Sentence examples for meager endowment from inspiring English sources
The donation, which formed the largest component of Liberty Hall's meager endowment, not only permitted the school to keep its doors open but also promised a permanent revenue stream that would benefit generations of students.
Despite a lack of scholarships and a meager endowment compared with ACC foes, Duke wrestling has found success through Anderson's spirit of "relentless abandon". "I want my athletes to be relentless, and I want them to abandon their fears of failure," says Anderson.
Some institutions argue that they do not have the resources to be as generous as the top colleges, and for most colleges, with meager endowments, that is no doubt true.
You are not owed more from society by way of fair shares in virtue of the fact that your ambitions are large rather than small, demanding rather than undemanding, but you are owed more from society by way of fair shares in virtue of the fact that your initial resource holdings are scant or the fact that your native talent endowment is more meager than that of others.
Yet many managers have learned through painful experience that a business's initial resource endowment (whether bountiful or meager) is an unreliable predictor of future global success.
What if I told you that all over this country, major institutions created and sustained with a mission to pursue the betterment of mankind, colleges and universities that sit on billion dollar endowments are using the current economic crisis to further enrich themselves at the expense of the meager livelihood of long-time faculty?
"Pill," Sharkey Meager said.
Meager food stocks disappear.
