These figures were at least in the ballpark of what the Democratic campaigns were spending in 2008, although they are paltry by general election standards.
It's not so much the raises, which are mostly paltry, although more than the bosses would offer on their own.
The international arbitrator brought in to settle the bitter Andersen dispute, which had dragged on for three years, essentially gave Andersen Consulting its freedom for a paltry $1 billion, although Arthur Andersen got the right to the Andersen name.
He dotes on Gemma, corrects her French, and schools her in the kneading of dough ("my yoga," he calls it), although his ogling seems paltry when compared to that of the camera, which carries out regular inspections of Arterton's nape and breasts, in a succession of summer frocks.
After an hour in the fields I've managed a rather paltry two kilos, although Joel assures me my technique will improve.
I don't mean to sound overly romantic, although wine without romance is a paltry glassful indeed.
Although Witjens admits that nine sounds a paltry figure, she says that they only need 13 to break even financially by March 2016.
The payments at issue are comparatively paltry, perhaps totaling less than $50 million, although that number could increase as the internal investigation moves forward.
Even with current paltry interest rates, float is still float, although PayPal's interests go beyond that.
Although he told doctors that he had eaten a paltry 28 knives in the last two months, the surgeons extracted a total of 40 knives by the end of the operation.
