Those with jobs, like Mrs. Hanong, must endure commutes that devour their time and meager incomes, while legions of jobless people are isolated from opportunity.
With the Panthers, Collins's highest completion percentage was a meager 56, while Sanchez's best with the Jets was 56.7 percent.
But in the first, emaciated diners squabble over meager portions while a gaunt mother funnels food into the mouth of her skeletal infant.
While Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson spent billions building megaresorts on adjacent land on the Vegas Strip, Ruffin remained an outsider, content to run the dingy Frontier for meager profits while the value of the ground beneath it swelled.
But we also do not end homelessness by bestowing meager benefits while looking down judgmentally on those who seek help.
Many of the women she interviewed used the site as a form of meager income while they lived at home, caring for sick relatives, putting off college, which they hoped was on the horizon.
A third of China's wealthiest billionaires are senior leaders supposedly living on meager government salaries — while their kids party in exclusive clubs and flout traffic laws in absurdly expensive cars.
Representatives of the fast-food industry counter that most restaurants operate on a meager profit margin while providing an opportunity for many people to enter the workforce and give them the chance to move up.
They do so even though the few military tribunals held since Sept. 11, 2001, have yielded a meager five convictions while civilian courts have produced more than 220, and even though the average sentence after a civilian trial has been 15-plus years and only one of the military convictions led to a sentence longer than that.
The other major "yeah, but" often cited when dealing with re-election numbers is that while meager amounts of people say most Members of Congress should be re-elected, they are much more charitable when it comes to their own Member.
