Sentence examples for scant background from inspiring English sources
Medallion Rug and the University Avenue building proved ideal entry points for a family with scant background or connections in the technology world.
The nomination as CIA director of a man with scant background in the spy business caused much surprise, even among fellow Democrats.
Mr. Lhota, pursuing a line of attack that his supporters have long waited to hear, pounded Mr. de Blasio's scant background in managing large organizations and pooh-poohed his employment history as nothing more than "midlevel jobs".
Many have scant background in fashion, such as ferry-boat honcho Tall or Richard Fisher, the former chairman of Morgan Stanley, who is reportedly backing Roberto Menichetti, head designer at LVMH's Celine, in his own signature line.
But the very fact that the company was dispatched to attend to Osborne's property highlights what critics portray as a major problem with the industry: scant background checks to ensure that people without criminal backgrounds are sent into other people's homes.
Forest systems are increasingly threatened by emergent, exotic diseases, yet management strategies for forest trees may be hindered by long generation times and scant background knowledge.
Michael Azerrad's "Come as You Are," published in 1993 and written with Nirvana's cooperation, provides an intimate sense of Cobain and his band mates, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, even if it scants their backgrounds and minimizes Cobain's heroin problem.
The workers slide in and out of the urban background, leaving scant evidence of their presence.
Background information seemed relatively scant.
When Gille was in her 50s, still wrestling with the enigma of her mother, she wrote an exquisite fictional autobiography, "Le Mirador," in Némirovsky's imagined first-person voice, bringing to the forefront the Russian background Némirovsky herself had scanted.
As he notes, the Americans attracted to jihad in recent years are generally far less formidable — amateurs with no military background, few technical skills and scant knowledge of Islam, though there are exceptions.
