Homebuyers are facing a pitiful supply of homes for sale.
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It's pitiful (I think) but it happens all the time.
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Nominal GDP growth of just 1.2 percent is beyond pitiful.
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"She's making him beg — it's pretty pitiful," Ms. Odum said.
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But for the most part, those stories are rather pitiful.
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Pitiful excuse for a human, let alone a presidential candidate.
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There is a lot of shouting and pitiful sexual politics!
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A WWE performer without an adversary would be a pitiful spectacle.
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At times, we looked good and at times, we looked pitiful.
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It was a pitiful, almost childish look of terrible, unwanted understanding.
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Dealing Howard wasn't a shock, even if the return was pitiful.
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If Jack was scary, and Piggy was pitiful, what about Simon?
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We saw such horrible, pitiful desperation, but we still saw pride.
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I would take my really pitiful jokes to school and fail.
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It was a pitiful little landscape, with a big white mountain.
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This makes Boston's "Sweet Caroline" gimmick look extremely pitiful and joyless.
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It's pitiful when it happens in a major video game release.
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He was pitiful on the other end, but electric with the ball.
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A person doesn't always want to be seen in their pitiful state.
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The state raises a pitiful sum from taxes: only 10.5% of GDP.
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Is your holiday gingerbread house game turning into a pitiful Pinterest fail?
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Only that Unseen Presence who knows all our secrets, our pitiful, aching
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But it neatly underlined how pitiful and awful his circumstances have become.
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"Ivanka, your hypocrisy and lack of awareness are pitiful," one user wrote.
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He allowed himself to think that his friend looked a little pitiful.
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In his touching answer, Mr. Mahoney is at once pitiful and winsome.
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Your lack of sympathy proves how pitiful of a person you are.
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"These parents are so pitiful," she said, wiping tears from her eyes.
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An example of the first school: the pitiful and spineless Joe McGinniss.
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That is the Democrats' pitiful legacy in recent years: They. Got. Caught.
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By day, international monitors from the OSCE occupy this pitiful vantage point.
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"Proud is a pitiful word to describe how I felt today," Lively gushed.
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Many teachers, journalists, accountants and even hotel staff are conscripts paid pitiful salaries.
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As Pope Benedict, Hopkins is fierce, growling, pitiful, and disgraceful all at once.
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And don't even get me started on Windows 7's pitiful stylus support.
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I can imagine that people see me as a sad, pitiful little bird.
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Maybe it's just pitiful angst that has no answer and doesn't need any.
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But Trump's repeat portrayal of him as a pitiful unemployed man is inaccurate.
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In general, Americans of all ages possess a pitiful knowledge of civic affairs.
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His financial reports at the time were "pitiful," Mr. Gillum acknowledged on Wednesday.
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The comedy club audience witnessing his pitiful attempt at stand-up is brutal.
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If Washington is dysfunctional — a pitiful, helpless giant — legislatures can show the way.
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If you're as pitiful as I am, I'd thoroughly recommend both these methods.
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And yet there's a pitiful amount of instruction for actually being on camera.
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Nowhere is this more obvious than in the pitiful state of its icebreaker fleet.
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O'Rourke came up to her, and apologized for what he called his "pitiful" answer.
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Ren is strong, but he has a pitiful edge, and Driver teases it out.
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Turnout is pitiful at European elections in Poland: last time it was just 24%.
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Congress has retreated to a point of pitiful meekness with presidents of both parties.
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Even Audubon, lover of birds majestic, strange, and pitiful, describes their call as harsh.
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In reality, they are clownish, pitiful figures more akin to Larry, Curly, and Moe.
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Do we really think Blunt is what we paint him as: the pitiful loser?
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This final batch of episodes somehow managed to turn her into a pitiful figure.
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My already meager buy in of $20 was now down to a pitiful $4.48.
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These people were really sick and very old, in wheelchairs with a pitiful cough.
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People who want you to validate them can quickly cross the line into pitiful.
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Scott Jennings: Democrats go into pitiful crouch I just don't get the strategy here.
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At best, they were characterized as a pitiful group, using clothing to get status.
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Luckily, Joanna and her parents were forgiving upon seeing "the pitiful look" on his face.
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More pupils finish: a pitiful 56% graduated seven years ago, whereas 78% do so now.
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CUBAN: The refs were pitiful tonight and I don&apost care if I get fined.
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Without you I would probably be divorced and sad and pitiful…it was positive turn.
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These numbers make the even lush paydays of top U.S. executives seem pitiful by comparison.
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Also, I was weary of pitiful and miserabilist images of immigrants we are generally shown.
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Speaking of A Tribe Called Red, 2oolman produced "Pitiful" on you newest album Good Kill.
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The budget for land reform was pitiful — less than 1 percent of the national budget.
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People left out in the rain are given a pitiful amount of food to eat.
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Born on an uncle's nearby farm, the "pitiful" motherless creature isn't expected to live long.
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The sights attending this endeavor are as pasty and pitiful as you're no doubt imagining.
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Is anyone out there as pitiful as me when it comes to watching horror films?
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"I want him to look like himself," she cries, in the most pitiful of pleas.
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Instead, his path in the film is inward, pitiful, apolitical, and (I think deliberately) monotonous.
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There is a wide range of evidence that people are pitiful at timing the market.
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But that hasn't put a stop to the pitiful glances from friends in long-term relationships.
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"Canada and Russia are pitiful - the same horror stories are right across the border," he said.
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And without stronger growth than Italy's recent pitiful record, many lenders will find life a grind.
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That compares with a pitiful $15.6 billion of American exports to China during the same interval.
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"This is a sick statement, a pitiful statement," said Marcio Astrini, Greenpeace Brazil's public policy coordinator.
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His pettiness and cruelty and vanity are, without any accompanying authority, now merely pitiful and small.
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The result was pitiful: Only three chargers were insulated well enough to protect against electric shocks.
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Yet in 1980, gray seal populations in New England were pitiful, at least compared to today.
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It struck me as kind of pitiful, this conviction that's held so deeply it's beyond reason.
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Hanwha is known for their ability to keep a large fan base despite their pitiful record.
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That pitiful stipend you make at your internship will dwindle quickly when wasted on car fare.
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A witty dining companion perhaps, but ultimately pitiful because he can't tell the truth about himself.
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Earlier this month, Olbermann called President Trump a "pitiful thug" who wants to squash free speech.
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"The market right now is pretty pitiful," said Thomas Titus, a hog farmer in Elkhart, Illinois.
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He senses my disappointment and tries, in strange, pitiful ways, to keep me close to him.
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Right-handed batters are a pitiful 25-for-211 against him this year, a pitcher-like .
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Yes, yes, yes, and yes — but it's a pitiful cinematic event, especially compared with Hurricane Cher.
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It is pitiful to see here and there old signs showing the life of the town.
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I tossed my pitiful stray into a box of sister orphans and tried to move on.
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We in the United States are woefully unaware of our pitiful standing in worldwide gender indices.
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"The level of resources going against this is pitiful," said Mr. Weber, the former Pentagon official.
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VIEWED from the old colonial prison nearby, the former ministry of justice building is a pitiful sight.
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But he is at best a bit player in the pitiful saga of Trump's first 100 days.
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Only in the snapshot does he look oddly pitiful: eyes red, shoulders slouched, cheeks shiny with tears.
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But mostly, Ms. Valastro said, they end up working for pitiful wages in restaurants or fruit markets.
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Her character's path is merely a metaphor for life as performance, framed unpersuasively as a pitiful destiny.
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Srebrenica had become a pitiful place: a long hamlet of sorrow snaking up a cold narrow valley.
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It was an updated version of the "tragic mulatto" myth -- pitiful figures trapped forever in racial limbo.
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Most of mine were pitiful (is it still before noon, Mister?) and forced (you look tan, Bill!).
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So she knows you can also rack up that trip-dub by slapping away fools' pitiful attempts.
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Compared with that, the 650,000 people who became citizens in 2014 looks pitiful — a mere 7 percent.
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It can be funny, dark or both — jokes about the country's pitiful human rights record, for instance.
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And you thinking having lunch with a gay couple erases a lifetime of homophobia/hatred is pitiful.
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"The news media is pitiful and it's sad for our city and nation," Mr. de Blasio wrote.
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He finds himself faking a conversation about a book he hasn't read, something with a "pitiful" protagonist.
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It felt pitiful compared to the wealth some of my friends inherited, and it also felt royal.
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With my Swiss Army knifeI turned on the ignition —that same pitiful cough,and we took off!
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Once renowned for its explosive attack, Miami was 93rd nationally last year and a pitiful 108th in passing.
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The Cortés of the young Ross Katen was blander and his Maximilian more pitiful, hopeful, blindsided by fate.
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That said, Apple's past attempts at original programming have been such pitiful failures, who knows what will happen.
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Bonds will obviously dislike any policy which allows inflation to winnow away the already pitiful compensation they offer.
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But he is still a man whose death is brutal and sad and maybe even a little pitiful.
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The Grizzlies are a pitiful 1003-24 this season, but at least they're getting some cool new threads.
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Initially, Peter and I emptied our pitiful post-college savings into Joe and purchased a chocolate tempering machine.
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Even though it gets loud, this isn't a speaker for a DJ. The lows are pitiful and flat.
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The one format the download is supposed to have rendered obsolete is now laughing at its pitiful sales.
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He has accomplished little on the economic front, and his conquests, such as they are, are fairly pitiful.
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" The year after Hurricane Katrina flooded the city and the federal response was pitiful, the winner howled: "FEMA!
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" He repeated back what I had said: "'I didn't do anything, I was just standing there…' That's pitiful.
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If this game doesn't do it, they have to hope that the Seahawks lose to the pitiful 49ers.
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" The year after Hurricane Katrina flooded the city and the federal response was pitiful, the winner howled: "FEMA!
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The film's initial, documentary sequences of plywood shacks and pitiful tents, hopeless against the rain, are searingly accusatory.
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If they weren't old and senile enough to say that outright, I saw it plainly in their pitiful glances.
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"Producing mostly publicly available documents to the committee and calling it responsive is pitiful," Chaffetz said in a statement.
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While his speech is pitiful for its powerlessness, the anguish of the statues's shared experience of entrapment is moving.
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Mark's failed quest to have Jessica reciprocate his adoration for her is pitiful to watch but seems totally sincere.
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Yes, the prime minister's deal is pitiful, an awkward compromise that will hobble Britain's economy and diminish our power.
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In fact, had the shot gone in, qualification would only have masked the team's pitiful state a little longer.
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No serious presidential candidate should be able to get away with submitting such a pitiful performance to the voters.
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Mitski was determined to see the woman not as pitiful but as someone who had made a conscious choice.
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The Magic shot 38 percent from the floor and was a pitiful 3-of-23 from beyond the arc.
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Japan's private equity industry has been held back by decades of pitiful economic growth and a hostile corporate culture.
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Rubio wanted it to be raised to $2000 and his Republican brethren refused to even meet him halfway. Pitiful.
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Like many, before I arrived at Desire, my knee-jerk reaction was that swingers were strange, maybe even pitiful.
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Anyone in that position who doesn't deeply feel those ties that bind is a dangerous man, and it's very pitiful.
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Instead, it's put down as a quirky side effect, a "trait" designed to make the character more pitiful or abject.
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Most importantly, exports' starring role in European growth reveals the pitiful weakness of other elements of the euro zone's economy.
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College English professors complain that freshmen who enter their courses have pitiful grammar skills, and don't understand proper sentence structure.
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Most of the time, they had to settle for two or three runs, and their record reflected that pitiful production.
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Because Mr. Torné never presents Joan-Marc as anything but pitiful — and startlingly idiotic in his misogyny — he proves endearing.
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I don't think I ever left it, But no, the pitiful poverty here is, in a strange way, more obvious.
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" Demings, who said Whitaker gave "inappropriate or incomplete" responses during his Capitol Hill appearance, called his testimony "pitiful" and "combative.
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And the Saints have allowed more points per game than anyone but the pitiful 2119.4ers and the dirt-eating Browns.
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The wages were pitiful and the deadlines were brutal, but the NME was our whole world and we loved it.
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If it weren't so ignorant and pitiful, one could mourn this collapse of dignity in service to an evil cause.
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The memoirs written by soldiers in the 20th Infantry Regiment give a clear picture of how pitiful the situation was.
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Working conditions at such mines are often pitiful, sometimes involving violence and child labor, and all for mercilessly little pay.
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There are plenty of enviable features in celebrities' closets that make your own setup look downright minuscule — pitiful, even — by comparison.
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Snapchat's 173 million daily active users look pitiful next to the 250 million people using Instagram's Snapchat-clone Stories every day.
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America's inefficient corporate-tax system has remarkably high rates but leaks like a sieve, yielding a pitiful tax take (see chart).
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As a rogue cop turned private eye, Raymond Burr is not just the personification of sleazy menace but a pitiful loser.
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It seems likely this will lead to a pitiful, parallel Internet of Hate as the excommunicated communities coalesce and organize. Sad!
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After scoring a pitiful 8.5% in May's European elections, the very survival of the once-mighty Republicans is in the balance.
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At the moment the country's big stations produce a pitiful 2,800MW, which is about as much as is used by Edinburgh.
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As sad as the numbers are, the brutality with which reviewers ripped apart the flick tell an even more pitiful story.
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What can be done about negative stereotypes that portray older adults as out-of-touch, useless, feeble, incompetent, pitiful and irrelevant?
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Rather, the idea is to assert core competencies, to distance ourselves from the Jerry's Kids' model and anything else remotely pitiful.
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To those watching news reports, the refugees may be threatening or pitiful, but in reality, they are nothing less than heroic.
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When Mr. Curtis confessed his wish that viewers feel their time had not been wasted, the admission had a pitiful sound.
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What he had initially derided as Juul's pitiful wisp of nearly odor-free vapor turned out to be a great advantage.
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Working at Dell, under a contract for the C.I.A., he felt that Americans had become pitiful victims of their own government.
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Introducing a rare character of color as a pitiful sexual weirdo is generally not a sterling beginning for a narrative arc.
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Here's just one pitiful example: In the men's 94-kilogram class at the 2012 London Games, Poland's Tomasz Zielinski finished ninth.
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The same could be said about the people fighting over it, every last one of whom is greedy, selfish, and pitiful.
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And after a blackout, with the dancers now vulnerable in their underwear, the mood of pitiful brokenness sinks further into cliché.
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The Democrats' pitiful response to the Republicans tax plan is enabling them to perpetrate a legislative fraud on America's middle class.
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Progress was so pitiful that I came to dread those evening map consultations, a ritual source of succor on previous rides.
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People will try to find something pitiful in it, set next to the less ceremonious exits of other aged-out stars.
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That pitiful list of supported emoji, along with the 60-character limit on replies is a bit too restrictive for my tastes.
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But the so-far-pitiful production of the Model 218 suggests that, at best, that machine is proving hard to bed in.
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According to Jeronimo, BlackBerry devices — all of them, not just the KeyOne — achieved a pitiful 850,000 shipments in all of last year.
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"You are not a monster, but you are a pitiful man who will now learn that actions have consequences," Shaunna Burns said.
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That is pitiful compared with, say, the concrete dome of the Pantheon in Rome—which was completed in 125AD and still stands.
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Thanks to the staggering, one-in-four number of Americans who are uninsured and underinsured, our country has pitiful health care outcomes.
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AT&T would likely be "a pitiful, helpless giant" without its $85 billion merger with Time Warner, CNBC's Jim Cramer said Thursday.
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The labor participation rate is a pitiful 40 percent thanks to vast regulation and welfare checks that often pay better than jobs.
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This is humiliating and pitiful, but between running mystery publishing companies, a mystery bookshop, and editing mystery anthologies, I read nothing else.
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Donald Trump was on the road trying to rev up the country against a pitiful caravan of poor people struggling through Mexico.
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Like you watch something else, like ... It's a terrible example, but like Louie, it's just very self-deprecating and poor, pitiful me.
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The Israeli left is now a pitiful shadow of its former self while the right is vocal and more extreme than ever.
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Vanessa Barbara SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Until recently, I thought that being a writer was the most pitiful profession ever, especially in Brazil.
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Rather, it is merely one more step in the evolution of a violent extremist group and the pitiful disintegration of the region.
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Government envoy Ja'afari said it was "pitiful" that some "armed terrorist groups in Astana" were criticizing Iran, one of the three guarantors.
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Although there's a pitiful absence of Native American characters in American culture, Piama isn't a token of diversity – her character is complex.
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So well documented, in fact, that Google itself has live, up-to-date information on how pitiful adoption of its latest software is.
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Consider the "New Blacks Cemeteries", pitiful church-side plots where newly arrived slaves who died from disease or exhaustion were dumped like rubbish.
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Over that period, U.S. exports to China came in at a pitiful $111.16 billion, a measly 7.2 percent of total American sales abroad.
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Collectively, they're a low-risk cue to their fan base and the rest of the league that last year's pitiful record was unacceptable.
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Even though it goes against how we're wired as a species, it feels like it's become pitiful to admit to disliking being alone.
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Its subject not a guileless, helplessly honest boy, not the foibles of a particular pitiful guy who happens to be emperor, but empire.
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Only marginally, given that this pitiful follow-up to last year's "Bad Moms" is even less able to distinguish between crass and comedic.
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For all the pitiful posturing of this week and the weeks before, these last few days also gave us a reminder of that.
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Surely, if true meritocracy exists, the numbers would reflect that, but in reality only a pitiful handful are represented in the top companies.
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Thus dispossessed, these people were at the mercy of mine owners for sustenance, sent daily for pitiful wages into sphincters of the earth.
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Murdoch resists easy portraiture (Indians as pitiful or pathetic or damaged) and blind compassion (Indians as noble sufferers or keepers of special knowledge).
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GREENWOODBy Michael Christie Imagine that you're a humble woodland guide, working for pitiful wages at an island resort northwest of Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Did I catch a glimpse of a face with deep-set eyes, more agonized and pitiful than any human face I ever saw?
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Perhaps the most pitiful, and most gruesomely amusing, of the dishes at the Navotas diner is "nanlabang ham," the ham that fought back.
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What really mattered to Mr. Kim were the sanctions, which, after three new rounds in 2017, were strangling his nation's already pitiful economy.
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As a result of the state's pitiful expenditures on "colored" schools, Ms. Jenkins had received only minimal education and never learned to read.
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I have miles to spend on one particular airline, but the options they offer if you're paying with miles instead of dollars are pitiful.
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"I refuse to spend my final moments being allowed to play with these people in misery -- I think that would be pitiful," says Bell.
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"We are at a decided disadvantage because our core electronic record is so pitiful," says Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute.
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Of course, the Mets were absolute trash last year -- racking up a pitiful 70-92 record ... 27 games behind first place in their division.
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If I didn't time the jump properly, I wouldn't perform this forward jump but would rather do my normal, pitiful, leap into the air.
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Their rationalizations — that the party's nominee will need their wisdom and policy expertise in the campaign and when he's president — border on the pitiful.
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Mr. Backlund is less coy; but the problem here isn't the blood-drenched indifference of the hunters or the pitiful defenselessness of their victims.
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When I first stumbled there, one poor, pitiful-looking sailor was already sitting on the floor, with a black garbage bag next to him.
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Reigns wants you to put your swiping skills to good use instead of whatever pitiful exercise in socializing you were currently using them for.
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In the empty room there was nowhere to sit and hold my head in my hands and cry pitiful ditches down my dusty face.
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Mr. Barker is remarkably magnetic, limning Charlie's unease and yearning in a performance that allows him to be funny and sympathetic but never pitiful.
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Yvonne Petty remembers how pitiful Murray looked when her volunteer group, Alcovy Pet Rescue, found the beagle in a kill shelter in north Georgia.
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It's sing-song-y and devastating, a beautiful, brutal response to the most pitiful of basketball errors: a shot that misses the basket entirely.
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And while streaming services boast wins like having the most transgender characters on-screen, they, too, fall victim to pitiful levels of racial diversity.
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The aforementioned works often caricature and trivialize refugees' experiences, perpetuating notions of powerless, pitiful victims, and cartoonish symbols of suffering instead of individual people.
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Silver streamers and seizure-inducing music washing over us, we gamely order a giant frozen something to share, in a pitiful attempt at enthusiasm.
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Today, the numbers are even more dire, as SteamDB shows its most recent 24-hour peak for concurrent players reached only a pitiful 527.
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" And on Friday, in response to Trump treating Baltimore's homicide rate like a punchline at a political rally, the editors called his conduct "pitiful.
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There are also a disfigured, rather yearning character, called Pitiful Creature, and a fusty academic who breaks in occasionally to comment on the work.
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A few months later, that farmer pulled into our driveway with a pitiful donkey he'd liberated from a church member with a hoarding problem.
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The banana should be seen in the context of this earlier work, which places the art market itself on the wall, drooping and pitiful.
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The Steelers game will be packed and that's when I plan on killing Steelers football players and fans before taking my own pitiful life.
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I've always hated the thought of being "special" because it made me feel pitiful, but "royalty" has a much more satisfying ring to it.
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The state of El Salvador's asylum agency is even more pitiful: The Salvadoran newspaper El Faro reported that it only has one asylum officer.
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"I think she first showed up and it was incredibly intentional to look pitiful, and to not look like a Hollywood star," Sanders tells Refinery29.
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Twitter's stock, which has fallen to a pitiful price over the last two years, was up by more than 10 percent in pre-market trading.
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That's a pitiful 6.6% of episodes in the first six seasons, and 5.9% total if it continues this trend for the remainder of the seventh.
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Singapore continues to dominate global broadband speeds, while Norway offers the fastest mobile connections (the U.S. comes in at a pitiful No. 46 and dropping).
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These people have to spend so much time to cover their costs when you break it down to an hourly revenue, it's a pitiful amount.
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She's much tougher than I am ... I was focusing on the wrong things, pitiful me and not how beautiful my life was, things like that.
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Collins told me that the far right is usually underestimated in Britain, because its numbers are so small and its members have often seemed pitiful.
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In fact, he has essentially misremembered the entire period, casually transforming himself into a decent person rather than the pitiful father he has actually been.
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Goldwater, who died in 1998, was especially appalled by Americans who favored working with the Soviet Union in a pitiful bid to avoid nuclear war.
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The 28 seconds that addressed his eight years of complicity in disrespecting the first black President of the United States was pitiful and yes, deplorable.
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But America cannot remain for long the center of global economic, financial and strategic gravity with its economy's pitiful potential growth rate of 1.5 percent.
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Even if you're living in deep dark England where our August is pretty pitiful on the sun-front, you still need to protect your skin.
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In the meantime, I wish the best to the new panel leadership and communication team (which is doing the best it can with a pitiful budget).
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That's even slower than wages were growing earlier this year, and it's pitiful when you compare it to the sky-high payouts corporate CEOs are getting.
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The Hoyas converted only 23 of 68 shots from the field (22 percent), including a pitiful 227 of 214 (29 percent) from the 238-point arc.
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And four years into Mrs von der Leyen's modernisation programme, Germany's armed forces remain in a pitiful state, depleted after decades of post-Cold War neglect.
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Beijing should be asked to do that by tripling its annual purchases of American goods and services from the pitiful $116 billion they bought last year.
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You don't shorn your head; instead you honor your remaining strands, letting them remain on the top of your head in all of their pitiful glory.
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Now, it looks like the gentle beasts of this world are also joining our pitiful, desperate crusade to conquer loneliness with the world of online dating.
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The critical reception has steadily improved with each successive film — rising from 101 Dalmatians' pitiful 38% in 1996 to The Jungle Book's impressive 95% last year.
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The mismatch between the skills of the best Russian and Chinese state-backed hackers and the amateurish defences of the average American computer network is pitiful.
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San Francisco, the preseason favorite, was a disappointment in many ways: negligible media coverage, a skilled but poorly conditioned squad with a pitiful 0-5 record.
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He has an anarchistic streak, and he's intrigued by physical destruction but also moral destruction and finds most people very pitiful and very easy to manipulate.
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Either way, I know I'm not alone because in The Political Machine Carson's biggest flaw is his low stamina rating, a pitiful 4 out of 10.
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" Business Minister Andrew Griffiths says it is "shocking that some businesses think these pitiful and patronizing excuses are acceptable reasons to keep women from the top jobs.
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Starting such a programme from scratch would take up around half the central government's annual budget, such is the pitiful state of direct-tax collection in India.
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The Fed may have started to raise rates but the return on cash is still pitiful in nominal terms and negative in real (ie, after inflation) terms.
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Less than a day into its pitiful existence, the VOICE hotline has been rendered unusable by tipsters claiming to have seen criminal aliens of the extraterrestrial kind.
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Heels lend a little lift to our assets, add an extra inch (or four) to our height and add a helping hand to our sometimes-pitiful posture.
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The newspaper mortality rate is old news, and nostalgia for dead papers is itself pitiful at this point, even though, I still say, there's a principle involved.
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"If Bae continues, U.S. criminals held in our country will be in the pitiful state of never being able to set foot in their homeland once again".
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So yeah, I've never not split the bill, but then people I've dated before were on pitiful salaries just like me so that's just what we did.
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Sometimes, it's your pitiful friends asking you for money so that they can take a European vacation and finally tackle that "research project" they've been wanting to do.
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Needless to say, Aurier — whom Blanc described as "pitiful" in his news conference — was not at the stadium on Tuesday night (and may never play for P.S.G. again).
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"Pitiful that Obama rewards Castros with visit to Cuba while conditions for the Cuban people are getting worse," said Ros-Lehtinen, a Cuban-American Republican from south Florida.
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North Korean diplomats earn pitiful salaries: in the mid-1990s, embassy staff in Zambia went fishing in a nearby river to catch food for their national-day reception.
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Article continues below But every few minutes the game reminds me of its worldview and politics (made more pitiful by the ways it assiduously tries to be apolitical).
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And unlike those two, who are presently taking unexpected star turns for the winning Washington Nationals and Baltimore Orioles squads, Duvall plays for a pitiful Cincinnati Reds team.
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A sexless, pitiful nerd with no real prospects — he's working as a janitor and living with his parents — is reliant on video games for pleasure and self-esteem.
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Immediately after House Republicans' pitiful attempt at health care reform failed, the conventional wisdom—pushed by Trump himself—was that the White House was moving on, and fast.
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As for Russ, he's there to deliver a hunk of exposition about Erlich's pitiful stock dump, but odiousness is as deliciously ripe as a wedge of French cheese.
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This meant two years to date of armchair research, and subsequently, an incessant fear of the implications of my below-average IQ, which stands at a pitiful 0.245.
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While paychecks are growing more than they did last year, the numbers are still pitiful when you compare them to the sky-high payouts corporate CEOs are getting.
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However much you feel you're scrimping, you're always left with nothing more than a few pitiful dollars rattling around your account at the end of the month, right?
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I went all through my pitiful collection of jar openers and found some that were too small and others that were too large; none that were the right size.
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The criticism came after Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble labeled Social Democrat proposals for wider social spending on housing and public services to complement the integration of migrants as "pitiful".
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At the London Book Fair in March, Johnson live tweeted the pitiful traffic to Amazon Publishing's booth, which some weirdo decided to set up directly across from Melville House's.
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That's fine, as long as you ignore the relatively pitiful working conditions for minor leaguers and everything else that's wrong with the Mets' obsession with giving Tebow a chance.
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Child labor, pitiful pay and dangerous conditions are among the risks facing undocumented Syrian refugees working in Turkey's garment industry, according to the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.
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Yet and still there are still some pitiful souls, who all these years later, are still waiting for a Chris Brown redemption story that is never going to come.
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"It's shocking that some businesses think these pitiful and patronizing excuses are acceptable reasons to keep women from the top jobs," Business Minister Andrew Griffiths said in a statement.
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But this year, he was back on his feet, and resumed his top spot by eating 70 hot dogs to Stonie's comparatively pitiful second-place show of just 53.
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As one Rotten Tomatoes user wrote, "'Feardotcom' completely destroys all the potential of its intriguing premise with slack placing [and] plotting, seizure-inducing visuals and desperate pitiful scare attempts."
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That's faster than they've been growing since the recession started in 2007, but it's still pitiful when you compare it to the sky-high payouts corporate CEOs are getting.
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"Murdoch resists easy portraiture (Indians as pitiful or pathetic or damaged) and blind compassion (Indians as noble sufferers or keepers of special knowledge)," David Treuer writes in his review.
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He saw my pitiful attempt and one-upped me by writing an actually good crossword for the school paper, but he also encouraged me to start writing crosswords seriously.
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Baker Mayfield threw three fourth-quarter interceptions, the team committed 18 penalties, and Marcus Mariota and the Titans were more than willing to take advantage of the pitiful effort.
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Like André, who is sure of himself one moment, befuddled and pitiful the next, we are plunged into a shadowy, fearful place where reality, memory, and imagination mingle indiscriminately.
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New York&aposs 23-17 overtime loss marks its 11th of the season and its ninth straight, making the Giants the bottom-dwellers of an already pitiful NFC East.
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On Saturday morning, we will sit on the couch in our pajamas, Leo and me, and see what happened against the now-hated, if pitiful, Knicks the night before.
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In a pitiful attempt to disguise the fact that the ruling targets hijab wearing women with surgical precision, the court added that the decision extends to all visible religious symbols.
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Pitiful, yet those numbers are considered progress by some, because they were an all-time high for women CEOs, an increase from the 4.8% (24) of women CEOs in 2018.
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In addition to the pitiful box-office revenue, there was a failed video game of the same name released concurrently, whose purpose was to ride the movie's assumed runaway success.
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" Ms. Heffron, the Cincinnati teenager, prefers the score's "The Pitiful Children" and "The Squip Song" to "Michael in the Bathroom," which, she said, "is really good but a little overrated.
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Shortly after Armstrong joined the company in 2009, it was Time Warner spinning off AOL, with Reuters reporting that the AOL's market capitalization had plunged to a pitiful $3.44 billion.
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Some of the patients had little bandages on their shells, and the worst injury I saw was an amputated flipper, which was kind of cute in its own, pitiful way?
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The fastest land vehicle cannot even get to 1 km a second and even a spaceship when escaping Earth's atmosphere is traveling at a relatively pitiful 10 km a second.
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The $170 million figure looks like a pitiful number, especially when compared to the billions Google has been fined by European regulators, but experts argue it's a significant step forward.
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This falls in line with Trump's pitiful "outreach" to the black community, which includes such tactics as repeatedly referring to black neighborhoods as "hellish" and trotting out Don King, a.k.a.
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Mr. Jones has been largely pushed to the fringes of the internet — kicked off Twitter, Facebook and a dozen other services — and his cries for attention now seem mostly pitiful.
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These pitiful estimates are a far cry from Mr. Trump's prediction that economic growth could rise a full percentage point a year, or more than 10 percent over a decade.
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Economic "growth" is limited to a pitiful rebound after 17 percent slump in 2014-2015, while reforms are blocked by the fruitless struggle between powerful cliques of oligarchs and politicians.
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That hearing was the pitiful finale of a three-year-long operation by the Democrats, the corrupt media, and partisan bureaucrats to overturn the results of the 2016 presidential election.
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That's much faster than they've been growing since the recession started in 2007, but it's still pitiful when you compare it to the sky-high payouts corporate CEOs are getting.
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This hefty pass is a world record sprint, a between the legs tennis shot, an outfielder riding up over the wall and stealing a home run from his pitiful opponent.
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As an added perk, Apple says students with "Managed Apple IDs" (provided by schools) will also receive 200GB in free iCloud storage, a huge boost from the pitiful 5GB previously offered.
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"Trump's announcement today is a wilted fig leaf to cover up his remaining conflicts of interest and his pitiful record of charitable giving," DNC spokesman Eric Walker said in the statement.
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"Proud is a pitiful word to describe how I felt today," she wrote — captioning a shot that showed her, Reynolds and their 2-year-old daughter James standing on the star.
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The pitiful mewling that often passes for public discourse these days is in many ways a symptom of the fact that we have never lived this way as a species before.
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But how truly pitiful is it that someone who pretends to care about the less-fortunate members of our society is willing to throw them under the bus for political gain?
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"It's not fair!" may be the most pitiful lament in the English language, but Donald Trump seems intent upon adopting it as his battle cry heading into this summer's Republican convention.
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In 20003, a nail-bitingly dry year that followed several pitiful winters, Santa Fe's aboveground reservoirs dipped precipitously low, and the city was draining groundwater through its wells at frightening rates.
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" This isn't the first time Smith has distanced himself from goth culture: he told Reuters in 2006 that "it's so pitiful when 'goth' is still tagged onto the name The Cure.
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As he stated, the amount of skilled and educated immigrants we currently take in is a pitiful 12 percent; a number that would increase to 57 percent under his new plan.
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The critically acclaimed, Grammy-nominated single quickly became one of Rolling Stone's "Most Annoying Songs of All Time" and the pale, white butt of a Weird Al Yankovic joke ( "You're Pitiful").
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" Karen Orenstein, senior international policy analyst, Friends of the Earth U.S. "The pitiful outcome on climate finance must not be lost amidst the euphoria surrounding the signing of the Paris Agreement.
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X-Men: Dark Phoenix was a pitiful end to the long-running franchise, and not even Sophie Turner's post-Game of Thrones viral stardom could save it from box office disaster.
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And that's kind of the point: Stonewall was, at its core, about people reclaiming their narratives from a society that told them they were sick or pitiful or didn't even exist.
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Jeb Bush dropped out of the Republican race on Saturday, the final chapter in a campaign that began with him as a front-runner and ended with him looking rather pitiful.
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter But this is Phoenix's film, and he inhabits it with an insanity by turns pitiful and fearsome in an out-there performance that's no laughing matter.
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It would be a pitiful defense, but the makers of "The Bachelorette" could always point to that live special as an attempt to solve a problem — even one they had invented!
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If there's one thing that's super frustrating about being a Nintendo fan, it's that their games almost never go on sale (and when they do, it's usually like, $3 off — pitiful).
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The sources said all four tests failed, with Russia's best attempt lasting a pitiful two minutes and covering just 22 miles (35 kilometers), and the nuclear core failing to activate mid-flight.
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Late last year, we showed you the Arc Hub, a circular USB-C hub we hoped would help improve the pitiful plight of third-party USB-C hubs currently on the market.
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Growth was a pitiful 1.6 percent in the last year of Obama and now it is growing at just above 3 percent since the beginning of the 2nd quarter of this year.
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That final dismal and desultory line, nothing more than a light dusting at best and pitiful sprinkle at worst, is accompanied by a horrifying moment of shamefaced revelation: you've fucked it again.
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In fact, the economy grew just 1.6 percent for all of 2016; and, according to the Atlanta Fed, is rising at a pitiful one percent seasonally adjusted annualized rate during Q1 2017.
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Reddit user iShootWithaCamera shared his theory that the three pitiful Christmas gifts Harry Potter's aunt and uncle sent him while he was at Hogwarts could be interpreted as some pretty serious symbols.
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"A pitiful, ignorant, insubordinate gossip with no trustworthy information," John M. Dowd, a former lawyer for Mr. Trump who represented him during Mr. Mueller's investigation, said in an email after the testimony.
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But there's a substantial difference between acknowledging that someone needs a little bit of help, and making them out as sad, sorry pitiful creatures who need to be hidden from "normal" people.
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"This is one of the biggest displacements of people I've ever seen in the country, and the response is pitiful from the federal level," Mica said on the tour with state Rep.
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The pain of seeing my father continually erode into a pitiful figure—all missing teeth and rummy eyes, dressed in the discordant, used-clothing wardrobe of the perennially downtrodden—was too much.
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Unlike in the first three decades after World War II, since 1979 the average US hourly wage, adjusted for inflation, has increased by a pitiful amount, despite substantial increases in worker productivity.
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They are deliberate, haunted efforts to express the pitiful limits of contemporary human memory, always at risk of erasure in the shadow of history and the flood of the digital image stream.
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The Houston Astros (2017) swept the Yankees last week, and this week the Yankees swept the Boston Red Sox, who have gone from pristine to pitiful since claiming the crown last fall.
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The work, first shown at A.I.R. Gallery, has been restaged 46 years later (which speaks to the pitiful economy for women's art, even when it's this important, but that's a different topic).
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"I don't think I am an unreasonable person, but what was advanced, to me, was so pitiful that it is not even worth pursuing," Ms. Lofgren said in an interview Wednesday afternoon.
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A day earlier, the Clippers dropped a game to the pitiful Pistons, and Clippers center Montrezl Harrell, a burly dreadlocked Range Rover of a man, sounded as if he had had enough.
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During that interval, China has pocketed a net income of $232 billion on its U.S. goods sales of $302 billion, while American exports to China came in at a pitiful $70 billion.
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On the first day of public hearings last week, Nunes used his opening statement to: * Call the hearings a "pitiful finale" to Democratic attempts to overturn the results of the 2016 election.
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In a parliamentary speech, she declared that she will not dignify the terrorist by ever mentioning his name, so as not to give in to his pitiful and evident thirst for publicity.
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Ultimately, the plan came with $823 million to address the debt, as well as a number of unorthodox "reforms" that legislators argued would stop Detroit from ending up in the same pitiful position.
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But when their victims arrived, they had to renovate and clean properties for "pitiful wages", with one person earning just 3,000 pounds in more than three years, prosecutors at Leeds Crown Court said.
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The piece includes videos that Rodger, deluded and pitiful, posted before the killings, in which he, the supreme narcissist, insists on how "magnificent" he is and wonders how women could turn him down.
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If governments withdraw generous subsidies which EV-owners have enjoyed, charging infrastructure fails to materialise or electric cars' pitiful resale value does not increase, motorists may be reluctant to switch to battery power.
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But Nikola Mirotic, who's shooting 46.6 percent from deep on over six attempts per game, is the distinct difference between their pitiful early-season play and what's happened since his fractured face healed.
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No more could it suffer than a Parser—those algorithms that mercilessly strip away all your lovely adjectives and adverbs and leave you staring at the picked over bones of your pitiful existence.
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Paris is now backpedaling on all that, but it has no solution for social unrest, and its economic growth forecast for next year has been cut last Friday to the pitiful 1.3 percent.
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A year ago, Italy found an unexpected way to laugh at itself and its predicaments: Spelacchio's pitiful condition was emblematic of Rome's decaying infrastructure, among other things, and we brushed all that off.
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This, in her view, is a criminally retrograde story line, one that recasts women as pitiful creatures who cannot think and act for themselves — and it's a story they seem to have internalized.
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Rich Silverstein, a partner and co-chairman at the agency, said the goal was to bring about empathy for low-income residents without making their plight seem pitiful or shaming viewers into feeling bad.
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With an extraordinarily deep and alien fatigue, blended with an extreme sense of humiliation, and a pitiful type of relief, we stopped after a long day of over ten hours of nerve-racking gambling.
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The report, which you can read here, lists four major findings, each of which with its own pitiful statistics and recommendations that occasionally amount to a complete about-face or overhaul of existing policies.
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If he hadn't gone—and liked him, and suggested that he could pep up his pitiful salary by a couple of thousand by coming on the show—he would never have got into trouble.
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Click here to view original GIFTomorrow morning, Verizon will announce its plan to buy Yahoo's core assets for a pitiful $257 billion according to "two people with direct knowledge of the situation," Bloomberg reports.
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On one side of the bracket we've watched two teams' brief, pitiful struggle against the Cavaliers three-point blitzkrieg, and the other has been a quagmire of closely-contested and aesthetically butt-nasty matchups.
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"Trump's announcement today is a wilted fig leaf to cover up his remaining conflicts of interest and his pitiful record of charitable giving," said Eric Walker, deputy communications director of the Democratic National Committee.
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But these items of adventure are always too expensive to buy, and with the street cleaner's pitiful income, made by collecting and selling trash, you have to focus on acquiring the basics to survive.
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The character could easily slump into the grotesque or the simply pitiful, but Olivia Colman (now a regal specialist, having taken over as Elizabeth II in "The Crown") finds a curious decorum in Anne.
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Currently, employers are only required to pay a "tipped sub-minimum wage" — a pitiful $3.33 an hour — as long as when customers' tips are added, the workers receive at least the full minimum wage.
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Words cascade from that pinched mouth and they mean nothing, because when a man of moral emptiness tries to exhort a nation to moral greatness the only thing communicated is pitiful, almost comical, hypocrisy.
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If politicians are allowed to use taxpayers' money for generations without any personal incentive to use it well, over time, government spending will become bloated, inefficient, and drag down GDP growth to pitiful levels.
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It's just absolutely necessary to make sure the people know that this guy is a fraud, a nutcase, a loser, and should be shunned, and hopefully gets zero votes except for his own pitiful vote.
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If Xfinity charges much more than $200, it would be a crime, but it's hard to deny that an Android phone with "all weekend" battery life is compelling, no matter how pitiful its specs are.
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They said they were motivated by the "pitiful sight" of Ali Bongo Ondimba, Gabon's 22014-year-old president, delivering a televised address from Morocco, where he has been convalescing since November after suffering a stroke.
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I'm a freelance writer who brings home about $53,2529 a year, which is privileged compared to most people in the world but pitiful compared to many of the New York City families that surround me.
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From a full charge I clocked a pitiful 2 hours and 27 minutes while continuously streaming video with all the bells and whistles turned on, and a little over 3 hours on a second attempt.
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Trump has always been more Regan than Lear (and his children, at least, seem less shrewd and more loyal than Lear's), but as he lashes out more and more, these pitiful moments are becoming common.
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Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz are rivals for the favor of the queen, who is played with almost indescribable magnificence — she's pitiful, imperious, grotesque and commanding, sometimes all at the same time — by Olivia Colman.
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One of my last bunkies was pitiful: a lying, scheming, thieving addict who ended up having two fistfights within hours over his drug debts and the stealing that he was doing to support his habit.
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Instead of making another pitiful attempt at bumping battery life like the XS, Apple is offering twice its best battery life update in a form factor that's nearly the same size as the XS line.
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As we bring our locomotive analogy to a merciful close, it is worth glancing back down the line to see all the broken bodies of those many pitiful idiots, stretching way back to the horizon.
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But they say Adiba Hayrat is now living with her parents and working in a forced labor facility, earning pitiful wages, unable to contact her family in Kazakhstan for fear of being sent back into detention.
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While ARM has been around since 1991, RISC-V just got started in 2010 but it's gaining a lot of ground and ARM's pitiful website could easily be seen as a legitimizing moment for the tech.
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Meanwhile, the pitiful yields on government bonds, plus longer lifespans, mean pension funds are desperate for fairly safe assets that offer a stable, inflation-plus return to provide the income they have promised to the retired.
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In examining the industry's pitiful response to #MeToo, if the lack of action rests on fans' refusal to hold beloved artists accountable, then one might suspect the reaction would change, were the couple both music darlings.
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NEW DELHI/GUWAHATI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women working on tea plantations in northeast India earn a "pitiful" $2 a day and live in "appalling" conditions with almost no toilets, according to a report released on Tuesday.
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This historically dismal polling comes at a particularly pitiful time for Christie, who, after debasing himself as a shameless yes man for Donald Trump during the campaign, was forced out of the president-elect's transition team.
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The waking day is a pitiful vessel for the screaming sensory waterfall of the world, and almost all of what we see and hear is curated by the people and media with which we surround ourselves.
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In the face of pressure from international labor groups, Jack Wolfskin came up with about $38,000—less than one half of 1 percent of the arrears and enough to give 1,963 workers a pitiful $20 each.
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Despite all of this, as well as Geostorm's pitiful box-office performance, he has two more upcoming films in the pipeline: Hunter Killer and Den of Thieves, with the latter set for an early 2018 release.
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In one game, she played GET for six points, a score so pitiful it would have earned her some good-natured ribbing in the past, but instead it was met with polite silence around the table.
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The "Peanuts" gang tackles the anxieties and shortcomings of the season head on, as Charlie Brown desperately tries to salvage a pitiful Christmas tree; the understated, intimate piano trio score from Vince Guaraldi sets the mood.
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"Proud is a pitiful word to describe how I felt today," the 29-year-old star shared on Instagram — captioning a shot that showed her, Reynolds and their 2-year-old daughter James standing on the star.
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Her divorce and child custody disputes with Federline in 22015 turned her into sensational content for the tabloid mill yet again, but this time she was less as an object of fascination than a tragic, pitiful story.
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Soon voice-command technology reached the public, ushering in our current era of unreliable computer interlocutors given to unforced errors: half-comical, half-pitiful simpletons, whose fate in life is to be taunted by eleven-year-olds.
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If you take away the pitiful performance by the Ravens backfield in Week 7, the Jets have allowed six backs to top 10 fantasy points since Week 4, four of which scored at least 15 fantasy points.
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If his claim of feeling no pain is true, zipping around the country doing performances is surely more fun that working all hours of the day on a construction site for pitiful wages, as he did before.
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But even with the threat of incapacitating hangovers, soju's low cost and magical ability to make even the most pitiful social gathering into the best party ever has people everywhere happily drinking it—and in massive amounts.
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Jauernik, for his part, said he had recently retired from theft to get a job as a night porter but resumed his life of crime due to the "pitiful" pension payments he earned at a legitimate job.
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Prisons and jails can be hotspots for infections due to unsanitary conditions and But instead of making sure incarcerated individuals are safe during the coronavirus pandemic, New York is having prisoners make hand sanitizer for pitiful wages.
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So pitiful was the police response to the notorious Gay Slayer killings—in which Colin Ireland brutally strangled to death five gay men over three months in 1993—that Ireland actually began leaving clues for law enforcement.
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But fair or not, the calendar is now Biden's enemy — and his pitiful results in the first two states have taken the onetime chip leader and forced him to look for an inside straight draw for a comeback.
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China's imports from the United States in the January-April interval were a pitiful $34 billion, a whopping 21% decline from the year earlier, and only 24% of what China sold to the U.S. during the same period.
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"It's an absolute scandal that, in the Polish parliament, such pitiful papers that look as if they are taken from Nazi publications, are sold," said Michal Kaminski, a member of parliament for the leftwing opposition Polish Peasants Party.
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This probably sets the record as the biggest fund buyback with the most pitiful price move, as gains were significantly less than those produced by the spring and early summer short-covering rallies of the last two years.
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There were just six plus-size models featured in the 312 fall 2016 shows spread across all four cities — that's a drastic drop from spring 2016's (still pitiful) numbers, which included 14 plus-size models in total.
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Rates of new infections have been falling each year, but at a pitiful rate -- just 25% per year -- and experts in the field began to feel hopeless, drained and fed up by what should so easily be beaten.
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Way back in March of last year, NASA administrator Charles Bolden claimed the agency's plans were "clear, affordable, and sustainable," but ASAP's report expresses its concerns that NASA's plans actually remain excessively unclear and thwarted by a pitiful budget.
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A boiled egg and slice of cheese would go well with the S.O.S.—that's "shit on a shingle," or the chipped beef and biscuits that were on the menu—and would make an otherwise bland, pitiful breakfast much better.
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BELFAST (Reuters) - The Northern Irish party propping up British Prime Minister Theresa May's government on Saturday said it would vote against her Brexit withdrawal agreement, which its deputy leader said would leave Britain in a "pitiful and pathetic place".
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Why it matters: The goal is to increase the pitiful percentage of VC dollars disbursed to women and minority-led startups, which often are hampered by systemic "pattern matching" and "old boy networks" within the white male-dominated industry.
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On the one hand, The Big Bang Theory's apparently endless existence feels like a tough pill to swallow when so many other, better series have seen their lifespans cut short by pitiful ratings, creative differences, or sheer bad luck.
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Meanwhile, the U.S. economy's cyclical problems are becoming deeply entrenched, European-style, structural barriers to growth that will relegate the country to a pitiful – and politically and strategically dangerous – potential economic growth of 1.6 percent that we have now.
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Well, get this: Instead of dooming your bop to a pitiful existence as a shoddy-sounding Voice Memos file, you can easily turn it into a studio-quality recording on your computer using what's called a USB audio interface.
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"You can either sit on that rock and you can die, and you could say, 'mercy,' and you could feel pitiful for yourself and play victim, or you can start walking down that waterfall and choose life," she recounted.
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While walking through her new exhibition in Hauser & Wirth's cavernous Chelsea space, however, it becomes clear that her sculptures are as romantic as they are disturbing, as powerful as they are pitiful, and as sublime as they are abject.
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"We don't want to be in a situation where our bilateral relations, which are already in a rather pitiful state, could face even bigger and possibly unbearable risks and dangers," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, according to Bloomberg.
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And if you're going to go the old-Hollywood-spectacle route, as Mr. Tresnjak does, you can't get away with the pitiful anticlimax of his finale, which dispatches the Temple of Dagon with a little bright light and smoke.
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So while the Freedom Caucus's pitiful effort to oust Mr. Rosenstein should not be taken seriously on practical grounds, it is a tragic reminder of the bleak path down which the Republican Party has been slouching in recent years.
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The flimsiness of these structures emphasizes humanity's ability to destroy the natural and historic fabric of a landscape, while their placement, which resembles a chaotic archaeological dig, points to our pitiful attempts at restoration in the face of destruction.
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Still, in an effort to steer you away from these pitiful pitfalls, we thought we&aposd sit you down for a heart-to-heart and spell out a few no-no&aposs to avoid before putting your house on the market.
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The sum of Japanese direct investments in the U.S. during the first nine months of last year ($31.8 billion) and of Japanese investments in our Treasury securities in the first 11 months of 2016 (-$13.8 billion) is a pitiful $18 billion.
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All that said, I'm hoping you may be able, or at least willing, to take pity on me and this woeful tale (as pitiful as it is), and forgo the $200 change fee normally imposed on tickets such as this.
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Don't let the goofy concept and pitiful box office discourage you – Monster Trucks is a totally solid family film that feels like a throwback to the earnest kiddie adventures of the 1990s, with a sweet eco-friendly message to boot.
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NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The pitiful show of female candidates in India's state elections is an indictment of the failure of successive governments to enact a two-decade-old bill to give women a stronger voice in parliament, activists said.
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Of course, Visible's "unlimited" didn't really mean unlimited as data speeds were previously capped at a pitiful 2480 Mbps (which is far lower than the 25 Mbps average you get on proper Verizon), while streaming videos were limited to 480p.
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Last year, the growth of China's trade surplus accelerated to 12 percent, with its exports to the U.S. surging 17.4 percent, to a whopping $594 billion, while China's purchases from the U.S. fell 7.4 percent to the pitiful $120.3 billion.
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For those pitiful few who don't know the entire SpongeBob oeuvre by heart, the song comes from an episode called "Band Geeks," in which SpongeBob and the gang venture up onto dry land to perform during halftime at the Bubble Bowl.
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Many women working on plantations in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, where major brands source much of their tea, earn a "pitiful" $2 a day and live in "appalling" conditions, found a report from British charity Traidcraft Exchange in May.
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Nigel Farage, who led the UK Independence Party to victory in last year's Brexit referendum but saw its vote slashed in the June election, described May's Florence speech as a "pitiful" attempt to "appease" a "bully" and said she should resign.
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When we talk about refugees, we are typically bombarded with this pitiful image of the poor man who needs our care, but we wanted to focus on the strength of people in this situation—not from a perspective of pity.
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The Jim Boylen Show is one of those classic NBA subplots that began as a cracked carnival ride, but—not so much including Wednesday night's need for introspection—may be maturing into a situation that's slightly more intriguing than pitiful.
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We should be grateful for these men's gifts — nay, we should see right through their gifts, for in "Tree" (2015), Santa pees right through a present to water that pitiful gray Christmas fir with a few streaks of watery yellow.
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I can't quite remember what prompted a friend to lend me his copy of AMONG THE THUGS, by Bill Buford, last summer — I've since purchased my own — although it was likely my pitiful attempt to talk smack during World Cup season.
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His subjects include servicemen who readily share their misdeeds, among them a soldier who confessed that he and his squad accepted a pitiful woman's offer of sex in exchange for cans of the troops' C-rations to feed her starving family.
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The fiasco was captured this week when that pompous and pitiful British nationalist, Nigel Farage, waved a miniature Union Jack in the European Parliament as he bid farewell and was cut off by the vice-president of the Parliament, Mairead McGuinness.
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As he rambled on in his motormouth way, doing a halfhearted impression of an offensively stereotypical notion of psychiatric distress, it was clear that this was a stock character who existed only to exchange this pitiful, canned dialogue with a player.
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But as luck would have it a Roborock representative emailed to ask if I would like to review their latest top-of-the-range model — which, at €26, does clock in at the opposite end of the price scale; ~26x the pitiful Rowenta.
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Being dumped is heartbreaking, but at least you don't have to spend days, weeks, or months mulling it over in advance—worrying about what to say, how to say it, and how crushed and pitiful the person you once loved will look.
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Last year, Julie Silverbrook — executive director of The Constitutional Sources Project — discovered that even as the civic education community has tried to form "robust coalitions and campaigns" to respond to the crisis, their already pitiful funding has dried to a virtual non-existence.
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I could have paid for some new software and spunked the pitiful remains of the month's wages on a drum machine and a rinky-dink USB keyboard or a stylophone or a kazoo, but instead I turned to the internet for help.
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Although clearly no cash-in or rush job, his second album gathered 17 Metacritic reviews averaging a pitiful 59, the most bewildering a sympathetic Pitchfork piece that could have been a 79 as easily as the 51 some asshole stuck on it.
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A boy with no father and a strange mother may seem pitiful to his peers at school, but the adults Alex meets admire his courage, honesty and resourcefulness, which brings those qualities to the foreground and allows young readers to admire them, too.
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In order to send naval squadrons flying the flag across the globe, Moscow has to accompany them with tugs for when they break down Certainly Russia's military has lifted itself up from this pitiful state, but it's still very much a work in progress.
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For instance, baby demogorgons can rapidly sprout into man-eating beasts, and the person you'd written off as a pitiful loner could eventually become the love of your life — at least in the case of Nancy Wheeler (Natalia Dyer) and Jonathan Byers (Charlie Heaton).
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In the first half of this year, Japan was running a rising trade surplus of $36 billion with the U.S. and an $18.6 billion trade deficit with China — buying $82.4 billion of Chinese goods, compared with a pitiful $39.5 billion of U.S.-produced merchandise.
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The answer to that question put us squarely back into our 'bad news is good news' trading paradigm as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP, which measures the value of everything we produce) expanded at a pitiful 0.7 percent annual rate from October to December.
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Thus, IBM was forced to argue with a straight face that the Obama administration's otherwise pitiful gestures toward national security amounted to a form of economic "protectionism" that was trying to stop poor old IBM from engaging in "free trade" with the poor, misunderstood Chinese.
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As pitiful as its leaders may seem, the male supremacy movement poses a legitimate threat: while Return of Kings attracted less than 22014,22015 viewers per month for the bulk of 2013, today the site attracts over 500,000 people per month in the US alone.
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As proxies for American military power, these victims were something far more strange and pitiful: the sons of farmers from mountain villages in Nepal, passed from hand to hand by the "body shops" that had sprung up to provide cheap labor for American bases.
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Jennifer's Body (which only recently gained mainstream appreciation) used the offscreen sexist bullshit happening to Megan Fox as a backdrop against which to challenge heteronormative gender roles and with our pitiful portrayals of women in film — all before #MeToo turned that into a global conversation.
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While real estate economists continue to blame the pitiful 2750-month supply of total listings (a six-month supply is considered a balanced market), a better indicator is a chart on the second-to-last page of the National Association of Realtors' monthly sales report.
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Whether the economy does well or poorly, whether policy initiatives tank the economy or blow out the deficit, the wages of senators and congressmen are the same pitiful, fixed amount — about as much as a first year associate makes at a leading law firm.
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Even though the Lakers as a whole are more efficient and aggressive in transition when Ball is on the court, Synergy Sports ranks him in the 4th percentile as a ball handler in transition (largely thanks to turnovers), with a pitiful 31.6 field goal percentage.
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Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo)Let's be clear, when I say the MacBook has an annoying problem I'm not talking about the paltry number of Thunderbolt ports, the lack of an SD card slot, or the fact that they're priced way too high for such pitiful processors.
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Just when you thought there was some kind of shitty goal retribution for Sergio Ramos' pitiful thwack of a dying ball that scooted under the keeper's armpit, French national Antoine Griezmann absolutely pings the ball off the top bar with a real tease of a penalty kick.
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" Amis makes this case in an essay on Larkin, whose evocations of the mildewed and the mingy manage to leave us glorified by their oft-thought-but-ne'er-so-well-expressed exactitude: "Larkin's life was a pitiful mess of evasion and poltroonery; his work was a triumph.
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It is a wild and pitiful spectacle, one that brings the other meaning of "mad" right to the surface, and as I watched I thought of Prior Walter, in Tony Kushner's " Angels in America ," another frightened American prophet seen on the New York stage this year.
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I'll admit that most of my uses have been limited to heating water and making oatmeal and coffee, but more adventurous cooks will be happy with the Whisperlite, especially when the alternative is going stove-less or using a wood or alcohol stove with pitiful heat output.
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But boy this cool display and computer aren't going to be cheap, the Pro Display XDR will start at $5,000 and the cheapest Mac Pro, with an 8-core Xeon processor, AMD Radeon Pro 580, 16GB of RAM and a pitiful 256GB SSD will start at $6,000.
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We lose out on anything near a seven-figure deal, effectively punished for not wanting to do what Cummins did, which was treat ourselves like the pitiful emblems of pain liberal whites see us as, or bloodthirsty barbarians Donald Trump has made us out to be.
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By the last week of his campaign, Jeb was such a pitiful figure that at a town hall event, instead of asking questions, voters started giving him tips: People in Jeb's audience are using the Q & A to give him advice on how to fix his campaign.
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Ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft are delivering pitiful levels of take-home pay to the hundreds of thousands of US independent contractors providing their own vehicles and driving skills to deliver the core service, according to an MIT CEEPR study examining the economics of the two app platforms.
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The most likely reality for the Wade-centric Bulls of the next two seasons is that they will be a nostalgic goof troop that loses in the first or second round of the playoffs, or maybe the conference finals if they find a groove and the East stays pitiful.
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Similarly, in Fury's signature victory — his 2015 bamboozling of Wladimir Klitschko in Germany — the six-foot-nine underdog showed so much ring craft that he limited Klitschko, who had reigned as champion for almost a decade, to a pitiful 4.5 punches landed on a per round average, Boxrec reports.
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Hari Kondabolu's brilliant 2017 documentary The Problem with Apu made a concise case that the show's bad South Asian caricature was long overdue for an update, but so far, the show has avoided facing the issue, save for one pitiful attempt to address it during an April episode.
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He told viewers when a Kardashian-sold product was actually nonsense, called out Tarte for a pitiful foundation shade range, tested wildly expensive products versus their drugstore counterparts (and often sided with the drugstore dupe, despite his own affection for the finer things), and generally took no shit.
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Wonder Woman's precedents are pitiful at best: No female-led superhero movie has been a runaway hit — Supergirl (the 1984 version), Elektra, Barb Wire come to mind, while the promising Catwoman spin-off was a campy misfire that ultimately swept the 2005 Razzies (including a worst actress award for Halle Berry).
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"This allows the individual to retain the belief that they are competent in a given domain, and also allows them to save face in front of others, despite poor performance" Disturbingly, such pitiful behavior is most likely to occur when we are thinking clearly; when we're at our best, not worst.
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"When he arrived he hadn't had any sleep for 48 hours and was the most pitiful looking man I ever saw," Clara White told a reporter in 1942 about a St. Petersburg, Florida, man who, after his dog's death, put the animal in his car and drove straight to the cemetery.
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Op-Ed Contributor ROME — If the paragon of all Christmas trees is the one in front of the Rockefeller Center in New York — first erected, mind you, by an Italian in 1931 — the prize for most pitiful must go to the one that stands in Rome's Piazza Venezia this year.
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This should help beef up the Switch's credibility when its come to being a full-fledged media box, although with other major streaming video apps like Netflix, HBO GO, YouTube and others yet to appear, the Switch's app library still looks pitiful next to what's available on the PS4 or Xbox One.
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Although the deal values the company at $7 billion — a pitiful sum compared with the $47 billion valuation that SoftBank reckoned the company was worth in January — it still seems like a pretty sweet situation for Mr. Neumann, who will stay on a consultant and could walk away with a billion dollars.
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Now this I did play a fair chunk of at Rezzed, and while my keyboard control skills are pitiful—which won't be an issue on release, as it's also destined for consoles—I've got to say I fell a little bit in love with its running and jumping and sniping and coolness.
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I take a fairly pitiful stab at My Mom Is a Witch, a fantasy roguelike from Serbian husband-and-wife team Bigosaur, which supports up to four players and "might be ready in the middle of 2017", and have a laugh with the color-switching runner Chameleon Run, from Czech studio Hyperbolic Magnetism.
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Great movies and terrible movies both screw up in similar ways—like the fake deaths of characters (what's up, Marvel and DC?), the money play of splitting the final movie into two parts (hi, Harry Potter and Hunger Games), and the pitiful lack of diversity (that would be every one of y'all).
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The campaign documentary "Weiner," directed by Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg, has even greater relevance to the current state of American politics — and not just because its release on disc, from Sundance Selects, coincides with another pitiful development in the career of the former Brooklyn congressman and onetime mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner.
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"It is just one speech, but it does give me a sense that there are people who are open to that message and there are people who just don't want to accept such a profoundly pitiful notion of what our government could accomplish," he told CNN during his February trip to Iowa.
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The company settled a lawsuit this month that alleged it illegally obtained a rape victim's medical records; a former employee has accused the company of illegal surveillance, stealing trade secrets, and infiltrating anti-Uber activist groups in foreign countries; and the company has even tried blaming its own employees' pitiful earnings on the employees themselves.
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Some of the images that director Scott Derrickson cooks up are the sort of things you'd never imagine appearing anywhere other than the pages of a comic book, and if nothing else, Tilda Swinton's performance as a guru who seems largely disinterested in whatever we pitiful human beings are up to is a lot of fun.
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A sexless, pitiful nerd with no real prospects — he's working as a janitor and living with his parents — is reliant on video games for pleasure and... Tomorrow, the FCC will vote on what is formally known as a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the Commercial Availability of Navigation Devices, or what the teens are (not) calling #unlockthebox.
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I took her advice and attempted to sign up for Grapevine, one of the biggest dogs in the content fight for influence; I quickly learned that, as someone with less than 13,000 YouTube subscribers (I have a pitiful 102 and according to one subscriber's comments I should "just facking [sic] kill" myself), I was barred from doing so.
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South Korean authorities are "impudent and pitiful" for "talking loudly about reconciliation and cooperation between the north and the south" while buying more weapons from the United States, an unnamed policy research director at the Institute for American Studies of North Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement carried by state news agency KCNA.
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But my infantry arm was comprised of just about every archaic combat unit you could imagine: mercenary hoplites from Greece itself alongside some axe-wielding Etruscans, swordsmen from the hills, and a bunch of half-trained Roman spearmen whose tactics aped the Greeks', but whose armor and training were visibly pitiful compared to the real thing.
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They claim that moderates like Rouhani and Zairf who championed much of the diplomatic efforts are either dishonest agents trotted out by scheming forces in order to charm a few concession from Western powers before they reveal their true selves, or pitiful pones who will be flicked away by as soon as they are no longer useful.
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Of course, a burst of irrational exuberance could soon give the autos their day in the sun as stock-pickers ignore all these negatives but if the car companies are still on pitiful valuations now given the huge amount of inventory they are shifting globally, goodness knows what will happen if they ever land back on pot-holed terra firma.
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"What is easy is what Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE does for short term, pitiful political gain: to demonize 'the other,' other Americans, demean and degrade them," he told the magazine.
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John MicaJohn Luigi MicaHillicon Valley — Presented by CTIA and America's wireless industry — Lawmaker sees political payback in fight over 'deepfakes' measure | Tech giants to testify at hearing on 'censorship' claims | Google pulls the plug on AI council Lawmaker alleges political payback in failed 'deepfakes' measure GOP chairman slams 'pitiful' FEMA response in Louisiana MORE (R-Fla.), who was defeated by Murphy in 2016.
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John MicaJohn Luigi MicaHillicon Valley — Presented by CTIA and America's wireless industry — Lawmaker sees political payback in fight over 'deepfakes' measure | Tech giants to testify at hearing on 'censorship' claims | Google pulls the plug on AI council Lawmaker alleges political payback in failed 'deepfakes' measure GOP chairman slams 'pitiful' FEMA response in Louisiana MORE (R-Fla.), who was defeated by Murphy in 28503.
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" The Nettles family: father Ed, Damien holding Valerie, and siblings James and Melissa According to the show, the Hampshire constabulary police lost a few crucial surveillance tapes that could have shown where else Damien walked after midnight; that's just one of a few reasons Valerie has for deeming their handling of the ongoing and open case "lackluster, shoddy, and pitiful.
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The loss knocked Buffalo out of the A.F.C.'s second wild-card spot, and the team's downward spiral does not look like it will slow its rate of descent this week against the Chiefs (6-4), as Buffalo's pitiful run defense will most likely let Kareem Hunt get back to running like he had in the season's first few weeks.
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" The Tribune board focused on that comment, noting the "unfulfilled dream" the child was trying to take advantage of by coming to the U.S. "It is pitiful that one of our major political parties has completely abandoned the great values of America," it writes, before arguing that "Chaffetz has sold that belief in America for a chance at TV stardom.
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The Democratic Unionist Party, whose votes from Northern Ireland have helped May to govern since she lost her majority in a misjudged snap election last year, said it would try to block a Brexit deal it called "pitiful" - partly because it binds London to many EU rules it will no longer help set and partly as the DUP fears it could weaken the province's ties to Britain.
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The county jail and courthouse lay at the bottom of a hill on Court Street, and near the top of the hill, where Dubuque Street intersected, sometimes the relatives or friends—girlfriends, mostly, drunken girlfriends—of inmates came and stood, and waved and hooted, because we could get a pitiful glimpse of that particular spot from the cell block's southeast corner, through the very last window.
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So we have, essentially, an ancient shoe that was taken from Japanese culture, popularized in other nations around the world, stripped of its heritage, and today both bastardized with Minions imprints as well as by losers who mindlessly call the entire genre of shoe disgusting because, at some point in their pitiful lives, they heard someone else call them disgusting, and they just repeated it.
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He struggled with the heat at first — on Day 1, at a party a friend of mine had for children who had lost their parents to Ebola, Cooper, fascinated by the traditional Liberian dance and the drummer Emmanuel Lavelah, shuttled back and forth from the band to the porch to stand directly in front of the fan with a glass of ice water, looking pitiful and torn.
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On Monday, North Korean state broadcaster KCNA responded to Bae's media appearances, according to Reuters, saying, "If Bae continues, US criminals held in our country will be in the pitiful state of never being able to set foot in their homeland once again," Two American citizens, 21-year-old Otto Warmbier and Kim Dong Chul, are currently in Pyongyang serving out sentences of hard labor.
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Rep. John MicaJohn Luigi MicaHillicon Valley — Presented by CTIA and America's wireless industry — Lawmaker sees political payback in fight over 'deepfakes' measure | Tech giants to testify at hearing on 'censorship' claims | Google pulls the plug on AI council Lawmaker alleges political payback in failed 'deepfakes' measure GOP chairman slams 'pitiful' FEMA response in Louisiana MORE (R) now has a Democrat gunning for his seat representing Florida's 7th Congressional District.
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And after all these bone-crushing lows, these pitiful, bottom-of-the-barrel instances of human behavior (mainly from Piers Morgan, to be fair) that have somehow spawned from something as innocent as supporting a football team; after normal fans have had to endure the shame of baring the cross of all that in public – after all that, this video comes along and gives us another lashing of the now-bloodied cat-o-nine-tails.
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Rep. John MicaJohn Luigi MicaHillicon Valley — Presented by CTIA and America's wireless industry — Lawmaker sees political payback in fight over 'deepfakes' measure | Tech giants to testify at hearing on 'censorship' claims | Google pulls the plug on AI council Lawmaker alleges political payback in failed 'deepfakes' measure GOP chairman slams 'pitiful' FEMA response in Louisiana MORE (R-Fla) jokingly presented the head of Washington's Metrorail system with a "certificate of appreciation" for finally firing 20 managers amid ongoing safety issues.
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And so an invisible timeline works its way into your subconscious: in your late teens you have a serious relationship that teaches you how to do sex; you fuck everything you can in your early-twenties; and then, between around 26 to 28, you meet the love of your life because you still want to look fit when you get married and be young enough to not have to splurge your pitiful disposable income on IVF.
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John MicaJohn Luigi MicaHillicon Valley — Presented by CTIA and America's wireless industry — Lawmaker sees political payback in fight over 'deepfakes' measure | Tech giants to testify at hearing on 'censorship' claims | Google pulls the plug on AI council Lawmaker alleges political payback in failed 'deepfakes' measure GOP chairman slams 'pitiful' FEMA response in Louisiana MORE (R-Fla.), whose panel oversees the agency, became the first out-of-state lawmaker to tour the flood damage Monday, launching a committee investigation into FEMA's efforts.
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The talent ain't the only thing stacked -- check out this menu: - 1100 lbs of ribeye- 900 lbs of pork - chili spiced chicken confit with roasted corn- chili rubbed lamb chops - pork belly buns with mango slaw- mini burgers with caramelized onions and cheddar- tuna tartare with avocado, jalapeno and soy honey emulsion - 720 lbs of potatoes- a 6 hour cooked risotto And now, you can go cry in the pitiful 7 layer dip you were gonna serve at your Super Bowl party.
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Almost overnight, finding themselves powerless and irrelevant, and forced back onto their traditional ancestral reservations along the coasts of California and New York, Democrats have resorted to pitiful ghost dances of lament, protest, violence, treachery, falsehood, and obstruction—all in a do-or-die frenzy to resurrect the messianic movement of their former beloved chieftain, Barack ObamaBarack Hussein Obama3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 85033 Obama's high school basketball jersey sells for 0,000 at auction Dirty little wars and the law: Did Osama bin Laden win?
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Given that Mourinho plots and plans most aspects of his career so assiduously, there is a likelier explanation: He fears that this season will end much as last season did, and he is trying to get his excuses in early, to craft a narrative in which he was left but a powerless sap, doing his best with only the pitiful resources of the world's richest club at his disposal, destined to trail in the wake of Guardiola and his players, celebrating not just a title, but another little piece of history.
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The pitiful "old man at my computer pecking away, cooing spring" is nevertheless assembling the voice that mocks him, "talking to himself again" as he "strolls down Broadway in the rain," or talking to "Fred Seidel," who invites him to his own funeral, in a poem written in the kind of bubblegum Yorkshire dialect that suggests a rural ditty: An' it wur a funeral, It wur a grand funeral, Thur wur sum what laff'd o'er his grave And sum wot danced o'er his grave, But I scriked me eyes out o'er grave Of me owd pal Fred Seidel.
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