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Will any of these measures help to lift France's growth rate from its recent meagre average of 2% a year?

"Pensioners have no voice and are left to survive on a meagre allowance each week that most people would never manage on, " he said.

She said: 'The meagre revenue by government should be directed towards critical needs like health, antiretroviral drugs and education.

Copying gives me access to an infinitely richer and more varied menu of ideas than if I had to limit myself to my own meagre store.

a month and his meagre salary is not enough to pay for the education she wants to give her children.

Oh, that soul was itself meagre, ghastly, and famished; and cruelty was the delight of that soul!

I wonder, therefore, whether it was worthwhile to risk a selective default for such a meagre debt reduction effort?

"When you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. "

The EU's military capability is meagre; its ability to stand up to Russian divide-and-rule tactics in energy security is feeble.

He was professor of physics in the high school, possessor of a large family, a meagre salary, and a select fund of parrot-learned knowledge.

That compares with a meagre doubling in the price of copper this year and a 77% increase in the Shanghai stockmarket.

Advertisements for PCs already tout their meagre energy consumption just as prominently as their number-crunching prowess.

Given that these are so meagre, this might seem to be an unpromising line of inquiry.

Mr Cui, a retired soldier , was unable to find work in his native province and eked out a meagre living by baking sausages .

Even if the recovery can be sustained this year, GDP growth is likely to be a meagre 1% or so.

In 1990, before economic reforms began to work, it accounted for a meagre 3 per cent of global manufacturing.

In the course of time the crowd thinned out to a meagre handful.

Sharp falls in the price of oil and other commodities slowed price rises to a meagre 1% from a year earlier, compared with 1. 9% in October.

No one much complains about the minimum wage today; it has improved the meagre lot of hundreds of thousands of low-paid workers.

From St. Mark, whose account of the Precursor's life is very meagre , no new detail can be gathered.

Salaries are often so meagre and paid so late that charities working in prisons sometimes offer food and soap to warders as well as inmates.

At least that would offer the meagre comfort of simplicity.

In that meagre roommate snore, I can only hear childish delicate and homogeneous bedroom outside leaf breath!

Such meagre income shall not be able to support a spacious work space downtown.

Justin Brown is an abbot at a Benedictine abbey that supplements its meagre income by making and selling simple wooden coffins.

To supplement their meagre income, often he used to go fishing with his friends.

She grabbed meagre meals when she had a free moment . But Luyuan felt liberated from the rigid and demanding schedule of industry .

According to Barclays Capital, the annualised real return since the start of 2003 has been a meagre 1%.

By importing savings from abroad, poor countries can invest more than they are able to set aside from their own meagre output.

With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.

And yet what is true is that Mr Obama's stress on a foreign policy of engagement and "reaching out" has delivered fairly meagre results.

Just over half of the population lives on less than 120% of this meagre poverty line.

In the early stages of development people destroy forests for a meagre living.

Then, a few years ago, the plant went bankrupt and shut down. All the workers were let go with only meagre severance pay.

biggest retailer, needs China to help offset meagre sales growth in mature markets.

During that time, his wife Lee relies entirely on the meagre salary to live, even when played a "family men and women. "

There's no nation under the sun that doesn't try to protect its military secrets, however meagre , from foreign powers.

But opportunities in heavily regulated financial and professional service sectors, including law and accounting, remain meagre.

Those sums are due to fall soon, when a temporary boost expires. Even the current package is meagre.

Frustrated at the area's meagre manufacturing wages and cost of living, her husband and child had returned home.

The answer is that they don't lose all that often, despite a meagre tally of one World Cup, 43 years ago, and no European championships.

This seems a meagre return for over six years of negotiations.

But so far a meagre $300m in aid has been pledged and it is likely that poor countries may have to take most of the burden themselves.

Offers strength of the oneself meagre strength for your firm.

In the past the Agriculture Department (USDA) has placed relatively meagre limits on this expansion. This month, however, that may change.

And how do the poor subsist on such a meagre amount?

He warns, though, that the meagre first-quarter growth result depended on heavy government stimulus measures.

Later this was relaxed and every inmate except those sent to solitary confinement ate the same meagre diet.

My eyes, dad is always like that, for I love so meagre.

I saw for myself the poor conditions of work and the desperate staff shortages, compounded by meagre and uncertain salaries.

Meagre population growth will probably ensure that Michigan, Iowa and Illinois each lose one congressional seat and Ohio two.

A meagre tourist trade to the home of England's historic pottery industry has done little to lift its limp, post-industrial economy.

In the early 1990s, local officials encouraged peasants to supplement their meagre incomes by selling blood plasma.

Retail sales showed meagre growth last month as cash-strapped consumers cut back spending despite summer sale discounts.

Even though many of the bigger markets have now reopened, the supply of food is still meagre.

Our knowledge regarding the effects of ionizing radiations is still meagre .

Laura Ling told her family she was treated humanely, but meals were meagre and her phone calls were monitored.

In February, 1920, he collected a meagre five thousand dollars; five months later, he was raking in a million dollars weekly.

I already meagre monthly retirement pay, now going back to the half stone in the road, this is not simply economic Housing economy.

Four days after the storm, a bunch of soldiers arrived, handed out meagre rations and then mostly just loafed by the roadside.

Right now my salary might be meagre, but by dating me, you are investing to the future while I'm still cheap.

After years of soaring pay, business chieftains in America can expect to reap relatively meagre rewards in the coming years.

On financial reform, the new Basel accords, which governments may ratify in Seoul, are meagre progress.

In his plain old suit of black, he looked pale and meagre.

and it's hard to see the good in offering a meagre stimulus package.

The miners have survived on a meagre diet, but there is still a long way from being rescued.

It shares an Irish-style housing bust with the meagre growth prospects of Portugal and Greece.

The injured climbers had only meagre supplies of water and peanuts to live off.

The Legal Aid Council does not receive its meagre budget on time.

But it is a meagre sandbag against the rising waters of unemployment.

My attainments were few, my knowledge of life meagre, and both in my poetry and my prose the sentiment exceeded the substance.

To make ends meet, Filipino domestic helpers in the same trap as Ms Manjares draw down their meagre savings or borrow from friends.

Our appeal for help met with a meagre response.

Getting certified is expensive, costing about $50, 000 per concession, and the returns are often meagre.

Even large towns must make do with meagre dispensaries and most lack doctors.

The diet should be suitable, being neither too rich nor too meagre .

After a winter surviving on a meagre diet of bark and dead leaves, the spring greenery brings an appetising change.

Special clothing before doing his staff more volume, but the profits meagre .

Those not pressganged into road construction at meagre wages live by subsistence farming and fishing.

But why would investors accept meagre yields if they expected a vigorous recovery?

In December the FDA said that Avastin's side effects outweighed its meagre impact on breast cancer.

By midweek, heavy rains were hampering the meagre aid operations in the delta.

We barely existed on father's meagre wages and mother's struggling income.

He has a 10 per cent approval rating, meagre support in parliament and an economy on its back.

Others grumble at their meagre pay: a typical teacher, with almost 25 years' experience, earns only around $650 a month.

For news outlets facing dwindling print circulations and meagre online advertising rates, this is a glimmer of hope.

His meagre knowledge arouses no sympathy in others.

That was the best quarterly performance since 1984, and up substantially from the meagre 0. 9% annualised growth in the third quarter.

Their meagre market share of 2 per cent is expected to stay flat this year.

Meanwhile, durable goods orders rose by a meagre 0. 3 per cent to $193bn from June to July, commerce department figures showed.

Tang teachers use value of a house which, but she meagre savings, and therefore wants to 8% of the 20-year installment purchase .

They worked long hours on meagre food, in cold caves, by dim lamps.

A 20 per cent, appreciation would provide a meagre 3 per cent devaluation of the trade-weighted dollar.

Private employment rose a meagre 41, 000, an anticlimax after other signs that America's recovery was gathering steam.

Even if the meagre synergies achieved doubled overnight, they would enhance group earnings by just 2-4 per cent.

When she first started work at TVB , her paycheck was only a meagre HK$2200.

The price support is meagre and awkwardly designed, according to Bob Cropp, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Even so, benefits remain meagre.

The encampment needs something to live on. Since North Korea declared the six-party talks dead in the spring, scraps have been meagre.

Average returns of 5% on equities and bonds sound meagre.

He was so weak from hunger he could hardly raise his meagre arms.

The budget this year, for a country of 60m-odd people, is a meagre $2. 4 billion.

Meagre returns have not helped.

The Chinese consumers spending on extravagant branded goods based on their meagre incomes is simply not sustainable.

Demand for petrol, crucial to a car-dependent US, has gained a meagre 0. 5 per cent year to date, according to energy department data.

His knowledge of Chinese history is meagre.

He had to support his family with his meagre income.

By this tally, employment jumped 589, 000 between December and January, not by the meagre 117, 000 using the unadjusted numbers.

That is because it has lost most of its meagre revenues, 85% of which came from in or near the capital.

He has a very meagre knowledge of history.

The return on capital fell from a meagre 4. 1% in the 1940s to less than 3% in the 1960s.

Her knowledge of music is meagre.

It has raised a meagre $1. 3bn since July 2007.

International spirits, by comparison, sold a meagre 80m litres in China.

Before they left Hong Kong, bleary-eyed officials tried to put a brave face on these meagre results.

She estimated her Hong Kong income, supplemented by meagre earnings from her farm back home, yielded 24, 120 pesos a month.

Sales of roses were a blooming EURO802m ($1. 2 billion), although that is a meagre increase of 0. 9% from 2007.

Manmohan Singh, the prime minister of India on the other hand receives a meagre $4, 000 of taxpayer's money each year.

State infrastructure investment is also a meagre 1. 5 per cent, compared with 12 per cent in China.

Although they provide about 70% of jobs in Japan, they have meagre profits from which to fund wage increases (see chart 3).

Technological Research on Preparation of Foundry Formed Coke from Coke Powder Mixed with Meagre and Lean Coal

On the Meagre Remuneration System in the Ming Dynasty and Its Detriment

Experimental studies on the explosion intensity of meagre-lean coal for BF injection

That a weak diseased body, a meagre countenance, and sallow complexion, are the true marks of noble blood;

Feasibility study on blast furnace blowing with meagre coal and meagre lean coal

On the Commercial Opportunity in Meagre Profit

low prices and meagre earnings abroad;

Cause Analysis of Meagre Wages of Sichuan Primary School Teachers in the 30's of the 20th Century

Fathers and mothers who had had their full share in the worst of the day, played gently with their meagre children;