Sentence examples for paltry response from inspiring English sources
The same reluctance to deal with substance is reflected in the paltry response of stripping him of his knighthood.
As long as we are unable, as a country, to face this question, everything else in the health care debate seems irrelevant and a paltry response to our problems.
To poor countries, this sounds paltry: responses range from "bribery" to "it will not even pay for the coffins".
The paltry and pathetic response so far to Pakistan's plight from Arab oil producing states is particularly disturbing.
Yet, the average investment in research and development for safety, accident prevention and spill response was a paltry $20m a year".
Many feel David Cameron's pledge to resettle 20,000 refugees by 2020 is paltry, especially when compared with the response in Germany where around 15,000 are being accepted every week.
The paltry documents which have been made available provide grossly inadequate information to assess spill response capability.
Ron Morris, a former Coast Guard captain and general manager of an oil spill response company on Alaska's Prudhoe Bay, called the berms' 1,000 barrels a paltry amount.
President George W. Bush learned that lesson the hard way, when his initial response to the December 2004 tsunami in Asia that killed 226,000 people was derided as paltry, and a year after that when his White House fumbled its response to Hurricane Katrina.
In response to Australia's 570-9 dEngland, England were blown away, chiefly by Mitchell Johnson, for a paltry 172.
