Sentence examples for paltry allowance from inspiring English sources
All of these cuts, direct or indirect will also affect carers of disabled people too, who receive a paltry allowance of just £53.90 a week.
At the time, Shaltmira and her crew dressed in clothing they made themselves, never having any money except the paltry allowances they received from their parents.
But he has coaxed most of the nation's teachers back to work with little more than a paltry $100 monthly allowance and the promise to try to give them more.
Clearly, it takes a certain kind of person to commit to 24 months of living in a mud hut, earning a meager monthly stipend and coming home to a paltry $6,075 "readjustment allowance".
For backbenchers - recently rebranded as "frontline councillors" - the money is particularly paltry, with the allowance coming in somewhere between £3,000 and £10,000 a year (figures differ as councils set their own rates).
They have heavier debts, the jobseeker's allowance is a paltry £60.50 a week and redundancy packages are meaner.
They are allowed to claim special exemption from the rules if they have had maternity leave or other caring responsibilities, but the allowances made are often paltry: women who have taken a period of maternity leave, for example, are allowed to submit three publications rather than four.
In Europe he is just another middle-aged man in a suit.As China Unicom's head man in Europe, Mr So was paid a paltry Chinese salary plus a small cost-of-living allowance.
A paltry fifteen minutes.
