He is on 23-hour lockdown, allowed scant phone calls and checked on by guards twice an hour.
Coverage of the conclusions is scant, so I call Volker.
Queen Elizabeth II is 86 and showing scant sign of calling it a day.
"But maybe people are more sensitive about it now because of the war". In past years, parents at Whitman and other high schools across the country may have paid scant attention to calls from military recruiters, but as the war in Iraq continues and the number of casualties grows, parents seem to be growing increasingly sensitive.
Let's not even call the scant moisture that fell in parts of Los Angeles a drizzle.
Details of the reported calls were scant.
How mind boggling the lethal consequences for Jews over the centuries of the charge "Christ Killers" if indeed only a scant number of Jews called for the crucifixion, while far more embraced him, and most never heard of him.
Liverpool will do well to hold him, and look to Michael Owen to run at the centre of a defence with plenty of experience to call on, but scant pace off the mark.
Giuseppe Spedicato, from Movimondo, a voluntary group that runs the centre with only the scantest government finance, prefers to call it a "reception" centre.
With scant regard for modesty, he calls himself "Australia's most influential and respected radio broadcaster" and "the nation's greatest orator and motivational speaker".
Some objected to disputes over the total death toll, yet to be confirmed, getting in the way of the real issues, some objected to the scant media coverage, others simply called for solidarity.
