Sentence examples for kept scant from inspiring English sources

But the aunt's current, court-appointed financial guardian, Robert Kruger, told a Manhattan judge yesterday that Justice Garson kept scant records of how the money was spent, despite a law requiring him to do so as her trustee.

It alleged that deputy sheriffs had pocketed proceeds from bogus raffles, kept scant accounting records for the two nonprofit foundations they ran, and enlisted reserve volunteers to steal cameras and clothing from a Wal-Mart -- all on the pretense of benefiting the Orange County Sheriff's Department.

But others kept surprisingly scant records.

Casual onlookers were scant; organizers kept the location largely secret to the end, Urbaneja said.

Bryant, finding scant help, kept launching difficult jumpers, going 10 for 22 from the field, finishing with 33 points.

On the one hand Eddie Howe's remarkable rise through the ranks to lead his boyhood club to the promised land is clearly the stuff of legend as is the foresight and public spirit of the consortium which, with scant funds, kept the club going for long enough to attract serious investment in 2011.

Isn't Anna the Ambassador, like the idea that women are idiotic enough to invest in an ugly, camel-coloured shoulder-cosy that leaves most of the body exposed to prevailing weather conditions, just one of those fantasies that fashion has to keep circulating, with scant regard for practicalities, in order to create an impression of feverish activity and relevance?

You can still find the scant brands that kept rye going in the dim-and-smoky rye-and-ginger years — Old Overholt, Jim Beam, Wild Turkey, Rittenhouse and a few others.

Already, the camera work is confident, crisp and elegant, kept close to the action with scant rhetorical flourish.

The roads have always been badly kept and rarely lit, and drivers in Venezuela have scant regard for anything approaching rules.

Liverpool had scant gusto about them either and the attack kept a low profile.