Sentence examples for budget scant from inspiring English sources

That culture, in turn, reflected a structural problem with the federal budget — scant discretionary spending at a time of intense, see-sawing electoral competition between the two big Parties, which increased the incentives for each Party to direct what funds might be available into political-patronage strategies.

Last year, her bioterrorism preparedness budget was scant: $100,000, all of it from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In the commission was Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the external-relations commissioner with a big budget but scant global weight.

Kuchar's budgets and scant modes of production are a crucial part of his work, with their glorious yet ridiculous struggles toward elusive compensations for — even redemptions of — bitter ordinariness.

So it has proved: university leaders have learned to use redundancy as routine way of managing budgets, with scant regard to the damage it does to people, careers, scholarship, or academic freedom.

That metaphor is apt for what Loden avoided when making the film on a scant budget, without stars, in 16mm.

Jean-Luc Godard made "Breathless" under the aegis of a scuffling producer whose scant budget gave rise to Godard's distinctive methods.

With a scant budget to overcome the misperception, Toolworks is exploring the possibility of licensing its technology, perhaps to another Baltimore tool company, Black & Decker.

Yet the movie's very straightforwardness was revolutionary: it proved that assiduous moviegoing could teach a young person with a scant budget and unheralded actors to make a smoothly professional movie.

They are not pleasant company, for each other or the viewer, and the film — shot in black and white on a scant budget — is abrasive and sometimes ludicrously amateurish.

A19 NEW YORK/REGION B1-8 Avoids Avoids Budget Cuts Despite Scant Revenue New York lawmakers approved an $89.6 billion budget that sidesteps cuts in services by relying heavily on one-time revenue and nearly exhausting the state's reserves.