Sentence examples for Meager amount of from inspiring English sources

The nation cannot advance, he has said, on the meager amount of capital that domestic businesses generate.

No doubt you'll find tales that our body armor is in short supply, and that the meager amount of gear we do possess is ineffective.

A random survey of parking recently showed that people in Chinatown were left with a meager amount of street space after various law enforcement officials had parked for the day.

On Saturday, Mr. Khan, whose carpentry shop in Kandahar, and thus his livelihood, had been damaged by American bombs, bought a meager amount of cookies from Ghulam Rasoul Faizi, a former professor who had been fired by the Taliban.

Seared dayboat scallops sounded luscious, with the menu promising broccoli, flageolets, sun-dried tomatoes and pearl onions, but the dish was a tease; great scallops, lots of flageolets and a meager amount of other vegetables.

But because this meager amount of activity occurred more than a week into the free-agency period, when things should be hopping, it raised the question as to whether the nation's economic crisis is affecting baseball's marketplace.

We suggest that microbial species exquisitely adapted to survive with meager amounts of liquid water7 quickly perished from osmotic shock after the flooding.

Here we show that the sudden and massive input of water in regions that have remained hyperarid for millions of years is harmful for most of the surface soil microbial species, which are exquisitely adapted to survive with meager amounts of liquid water, and quickly perish from osmotic shock when water becomes suddenly abundant.

The other major "yeah, but" often cited when dealing with re-election numbers is that while meager amounts of people say most Members of Congress should be re-elected, they are much more charitable when it comes to their own Member.

But across the western United States, high temperatures and meager amounts of snowfall are causing havoc. .

Untrained in the arts of street marketing, they bring in meager amounts of cash from tourists who are moved by their innocent and desperate gazes.