1.   No wonder I was constantly admonished by my father to summon all my meager spiritual resources and be on my best behavior.

2.   A young director with meager resources could not find a leaner entree into the movie business.

3.   Cahill also suggested a link between the continued use of torture and the poor training and meager resources available to law enforcement officials.

4.   Critics of software-related and business methods patents accused the agency of using poorly trained examiners with meager resources to evaluate such applications.

5.   Cuba used its meager resources to build roads, schools and a conventional army.

6.   In feudal Japan, a hapless village preyed upon by bandits pools its meager resources and hires a band of samurai to rid it of its problem.

7.   Most of his clients have had meager resources, if any, and like Cochran, are black.

8.   On the other hand, when you consider the savagery of life in Sarajevo, it seems petulant to complain about meager resources in New York.

9.   The family slips deeper into poverty as it devotes its meager resources to caring for sick loved ones and eventually transporting a body home and funeral.

10.   This took up all his time, strained his meager resources and gave him a breakdown.