Sentence examples for meager aid from inspiring English sources

But she soon realized it was meager aid.

Across the flooded areas, victims accused local officials, especially those from the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, of favoring allies when handing out the meager aid.

Unlike residents of Malibu, where movie stars usually have a direct line to the governor, Paradise citizens possessed little political clout and subsisted on meager aid from a underfunded county government.

Enough serious-minded people seem to think this is what the poor actually buy with their meager aid that we've now seen a raft of bills and proposed state laws to nudge them away from so much excess.

And because the rules governing such programs have not kept pace with the changing face of labor, vast sectors of working-class Americans -- especially the immigrants and single working parents in part-time, seasonal and minimum-wage service jobs -- won't qualify for even this meager aid.

When Mubarak complained that human rights groups were becoming a nuisance to him, the Obama administration halted the meager official aid that supported them.

Witness the huge military support to aid efforts after the South Asia tsunami versus the meager assistance offered to the millions of people displaced by conflict in Congo.

The resourceful 42-year-old former farmer has not only managed to secure plastic sheeting for both huts housing his two wives and seven surviving children; his daily treks in search of work have also yielded enough day jobs -- digging latrine pits, helping out at a metalworking shop -- to supplement the meager food-aid rations.

For example, in the recent campaign against Ebola in West Africa, China contributed a meager $120 million in aid and doctors, despite its outsized economic and business interests in Africa.

This extension has previously received only meager analytical attention.

He said he wanted to return to Homs because the need was great and international aid was meager.