Sentence examples for scant as from inspiring English sources

Alternatives to Russian gas were scant, as was customers' willingness to resist Gazprom's dominance.

Actual technical details are scant, as are images: we only have the underwhelming sketch below for now.

Reports were scant, as the military succeeded in blocking communication with most people in Baniyas.

Details are scant as to why Mr. Kheir, 28, came under suspicion.

Any other time of year, a bowl of puréed cucumber could seem too scant as an entree.

Scant as it was, evidence of that other life was on display in a corner of the living room of the house Cooke shares with his girlfriend, Anita Solomon, and their young daughter, Nyvaeh.

It all became clearer after she proceeded to advance the view that when Francis was elected to fill the shoes of the fisherman (assuming modest cowhide derbys to be of as scant import as the rich, velvet slippers of his forerunner), the man completely ceased to be Bergoglio - becoming from then on, and to all effects, Peter.

Oversight has remained scant, even as art has flourished as an asset class.

Out of over 40 electrophysiological endophenotypes covered by our review, only resting heart, a measure that has received scant advocacy as an endophenotype, emerges as an electrophysiological variable with verified associations with molecular genetic variants.

But this comes as scant consolation when nobody knows just how much these single charges are going to be.

It will come as scant surprise to discover that the prevailing anticipation has centered around the second, more contemporary, and infinitely less moving of the two.