Sentence examples for meager payments from inspiring English sources

The Act included meager payments to a limited set of workers and left out job categories that included most women and minorities.

More so, a couple these sites serve as an intermediary between clients and freelancers; thereby, cutting a specified amount of money from the meager payments meant for the latter.

On our way back, Ovidiu shared his meager payment with some of his less fortunate peers, giving them a cigarette and one RON (about a quarter) each, which is enough for bread but not drugs.

PETER PROVET President and Chief Executive Odyssey House New York, Feb. 13, 2012 To the Editor: California cities' meager tax payments are a tiny fraction of the costs of their misguided "medical marijuana" initiatives.

Emerson made up for the meager $10 payment by inviting Very to his home for dinner.

AFTER those forays into the book world, I still needed to supplement my income for a few years before my meager Social Security payments started arriving.

Unfortunately, Siegel doesn't give us the names of the Chinese and Indian El Dorados so that we can supplement the meager Social Security payments and have sufficient savings to live a dignified life in old age.

The couple say they wish that federal officials would just go up to their fifth-floor apartment to see how they manage on her Supplemental Security Income disability payments and his meager wages.

It can't be denied that Germany's reparation payments following 1945 were meager at best.

In several interviews, victims, a mix of poor laborers and some middle-class professionals, said they were reeling, unable to make mortgage and car payments and forced to start rebuilding meager savings from scratch.

One laborer asked why Alcoa's profit-sharing payments, required by Mexican law, were so meager, especially as Acuña plants appear profitable and Mr. O'Neill had exercised $33 million in stock options beyond his $3 million salary in 1999.