Sentence examples for meager task from inspiring English sources
With the outcome still in question, James looked to slice through the Knicks' interior, a manageable, meager task in the past few seasons.
Mr. Christopher said the biggest problem was meager job growth.
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks, audiences may be avoiding an opera about a delusional soldier in 1820's Leipzig who supplements his meager pay by performing menial tasks for an overbearing captain and offering himself as a subject for crackpot medical experiments.
In the absence of a proper stock control system, an overall coordinating agency, and adequate numbers of engineer depot units, the allocation and distribution of the meager supplies on hand were difficult tasks.
Rather than complain about the meager sum allotted for such a monumental task, they decided to make the most of the funds they were given.
Ms. Jolly, a mother of three, said she had spent two years working at clerical tasks in exchange for a meager welfare check and had come in expecting to be cut off without a dime.
After years of contraction that have thrown millions of Russian officers and soldiers into a depressed economy on meager pensions, Mr. Putin now faces the politically wrenching task of cutting hundreds of thousands more active-duty slots.
Their pay for these relatively cushy tasks ranges from $350,000 to $500,000 per year; but even this is meager compared to what their superiors make.
She sent a British naval task force to recapture the islands after the Argentine military dictatorship of Leopoldo Galtieri dispatched troops to overrun the meager British garrison there.
