Sentence examples for scant appreciation from inspiring English sources
On the other hand, the Europeans showed scant appreciation for political realities in the United States, including Congress's deep suspicion of any treaty that would threaten economic growth by imposing crippling burdens on energy use.
The film shares this jaundiced view of newshounds, including Sinead's lazy competitors and her cowardly editors, who have scant appreciation for the chances she takes and the papers she sells.
There is scant appreciation of this in Britain, he said, where opinion surveys, canvases of Labor members of Parliament and man-in-the-street interviews show overwhelming numbers of people against any military action in Iraq and any commitment of British troops.
I made this film for all the teachers who pour their hearts into children, yet live in a world where there is scant appreciation or even understanding that teaching is no mere job, but a manifestation of love, a calling.
When I talk to politicians in Washington, there is scant understanding and no appreciation for the job performed by Bernanke and Geithner.
We laugh at the leading lady – a vainglorious socialite with scant self-consciousness whose godawful wailing became one of the first examples of ironic appreciation by the public – yet we must also like her and those enabling her delusion.
-- for home price appreciation in the nation's 220 largest metropolitan areas, according to the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, logging a scant 1percentt increase for the year, far below the national average of 7.7percentt.
Nevertheless, primary care remains undervalued in many parts of the world where the professional status and remuneration of primary care staff may be low, policy makers have little appreciation or knowledge of the contribution of primary care to high-quality health systems and the public has scant regard for the services offered at that level.
