But given the hard work and meager rewards, I met more dedicated teachers than we have a right to expect.

The meager rewards didn't justify the liberties taken.

A stop back at Headquarters produced meager rewards: the information on Schlesinger hadn't come in.

"That seems very meager reward for the service you did me, but what has a slave to offer?"

After a frustrating wait of nearly four decades, however, Chile's promotion may be a meager reward.

Most people, though, remain skeptical that they will enjoy even that meager reward.

As it is, there are only meager rewards, and no dignity, to following the Jackson trial at home.

It had been highly dangerous work that provided only the most meager reward to the children's families.

The title comes from Twain's conception of writers as cultural soldiers, forced to depend on the meager rewards tossed their way by the Government.

Given Somalia's bitter colonial legacy, an intervention dominated by Americans carries huge political risks, and meager rewards.