| I still think the staleness is there and very flattering to people who actually prefer straitened horizons. |
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| Since it itself is only modestly profitable, the new company starts life in straitened circumstances. |
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| He moved his family to Edinburgh, where he died, leaving his widow and four daughters in straitened circumstances. |
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| Some Bulgarian families now have fewer children than they want to for various reasons, most often straitened circumstances, Belcheva said. |
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| Primary school pupils mostly feel frustrated because of straitened family financial circumstances or because of problems with their teachers. |
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| The other side of this contract was a programme of social reforms that the country could ill afford in its straitened circumstances. |
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| There are also ads inviting assistance placed by genteel persons in straitened circumstances. |
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| People on low wages do a lot better, though they still live in straitened circumstances. |
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| His youngish stepmother, Joyce, volunteers to baby-sit gratis in view of his straitened circumstances and her recent widowing and resultant loneliness. |
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| In most cases, though, low-wage workers and their families still lived in straitened situations. |
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| Even in those straitened times, Hilal's family was reputed to have several thousand, although the sheikh was too old to ride a camel and rarely saw them. |
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| The impact of good services on people in straitened circumstances is clear. |
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| The economic downturn requires ANSPs to review their plans to ensure that they are consistent with more straitened economic circumstances. |
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| A fiscally straitened government can either cut spending, which would be difficult, or boost revenues. |
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| Even in straitened times, idiosyncratic literature should have its place. |
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| Just months later a straitened Britain looks poised to break its own rule. In Europe the promise of an in-out referendum if Mr Cameron wins the election has made Britain seem semi-detached. |
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| However, much as I appreciate the report, I would like to caution that in these straitened economic times we must be aware of duplication of effort and avoid same. |
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| For example, according to the LICO, a family is considered to be in straitened circumstances if it spends 20 percent more of its income on food, shelter, and clothing than the average family of similar size. |
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| In the Organization's straitened financial circumstances, only the most cost-effective measures should be proposed and the costs should be covered by existing resources wherever possible. |
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| Using 1992 as the base year, families and individuals with incomes below the lowincome cut-offs usually spend more than 54.7 percent of their income on these items and are considered to be in straitened circumstances. |
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| An objective to progressively reduce the real unit economic cost was agreed by Ministers in 2000 and should be actively pursued, even more so in the current straitened economic circumstances. |
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| There are still instances, however, where refugee children do not attend school because of the straitened material circumstances of their parents and the lack of funds to purchase schools supplies, clothing and footwear. |
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| They convey the income level at which a family may be in straitened circumstances because it has to spend a greater proportion of its income on necessities than the average family of similar size. |
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| In these economically straitened times it must be conceded that achievement of those objectives is still a distant goal which will not be reached in 2010 either, unless considerably greater efforts are made. |
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| The channel straitened the river through the town, made it flow faster, and caused more flooding upstream. |
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| Richard Cromwell subsisted in straitened circumstances after his resignation, he went abroad and lived in relative obscurity for the remainder of his life. |
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| Then for a few minutes I did not pay much heed to what was said, being terribly straitened for room, and cramped with pain from lying so long in one place. |
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