Sentence examples for meager request from inspiring English sources

NSF director Rita Colwell, although obliged to support the president's much more meager request, nevertheless calls the bill a "terrific show of bipartisan support by Congress".

That 2.1% drop flies in the face of the Administration's promise to double the agency's budget over 5 years, and checks in well below even the meager 3% request for 2005 that President George W. Bush submitted to Congress in February.

Interestingly however, Mixmash's to offer refunds to buyers only resulted in a meager 33 requests.

Appetites were meager.

That looks meager.

The results were meager.

"Pill," Sharkey Meager said.

But wages are meager.

We have a meager budget".

Dowsers said the summer's meager rainfall, which the weather service of the Italian Air Force said amounted to less than half of the national average for the period, resulted in many requests to find new, secret sources of water.

The family's meager means -- welfare, S.S.I. benefits, a subsidized apartment -- did not allow for private home care, Ms. Manas said, and Medicaid kept rejecting her request for a nurse.