Sentence examples for over scant from inspiring English sources

This is a time when, thanks to water restrictions, even taking a bath is a transgressive act, an assertion of individual desire over scant collective resources.

It was a wild, full-throttle album of high-energy improvising over scant themes, and after getting it out of his system, he quickly changed his style.

The obvious route, in recent films and novels, has been to imagine a future dystopia of rising sea levels and ravaged landscapes, where wars are fought over scant resources.

Even more amazing is the fact that our librarians--along with the help of involved volunteers--have figured out how to pay for all of these resources and services, despite constant budgetary battles over scant public funding.

Over a scant six hours, freakishly heavy rainfall flooded the city more than ever before.

The music which plays over it – scant electronic sounds and a mournful piano motif – gives little away.

Mr. Chávez made no reference to his health or location, which have stirred fierce debate in Venezuela over the scant disclosure of such information.

At other times I pour the sauce (made without the liquor) over a scant stack of pancakes to make a roomful of children quiet and happy.

Leider sometimes seems as nervous as a studio head that her subject might have been gay (she comes close to contradicting herself over the scant evidence), and she will charge in like a sob sister or a fan-club president to defend Rudy and Natacha against various calumnies: "This seems to me a harsh view"; "I beg to differ"; "but surely there were nobler impulses at work".

On Tuesday, talking heads on NRA-TV pored over the scant information publicly available about the YouTube shooting and gunwoman.

Dismay over the scant enlightenment and abundant hatred that still remain in some truculent quarters of our society, seven years after we elected the first black American president.