Sentence examples for paltry access from inspiring English sources

Looming threats: rising tax rates (state and federal) and health care costs, persistent lack of demand and, of course, paltry access to growth capital equity and debt.

Internet companies like eBay and Google make billions on these networks but pay very little (other than the relatively paltry monthly "special access fees") for the privilege of using these expensive pipes.

Media had been told that they had a paltry 15 minutes access and the training would then be closed but we were soon told that the session had been upgraded and we could stay for its entirety.

Dow colleague Hewlett-Packard promises a paltry seven days of access to its latest call.

You can see why savers are desperate for more options when you compare these returns to average rates on cash ISAs; ranging from a paltry 1.26 per cent on easy-access ISAs and only reaching 2.75 per cent if you lock your money away for five years.

A paltry 2.5% of Ethiopians have access to the internet, compared with 40% in neighbouring Kenya.Ethiopia's authoritarian leaders are as keen as any on the economic benefits of modern telecoms but fear the political ramifications; pesky dissidents become even more irritating when wired.

The best instant access online rate is a paltry 1%, available from National Counties building society, RCI bank and NS&I.

Only Orange's pay monthly deals come with Wi-Fi access and they only include a paltry 750MB of Wi-Fi browsing – again through BT Openzone's network of hotspots.

Setting aside for the moment very real concerns about "telemedical" RU-486 abortions — authentic informed consent, necessary access to follow-up medical care and paltry support for women who find the at-home procedure more difficult than they anticipated — women deserve better than abortion by any means.

Fast local-network or Internet connections can work better, but problems remain; for example, though the At Home cable service trumpets "high-speed access," it limits upstream bandwidth to a paltry 128 kilobits.

When Alibaba began in 1999, the World Bank calculated China's internet penetration rate — a measure of people's ability to access the World Wide Web — at a paltry 0.7percentt.