And she doesn't understand why Rachel is content to earn a meager salary helping women who want abortions.
And when members of the community die, as five did in a terrible blaze last weekend, they reach into meager savings to help send the bodies back home.
She made just $36 a week, $21 less than the minimum wage, but needed the meager pay to help support a large extended family that includes her five unemployed siblings and their children.
I'm writing with great urgency in hopes that my meager voice might help correct a mammoth miscalculation.
In his early 20s, Odede became a grassroots activist in his community, donating his meager income to help others and promote women's rights.
Italy fell behind in the seventh minute, and earned its meager point with the help of a dubious penalty call in the 29th.
Whatever the reason, "Empire's" meager showing won't help the show's ratings in September or the idea that the Emmys are about as relevant as Donald Trump's thoughts on hairstyling for men.
The government's meager budget can offer little help, and its enormous bureaucracy can discourage preservation.
But now, only his widowed mother's meager income as a tailor helps feed the family.
This financing is a meager effort to stabilize population and help poor countries build prosperous, democratic societies.
