Sentence examples for scant appeal from inspiring English sources
We manage about half of each pie, which earns praise from Silver ("You did better than I expected"), though the take-no-prisoners pud menu (sticky toffee, chocolate sponge, lemon meringue) by this time, holds scant appeal.
Such an idyll has scant appeal in Brixton, Clapham, Tottenham or Croydon; what the young dream of is emptying the shelves of plasma TV sets and iPads in Currys and pocketing hair gel in Superdrug.
There's scant denying the appeal of the swagger with which Toby Stephens has long conveyed such theatrical dash.
Sentences are determined by the police, and defendants have scant chance to appeal imprisonment that can last up to four years.
They claimed to have produced not a solution but The Solution: one that made scant effort to appeal to Republicans or businessmen.Mrs Clinton deserves blame not just for her hubris but for choosing Ira Magaziner personally arrogant, politically naive, economically illiterate to run the health-care taskforce.
When supposedly safe savings vehicles, such as bank deposits, look shaky and offer scant returns, gold has greater appeal as an alternative store of wealth.
Despite game-changing threats from Lexus and other fast movers, Saab clung to an obsolete strategy, offering scant model choices with limited appeal beyond a core group of fans.
Details such as Paul's neglect of black women's appeals for enfranchisement highlight the scant attention given to some of the group's contemporaries.
What is clear, however, is that without Dr Williams' failure to include the findings in his report, Sally Clark's defence team would have had scant ground on which to mount her second, successful appeal.
REGIONAL DIFFERENCES The campaign ahead will also be a chance for the candidates to test their appeal in regions that have so far received scant attention from them.
None of the governments or human rights organizations that had mounted legal challenges to his release pressed to bring an appeal to today's final decision in the scant time available before General Pinochet could leave Britain.
