Sentence examples for meagre efforts from inspiring English sources

"Rat Film" looks critically at the city's meagre efforts to combat rat infestation and the effect on the city's residents (mainly black residents).

Despite the importance of microsatellite markers, meagre efforts have been made to develop a microsatellite database of the fishes except Danio rerio[ 28], Cyprinus carpio[ 29] and Fishgen [ 30].

Seem eager about the potluck and encourage others to bring items to fill up the table - your meagre effort won't be as noticeable.

Last summer, he criticized Jay Z and Beyonce for their meagre social-justice efforts and sparked, among other things, a cross-generational Twitter fight within black America.

As a result, Jefferson's diplomatic overtures to establish a market for American tobacco and to reopen French ports to whale oil produced meagre results, his efforts to create an alliance of American and European powers to contest the terrorism of the Barbary pirates proved stillborn, and his vision of open markets for all nations, a world without tariffs, seemed excessively visionary.

His directorial downfall wasn't quite immediate enough to make it a perfect fit (the decent enough Rumble Fish was still to come), but his post-Apocalypse efforts have been meagre and mostly mediocre.

That reversed the meagre gains of timid land-reform efforts in the past.

Despite such efforts, the nation's meagre water resources are under increasing pressure to meet its urban-industrial demands as well.

The results of this long campaign were meagre.

As the fourth-highest run getter at the tournament with 433 runs, Taylor earned around £131 before tax for his efforts in Australia and New Zealand - a meagre 30p per run.

"La Rosée blanche" is also overshadowed by the heavy death-toll of the 1914-18 warelationshipstionships are tough: the effort involved in scratching a meagre living from unco-operative soil leaves little room for feelings.