Given that these are so meagre, this might seem to be an unpromising line of inquiry.
Yuan Shao had an army of 100,000, while Tsao Tsao had only a meagre force and was short of supplies.
In turn, Asian equity indices have had a difficult day with the Nikkei -1.70%, hang Seng -2.5% and Shanghai Composite up a meagre 0.1%.
IN THE dry desert on the west coast of Namibia, where the annual average rainfall is a meagre 40mm, the Namib beetle (Stenocara gracilipes) has evolved a unique mechanism to drink.
The show is drawing but a meagre audience.
For news outlets facing dwindling print circulations and meagre online advertising rates, this is a glimmer of hope.
Most of the local families, living in raised single-room thatched huts without electricity, grow cashew nuts, bananas and corn for a meagre subsistence.
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It also required firms to hire workers through a state employment agency that paid meagre salaries.
In February, 1920, he collected a meagre five thousand dollars; five months later, he was raking in a million dollars weekly.
Those not pressganged into road construction at meagre wages live by subsistence farming and fishing.
That was the best quarterly performance since 1984, and up substantially from the meagre 0.9% annualised growth in the third quarter.
In his plain old suit of black, he looked pale and meagre.
The grandfather meanwhile went inside the hut, calling to Peter to follow him and bring in his r obeyed with astonishment, and laid down the little bag which held his meagre dinner.
"It is difficult," she realizes,"to report the great events of New England; expression is so slight, and those few words which escape us in moments of deep feeling look but meagre on the printed page."
The meagre Latin class recited with honor.
The EU’s military capability is meagre; its ability to stand up to Russian divide-and-rule tactics in energy security is feeble.
Wang Chunzheng used their meagre wages to the patients and infected persons who purchase nutritional products and fruit.
