And for having excess lead in their drinking water, breathing pollutants in the playground next to an oil refinery, living in a community whose meager resources result in lousy schools.
The aid included hundreds of millions of dollars a year in hard Western currencies--cash that was critical to a country with meager resources.
A young director with meager resources could not find a leaner entree into the movie business.
Other accounts suggested that his parents, overwhelmed by a large family and meager resources, put him in an orphanage, at first temporarily, but eventually left him there.
Fred Wilpon, the Mets' co-owner, recently gave Steve Phillips and Valentine a vote of confidence, but that was before a Montreal team with meager resources pulled off the deal of the summer so far.
"With meager resources, an inadequate military culture and a weakening, less-than-reliable Soviet patron, Syria was in no position to maintain its policy of conventional parity.
But Mr. Parkinson, who has been in office only three months, has a skeletal staff and meager resources, and his ability to clean up the problems remains uncertain -- particularly in the face of internal resistance.
Their men were abusive, alcoholic, crippled war veterans who were a drain on the families' meager resources, unemployed or simply "just in the way". At a time when arranged marriages were common and divorce was not an option, these women needed to find another way out of their domestic torment.
The attack on "smart power" it describes is an attack on using meager resources (less than one percent of the U.S. budget) to prevent conflict, help societies develop market economies and democratic government, and bring humanitarian relief when people suffer the consequences of natural disaster or war.
Does the World Health Organization offer a way to focus the meager resources in the most effective places?
