straitened

Instead, in straitened times, it is money that has had the final word.

Wayne's new world Barney Ronay 2010

Ok, but be fair … Grant came into possession of ONE slave, and set him free, even though Grant was in straitened financial circumstances and could have done with the money.

Matthew Yglesias » In Praise of Grant 2010

The policy is defensible as the fairest approach to university finances in straitened times.

Wake up and smell the burning rubber, Mr Cable and Mr Clegg Andrew Rawnsley 2010

When straitened is my breast I will of my Creator pray,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Quoth Abú Hassán al-Ziyádi417: I was once in straitened case and so needy that the grocer, the baker and other tradesmen dunned and importuned me; and my misery became extreme, for I knew of no resource nor what to do.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

When straitened is my breast I will of my Creator pray, viii.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Let me say by way of explanation that my younger sister and I grew up in straitened circumstances, that is, in a two-room flat and hence without rooms of our own or even so much as a corner to ourselves.

Nobel Lecture - Literature 1999 1999

His mother had been left in straitened financial circumstances when my grandfather succumbed to pneumonia during the 1919 influenza epidemic.

Peter C. Doherty - Autobiography 1997

He was kind to her, however, to the end, and when the first baby girl was born and the young pair seemed to be in straitened circumstances, he made them an allowance until the day of his daughter's death, which occurred three years after her elopement, on the birth of her second child.

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard 1912

I found her lonely and dejected; her husband had no post, and they were living in straitened circumstances.

Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun 1903