Sentence examples for already puny from inspiring English sources

Only 6% of French "strongly" support the free market, down from an already puny 8% in 2002.

The European Union and the I.M.F. should forget about dismantling Greece's (already puny) welfare state and increasing labor flexibility in the (already flexible) private sector.

In addition, around 1,000 schools are allowed to select some or all of their intake on grounds of academic ability or religious affiliation.That's not a great deal simpler and the already puny administrative abilities of some local education authorities have been taxed to breaking point by the task.

"It's getting puny already.

The UN's planned force of up to 15,000 peacekeepers to bolster its puny contingent already in southern Lebanon may take months to reach its hoped-for strength.

Good luck -- the Pentagon and defense contractors already are bellowing about the puny 1.6 percent reduction called for in the new White House budget.

But the Mets, seeking to improve the major leagues' puniest offense, had already traded for Roberto Alomar.

One admittedly puny coalition partner has already walked out over the deal with Turkey.

Gods of Tomorrow is 12 tracks of hazy hip-hop that manages to feel both fresh and effortless, in case you don't already feel shamed about your own puny creative output.

But the reflationary sums being spoken of are puny compared with the deficits governments are already running up.

Even when it does, the size looks relatively puny compared with the ¥101 trillion $1.14 trillionn) of assets it already owns.