Sentence examples for miserable salaries from inspiring English sources

As in other socialist command economies, it became part and parcel of the way India's so-called "Permit Raj" worked; taking baksheesh in return for doing their jobs was the way that government employees eked out their miserable salaries.

"They have miserable salaries, take on considerable risks, and still want to carry on".Participants in the courses praise the results, while complaining about the lack of focus and co-ordination among some providers.

When Hurricane Hydrocarbons, a Canadian oil company, took over Yuzhneftegaz, a Kazakh state oil firm, in 1996 and introduced electronic identity cards for its employees, 300 people on its payroll disappeared overnight.The worst kind of petty corruption is generated by excessive government regulation administered by officials on miserable salaries.

In a shout, he sings: "The Comandante wants me to work and he pays me a miserable salary.

"We have no protection, no rights, we have a miserable salary, we work in catastrophic conditions," said Nazik Bekkal, a judge from Sidi Kacem in northern Morocco, at the demonstration.

A man with the intellectual pedigree of Rob Ford and the body of Chris Farley does not require the miserable salary and excruciating hours (which he does not keep, but, whatever) of a mayoral position to maintain his profile or accumulate wealth.

You start mentally scoping out which single adequate friend would be free to take your partner's space, if it came to it; the deposit you struggled to put down from your miserable salary would be wasted if you cancel the reservation.

Remember that most knockoffs are made by laboured children who are hired illegally for a miserable salary and they're often exploited; and if you're buying a knockoff, you're supporting this.

Mining for a miserable Peruvian salary was unthinkable.

Patients in many cases may perceive informal payments as an act of solidarity and a necessary supplement to the miserable official salary of physicians [ 23].

The salaries are miserable, he says, and administration wretchedly bad.