The state's "meagre" salary offer provided for a raise of R100.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The NUM, which is demanding a 25 per cent increase, described the offer as "meagre".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Lt-Gen Johan le Roux were "meagre," the CP said in a statement in Pretoria on Monday.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It described industry retrenchment packages as "meagre" and urged that mines be compelled to establish special funds for retrenched workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Nairobi were stranded when without warning, the pilots stopped work, demanding an increase in what they termed "meagre" monthly salaries and allowances.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

So what can Porter mean when he describes the HRA as "meagre"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Technology news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Kgoshigadi M R M Mothapo lamented the "meagre" budgets given to traditional leadership bodies.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The province has criticized the "meagre" federal target to cut emissions by three per cent over 1990 levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dose.ca Music briefs] Reference

Mr Jeyaretnam said the Government support, in terms of Medisave top-ups, was "meagre" compared to how other advanced countries provide for the less well-off.    From Wordnik.com.  [www.hardwarezone.com.sg] Reference

"meagre" increase of R20 a month, or 3,8 percent of pensions, while increased fuel levies would hit hard-pressed motorists.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Two years passed, but the fruits of the propaganda were meagre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference

I would say further that we have very meagre details of heavenly joy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Final Victory] Reference

Physical data of the properties of wood in relation to heat are meagre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

           In the meagre shade of a baobab tree he stopped to draw his knife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watershed] Reference

A study in the 1990s found that a meagre 0.2% of the US prison population were atheists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies without God are more benevolent] Reference

The young poet's parents were simple tillers of the soil, who gave their son a meagre education.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference

He stooped over his hoard -- a meagre little hoard this time -- counting what he had to give her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference

But the conditions are so vastly dissimilar that only a meagre measure of success has been recorded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference

It is this: that in regard even to the future world of final blessedness, we have very meagre details.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Final Victory] Reference

The utter importance of maintaining absolute secrecy of this meagre information was earnestly reiterated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference

If he could not continue to work in the office he could hardly obtain a meagre relief, and that by favor only.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

It is not remarkable, then, that we have but a meagre account of the preparatory processes for final blessedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Final Victory] Reference

The light illumined her stooping, meagre figure as she made her way down the path across the back garden to the gate.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference

It was as if a micro-storm had swept the meagre garden and just for kicks, frisked away the gargoyle, thought the care-takers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Argoyle] Reference

"Lord, I am not talented; my education is so meagre; there is no one to go with me; and, besides, I have a stammering tongue.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference

But, as things are, even the salad plants themselves are represented by a meagre list, and are confined to only few varieties.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference

Meanwhile, a meagre 100 HMRC inspectors do their best to police the entire country's employers for compliance with the minimum wage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tax collection. Now there's a moral crusade for the Tories] Reference

And not once did she think of the great quest, broken by a meagre waiting by the way; no thought crossed her mind in this crisis of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference

Exhausted, bespattered, in rags, they were dolefully crouched around their meagre green-wood fires; the poor creatures were to be pitied.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Nisch, and the quaint old city of Nisch itself, were no meagre prizes, and ought to content the ambition of the young prince for some time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference