Sentence examples for as a scant from inspiring English sources

Still, it's unreasonable to expect this book to be able to offer much more than what its author endearingly describes as "a scant slice of a deep and nuanced pie".

The question is whether someone who is so little known and has what even Republicans describe as a scant résumé has the authority to make those attacks credible — unlike, say, her counterpart on the Democratic side, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, a veteran of foreign and domestic policy who attacked Mr. McCain last week.

Subsequently, CD56+CD34+CD144+CD45− cells have been isolated by FACS as a scant cell population.

Many patients who suffer from cholesteatoma describe a frequently recurring and foul-smelling otorrhea, which is characterized as a scant but purulent discharge.

"Only 9% describe us as trustworthy, a scant 8% find us useful, and only 4% of respondents think we're entertaining".

"Low" level cellularity included cases described as having a scant or paucicellular specimen per the cytology report.

You can make your outline as detailed or as scant as you want.

Over the past 15 years, Del Naja has become famous as one of a scant handful of rock stars who engage in political activism – Massive Attack have worked with the Stop the War coalition and visited refugee camps in Lebanon, while in 2011, Del Naja and Radiohead's Thom Yorke threw a party for Occupy protesters who had taken over a UBS bank building in London.

In the Pew survey, a nearly unanimous 88percentt of Democratic identifiers, as opposed to a scant 27percentt of Republicans, approved of the president's performance, a gap of 61 percentage points.

Many of these carpets survive as fragments; but only a scant 20 are intact, the finest of which is in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The Vatican, for its part, first blessed tolerance as a civic virtue a scant 36 years ago -- at the close of the Second Vatican Council.