Sentence examples for scant ability from inspiring English sources

And the author shows scant ability to make larger sense of what he learns.

Mr. Obama has scant ability to foresee what tactics may be dictated two years from now.

The Kremlin displays scant ability or inclination to reform what one cable characterized as a "modern brand of authoritarianism" accepted with resignation by the ruled.

Thousands of components many of them huge machines in their own right must be slotted beside one another, more or less perfectly, and there will be scant ability to correct imperfections after they are delivered.

Thousands of components — many of them huge machines in their own right — must be slotted beside one another, more or less perfectly, and there will be scant ability to correct imperfections after they are delivered.

And it is hardly clear that more transparent bargaining will make things easier in a gridlocked capital that has shown scant ability to solve large national problems over the last generation.

In general, evidence across sports is scant that "clutch" ability, or its opposite "choking"—meaning a tendency to improve or decline in the most important situations are repeatable skills or deficiencies.

That his new Sunderland team crumbled so meekly at the hands of Swansea is scant representation of his ability.

Mattocks has shown scant sign of his ability since making the switch to Portland, but against TFC the forward demonstrated the kind of player he could be for the Timbers, underlining why Porter was so keen to take him to the club over the off-season.

For the inspectors, it is a grinding task, burdened by knowledge that hawks in the Bush administration have scant faith in their ability to strip Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction, after the evasion and intransigence with which the Iraqis met an earlier generation of United Nations inspectors in the 1990's.

But they also have extraordinary attributes, including extreme sensitivity to scant molecular trails and the ability to cover every nook around the colony as they weave about in search of food.