Sentence examples for from scant from inspiring English sources

Human genetics has a notorious history of jumping to extravagant conclusions from scant data, but that does not mean conclusions should be ducked if the data are good.

Georges Cuvier, an early palaeontologist, made his reputation by predicting the anatomies of newly discovered fossil species from scant evidence, such as single bones.

From scant internal evidence, I thought I had the novel's setting pinned down as Cape Town, but it could just as easily be Durban.

From scant city figures, it appears that about 1,600 of them took subsidized jobs, joining 3,100 other recipients placed earlier as seasonal parks laborers.

The next was pasta and lentils, for which I sought and received a lot of advice, ranging from scant and impressionistic, to opinionated and precise instruction.

I made good progress for half an hour, feeling elated to have deduced, from scant information, the right way to Los Inocentes.

What emerges, from interviews with former co-workers and neighbors and from the scant public records that have been located so far, seems more like strands of a life than parts of a coherent whole.

It's an unusually abashed turn from Irons: scant eye-contact, emotional gaps.

But the scientists have succeeded in extracting the entire genome of the Denisovans from these scant remains.

In the brouhaha over England's forlorn hankering for a handout from Italy, scant attention was paid to Costa Rica.

LONDON — You wouldn't know it from the scant opportunities to see his work on stage, but Jean-Philippe Rameau was one of the great opera composers.