Sentence examples for as paltry from inspiring English sources

And even though the Netherlands has twice as many entrepreneurs as a share of its population, as either of those countries, its venture capital is as paltry as France's.

Sure, especially if the music is thump-thump-thumping, and the appetizers are taking so long to reach the table that they might as well be coming from Tierra del Fuego, and your second glass of white wine reflects a pour as paltry as the first.

Independent journalists want their audience (as paltry as it sometimes may be) to re-act and then perhaps take action.

But consumer experts described the reductions as "paltry".

Even those who land at prestigious hospitals find salaries as paltry and hours as brutal as anywhere else.

Burke distrusted abstract formulas, dismissing France's Declaration of the Rights of Man as "paltry and blurred sheets of paper".

Germany recently agreed to take 5,000 temporary refugees from Syria, criticised widely as a paltry figure.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has spent $8.5 million on the project so far, a sum she regards as relatively paltry.

And so, for Vorontsova, the prospect of not quite being a star, of earning what she saw as a paltry salary, was maddening.

The leaders of the acknowledged Syrian opposition were there, too, and they decried the offer as too paltry, but they are probably wrong to be upset.

North Korea makes little of interest to the Chinese, as the paltry array of North Korean trinkets on sale in Dandong suggests.