Sentence examples for if scant from inspiring English sources
In this video of his farewell speech, in Russia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8c_vqEdI0o&feature=youtu.be), he told the attentive if scant members of the Duma, Russia's parliament, exactly what he thinks is going on behind the scenes in their country.
If scant attention is being paid to Maisie – for example if I am watching TV with my partner and cuddling her rather than the pooch – Maisie will lower her eyes dolefully as if to say, "There are three of us in this marriage", just as Diana said about Charles and Camilla all those years ago.
The now-routine use of Rietveld refinement of X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) data can have similar consequences if scant consideration is given to the crystal-chemical plausibility of the resulting structure.
To the best of our knowledge, associations between GWG and cardiovascular disease risk factors or disease in later life have not been studied previously but are plausible given the existing evidence (even if scant and indirect) of positive independent associations of GWG with postpartum weight retention.
If the scant facts of his life disappoint, that's our problem.
The zabaglione can be held for more than an hour if a scant teaspoon of potato starch is mixed with the sugar.
If the scant preparation time does no one any favours, there is at least a sense that Gatland has a clear plan already.
And if the scant number of requests for ticket refunds (which are nonrefundable in any case) are any indication, the nearly one million visitors expected to pour into the Salt Lake City area appear willing to brave the lines patiently at metal detectors and security screenings and accept a military presence as part of the backdrop.
If a scant public choice in health care is so threatening to our way of life, because health care alone must be kept a pristine captive of the most destructive impulses of an unbridled free market, then why not privatize Medicare as well as the publicly financed health care programs for government workers -- including those in Congress like Lieberman, veterans and the active military?
If the scant material entering the syringe spreads along the syringe barrel wall, it cannot be retrieved properly for preparation of direct smears for cytopathologic evaluation.
Michael Azerrad's "Come as You Are," published in 1993 and written with Nirvana's cooperation, provides an intimate sense of Cobain and his band mates, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, even if it scants their backgrounds and minimizes Cobain's heroin problem.
