, the Hohenzollern Kingdom of Prussia achieved the unification of Germany and the creation of the German Empire in 1871.

It did her no harm at the ballot box. She embodies the meager good news of this election Middle Israel is alive and large, though not as effective as it could be.

Fed by a meager diet of media reporting and some coarse think tank buzz, European and American friends often ask me why our universities are awash with self hating, anti Israel post Zionists.

Aakash uses the Android 2.2 operating system and consumes a meager two watts of power, which is supplied by an internal lithium ion battery that can be charged using a solar powered charger.

Many more suffer from the meager growth and barely rising incomes that result from the toxic combination of government overspending, burdensome regulations, and corrosive taxation. Much of Europe fits this category of economic stagnation.

Examples include the war in Iraq, launched by the US on false premises, obstructionism on efforts to curb climate change, meager development assistance, and the violation of international treaties such as the Geneva Conventions.

Recently inaugurated Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina, together with Santos and other heads of state, question today s punitive, prohibitionist approach, owing to its enormous costs and meager results, and propose a different strategy legalization.

BRASILIA Large emerging economies were hit hard in the past year particularly in the first half by the crisis in developed countries, with Europe in recession and the United States staging only a meager recovery.

Governments lose their legitimacy when they cannot guarantee their populations most basic needs safe drinking water, staple food crops, and fodder and water for the animal herds on which communities depend for their meager livelihoods.