Sentence examples similar to paltry attempt from inspiring English sources

After all, Dresdner bought the bank for good reason: its own paltry attempts at investment banking had become woefully inadequate.

Meanwhile, the paltry attempts to reduce global warming are being overtaken elsewhere by the attempt to raise hundreds of millions of people out of abject poverty.

Because the businesses he had bought were of better quality than NatWest's own paltry attempts at investment banking, they would help to raise standards at the rest of NWM.

I have beautiful memories of Bobby and me sitting with his father and mother at the Shrivers' kitchen table — the same team that gazed over J.F.K.'s shoulder — looking over our paltry attempts at speechifying, prodding and pushing us toward comprehensibility and credibility, a challenge when your son starts hanging round with a bleeding-heart Irish rock star.

Testaverde is averaging fewer than 6 yards an attempt, a paltry figure that he has not sunk to since his days at Tampa Bay.

He gained a paltry 2.4 yards per pass attempt.

Dak Prescott, similarly, averaged a paltry five yards per passing attempt in that season opener.

He is averaging a paltry 5.5 yards per pass attempt, and has 265 passing yards in two games.

He isn't faring much better than Murray, throwing four interceptions and averaging a paltry 6.29 yards per throwing attempt through two games. .

According to Congressman Dennis Kucinich, "the announcement of such a paltry troop withdrawal is an Orwellian attempt to appear to drawdown the war without actually ending the war".

It's important to put these results in perspective because they are merely relative to the present paltry numbers of fish that even attempt to migrate up these rivers.