Sentence examples for operating on a shoestring from inspiring English sources

What had once been a thriving political operation with dozens of workers is now operating on a shoestring budget.

In recent months Wesabe has been operating on a shoestring budget, with support from some of the developers and operations people who made up our core team.

"He's going to be operating on a shoestring, but he'll do it," Ms. Sturman said of Mr. Nesmith.

Diaspora community school is a private institution, operating on a shoestring budget with a mix of paid and voluntary teachers.

A new fare-rescuing payroll tax will hurt many businesses, not to mention nonprofit organizations already operating on a shoestring.

Like the other candidates vying to become credible alternatives to Mr. Romney and Mr. Perry, Mr. Cain is operating on a shoestring.

The imprint operates on a relatively shoestring budget, paying its authors advances that are usually less than $5,000, Ms. Goldman said.

While continuing to operate on a shoestring budget, the organization's founders soon realized that one festival a year in the United Kingdom was not going to keep WOMAD afloat.

And his campaign continues to operate on a shoestring budget.

But many companies appear to operate on a shoestring.

Most suburban museums operate on a shoestring, hence their difficulties.