Sentence examples for meager payroll from inspiring English sources

Just to meet their meager payroll, our dreamers must prostrate themselves repeatedly before those with fat bank accounts.

Have you seen "Moneyball," the inspiring, based-on-a-true-story film of how the Oakland A's, despite a meager payroll, managed to compete with baseball's richest teams?

Michael Lewis wrote a best-selling book, "Moneyball," about how Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, had succeeded despite a relatively meager payroll, largely by giving more weight to statistical analysis than to intuitive judgments about players' abilities.

Such insights have allowed Beane, who took over the losing franchise in 1997, to stretch a meager payroll and build a championship contender.

Even in April and even against the Twins, with their meager $16 million payroll, it was a pivotal afternoon for Pettitte and for the Yankees at Yankee Stadium.

All levels of government shed workers, and hiring by companies continued to slow, resulting in a meager 18,000 new nonfarm payroll jobs last month, the Labor Department reported on Friday.

The Dodgers' payroll is not meager.

Out of that meager revenue stream Cape.com must meet a payroll for five full-time employees, lease a tangle of telephone lines, including a T-1 upstream connection, and cover its hardware and software expenses.

While the Lakers lavish huge salaries on their top players Shaquille O'Neal earns $24 million and Kobe Bryant $12 million–Sterling's entire player payroll last season was a meager $34 million, $8 million below the next-lowest team (the Detroit Pistons) and more than $50 million behind the free-spending New York Knicks.

The meager sum the Braves will pay Hampton the first three years creates payroll space for them to sign at least one of their two free-agent starters, Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux.

The unemployment data – known as non-farm payrolls – is expected to show a rise of 85,000 jobs in June after the meager 18,000 increase in July.