Sentence examples for had scant effect from inspiring English sources
Past efforts have had scant effect, experts said.
The allied airstrikes, coupled with the highly publicized troop deployments, appear to have had scant effect so far on President Saddam Hussein's decisions on Iraqi troop movements.
In response, the antigay-marriage National Organization for Marriage called in March for a nationwide boycott of Starbucks that so far seems to have had scant effect.
New employment data, which had scant effect on the stock market, was also largely set aside by the bond market, which tends to rise on poor economic news that portends lower interest rates.
Heather Barr, an Afghanistan researcher for Human Rights Watch, said that there was a cultural tolerance for violence against women and impunity for men who committed it, and that recent efforts to protect women had had scant effect.
But that has had scant effect on her energy level in pursuit of her current cause: persuading Metro-North Railroad to build elevators on each side of the Hartsdale station, so people in wheelchairs can cross the tracks via an enclosed pedestrian overpass -- and, she says, get home safely.
Wall Street welcomed the news of the tentative settlement, which investors appeared to read as having scant effect on Microsoft and as removing a lingering cloud over its future.
Several respected studies have found that such payments have scant effect on student achievement; since most good teachers already work hard, before and after class, there are limits to how much more can be coaxed out of them with financial incentives.
At UBS, a series of immunity, nonprosecution and deferred prosecution agreements in recent years — evidently the government's preferred approach to corporate crime — seems to have had scant, if any, deterrent effect.
James B. Stewart of The New York Times, in a column in July, discussed multiple settlements by the Swiss bank UBS with the government for violations, including receiving immunity in the Libor investigation, which seem "to have had scant, if any, deterrent effect".
