Sentence examples for Meager sum from inspiring English sources

It is a meager sum compared with what they made before.

His campaign said he had more than $300,000, a relatively meager sum at this stage for an incumbent facing a challenge.

The group has raised only about $12,000, a meager sum in a state where ballot campaigns come with multimillion-dollar price tags.

But he added, "We will reinforce our capability" by "mounting multiple warheads on our missiles" and "that will cost us a meager sum".

Mr. McKessy defended what was a meager sum by whistle-blower standards, saying he would be happy if his office consistently paid out small sums over many years.

The Americans started out with just twenty-five toousand dollaresurrecturrect Iraq's collapsed ministries, and even this meager sum came not as cash but in the form of grants that required several weeks for approval.

Many of her colleagues also spend meager sums or recycle old dresses and suits from past affairs.

Start-up money came from Apple: first $60,000, then another $40,000 -- meager sums by today's standards, but enough to finance a modest weekly Web zine that was primarily about books.

Inmates, disproportionately represented by blacks, work for meager sums, and the prison system is set up to capitalize on their presence and labor as an investment.

Inmates, disproportionately represented by blacks, work for meager sums, and the prison system is setup to capitalize on their presence and labour as an investment.

Of course $50 million is too meager a sum to rescue major arts groups, even as flailing institutions like the Detroit Institute of Arts reel from budget cuts.