Individually, they're fun to watch, though Leterrier — not an actor's director — makes scant effort to play them off against one another.
Despite the high cost of the Nest device, Mr. Fadell contends it will pay for itself in a year in energy-savings, with scant effort from the user.
Some out there might not like the idea of the musicians of the past honing their craft on the dole and making scant effort to find a "real job", the fact remains that that's where a lot of great music came from.
They claimed to have produced not a solution but The Solution: one that made scant effort to appeal to Republicans or businessmen.Mrs Clinton deserves blame not just for her hubris but for choosing Ira Magaziner personally arrogant, politically naive, economically illiterate to run the health-care taskforce.
While there has been a rush to introduce technology in classrooms in wealthy communities, scant effort has been made to focus technology on where it is needed most--rural villages of Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere where there is a crying need for new approaches to learning.
Mr. Pinchuk makes scant effort to cloak his wealth, whether it be a $23 million purchase of a Koons sculpture or the $160 million he recently paid for a London estate.
The high success rates typically reflect scant effort to find monitor whether patients are experiencing fibrillation without symptoms, one of many problems with the highly variable condition.
But even as the gruesome effects of the battles slam the national consciousness, there has been scant effort to prepare the public for the impact of the fighting.
Second, Tippett did not tend to keep letters written to him, and scant effort is made to explain what he might be replying to.
Despite the scant effort devoted to the Web store, Ms. Siegel said it generated $50,000 in revenues last year, to go along with $50,000 the organization raised through a one-page list of items it included in newsletters.
