Sentence examples for meager resistance from inspiring English sources

American commanders speak confidently of a quick, decisive victory and of anticipating meager resistance from Iraqi troops who, they say, have no hope on the battlefield.

Stones propose another sense of time, whereby the past, the deep past of the planet, proffers a meager yet massive support to human acts of resistance, as if the veins of metal in rock led to our veins of blood.

But Mr. Parkinson, who has been in office only three months, has a skeletal staff and meager resources, and his ability to clean up the problems remains uncertain -- particularly in the face of internal resistance.

But when they look at their meager equipment and ammunition, and describe what they sense as a lack of American interest in a military courtship, these storied resistance fighters have begun talking about war in another way: as bystanders trying to divine a superpower's intent, and then carving out some independent supporting role.

Appetites were meager.

That looks meager.

The results were meager.

Meager food stocks disappear.

"Pill," Sharkey Meager said.

But wages are meager.

We have a meager budget".