Sentence examples for was too meager from inspiring English sources

Government financing for marketing purposes was too meager to do the job, according to the association.

To attract liberal lawmakers who contended the measure was too meager, they added a provision to generate business for minority contractors.

Last year, several players — Hikaru Nakamura, Gata Kamsky, Joel Benjamin and Larry Christiansen — did not compete, mostly because they thought that the prize money was too meager.

He noted that the White House, in a recent reversal, acknowledged what Democrats have been saying all along: that a recent homeland defense budget, shaped largely by Congressional Republicans, was too meager.

His salary was too meager to feed four children, he said, and he took on private students until 10 p.m. every day and drove a taxicab during the summers.

Too often the weaving doesn't occur, the component parts being too meager or conventional.

They are expected to show that the current contribution levels to the state pension system are too meager.

But opposition leaders pounded Mr. Raffarin and his health minister, Dr. Mattei, saying the measures were too meager and came too late.

It can cut costs by consolidating post offices in areas where mail traffic is too meager to warrant separate branches.

Mr. Florio's budget is too meager to buy television ads until the week before the June 6 primary.

But Congressional aides, who are enthusiastic about using Nigerian forces there, complain that the American training has been too meager.