Sentence examples for penurious state from inspiring English sources
Watching scientists and managers scramble to hold their protected areas together on limited funding, she felt inspired to help remedy the penurious state of Russian conservation.
But he was also an inveterate philanderer who was rarely home, treated his desperately smitten wife like a dependent child, pummeled his sons and kept his family in a humiliatingly penurious state.
from a subscription that was started in 1853 in another attempt to alleviate his penurious state.
Netanyahu, the most fanatic neo-liberal leader in Israel's history, asked the country's penurious middle class and poor to re-elect him on a record of high living costs, unaffordable housing, and a 21percentt poverty rate.
Venezuelan oil was flowing to energy-strapped Cuba, effectively ending the country's almost decadelong penurious "Special Period" that followed the Soviet collapse and the abrupt end of three decades of generous subsidies from Moscow.
While many states and cities spend substantially more, these are not penurious amounts.
The cutbacks stem from a $350 million reduction in financing for the state's judicial branch — the largest cut in California's history — in the 2011-12 budget, part of a penurious spending plan endorsed by Gov. Jerry Brown, who has made taming California's money problems a priority.
But when it came to culture it was always penurious.
The respectable and the penurious were often the same people.
Goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts allowed a penurious 1.03 goals per match.
