Sentence examples for pitiful amounts from inspiring English sources

Each boy fumbled in his pocket, handing over pitiful amounts of cash.

Small, thinly populated and (barring Estonia) spending pitiful amounts for their own defence, the Baltics are entirely within range of Russian anti-aircraft and air-to-ground missiles.

India, the operators complain, faces a "spectrum crunch".In November Sunil Mittal, the chairman of Bharti Airtel, wrote to India's telecoms secretary describing the "extreme anguish" caused by the "pitiful" amounts of spectrum granted to operators using GSM technology, the dominant standard that is used by three-quarters of Indian subscribers.

But 20 years after that policy change, it's clear that too many families have been left out of the social safety net altogether, forced to subsist on pitiful amounts of money in a country that boasts the richest billionaires in the world; in a country whose collective wealth has surpassed the $1 trillion mark.

It is a pitiful amount.

She cared about this even more than she grieved the pitiful amount her father, Sir Evelyn Delves Broughton, left his daughters in his will, the bulk going to her stepmother.

He cited the fact only three entities had been prosecuted for importing asbestos since 2003 and fined the "pitiful" amount of $300,000 in total.

How you can take on their surface effects – the black turtleneck, listening to Bob Dylan, friends with Bono – yet still pay your Chinese workers a pitiful amount, despoil the environment, do shady stock transactions, pay no tax".

Much of the campaigning about such coverage focuses on the paltry amount devoted to women's sports (just 5% of total coverage) and even more pitiful amount of sponsorship given to all women's sports, just 0.5% for 50% of the population.

These people have to spend so much time to cover their costs when you break it down to an hourly revenue, it's a pitiful amount.

"It's not fair that at the moment that the government should take such a massive amount of tax in road-related taxation and spend such a pitiful amount on the roads".