Sentence examples for that pittance from inspiring English sources

Often the government does not have enough money to pay even that pittance, or the salaries of teachers, police officers and judges.

Though the LWCF has existed for 50 years, successive Congresses have failed to give the American people even that pittance, and this year the Fund expires Sept. 30.

Risking the Arctic Refuge to extract that pittance of oil is nuts, when it could be painlessly extracted through better conservation and efficiency.

That pittance from her publisher forced her to make ends meet by trying journalism, which she enjoyed.Prizes helped: the Whitbread for "Injury Time" in 1977 and "Every Man for Himself" in 1996, the Guardian Fiction prize for "The Bottle Factory Outing" in 1974.

Chrysler standing alone is worth even less than Chrysler liquidated piecemeal, and even that would fetch a pittance.As long as the holders of carmakers' debt get something more than that pittance, and they will, it is their expectations and not their rights that are being trashed.

That pittance would be 99.6% less than the peak value of $1.6 billion, reached four days after its September 2000 initial public offering.

Now, however, magazines like the New Yorker will have to sell at a sane price and survive on that resulting pittance that may or may not flow in from subscribers.

But as he undergoes root canal, bone grafts and other gruesome dental misadventures, we see him obsessively concluding that "this pittance" of suffering "had been given to him and he must embrace it".

If it makes you feel better to believe that the pittance in tax cuts you got mean you came out ahead, when you're actually holding the bag for the full $900b package that mostly went to people who don't need it and won't spend it, go ahead.

In sharp contrast to the pittance that is an NWSL salary, Gulati estimated that Morgan will earn $3m to $5m this year.

This is bad news for jobseekers who risk having the pittance that is JSA stopped if they refuse to take part.