Sentence examples for minuscule pay from inspiring English sources

The actors, most of them professionals, were performing for minuscule pay (car fare, according to the showcase code of Actors Equity Associationn).

Cassuto largely focuses his book on doctorates in the humanities, and he calls the job market for newly-minted PhDs in those fields "downright abysmal". Graduate students enter the job market, on average, after nine years toiling away on minuscule pay to teach undergraduates and assist with research while largely giving up some of their prime earning years.

DeLeon wanted to make sure a psychologist, not just physicians, for example, would be eligible to fill this or that position in the Veteran's Administration, and he campaigned for years for VA psychologists to receive a minuscule pay increase when they became board certified.

And if you're wondering how Bo Xilai managed on a minuscule state salary to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for Guagua to study in Britain and now the United States (where he downgraded to a Porsche), well, great question!

It's a minuscule price to pay for helping vulnerable New Yorkers find a way into the economic mainstream.

"Without belaboring the point," Oak Duke wrote to the others, "it's a minuscule price to pay to have Gary with us".

But it has been a minuscule price to pay for a revolutionary phenomenon that has changed my life, and millions of others.

Many American banks already pay minuscule federal income taxes, because of various deductions and clever tax planning; the payout-related breaks will reduce their tax bills further in coming years.

Dave Prentis, the general secretary of the union Unison, said: "Companies that make healthy profits from selling to the NHS, yet pay minuscule amounts of tax, ought to hang their heads in shame.

Magazines that once paid by the word and employed healthy rosters of staff writers are now recruiting readers to contribute articles, offering to compensate them with exposure and "prestige". Digital music services like Pandora and Spotify pay minuscule royalties to artists whose songs they stream.

Yet the terminal operators pay minuscule business license taxes to the city, according to a city audit.