As usual, the Yankees supplied scant support for Mussina and succumbed to Darren Oliver and three relievers in passive fashion.
A Washington Post-ABC poll in July showed that he drew scant support from Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents with household incomes under $20,000.
Mindful of the mistake that his and earlier administrations made in backing Iraqi exile groups that turned out to enjoy scant support back home, and aware that, for Iran's democracy-seekers, gifts from America carry the taint of collusion with the enemy, Mr Bush has often encouraged Iranians to strive for "the freedom they seek and deserve"—and pretty much left it at that.
If anything, Obama has been criticized for showing scant support for the Green Movement, and yet Shariatmadari suggested that reformists were something like sleeper agents for the West, and that the unrest had helped the Islamic Republic by exposing their identities.
Last January, Rushdie, who had visited India since the publication of "The Satanic Verses," had to cancel plans to visit the Jaipur Literary Festival after getting threats from radical Muslim groups and scant support from government officials who were afraid of upsetting Muslim constituents during a regional election campaign.
Its current financial system provides scant support to private entrepreneurs, and intellectual property theft, despite increased policing, remains rampant.
They have scant support among governors, senators and other leaders in his party". Which brings us to the second reason this election is different from any other.
After the official end of the war, guerrilla warfare was waged on an irregular basis by the Spanish Maquis well into the 1950s, gradually reduced by military defeats and scant support from the exhausted population.
But the means to achieve these goals rely heavily on a continuously functioning RI program, which often receives only rhetorical attention and scant support.
