Sentence examples for shoe-string budget from inspiring English sources
Taraf changed the face of Turkey for the better on a shoe-string budget simply by trying to do the right thing.
In a small team, and on a shoe-string budget, we publish high-quality, peer-reviewed, open access monographs in the humanities and social sciences.
The 10-minute, 16-millimeter reels were usually made on a shoe-string budget of about $1,000 with actors who were often just youngsters from the neighborhood.
There's three of them here today, but the funding only covers the equivalent of 1½ full-time staff, plus a shoe-string budget for projects.
Working on a shoe-string budget, we have worked extensively in the Upper East, Upper West, Northern and Brong Ahafo regions, which are the areas with the highest prevalence of FGM and have been successful in co-opting many traditional chiefs to support the campaign to end the practice.
Laws to weed out airlines that are indebted or running on shoe-string budgets have yet to be implemented, with some airlines surviving just because of political connections.
Comparatively, those teams also operate on shoe-string budgets, making it difficult to redirect resources to strategies that won't yield immediate results.
Shot on shoe-string budgets in out-of-the-way locales with no stars and wafer-thin plots, films like What's My Name? are basically just an excuse for Chan to clamber up and down the facades of tall office buildings and ride motorcycles atop speeding locomotives.
"The ability of the system to be hospitable to small companies who are trying to stretch shoe-string budgets is not in the mentality.
They produce content millions of people love, but most of these scrappy street producers are constantly operating on shoe-string budgets, lucky to break even on each film.
