Sentence examples for derisory level of from inspiring English sources

Membership of this most secret of clubs offered certain benefits – benefits that compensated for the relatively derisory level of pay.

"What is wrong with student stipends is the derisory level at which everyone else's studentships are set.

If Mr Chubais is not there to stiffen their sinews, they will risk mustering much less of both.After a nervous December may come a nervous January always a difficult month for the finance ministry because tax collection, poor at best in Russia, falls to derisory levels amid the thick snow and public holidays of the new year.

For-profit companies offer derisory graduation rates, crushing levels of debts and degrees of dubious value.

Many senior academics opposed the move, citing "derisory graduation rates, crushing levels of debts and degrees of dubious value" from some for-profit American companies.

America's foreign aid is 0.1% of GDP, a derisory shadow of what it used to be, and roughly one-third of the European level (see charts).

However, American commanders have complained that only a derisory pile of rusted weapons has been handed over.

The United States is nearly at the bottom of the pile, spending a derisory 0.1percentt of G.D.P.

Not only do these accounts usually pay derisory rates of interest, but it is taxed, too.

Golden oldies   What he said Never again do Britain's pensioners receive a derisory increase of  75 pence.

Our response has been to study men on film through a derisory set of rules.