Sentence examples for paltry gains from inspiring English sources

Yet with such paltry gains, and coming as they did after such hyped-up expectations, few will be persuaded to change their minds.

He said he was sad that three people had been killed for such "paltry" gains and added that the Mullanys must have been "terrified".

This is compounded by top "super managers" ensuring that whatever paltry gains are made go not to workers but to profits, which then inflates the share price and, via related bonuses and incentives, those managers' own remuneration.

He plays the petty thief who drunkenly, almost uncaringly, gets pinched smashing the heads off parking meters, makes no attempt at escape or spending his ill-gotten (and paltry) gains and gets sentenced to work on a brutal chain gang.

On the other hand, they can be seen as a tool of management, because their relatively paltry gains in terms of money and time keep the workers happy and less likely to strike.

From the peak of the dot-com era in March 2000, stocks have risen about 10 percent, a paltry gain once fees, taxes and risks are factored in.

The Treasury got into this game to help average Americans, so if it thinks its job is done because it grossed a paltry gain on its massive interventions, it does not even understand its role.

Little growth in the second quarter and July's paltry employment gains make the prospects of the dreaded double-dip recession a real possibility.

If so, to eke out a paltry 4% revenue gain, to $680 million, Harker will have to boost unit sales by 40%.

IBM dragged down the whole market after reporting last night an as-expected bottom line but a paltry 5.2% revenue gain for the same period.

In years when the market is way up, indexed annuity investors enjoy a paltry portion of the gains.