(1) There were occasional bursts of vivacity: the comment, when the Tory government economised on a booster station for the BBC World Service, that "Nation shall murmur unto nation"; shrewd opposition to entry into the ERM "at an unsustainable rate"; and an early warning to Nigel Lawson, in 1988, of the looming economic crisis.
(2) In response, many people are economising by buying cheaper coffins and exploring alternative options for their final resting place.
(3) The published clinical and large animal experiences are reviewed to economise the search for more optimal irradiation schedules.
(4) Britain remains the fourth-biggest military spender in the world, but the very scale of that spending – currently £34bn a year – makes it a tempting target for Whitehall economisers.
(5) MLS coaches often economise on, for example, full backs, where modestly-paid hard runners often provide a serviceable solution that can free up resources for more creative talent elsewhere.
(6) Although this would mean that the rats are not economising energy on activity, it is probable that these rats with lower body weights are contributing to energy saving mechanism by reducing the cost of activity per se since the cost of activity and body weight are directly related.
(7) Some experimental areas in our country, which were making progress in family health care, should important advantages of family health care are greater satisfaction of population and 6 medical staff, better efficiency, effectiveness, economisation and better quality of health care.
(8) One economises medicaments (antibiotically, antianaemically).
(9) The phrase described “our discovery of means of economising the use of labour outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses for labour”.
(10) Many are now economising on food in order to pay basic household bills.
(11) The IMF is economising with the truth when it says it is not asking for more austerity but rather is the victim of Greece’s bizarre predilection to ‘agree’ to higher primary fiscal targets of 3.5% of GDP,” said Tsakalotos.
(12) The author recommends the institution of a better system of treatment of tuberculosis in order to economise and to assure a regular supply of medicines.
(13) All these techniques can play a part in rendering transfusion safer and in economising on scarce supplies of donor blood.
(14) Data collected showed wide use of autotransfusion in order to economise human products before any legislation and before pressure due to transfusion transmissible diseases (TTD).
(15) There are much cheaper ways to economise on water than desalination … we should be re-using water for sanitation or irrigation.” Davies points out that reverse osmosis is not ideal for developing countries because the maintenance of the membranes required to keep them running effectively is more problematic in a country like India.
(16) Caitlin Moran's How to be a Woman is firm, delightfully firm, on many things – heels (against), pubic waxing (against), abortion (for), the disadvantages of economising on sanitary products – and she is firm, she insists on, this simple definition of feminism.
(17) Diminuation of myocardial oxygen requirement (release of pressure, economisation of work load, recompensation, regulation of arrhythmias) and 2. improvement of myocardial oxygen supply (Diminuation of coronary perfusion resistance including prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis).
(18) This form of prevention would give 165,000 extra years of life and would economise treatment costs amounts to 250 millions francs, whereas the smears taken at prenuptial examination would cost 30 millions francs.
(19) Caught in the middle, Athens also ratcheted up the rhetoric, as its finance minister told the Guardian that the IMF was “economising with the truth”.
(20) They do seem to economise on the vérité .” Patten also said it would be “fall-on-your-sword time” for Cameron if remain lost the referendum, meaning he would have to quit as prime minister.
Miser
Definition:
(n.) A wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune.
(n.) A despicable person; a wretch.
(n.) A covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth, who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard.
(n.) A kind of large earth auger.
Example Sentences:
(1) He told strikers at St Thomas’ hospital, London: “By taking action on such a miserable morning you are sending a strong message that decent men and women in the jewel of our civilisation are not prepared to be treated as second-class citizens any more.
(2) "It's always been done in a really miserable way in the past, but this is fresh and new.
(3) Supporting a Sunderland side who had last won a home Premier League game back in January, when Stoke City were narrowly defeated, is not a pursuit for the faint-hearted but this was turning into the equivalent of the sudden dawning of a gloriously hot sunny day amid a miserable, cold, wet summer.
(4) People like Hugo forgot how truly miserable Paris had been for ordinary Parisians.” Out of a job and persona non grata in Paris, Haussmann spent six months in Italy to lift his spirits.
(5) But my characters are either really strong, miserable or tortured."
(6) A full marching band moved through a sea of umbrellas, playing the Les Miserables song Do You Hear the People Sing.
(7) Similarly at world level, it considers the struggles and efforts by the miserable and oppressed nations for achievement of their legitimate rights and independence as their due rights, because people have the right to liberate their countries from colonialism and obtain their rights.
(8) My first marriage is the only thing I've ever failed at and I failed miserably."
(9) If after 10 years the Californian law is working well: that’s to say it is not being used against the weak and miserable as a cheaper alternative to proper palliative care, there will be no reason not to extend it here.
(10) Low point: "When a show I directed, Paul Simon's The Capeman, failed miserably."
(11) The smile, so noticeably absent during a miserable final season at his boyhood club, was back.
(12) His father died when Giulio was two, and the family survived on his mother's miserly widow's pension.
(13) Roberto Firmino and Adam Lallana established a comfortable advantage for the home side, only for Adam Johnson’s free-kick, and Simon Mignolet’s weak attempt to stop it, plus Defoe’s clinical late strike to extend Liverpool’s miserable run to five points out of 18 in 2016.
(14) This drubbing exposed not only the team's inadequacy on the day in the face of a rampant United side who sensed miserable resistance almost from the kick-off, but also Arsène Wenger's tepid commitment to the FA Cup, whatever his ready-made complaints of depleted resources before and after.
(15) "He truly had such a miserable time on the first day or two of the shoot.
(16) Fair pay, not benefits or subsidies to miserly employers, brought Labour into being – so why is the party in danger of letting this strong emblematic policy slip away?
(17) On the positive side, it will very soon overtake Les Miserables (£40.8m) to become the second-biggest 2013 release, behind only Despicable Me 2 (£47.4m).
(18) Smoldering resentment, chronic anger, self-centeredness, vindictiveness, and a constant feeling of being abused ultimately produce a miserable human being who, as well as being alienated from self, alienates those in the interpersonal sphere.
(19) As soon as you live in the place, it becomes grey and miserable – as do the people.
(20) The good thing about the above is the equal-opportunities nature of it: almost everyone is made to feel inadequate or miserable.