Though we know that women are smart investments, pitifully little funding actually flows into their hands.
His numerous legs, pitifully thin compared with the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes.
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What are gadget makers doing right that luxury makers are pitifully failing at?
In spite of a recent rally on a deal to retire a third of the workforce, its share price is pitifully weak.
The number of places available at pupil referral units is pitifully inadequate.
People are realizing that even if obligations are somehow met, the "return" on their Social Security taxes will be pitifully small or nonexistent.
Most pitifully of all, West Bengal has received less than 2% of the foreign direct investment that poured into India over the past decade.
For the pitifully football obsessed, the pre-game preparation really began in April in the NFL draft, and it's gone on every single day since then.
Even though companies are far sounder than they were a decade ago, with fewer debts and more focused operations, Japan's productivity is still pitifully low.
Mr Berezovsky was kept out of the top spot for declared income by Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, president of Kalmykia, a pitifully poor republic on the Volga.
Why do the sticks of today's filmmakers remain so pitifully unslapped?
We arrived at the right peak at five, two of us dragging ourselves pitifully, while Carlo was seized by a sinister hilarity that I found slightly irritating.
Neither has Mr Arzu managed to achieve some important goals of the 1996 peace agreement, such as raising pitifully low tax revenue, and reforming the electoral and judicial systems.
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That is pitifully weak, especially for what is supposed to be the fourth year of a recovery (the National Bureau of Economic Research scored the recession as officially over in June, 2009).
Powerful as it was in places, that manuscript, published pretty much as he had left it, was pitifully incomplete and nobody could really be sure how Pasolini would have brought it to completion.
Remove tens of billions of dollars invested in oil installations in Nigeria, Angola, Gabon and (more recently) in Sudan and Equatorial Guinea, and the stock of capital invested elsewhere in the continent is pitifully small.
Yet science quickly fell by the wayside after baby Nim, screaming pitifully, was torn from his mother's arms in a birthing compound in Oklahoma and thrust into the permissive chaos of an affluent family on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
On June 8th, the UN Development Programme released a statement showing that progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), which were supposed to cut extreme poverty in half and improve social indicators such as education and health care, has been pitifully slow.
The number of foreigners who have completed their studies in Japan is pitifully low compared with other advanced economies: 0.7% of the total, compared with 29% in Australia, 16% in Britain and 13% in America, according to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).
But here as always, Ms. Herzog uses her well-tuned ear for dialogue to reveal the personalities of her characters, and it doesn't take long to figure out that for all their glib chitter-chatter, Abby and Zack (even their names are right) are pitifully unequal to the harsh challenges of adulthood.
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