Sentence examples for meager subsidies from inspiring English sources

In 1997, in exchange for meager subsidies, Congress required that Amtrak be "operationally self-sufficient" by December of this year, or else.

Many of these facilities, including the beleaguered FutureGen project in Meredosia, Ill., have moved forward in fits and starts over the last decade, as whispers of tough new climate policies have come and gone, and meager government subsidies have waxed and waned.

When told that $10 a month might pay for only a meager drug benefit, even with federal subsidies, Doris K. Lawrence, 80, a retired teacher, shot back: "That's where the rub is -- the drugs are too expensive to start with.

Cities and towns eager to capture a professional sports team almost always grant generous terms, but most economists contend that the sports deals generally provide a meager return for such a large subsidy from taxpayers in a project that will have limited use.

They want to remove the Affordable Care Act's subsidies for middle-income people and replace them with some meager tax credits.

That looks meager.

The results were meager.

"Pill," Sharkey Meager said.

But wages are meager.

Subsidies help.

We have a meager budget".