"In Israeli terms, there is a negative political consequence to cracking down on settler violence and no political gain from protecting violence". Apart from deploring the violence and demanding explanations from the Israeli authorities, the EU officials propose scant other action to halt the campaign.
Valencia is one of the least popular races on account of the drab circuit, which provides little challenge for the drivers and has so far created scant racing action.
So murky that it is hard to discern shapes, let alone faces, in many of its scenes, and so crudely edited that its frenzied action has scant continuity, "The Cold Light of Day" is a catastrophe worth noting only for the presence of its name cast.
Already, the camera work is confident, crisp and elegant, kept close to the action with scant rhetorical flourish.
However, on a recent visit the sportsbook stood empty and unattended; a single poker table was occupied; blackjack action was scant; four employees stood around a craps table enticing passers-by to try their luck.
(What Anne's brother, played by Yahya Abdul-MathinksI, thinks of the relationship is never specified). The director, Michael Gracey, delivers quick doses of excitement in splashy scenes but has little feel for the choreographic action, offers scant historical substance, and displays slender dramatic insight.
But it offers scant guidance for constructive action.
There is scant evidence that such actions, if they occurred, were part of a pattern.
Google would be forgoing Gmail's scant profit, but its actions would be consistent with the idea that the net belongs to its users throughout the world.
