Sentence examples for a more meager from inspiring English sources

Thus, the U.S.D.A. spends millions a year marketing American cheese to the public — and a more meager sum, Moss dryly notes, on its nutrition department's reports urging folks to cut back on fatty foods.

The problem with their approach, according to Mr. Brosious, is that by investing conservatively they are probably guaranteeing themselves a smaller return and a more meager standard of living in retirement.

Until then, the typical foreign soldier locked up in the Northern Alliance cells will cut a far more meager figure.

The league seems so desperate for TV coverage that it sold out competitive fairness in the name of squeezing a few more meager ratings from the final days of the season.

The name now synonymous with untold billions influencing our elections had its origins as a much more meager offspring in the same spirit of under-the-table politicking.

And they're also stealing our future, committing us to endless debt, sucking the marrow out of our international standing, foreclosing our opportunities, making it impossible to solve looming problems, and forcing us to hand off to our children a far more meager legacy than the one we received.

And Aristotle's evidence in this instance is an even more meager basis for reconstruction than usual.

There are glimpses, here and there in "NW," of that cacophonous metropolis — a city in constant flux as waves of immigrants and fierce youth reinvent it year by year, day by day — but "NW" is a much smaller, more meager book than "White Teeth".

Enshrining small-town life can give you an obsession with scale: the more meager the town, the more lordly the dreams.

These days, basic municipal services are more meager — street sweeping happens once a month instead of weekly, park bathrooms are cleaned less frequently and traffic lights can take more than a week to replace.

Alternatively, if a chimpanzee's lack of dignity-grounding capacities is sufficient to imply that it does not have human dignity, then the even more meager dignity-grounding capacities of a human infant are also sufficient to imply that it does not have human dignity.