He knew too little, and had such slender resources that he had to depend on a mysterious woman.

He devoted himself and his slender resources to this work over decades with the object of finally putting an end to slavery itself.

It is only too likely that an irrational attitude towards reproduction will lead to more individuals being born than can possibly be supported by such slender resources.

None but the serious cases ever reached the hands of Dr. Faskally, who did admirable work with very slender resources.

Feeling about within the escape pod, he gathered his slender resources for survival.

While such goodwill was invariably given, it was not inexhaustible; I knew that the estate's slender resources were often stretched to the maximum.

Trveling expenses for raids such as the foregoing are very hard on my slender financial resources.

Ms. Sims switches from her experience as a curator to the untested role of fund-raiser, and both move from rich museums to one of slender resources.

So that such slender resources as we have might be husbanded against a long siege.

Nor would anyone start a campaign against the nine-year-old war in Cambodia that drains already slender resources and asks a new generation of men to risk their lives.