11.  Those meager resources were not remotely enough to replace cuts last fall, when Ms. Swinney was forced to dismiss the remedial teacher and the three aides.

12.  Verso is a small publisher based in New York and London with relatively meager resources for marketing.

13.  We also shared our meager financial resources, trusting that neither of us ever would selfishly take advantage of the other.

14.  And the Russian Space Agency has been under pressure from its U.S. counterpart NASA to abandon the Mir and concentrate its meager resources on the international space station.

15.  But authorities fear that tolerance may dwindle if Tuaregs who are now settling down find resources too meager to support them.

16.  Every meager resource goes toward survival, from their huts made of cow dung to the paste of boiled butter and ground ocher that shields their skin.

17.  Every meager resource goes toward survival, from their huts made of cow dung to the paste of boiled butter and ground red ocher that shields their skin.

18.  Holbrooke said millions of people were threatened with famine in southern Ethiopia because the government is spending its meager resources on the war.

19.  Just as rancorously, Tanzania has denied the allegations, saying it has devoted meager resources to care for the refugees at the expense of its own people.

20.  Many fear water scarcity poses the biggest threat to security in the region, which is already straining its meager resources.