Sentence examples for meager assets from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bilzerian, 50, says he has only meager assets.

A trading scandal forced Rio's stock exchange to merge its meager assets with São Paulo's Bovespa in 1989.

The payments, advertised as advances, are, in fact, cleverly disguised loans that can carry ruinously high interest rates and eventually strip older citizens of their meager assets.

In some cases, the colleges get a cut of what the students spend, which makes the school a partner in the plundering of young peoples' meager assets.

The seeming ease with which Mr. Li snatched Cable and Wireless HKT -- despite his company's small size and meager assets, and despite a formidable counterbid by the much larger Singapore Telecommunications -- has troubled some people here.

Finally, they have most of their meager assets in cash: paychecks, tips, checking accounts and small savings accounts.

Departing fund investors could walk out the door with $9.23 of cash, leaving behind meager hard assets and a pile of tax loss carryforwards that never get used.

The money would be raised mostly by selling Copia's meager remaining physical assets, like artwork, wine, kitchen equipment and the contents of the gift shop.

He described his assets as "meager," consisting of his house in Iselin and his government pension fund, and he joked that his financial status might inspire sympathy from voters.

This increased profits for shareholders, even though its assets still had meager returns.

But they warn that gains are likely to be meager at best in broad asset classes.