Sentence examples for on meagre from inspiring English sources

You feel you have no hope Abibatu The ongoing medical problems are just one of several burdens on meagre social and health care resources already diminished by the virus.

And yet in 1952, the Observer began publishing a cookery column by one Ernestine Carter, and it was not about getting by on meagre supplies.

It's a 'banda', or a 'transport strike', albeit one that finds no support among transport workers, who are desperately dependent on meagre daily wages.

Millions of people like her survive on meagre and erratic earnings.

Whole villages have been living for years on meagre child-benefit payments, charity and foraging.

Many porters also lack proper clothing and have to survive on meagre rations while they're climbing.

Students seem content to rely on the meagre offerings of on-campus dinning, and both students and town folk's primary resource for local retail shopping has been the University book store.

Abidjan was a rail terminus from 1904 but had to depend on the meagre facilities of Port-Bouët on the sandbar's ocean shore.

Nevertheless, having quickly taken Stockport from the foot of League Two and into League One on a meagre budget, Gannon had established himself as one of most highly rated young managers in the lower leagues.

On his meagre royalties young David absconded to Paris, arriving on his 17th birthday.

She and other families rely on the meagre 500 Namibian dollar (US$50) monthly pension collected by one of the elders in the village to buy maize.