Sentence examples for given barely enough from inspiring English sources

The film takes place in an unspecified southern state where workers are given barely enough to survive and taken advantage of by being charged exorbitant interest rates and high prices by unscrupulous landowners.

Taken to Bouya Omar by his brother in 2006 to be cured of his "demon," he says he was shackled and beaten repeatedly, given barely enough food to survive and robbed of the little money he had.

"They are still giving free fish to the camp when they have barely enough to eat themselves".

Editor tested and approved: Unlined mesh and a half-cup demi style, this baby gives just enough oomph while barely clinging on.

Perhaps a better solution is one I adopted in another novel, "The Hammer of God," in which a potential killer asteroid is detected a year before it will collide with Earth, giving astronauts barely enough time to make a rendezvous and deflect it into a harmless orbit by mounting rocket thrusters on its surface.

It gives players barely enough time to get over the fatigue, bumps and bruises.

So it bars them from working and gives them barely enough to live on.

This situation gives firefighters barely enough room to position themselves between a wildfire and the homes they must protect, according to Jack Wiegartner, a fire official in Berkeley Township.

Though a few suitors tried, she gave them barely enough time to become acquainted before shooing them away.

According to PeTA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), an international animal-rights group, tigers live and are transported in 4-by-5-by-6-foot cages, giving them barely enough room to turn around.

Huts were built for us to live in this place and they give us barely enough food to distribute it among the entire family" she says.