Sentence examples for tiny pension from inspiring English sources

He lives on just $1,545 a month from Social Security and his tiny pension.

But it worked out well because I used my tiny pension to pay for the wedding.

We may be alone, on modest savings or none at all and a tiny pension.

He lives in a small apartment on a tiny pension from the University of Paris, where he taught political science for 20 years.

His father, a chief petty officer in the Royal Navy, died when James was 10, leaving a tiny pension and a family on the edge of poverty.

A startling number have stumbled by trying to operate their own tiny pension funds for selected groups of workers, rather than participating in a state-run pension system for municipalities.

It includes mechanics from the many garages in the neighborhood, salesmen from the restaurant-supply houses on Cooper Square, truck-drivers from Wanamakers's, internes from Bellevue, students from Cooper Union, clerks from the row of secondhand bookshops north of Astor Place, and men with tiny pensions who live in hotels on the Bowery but are above drinking in the bars on that street.

But that's untrue if only because these tasks were clear before the great emigration, too: rents are too high, in the big cities especially; tiny pensions that after 40 years of work are still smaller than welfare payments; or lacking assistance for single parents, who remain unemployed because they can't find daytime child care.

In the meantime, Mr. Pabon, who said he wrestled with grinding pain, could not live on a tiny military pension and the slim disability income of his fiancée, Grace James.

It was while recovering from tuberculosis that he started reading voraciously – philosophy and classics in translation as well as contemporary fiction – and it was while living, on a tiny army pension, in Majorca that he started writing.

There are French expressions that partially deal with this dilemma: a "jeune retraité" is someone who has retired young; or "ma petite retraite" means my tiny little pension (i.e., I can still walk but have no money).