Sentence examples for paltry share from inspiring English sources

Most of them had grown disillusioned with Yemen's opposition political parties, which have made tacit deals with Saleh in order to maintain their paltry share of power.

The prime minister received loud cheers at the conference on Saturday when he told party members that West Australians were right to feel aggrieved over their paltry share.

The government in Manila had been hoping to tap a growing demand among Chinese for holidays abroad to increase the Philippines' paltry share of tourism in South-East Asia. South-East Asia

In fact, the paltry share of black musicians in the nation's approximately 1,200 orchestras — less than 2 percent — reflects the pervasive lack of racial diversity in classical music.

With legislative candidates chosen largely by political leaders in those counties with the most electoral clout in their respective districts, Mr. Weingarten and his supporters say that Essex's paltry share of the new 21st District cost him the Republican nomination for one of the district's two Assembly seats.

Bass added that, given Lew's position overseeing a unit that invested in hedge funds, he'd like to know whether Lew believes that hedge fund managers should be taxed like other workers, as opposed to the relatively paltry share of income they give to Uncle Sam thanks to rules governing taxable income earned by private-equity and venture-capital firms, and hedge funds.

China and India have paltry shares.

So are many elements of the increasingly punitive benefits system – which, among other things, limits housing benefit for under-35s without children to a paltry "shared accommodation rate", and stops the benefits of 18-24 year-olds (AKA "sanctioning") at twice the overall average rate.

In 2003 only three of America's 20 biggest banks were foreign-owned, with a paltry 2.2% share of deposits.

Foster's could be run better, but there's little overlap with SAB to offer supercharged cost cuts as SAB has a paltry 1.5 percent share of the Australian beer market.

Compared to other east European audiences, Romanians were definitely not interested in getting high on their own supply: domestic films had a paltry 2.5% share of the market in 2010.