| One promising effort is intended to increase the low personal savings rate in the U.S., which could doom many people to a penurious retirement. |
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| Unlike the penurious English king, Louis provided substantial financial support for full-time investigation. |
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| Your plan to spend everything you have and more as soon as possible seems a certain recipe for a penurious old age. |
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| His poems continuously make us understand the penurious effects of genocide in communal riots. |
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| It is rather penurious reasoning too, knowing what we know about the geo-strategic priorities of the United States at this conjuncture. |
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| She never recovered from the Great Depression and lived a penurious existence to the end. |
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| He is encouraged by the fact that the penurious state of the game is forcing Scottish clubs to offer greater opportunities to youngsters. |
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| Was the students' act bordering on something like savagery when they took advantage of the workers' penurious state? |
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| Once some penurious student has finished loading up a piece of art into her van, it immediately gains in value. |
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| This, as you might appreciate, presents many problems for a man with the soul of a tortured and penurious poet. |
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| The garish festivities are set in one of the world's most penurious places. |
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| He had grown up in a penurious middle-class family, and it was the middle class and the official world which predominated in his sketches, stories, and plays. |
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| After the Civil War, small-arms technology evolved rapidly, but a penurious Congress and an intractable ordnance board balked at rearming an entire army. |
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| Things have come full circle since penurious sailors from the Far East first arrived two centuries ago. |
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| The tried-and-tested development strategy is to move people from penurious farm jobs to more productive work with better pay. |
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| But then again, memory is cheaper than at any time I've ever known it, and 1 GB of RAM is affordable by all but those in the most penurious of situations. |
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| A comparable case is that of Iraq, where in spite of the weekly strikes by the U.S. and Britain and the penurious condition of the country, has still not thrown in the towel. |
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| Young women who need money, who are in penurious circumstances, and not so young women who are in penurious circumstances, could be exploited for use as surrogates or as donors. |
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| The poor penurious horde, naught in the cooking pot and naught in the belly. |
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| As Mr Zapp says, the moan of penurious British academics is familiar. |
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| We now risk cutting ourselves off from more dynamic economies and becoming more penurious and more irrelevant and ultimately, like Tolkien's Eldar, going into the west and fading. |
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| The penurious school system had to lay off several teachers. |
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