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"pittance" in Spanish
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pittance(also: destitution, extreme poverty, poverty, squalor)
However, the funding provided is a pittance in relation to what is needed.
No obstante, la financiación proporcionada es una miseria en relación con lo que se necesita.
We cannot continue to spend a pittance fighting cancer and a fortune supporting tobacco.
No podemos seguir gastando una miseria en la lucha contra el cáncer y una fortuna apoyando al tabaco.
The pensions of a considerable proportion of European women aged over 65 are a pittance.
Las pensiones de gran parte de las mujeres europeas mayores de 65 años son una miseria.
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That is a mere pittance compared with what other trade blocks in the world spend.
Comparado con lo que destinan otros bloques comerciales en el mundo es una nimiedad.
We cannot do that with the pittance left over because everything is going into fusion.
Esto no puede hacerse con los pocos marcos que nos restan puesto que todo se gasta en la fusión.
It has contributed scarcely ECU 300 million: a pittance.
Ha aportado escasamente 300 millones de ecus, y eso es poquísimo dinero.
The amount cited here is really and truly a pittance. I do not think it is anything for us to crow about.
La suma que aquí se menciona es realmente ridícula y no podemos realmente pavonearnos de ella.
Secondly, it meant Polish businesses, banks and financial institutions being bought out for a pittance by Union concerns.
Todos tenemos en mente el conflicto por los impuestos y la política social.
The younger generation works long days for a pittance, causing physical and mental weariness.
La generación más joven trabaja largas jornadas por un salario mísero, con el consiguiente desgaste físico y mental.
We cannot leave it at a pathetic pittance.
No podemos conformarnos con darles una cantidad patética.
This is a shocking pittance given that the junta knew about the cyclone but failed to warn the population.
Se trata de una suma mísera, ya que la junta militar conocía además la llegada del ciclón pero no advirtió a la población.
Then they can offer them to the Conference in Madrid, they are just as much a pittance as the 200 million that they are willing to give at the moment.
Así, parece que estamos preocupados por la contabilidad y no realmente por resolver los problemas.
the pittance they pay me
el mísero sueldo que me pagan
they pay her a pittance
le pagan una ridiculez
It is grotesque that we only give them a pittance, when we richly reward our own sugar producers and sugar industry.
Los problemas sociales y ambientales que se encuentran a todas luces en muchos lugares han de resolverse a través de la OIT y las convenciones sobre medio ambiente.
ECU 22 million, or rather two times nothing, not even a pittance.
Y esta prioridad por la que debería apostar la Unión sólo vale 22 millones de ecus, lo que equivale a decir dos veces nada, menos que una limosna.
she earns a pittance
gana una miseria
The report fails to make a clear commitment to small and medium-sized farmers, many of whom find themselves slaving away for a pittance.
El informe no expresa un claro compromiso con los agricultores pequeños y medianos, muchos de los cuales trabajan hasta el agotamiento para subsistir.
But now the applicant countries from Central and Eastern Europe are being offered a pittance and told that, if they join, they will be treated with kid gloves.
Pero ahora a los candidatos del este y del centro se les ofrece cuatro cuartos, y les anunciamos que, si entran, les daremos de comer aparte.
A system of this type is very dangerous and deeply unfair as it benefits the richest people, those who can save money, and leaves the poorest with a pittance of a retirement pension.
La estrategia aplicada a los fondos de pensiones tiende esencialmente a que los mercados financieros absorban el ahorro.
If we talk about finance, anyone who retires from working life is entitled to a pension and not to be discriminated against with people saying, " You are getting a pittance ".
Si consideramos el aspecto financiero, la persona que abandona la vida laboral, tiene derecho a cobrar una pensión y a no ser discriminada con la oferta de una limosna.
A system of this type is very dangerous and deeply unfair as it benefits the richest people, those who can save money, and leaves the poorest with a pittance of a retirement pension.
Este sistema es muy peligroso y profundamente injusto, ya que favorece a los más ricos, a aquellos que pueden ahorrar, y deja a los pobres con una jubilación miserable.
On a more general level, the sum required to alleviate the poverty of this country located a short stretch of water away from the wealthy USA would be a pittance for the major powers.
Precisamente mostrando nuestra solidaridad con el pueblo haitiano podremos distanciarnos de las declaraciones cínicas e hipócritas de quienes pretenden defender sus libertades.
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