Sentence examples for meager efforts from inspiring English sources

They contend that comparatively meager efforts are being made.

Still, the Obama programs constitute a great leap forward compared with the meager efforts of the previous administration.

In the just-concluded Premier League season, Wolverhampton, the team that finished 20th and last, still received more than $60 million for its meager efforts.

As Beckmann knows, however, deficit reduction isn't as important as keeping people from starving: "We shouldn't be reducing our meager efforts for poor people in order to reduce the deficit," he told me by phone.

This puts into sobering perspective the meager efforts of the U.S. to stave off global warming by improving gas mileage.

However, Europeans correctly gauged that Washington wouldn't leave, despite periodically upbraiding them for their meager efforts.

It's a huge payoff for the meager effort.

Heaps sent a meager effort to the right of the keeper, and Houston clinched the Cup.

But even this meager effort proved to be too much for the modern right.

While NDTV and Hindustan Times reported heroic rescue after heroic rescue by the Indian Army and the National Disaster Response Force (which sent 300 rescuers to the flood-affected areas), the reports from people on the ground are of frustration at slow and meager rescue efforts.

Ending the already meager American effort to resettle refugees fleeing Isis violence in Syria and Iraq would have no positive impact on our security and would only make the challenges facing our European allies worse.