| Whether an analyst points to the 27.6 percent of first-choice votes or the 28.4 percent of the total vote, the meagerness of his plurality is obvious. |
| In the end, due to the meagerness of both our resources and our carpentry skills, we settled on a balance constructed of wood and a precariously balanced wire hanger. |
| The outstanding notes of his boyhood had been poverty and meagerness. |
| This is proved in the behavior of the committee and in the meagerness of the public's interest. |
| Despite the meagerness of his military career and his own later hostility to militarism, there is no evidence that he ever opposed IRA actions during the war of independence. |
| What is here said of the plan of the Acts explains still more strikingly the meagerness of the record of the third journey. |
