The meagre concession for Valentine s Day, enabling a pathetic export of 25,000 flowers, was just that meagre and pathetic.

These countries urgently need to reduce pressure on their budgets, which are financed from meagre resources.

At the beginning of 2005 our relations with the African continent were, we believe, meagre and inadequate.

I confess being disappointed at the meagre outcome in the summit document, which does not meet our ambitions.

This will put pressure on the rural economy and place more strain on areas already grappling with meagre resources.

Like others, we were disappointed at the meagre substance on this topic that found its way into the outcome document.

In its early years, the town with its meagre 200 inhabitants was too small to provide any kind of foundation for trade.

It cannot be a Baire class 1 function because a Baire class 1 function can only be discontinuous on a meagre set.

The full financial weight of all these consequences of the war in the Sudan are being borne by our own meagre national resources.

However, we appeal for debt cancellation for all least developed countries in order to enable them to redirect their meagre resources to national development programmes.

Then , when they entered into his presence , they said , O emir ! Distress has befallen us and our family , and we have brought just a meagre sum .

Despite everything, our countries, including my own, with their very meagre resources but a good deal of imagination and diversified international assistance, have achieved honourable results.

Standstill is regress and regress produces a vicious circle meagre results at the negotiating table, no implementation, more insecurity, less willingness to talk, no results and so on.

In Libya, it is a meagre 5 . The unrest in Libya has thus far remained concentrated in regions that are geographically distant from the seat of 'real' power (see more on this below).

When they returned to him , they said ( to Joseph ) O Minister , calamity has befallen us and our people . We have brought but a meagre sum , but give us full measure as alms bestowed .

However, even with the financial resources of NEPAD the African countries' collective and individual resources were too meagre to implement those actions and he therefore called for international solidarity in support of Africa's progress.

In that regard, special emphasis must be placed on young people, who often worked unacceptably long hours under informal, intermittent and insecure work arrangements characterized by low productivity, meagre earnings and reduced labour protection.

Coordination visits to the missions of member States provide opportunities to enhance dialogue and to discuss how best to address the needs of members with the meagre resources available, in an effort to attract more financial support.

Indeed, the disruption of trade, the deterioration of major roads by humanitarian convoys and all the other costs eat up our meagre resources and are the most common source of political unrest among our own people, who feel that they have been abandoned.

On that occasion, the Secretary General wondered whether having concluded two multilateral treaties of such scope and importance in 20 years of work by the Conference could be perceived from another angle by some critics as, and I quote the Secretary General, a meagre harvest .

Even the relevance of low incomes, meagre possessions, and other aspects of what are standardly seen as economic poverty relates ultimately to their role in curtailing capabilities (that is, their role in severely restricting the choices people have Poverty is, thus, ultimately a matter of capability deprivation'.

In fact, many of those who have lost their homes and jobs in Port au Prince and other Haitian cities will likely return to rural communities where they have family. This will put pressure on the rural economy and place more strain on areas already grappling with meagre resources.

Given that much effort has been devoted to the provision of information since the accident occurred, yet the results have been meagre, efforts will also be made to devise imaginative approaches that will ensure that people both trust and act on the information provided, leaving myths and misconceptions behind.