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National Commission on Product Safety (NCPS), and for only 90-days (at a pittance of $100 per day).[further explanation needed] Section 4 of the 1972 act

that remained was a roadside fruit stand, for which Lola only charged a pittance of rent. The fruit stand displayed a sign bearing the name "Lolaville"

from 1973. The hero of Wansa-kun was Wansa, a puppy who is sold for a pittance, then escapes, and spends much of the rest of the series looking for his

in law; their heirs immediately succeed to their estates; only a small pittance is reserved for their support; and the poor ones are maintained at the

having been accused of acquiring the mineral rights to Whitehaven for a pittance from St Bees School, and were also suspected of having tried to keep the

According to the official rules, the prize for winning the contest is "a pittance". The 2008 winner received $250, while the 2014 winners' page said the

satirical take on temporary or part-time employment. Players are paid a pittance for repetitive, menial tasks, with the only way to unlock more varied jobs

resident magistrate; the income from these minor offices amounted to a pittance and Brown remained poor all his life. Brown's consuming interest in fossils

officials encouraged millions of poor farmers to sell their blood for a pittance under catastrophic health conditions. Production of Ximei lasted seven

old violin that is about to be sold as the last item at an auction for a pittance, until a violinist steps out of the audience and plays the instrument,

be supported until they get married. If a poor person earns only a bare pittance, it will not be fard for him to pay nafaqa to his poor father. Akgündüz

heavily subsidized; Japan's native Buddhists were given a comparative pittance. Japanese rule brought Mahayana Buddhism and Shinto to Palau, with the

rolled over and broke up. They were 32 days on the reef with only the pittance of pork and such water as they could dig out of the sand. On the thirty-third

season 3 Ironside episode "L'Chayim", and in Mannix, in the episode "A Pittance of Faith", as Mr. Lardelli, in the same year. Opatoshu played in a 1970

Dr. Tracy Hall, the inventor of synthetic diamonds, who earned only a pittance for his invention while General Electric made an incalculable profit. At

owner into financing a venture to buy artwork on Halma for more than the pittance the lords pay. However, for some reason, no one is willing to sell to him

2011. Retrieved 29 April 2011. "Afghanistan: Risking one's health for a pittance". UNHCRA. Archived from the original on 18 October 2012. Retrieved 29 April

documentary about the plight of tribal women selling their babies for a pittance. He contacted and wanted to film with Soundarya as the main female lead

American government or city fathers for secret missions, while paying a pittance to his agents. The comic book ridicules aspects of American society, including

Harmetz stated that Nickelodeon acquired the program's presentations "for a pittance" because their relatively low production values and their actors' foreign

pastoral stations were often taken on as indentured labourers and were paid a pittance. A law was passed forbidding any white, other than station owners, to approach

survived selling dusters from door to door and occasionally received a pittance from the New York Journal for poems he submitted. His nights were frequently

believed that the president of the United States was paid a "miserable pittance", and that a way of increasing his income while avoiding the appearance

Great Depression and the bank has foreclosed on his home. With only a pittance settlement to show for it, Ira loads his wife, adult daughter Emily;three

sister is drawn into an engagement. She writes to Daniel asking for a pittance of $50,000 for her dowry. Daniel realizes he is needed and starts posthaste

(Laurel and Hardy) films for what United Press International termed "a pittance." By 1980, the 800-title library of his company, The Nostalgia Merchant

advantage of by settlers who often purchased the treaty-promised land for a pittance. Those Creeks who managed to keep legal title to their lands were soon

were paid less than white stockmen. As late as the 1960s they received a pittance of $6 a week, as opposed to the standard white man's weekly wage $46, for

include it in their Symantec Utilities for Macintosh (SUM) package for a pittance. Unimpressed by the offer, they instead asked Guy Kawasaki to front them

Duchy of Cornwall, who sold off all its contents and furnishings for a pittance. The main house was demolished in 1913 while still in the ownership of

Queen but not yet a bandit, sells her last heirloom to a nobleman for a pittance, only for him to betray her to the Woodcutter, a bounty hunter whom she

scoring the season after, Rahn's form decreased massively then and ended in pittance-like transfers to 1. FC Köln, Hertha BSC, Fortuna Düsseldorf, Eintracht

Rennison was brought in again as their producer. Metal Review's Ramar Pittance sees the group are "honing their songwriting chops and producing some of

canvases from some of the best artists, unrecognized at the time, for a pittance. This formed the basis of what became a vast collection of California art

this time, football was played on gravel and footballers were paid only a pittance by clubs. During the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, the Turks captured the

illustré. Despite his insurance contracts, Migne was only able to retrieve a pittance. Shortly afterwards, Georges Darboy, Archbishop of Paris, forbade the continuance

plight of migrant workers who cross the border from Mexico to work for a pittance. "Canons of Christianity" attacks the hypocrisy of church teachings and

centers, and their agricultural production has been forcibly bought at a pittance, and many of them are at risk of starvation. Dimitar Agura, historian Petar

he offers out of the kindness of his heart to purchase their land for a pittance. When the grieving Betty overhears his plans, Malgrove and his henchmen

November 1808, though only 20 years old, as assistant to Robert Scott, with a pittance of £25 Irish. Here his evangelical fervour met with no sympathy. and on

B-movie thrills to give Age of the Dragons true schlock value . . . This pittance fails to make Age of the Dragons anything more than disposable. Expect

boy—who is really the lost heir of a powerful family—being bought for a pittance by a seeming beggar, who is himself really a spy, and who suspects the

spinoff from the acquisition of the insolvent General Bank and Trust for a pittance, Allied Bank was incorporated under the laws of the Republic of the Philippines

Piyaporn (4 August 2018). "SPECIAL REPORT: Forest rangers risk lives for a pittance". The Nation. Retrieved 4 August 2018. Rujivanarom, Pratch (16 August 2018)

families of the two girls who were murdered at Soham in August 2002 as a "pittance". The compensation was paid out by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority

do the government's bidding. He then had the Eher-Verlag buy them for a pittance, usually in auctions in which the Eher-Verlag was the sole bidder. During

The jewels proved difficult to dispose of. He began selling items for a pittance. A Bangkok jeweller, Santhi Sithanakan, learned of the sales and bought

finance a debauched lifestyle of never-ending parties, sending only a pittance to Rome, until Quaestor Vexatius Sinusitus is sent to investigate. Flavus

This mysterious fence forces criminals to sell him their wares for a pittance. When some object, he "squeals" to the police. Those who oppose him are

$5,000 bonus from his employers for his contributions to the company, a pittance compared to the million dollars in income the company earned from his work

blind, abandoned by his friends and pupils, reportedly surviving on a pittance earned from making matchboxes in the single room where he lodged. He died

Sydney". National Library of Australia. 1969. Retrieved August 15, 2023. "A Pittance of Faith". Mannix. Season 2. Retrieved May 18, 2013. "Medal for a Hero"

and because the state legislature's "black-market tax" on whiskey, a pittance of a tax that actually contradicted the state constitution, was a shameful

pentathlon and the decathlon. However, when it is discovered that he was paid a pittance to play baseball one summer, he is disqualified and stripped of his medals

with a salary of less than twenty pounds sterling. Heyne increased this pittance by translation: in addition to some French novels, he rendered into German

women were forcibly recruited for periods of up to two years. Pay was a pittance when it was there at all. Any pretext was used to pull in the laborers

eventual sale of the necklace. Townsend and Baronti sold the necklace for a pittance of $60,000 to its assessed value of $400,000, and remitted only $7,270

would be safe to bet that Abasse Ndione has seldom earned more than a pittance from any publisher. So he has made his living working full time as a hospital

Banabans to give him a license to destroy their country in return for a pittance in overpriced trinkets and third-rate tinned food. Not satisfied with this

the owners of large farms and sugar cane plantations, who were paid a pittance for their homes and given twenty-four hours to evacuate. The purchases

by fellow Brazilian Luiz Bonfá. The recordings garnered no more than a pittance of recognition for Alf at the time, but would later (in the early 1960s)

hours each week and earn thousands of pounds than work in a bar for a pittance. But I hated doing it really." After nearly two years of modelling, he

intensified, and the owner of the mill was forced to sell to Minoux for a pittance. Throughout those years, Minoux and his wife became notable figures in

and then called upon it to act as a police force while they paid but a pittance of wage to those who work for them. I hope that day has gone by. Our place

Mission bay, Section 5 Kohimarama. Auckland, N.Z. "Auckland: Land for a pittance – New Zealand News". NZ Herald. Retrieved 20 June 2022. "Looking South

rights. That got millions of acres of land repossessed, sometimes by a pittance being paod, decades later. He was also the chief convenor of Jaat Sabha

1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "average", writing: "Made for a pittance in 15 days, this fairly interesting drama was Richardson's only film a

held a 33% stake in the company, which by 2020 had been reduced to "a pittance of the stock". Among the original board members were Harry E. Sloan, Les

nearest city, Oran, where Issa, Younes's father, works difficult jobs for a pittance. Physically and psychologically worn, Issa is resigned to give his son

having failed to attract his former slaves back, sold the land for a pittance to try to get out of debt. Two years later, he was dead at the age of 44

to file RTI requests. Dey, Anindo (26 June 2010). "NREGA workers paid a pittance in state: NGO". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 August 2019. "MGNREGA

meeting of the shareholders called to vote on whether to sell for the pittance Dubois is offering. The Guv'nor denounces Barzac and Dubois, but Madeleine

and take her away. After Peter talks to the kidnappers, offering them a pittance to save Meg, one of them tells him "Drakkar Noir" before hanging up. The

derbies held in the United States that year. Event purses rose from a pittance of a few hundred dollars to over $50,000 after the popularity of TNN's

like the other Hakka women, becomes a “dulang woman”, panning tin for a pittance. The mine owner not only plants opium at the mine area for profits, he

ISBN 978-0-231-53993-7. Adnan, Minhaj (14 April 2021). "Indian cricketers played for pittance until 1980s; now they roll in money". The Siasat Daily. Retrieved 21 February

Tournament Munich 1972 Morocco - Malaysia at FIFA.com "When football begets pittance". K.Rajan. The Star. 25 November 2020. Archived from the original on 25

Home as a pariah after selling the land to the livestock company for a pittance. He moves to Omaha and spends the first two years visiting the scenes of

conditions for cyclists, whom he considered were paid little better than a pittance by their sponsors. He fought Desgrange's plan that riders in the Tour de

heavily subsidized; Japan's native Buddhists were given a comparative pittance. Japanese rule brought Mahayana Buddhism and Shinto to Palau, with the

constant abuse, while another son was doomed to never receive more than a pittance due to his placement in the family line. Furthermore, while Hull's family

can have a remarkable T-shirt and/or cast iron belt buckle for a mere pittance". [3a] [4] "Hello, What's Happening? I Die Every Night..." (7:22) A Stiff

and then only on the now-long-defunct DuMont Television Network, for a pittance compared to the contracts of today. Only two Texans games were televised:

Daniel (15 December 2018). "How can a sport worth billions spend just a pittance on fighting racism?". The Guardian. "Lord Ouseley". DodOnline. Archived

Robert John Godfrey, the Enid got along well with Wilde but were paid "a pittance" because the album was recorded in their studio. Production duties were

debuted via the loop, the Montague property was suddenly obtainable for a pittance. CNE then completed the last 313 feet of the original line, which it had

when presented with excess crop. Often, the excess must be sold for a pittance and used for industrial alcohol production rather than wine.[citation needed]

planned floating communities, and he can then purchase the sunken land for a pittance before lowering the water level again. He enlists the help of Giovanna

professionals make a beeline for it prepared to work there for less than a pittance; respectable touring outfits, such as the Oxford Stage Company and Out

pictures of the Paschal Feast and Moses striking the Rock accepting whatever pittance the confraternity chose to pay. The development of fast painting techniques

with impunity, and forced her to sign away the family's ownership for a pittance – with a promise that she could continue residing on the property. However

"drostendiensten", which compelled the farmers of Overijssel to labour for a pittance a few days every year for the local magistrate, the Drost ("bailiff").

Powell of The New York Times wrote that the school's tuition fees were "a pittance compared with a Dalton or a Brearley." St. Nicholas of Tolentine Elementary

waterfront. Initially, the new President, Xanana Gusmão, to whom only a pittance was available to fund his presidential office, had to make do with some

entitlement to her mother's share of the joint property: he promises her a pittance of 100 francs a month. Eugénie agrees to this, although Felix subsequently

2021. "Shinde,Vilasrao,SB Chavan trusts also got prime Mumbai land for a pittance". The Indian Express. 13 December 2013. Retrieved 14 July 2021. Johnson

Newspapers.com "Tale of Oil King's Daughter Who Saw his 13 Millions Dwindle to Pittance" The Philadelphia Inquirer (November 2, 1930): 108. via Newspapers.com

sold to private owners with the settlers on the grant receiving only a pittance of the proceeds. Following legal struggles, the former common lands became

he never thought it incumbent upon him to do so: but allowed some small pittance to the French and Italian teachers in the University. I have often heard

contracts negotiated during Wismer's AFL tenure were nevertheless worth a pittance compared to subsequent contracts, and as such, broadcasting revenues were

could only expect to be paid 17 shillings a week, an amount considered a pittance at the time. Following a trade dispute with the Cleeves, workers belonging

whom he meets at a bus stop. When he is caught in the act of stealing a pittance from his father for booze with his friends during one of his friends's

getting rich with sold-out arena game after game, players were earning a pittance and many needed summer jobs to make a living. Almost all of these men had

hour" and also criticized it for only including "three measly songs. A pittance!" Variety was more positive, writing: "Good balance of script and songs

part, and even if they had, they have not the means of paying a small pittance to the master or of buying a book". According to Fr. Brennan's book, the

though the Great Depression had reduced all wages, the price was still a pittance — a situation Redbird sought to change. Organizing other potters, and backed

secretary, bookkeeper and office manager who is willing to work for a pittance. In reality she is an accomplished fraud artist with an extensive criminal

that when he was alive she needed only him and after his death only a pittance. Marie Emilie was given a pension by the king and devoted herself to charity

music albums in Kannada cinema. Back then audio rights were sold for a pittance and nominally paid ₹100 or ₹1,000. With Premaloka things changed and rights

says of him, "people liked him and would do things for him either for a pittance or free of charge". He also sought funding from a mixture of trades unions

and are often thrown around just for the amusement of their lords. The pittance of money they earn in the Netherworld goes towards their reincarnation

beggars who sit outside entreating these same religious visitors for some pittance to help them get through the day. After dining at a notable local restaurant

Shocking Miss Pilgrim. Bad representation caused the story to sell for a pittance, and it would not be produced until 1947 when it was rendered almost unrecognizable

had hidden money, but he failed to notice this and sold the cakes for a pittance. When he realized what he had done he took his own life in despair. In

Some worked in armaments factories, others in naval shipyards, for a pittance of three to five francs a day. At the time they were seen just as cheap

tribe who made a miserable living weaving baskets and doing odd jobs for a pittance. When Fr Alexander started the Pavoor Mission in 1913 it was a barren landscape

drives a wedge between Alicja and her boyfriend Michael. Alicja earns a pittance as an assistant in a cinema and is trying to get work as an actress while

who he meets at a bus stop. When he is caught in the act of stealing a pittance from his father for booze with his friends, Hemal questions his father’s

selling their wares at the market, and the city was receiving a relative pittance compared to the value of the land. At that time, though, a "Save the Market"

forced to sell his possessions, and Homer gleefully buys many of them for a pittance. Overcome by regret, Homer decides to return Ned's possessions, but he

Polydor as S Club 7. The members were merely affiliates and received "pittance" from merchandise. In January 2023, Spearritt said she had been forced

his nights to study of the most miscellaneous description and earned a pittance by teaching. In 1654, at the age of nineteen, he published the Discurs

province and persuading the people who own them to give them up for a pittance." The first Specialist was Tom Ernst, and he was followed in the 1990s

shall remain to the Oratory. VI. They shall have only one mess, with a pittance, at a meal, excepting on the greater festivals, when they may have three

fungal life, who previously worked in a slaughterhouse before foreman Henry Pittance raped his wife Pinney, leading him to kill everyone in the facility and

wearing Tranh's old Rolex watch, which Tranh had been forced to sell for a pittance in order to survive. Ma, seeing that Tranh has noticed the watch, mocks

but one primarily driven by economics: Pullman paid the black porters a pittance, forcing them to rely on tips from their white clientele for most of their

without fear for himself. Superbus had taken his inheritance and left him a pittance, keeping him at court for entertainment. Collatinus, seeing his wife dead

convert the Kaw into full-time farmers. What was left to the Kaw was a pittance of land thirty miles wide extending westward into the Great Plains from

Retrieved 31 July 2018. "30 yrs on, victims of Bengal's other chit scam get a pittance". The Indian Express. "Trust is a commodity: What the underbelly of Bengal's

powerful California Central, parent company to the Santa Fe, had paid a pittance to people for the right of way through their property. Something had to

globalisation. Driss, Moussaid and Djibril are day-labourers there, working for a pittance and, as is the case with most of their peers, without a working contract

Richardson to not only abandon the project, but to sell the lot to Yancy for a pittance. The most serious emergency of Yancy's restaurant inspector career occurs

F. Kennedy's campaign; the next morning, Dan is outraged to receive a pittance in the mail, along with a note: "Dear Dan, you're no Jack Kennedy." In

Scope's already dull games, but Tomatoes! gave Sega's cartridge "some pittance of value". Mega rated the ToeJam & Earl spin-off at 62%, calling it "fun

cases, the chief wage-earner was employed in regular work, but paid mere pittance, unable to sustain a healthy level of living. In the remainder of the cases

with daytime rehearsals and nighttime performances, and her wages are a pittance. Toyotarō states that, despite it being common for dancing girls to become

province and persuading the people who own them to give them up for a pittance." Most donors are "honoured to give up their trees... [and] most will gladly

English manufacturer and peasant are subject to in the pursuit of their pittance. Such justification about the "goodness" of enslavement for those who were

Although paying Jabez Wilson four pounds a week was expensive, it was a pittance compared to the ill-gotten thousands they were looking to steal from the

Although paying Jabez Wilson four pounds a week was expensive, it was a pittance compared to the ill-gotten thousands they were looking to steal from the

north of Kalina village from the villagers in the early 1950s. They paid a pittance as compensation to the villagers at four annas per square yard. It was

father's skills; yet, because of his youth, the company pays him only a pittance and Paul overworks himself. In this section, the word "job" is treated

of Oman's coral sea." In this dungeon, she was supplied with a daily pittance of food by an eagle, trained to hover over the only crevice through which

of large housing tax breaks to wealthy homeowners and the comparative pittance to help the poor. In 2005 Roisman was accused of opposing the tenure of

cut up and "butcher" UCS and sell the government's holdings, "even for a pittance". He left the government in 1972 after refusing the post of Arts Minister

decision-making process. They tilled the land with their husbands as peasants for pittance. Women stayed as inferior to men and were discriminated against not only

original wildlife preserve that they'd been after to another developer for a pittance. This proved to be the straw that broke the camel's back; the next morning

Bombers picked up what would be one of their all-time greats for a relative pittance in the draft. Lloyd was heralded as a future football star after his AFL

people of KwaZulu Natal were treating its employees and paying them a pittance. This song was banned from public broadcast by the Broadcasting Complaints

Globe and Mail. Kieltyka, Matt (14 October 2015). "Federal parties offer a pittance to young adults: Generation Squeeze report". Metro News. Hyslop, Katie

because the album was recorded in the Enid's studio, they were paid only "a pittance" for their work on it. During this period founding member Francis Lickerish

never did him good. Better be pined to death by hunger than for a little pittance of the earth perish for ever, and never be recovered so long as the days

help of the State. The goal is to take Baturina's business from her for a pittance. And criminal cases are just the way to do it. It's disgusting to take

enclose their bodies, was made in the massive wall of the convent; a slender pittance of food and water was deposited in it and the awful words Vade in pace

families of the two girls who were murdered at Soham in August 2002 as a "pittance". The compensation was paid out by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority

Christmas tree industry. The local people in this region of Georgia are paid a pittance to risk their lives climbing 30 m high fir trees to collect the cones from

120 times, he sold only one story, "Babes in the Woods", and received a pittance of $30. With dreams of a lucrative career in New York City dashed, Fitzgerald

professions that require the employee to remain standing in order to earn a pittance.” Standing Heavy was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023

Naples. He returned home to find that his maid had sold the scores for a pittance to the proprietor of a local delicatessen who used them for wrapping food

Shapiro, Jonathan (30 November 2022). "Dixon Advisory clients to receive pittance under deed of arrangement". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 16 September

this was in the lowest class and attracted a stipend barely more than a pittance. However, he then obtained a paid leave of absence to study medicine at

accept any offer that came his way to get paid, which often amounted to a pittance. At the same time he continued to take music and theatre classes. In 1899

winter. Arms and valuable work tools were traded to the Powhatans for a pittance in food. Houses were used as firewood. Archaeologists have found evidence

buyer for more than €3m, almost twice the estimate. However, that's a pittance compared to the record of $31.8 million that was paid for the skeleton

three decades ago, when the Preservation Society bought it for $365,000, a pittance—but let Paul, Gladys and their mother continue summering on the third floor

still able to overcome this and win at trial, but the judge awards him a pittance. This inspires him to seek a position as a judge in New York. After he

with his wife and daughter, Culpeper learns that his pension will be a pittance and has a mental breakdown. The entire group, now consisting of thirteen

It begins: The spendthrift, disinherited and graceless, accepted his pittance with an easy air, only surprised he could escape so simply from the pheasant-shooting

the rural areas. Graduates who were able and willing were hired for a pittance to help in the primary schools of their communities while preparing to

management of the money and the troops. As things are, when all I have is a pittance, insufficient for my wants, and the world is in your hands and those of

"US prison workers produce $11bn worth of goods and services a year for pittance". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved February 4, 2024. ACLU (June

Shapiro, Jonathan (November 30, 2022). "Dixon Advisory clients to receive pittance under deed of arrangement". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved September

Thorpe, Manson plans to depose Kimba and install a puppet leader who, for a pittance, will sign over Zangaro's mining rights to a shell company secretly owned

factory in Dedham, Massachusetts, and worked for several years for the pittance of US$1.00 to $2.00 per week and board, working 14 hours a day. There,

Foerster, his former teacher at the Organ School. The job paid "a mere pittance", but it was "a welcome addition for the young couple". Despite these circumstances

The opening week sales for Love Enhanced Single Collection were only a pittance of its predecessor 181920, which sold 857,100 copies in its opening week

superstition: to outsmart the Angel of Death, she 'sold' Aheret to Rena for a pittance. Aheret survived, grew up to be a young woman, and now Rena, alone and

smacking the Bangladeshi bowlers at will before bowling them out twice for a pittance, which didn't exactly give the Bangladeshis any confidence a week before

controversial national compensation scheme, where junior clubs earn a pittance for producing talent". Sherman mainly operated as a left-winger. Sherman

2010. Shepherd, Chris; Eaton, James; Serene, Chng (2015). "Pittas for a pittance: observations on the little known illegal trade in Pittidae in west Indonesia"

upgrade. His father has been unemployed for years, and his mother makes a pittance. Incapable of paying for their social support, Tikkirey's parents are forced

compared to that of the Blue Jays (see below), TSN's offer was still a pittance compared to the $200,000 it paid the Blue Jays at the time. Loria had similar

had allowed land dealers to buy the scrip from the mixed-bloods for a pittance and then claim large expanses of valuable public land for white use. One

their families, she said, and widows were expected to be grateful for a pittance to raise their fatherless children: "The West Country labourer is supposed

ridicule; or he might, if sufficiently dogged and persistent, secure a pittance of cash, or perhaps a dinner. When the patron left his house to conduct

led to business failure, after which three more vessels were sold at a pittance. Pearson was declared bankrupt in 1864 with £646,000 of debts and liabilities

never attain his privileges and were compelled to sell their labour for a pittance to industrialists and landowners. During the latter stages of the war,

rejected a compensation offer from Marvel Comics that he described as a "pittance". In January 2020, Marvel Studios and Derrickson announced that he would

rejected a compensation offer from Marvel Comics that he described as a "pittance". In January 2020, Marvel Studios and Derrickson announced that he would

been supported by Obidov. They were told to sell their businesses for a pittance either to him [Begaliyev] or his people, or face legal proceedings." Prior

died in 2007 at age of 100.[citation needed] "Priceless property sold for pittance". Times of India. 29 March 2008. Retrieved 4 March 2017. Who's who in India

assigned half a mark for the vesture of the thirteenth canon, 3s. for the pittance of the convent, and 2s. 6d. for maintaining thirty poor men on his anniversary

not to seek relief in the temporary oblivion of his own misery, with the pittance that, divided among his family, would furnish a morsel of bread for each

we find John moving to Rome where he managed to secure only a monthly pittance from Pope Paul II. He remained in the Papal capital until he died in 1469

B5. Elaine Carey, "Thalidomide 'babies' at 25: struggling to live on a pittance", Toronto Star, 27 September 1987, A1. FYI from MCI Archived 2008-07-04

for Union Soldiers' Families: A Comfortable Entitlement or a Pauper's Pittance? Indiana, 1861–1865." Social Service Review 78.2 (2004): 207–242. in JSTOR

Roger (September 22, 2009). "Russia settles suit against U.S. bank for a pittance". CNN. Retrieved May 27, 2011. "BNY Mellon Reaches $34 Million Settlement

about the island that they would be going to. The workers were paid a pittance for their labour, and were expected to work in often awful and harsh conditions

pension increase which the Liberal government was instituting as a mere pittance, not even enough to keep up with the cost of living. Diefenbaker noted

rights to the RKO library for what United Press International termed "a pittance". In 1978 The Nostalgia Merchant released the film through Media Home Entertainment

help; cashew picked up from here and there is sold and the amount may be a pittance in today's standard, but the thrill of spending it in the aswathy fair

until he can increase his magic capacity. After his first day, he earns a pittance on loot, meaning he must defeat more dangerous monsters for more valuable

November 10, 1956. Colby, Richard N. “Hillsboro buys Town Theater for a pittance: $1,500”. The Oregonian, December 19, 1996, West Zoner, p. C4. Anderson

one of his closest rivals. Belarmino won by a knockout, but earned a pittance for his trouble. We return to Albano Martins, who tells us of Belarmino's

so much, capable of working well beyond the statutory eight hours for a pittance?" and remarks such as "if true, it's appalling to imagine what they lived

Molly (December 5, 2017). "Troubled DeVry University Gets Sold Off For A Pittance". BuzzFeed. Retrieved January 1, 2018. "Trump's Education Department moves

Mr Thomson added: “With millions of children being forced to work for a pittance, often in perilous conditions, including mines and quarries, as well as

school master, James Beauland. In December 1865 he resigned his "miserable pittance" of a £90 curate's stipend and his sole charge of Thurstonland for a more

Earning money Earning more money Losing money Y Cymry The simple life, on a pittance Appendix A: The Hafod bird list Appendix B: Wild food eaten, in season

would then receive only 24% of the remaining £90,000. He said: "It is a pittance. If we had known in 2001 it was going to take four years I am sure there

take classes, not I.' He added, 'What you pay me for my erudition is a pittance. You cannot tell me how I should dress.' Malviya agreed. Much later Indumati

deplorable fact in regard to his service to the state is that he is paid a mere pittance for his services." Besides his leadership in academic and financial matters

kept the Bugle selling while Jonah raked in the profits and paid Peter a pittance. This causes Jonah to yell at Peter again, but he stops short, owing to

2019, HT reported that one of the major problems for the library is the pittance funding it gets from BMS and the state government. Of the 29 branches of

'must sign' players. In the game Makofo could be bought early on for a pittance and would almost always become a world beater, despite the fact that the

(900,000) rupees per day and the government prosecutors who are paid a pittance. SIT officers have been paid Rs. 1.5 lakh (150,000) per month for their

January 12, 2021. Newton, Creede (June 6, 2022). "Poland Paid Andy Ngo a Pittance for Anti-antifa Speech". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the

retirement benefits on average compared to rural/farm workers who receive a pittance. In terms of domestic saving, defined as combined saving of households

seem quite generous, but the amount disbursed to each cottager was a mere pittance. With one hand the Crown deprived the large and growing population of poor

who died two months later, most likely of the bends, while working for a pittance as a diver. The cemetery became less important after the opening of Gardens

the Edge of Forever, Ellison claimed to have never received more than a "pittance" from working on the episode. He said "every thug and studio putz and semi-literate

Retrieved October 3, 2023. Exorcist: Believer was made for $30 million—a pittance for a studio production, but three times the cost of a regular Blumhouse

Aug 2021 James Debono, "A history of the Maltese land grab: who paid a pittance for public land?", Malta Today, 16 Jan 2019 maltabusinessweekly Tumas Group

six jiao per day, in contrast to local coal miners who only received a pittance of 40 to 50 yuan annually. The Zhoukoudian also employed some of the biggest

fish pisces, pisciform, piscine, piscivore pius pi- dutiful piety, pious, pittance, pity pix pic- Picea, picene, piceous, pitch planca planc- plank planch

completely out of the prize ring. He worked briefly as a janitor. He made a pittance as a stevedore on the New Jersey docks opposite Manhattan. Finally he changed

served except on certain occasions when an additional sweet dish, called a pittance was provided. If someone was late for the meal then unless he had an adequate

a loan, enabling him to purchase the Hermann Tietz conglomerate for a pittance. "Goebbels and the Nazi Attack on Jewish-owned Department Stores". Es Geht

scheme but also as an acknowledgement that she had been employed "for a pittance". Charles Fleming, who was president when she retired and who later wrote

said they were never given a choice about working, and that they earned a pittance or no pay at all". A Chinese website hosted by Baidu has posted job listings

ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42906245. Wikidata Q58677038. "Auckland: Land for a pittance". The New Zealand Herald. 25 August 2010. Retrieved 10 November 2021. Taonui

Robert Ferguson, is a greedy wastrel, and was upset to receive only a pittance. Wimsey goes to Somerset House (where the Registry of Births, Marriages

declining wealth on account of the sale of its natural resources for a pittance." This movement, as well as what it calls the "Ore Chor! 144" campaign

first two albums, both of which were recorded in a matter of hours for a pittance." The band toured Australia from April 2020. Eddy Current Suppression Ring's

and Gerald Mayer Edward J. Lakso January 4, 1969 (1969-01-04) 38 14 "A Pittance of Faith" Gerald Mayer Blake Ritchie January 11, 1969 (1969-01-11) 39 15

chartered accountant, being paid nothing for his first two years and a pittance for the third. There were surprising changes of direction in his life:

want of more. A coveted signifier like 'virtuosic' almost seems like a pittance when applied to a talent as towering as Rogers." "Listen 99" – 38:56 "Listen

Other less fortunate clippers were discarded outright and sold for a pittance. Some historians take the view that Westervelt built the first true American

just 1.62%, Buchholz called it the "best deal since Pope Julius paid a pittance to have Michelangelo paint his ceiling." Fourteen months after the article

offered 65 ha (160 acres) to settlers, making the 16 ha (40 acres) a mere pittance in comparison.: [92]  In 1885 #1 hard wheat was selling for $0.62 a bushel

"US prison workers produce $11bn worth of goods and services a year for pittance". The Guardian. Retrieved June 20, 2022. ‘Slavery by any name is wrong’:

Pawtucket Falls on foot April 6, 1822. They were met by Kirk Boott and given a pittance. No allowance was made for housing or other provisioning. These were followed

Powell of The New York Times wrote that the school's tuition fees were "a pittance compared with a Dalton or a Brearley." Immaculate Conception School, East

the sale of the Petromin shipping firm to Greek investors was done "at a pittance", and calling on the government to resign. This campaign, British political

the board in early 1966 seeking less than $300,000 in tooling funds (a pittance by Detroit standards) for the job. What emerged was a redesigned rear bumper

major petroleum company based in Novi Sad, for what he described as "a pittance." The motion was defeated after failing to win the support of the Democratic

reduced to selling cookware door-to-door, sister Mildred was working for a pittance as a secretary at the A&P, 20-year-old Karl was out of work, and Jack was

(PDF). Auckland Council. Retrieved 28 June 2021. "Auckland: Land for a pittance". The New Zealand Herald. 25 August 2010. Retrieved 10 November 2021. Taonui

the taman, drisiuc, and oblaires. Their honour prices are no more than a pittance, and their poetry is apparently painful to hear. Other professions could

to a fault, giving poorer neighbors all that he earns except the merest pittance for his own simple wants." "He bore the likeness of his father more perfectly

Caricature ceased publication . In November 1835, Le Charivari is sold for a pittance, but Philipon canned Officer until 1838. Taking stock of five years, he

They had the muscle. If in this thirty years they have only acquired this pittance, where will they be in another thirty years considering that the advantages

and a traitor. He's a parasite whose profession is to swindle others for pittance. He's not worth the effort, and he's more likely to cause problems than

In 1982 I spent much of my time making postcards, which I sold for a pittance to eager punters from what would now be called a pop-up stall in Norwich

Australian Associated Press. 2 October 2003. "Low morale, cops paid 'pittance'". PNG Post-Courier. 21 October 2003. "Police crisis in PNG: A policeman

describing what he has done with the money and usually complains about what a pittance it is. In recent episodes he has been shown as a gangster rapper named

She hires Sean Slater (Robert Kazinsky) as a casual worker, paying him a pittance, and flirts with Masood Ahmed (Nitin Ganatra), taking her builders to his

Culture stories, though their use as storage for mothballed military ships (Pittance) and habitats (Phage Rock, one of the founding communities of the Culture)

Jewish businesses. The family was forced to sell its majority holding for a pittance to a new group headed by Muslim Egyptians. The store was nationalized in

captured slaves claiming they were captured in England, and gives them a pittance and one slave. Arvid hides some of the weapons in the woods. Varg decides

hayfield for a dollar a day. He was ultimately unable to receive even this pittance, with his employer pleading poverty. Wells later worked on a larger livestock

Egypt by writing or helping people out by doing drafting for them for a pittance". Dr. Labib Habachi, one of "two leading Egyptian archaeologists of his

in Jamaica and Devon to his son William Rowe. He mentioned the "small pittance" he had reserved for his other children, namely Rev. John Rowe, Judith

of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others". American Josiah Warren (1798–1874, regarded[by whom

donates most of his money while Independent Media interns "are paid a pittance and sometimes not paid for months on end". Dasnois, Alide (2019). Paper

hitting their 30s, they reconsider if it's really worth being paid such a pittance and committing their life's blood, if it's worth doing this for the rest

remedial math. Steve cannot find any tutor who will do all of his work for a pittance, and ends up hiring Clare when she promises him he'll do all the work himself

his family's main revenue (according to Iorga, a "miserable pension of pittance"). Aged thirteen, while on extended visit to his maternal uncle Emanuel

money for their food, the Visitor having allowed them only £4 a year as a pittance. The Prior and his co-brethren made a petition to Thomas Cromwell (the

was modified and the Jewish Kempinskis had to sell the building for a pittance to "Aryans" and leave the country. A 1936 French film, Les Loups entre

them. Gree is forced to sell his huge supply of teeth to Sarasa for a pittance, but cannot repay his debts to the criminals, leaving his fate uncertain

furnish workers who were ‘industrious, frugal and willing to work for a pittance, if afforded an opportunity’." Felipe Carrillo Puerto, the future Governor

practise. Twenty years later the figures were six and four. This was a pittance compared with the money that the gentry could make from their wagers (e

Few states have preventive measures in place. The 'relief' provided is a pittance and the confidence of the community is seldom rebuilt. While the legal

explains he met Richard in Sri Lanka selling expensive gems to tourists for a pittance, then selling cheap gems for increased prices to unpleasant people. Seigi

small amounts as almost every one engaged in business does, but a mere pittance compared to the assets of the Grabill Portrait and View company. The company

endorsement. The government insisted that the incorporation was not a pittance or spoils of war, but the recovery of ancient Wallachian territory. Carp

many waged occupations and, when they worked for a wage, they earned a pittance compared to the average male wage" New Internationalist, issue 181, March

and remembered the "very devoted and dedicated teachers who worked for a pittance." When Friendly graduated in 1919, the scores he attained in the New York

"The Gig Economy Workers Who Power the Scooter Ridesharing Craze for a Pittance". Vice. Archived from the original on 2019-10-06. Retrieved 2019-10-06

1969-1972 Mannix Maria Lardelli Victoria Bertelli Maria Fortune Episode: "A Pittance of Faith" Episode: "The Nowhere Victim" Episode: "Cry Pigeon" 1972 The

worked out a deal to lease Cleveland Municipal Stadium from the city for a pittance: only enough to service the facility's debt and pay property taxes. Cleveland

and poverty, were forced to hunt by local skin dealers who paid them a pittance. Holland documents the corruption at many levels. The 5-part Channel 4

smacking the Bangladeshi bowlers at will before bowling them out twice for a pittance, which did not exactly give the Bangladeshis confidence a week before the

weren't paid for months. And then when they were paid, they were paid a pittance. Some were beaten.   Do we want that kind of product coming into this country

Finding that her well-to-do relatives will give her only the most grudging pittance, Ruth sheds her illusions and resolves to make her own way in the world

for Union Soldiers' Families: A Comfortable Entitlement or a Pauper's Pittance? Indiana, 1861–1865." Social Service Review 78.2 (2004): 207–242. Merk

weren't paid for months. And then when they were paid, they were paid a pittance. Some were beaten.   Do we want that kind of product coming into this country

interest rates from commercial and savings banks. Such loans soon shrank to a pittance as double-digit inflation raged, while leaving deposit owners with mere

Listowel. "I can accomplish nothing, am unemployed, receiving a small pittance from the Tanzanian government... I do not wish to crawl back to Dr Banda

as gifts, bartered them for food, booze, and rent, or sold them for a pittance to friends and acquaintances, even the local gas man. Keating's main objective

asserted in a submission that the majority of writers and artists "earning a pittance" depended on the scheme. According to Peter McKimm, then chairperson of

that he was paid only £10 for 1652 and £27 6s. for 1653 to supplement his pittance of 16 nobles; Charles Wynn of Penn, who had only £3 augmentation for the

responder community, with Senator Richard Blumenthal stating "It's less than a pittance in the federal budget...It's not even a fraction of a rounding error and

of the name of consul of the United States struggling under a miserable pittance from the Government, and yet now have the respect of those around them

in the country, who are employed on temporary contracts and are paid a pittance and do not have the same benefits as regular teachers. Ad-hoc teachers

2020. Keenan, Edward (5 April 2019). "Hey, rich folks: For a relative pittance you could be the Conn Smythe of women's hockey". Toronto Star (Op-ed).

is a motherly kind of woman of about sixty years. She receives a little pittance by exhibiting The Mummies to strangers. When we asked to see them, she

smarts, organizing and fundraising skills, and willingness to work for a pittance". From 1960 to 1972, Benson published his newsletter Union Democracy in

Molly (5 December 2017). "Troubled DeVry University Gets Sold Off For A Pittance". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved January 1, 2018. "'Fail State' Delves into the

address the myth according to which Mr. Couitéas acquired these lands for a pittance. I have in my hands the receipts showing that he paid 743,500 francs for

"There is a general disposition to reduce the pay of laborers to a small pittance, and to introduction and employment of non – resident slaves a policy which

she desires until a band of gipsies offers her a pony called Flame for a pittance. She eagerly accepts, and Flame is homed on the Greens' tenant farm. However

worker that with their coming to power they themselves will vegetate for a pittance and work day and night in the name of his interests, for him rivers of

Everyman will no longer hear "her wails." An old Workman asks Everyman for "a pittance for mine age," but Everyman angrily refuses him and sends him back to work

he admitted in a letter to Scholem that he had been paid a "ridiculous pittance" and suspended publication; a month later Benjamin emigrated to France