Sentence examples for scant campaign from inspiring English sources

But the cycle of meager news coverage, scant campaign funds and exclusion from key televised debates — each of those factors feeding the others — proved fatal.

Its presidential campaign paid scant attention to the truth.

Yet urban issues have gotten scant attention in this campaign.

Medicare's problems get scant attention on the campaign trail but will demand strong corrective action by the next president.

The White House has faced little pressure over the issue, in part because Syria is getting scant attention on the campaign trail from either Donald J. Trump or Hillary Clinton.

The Romney campaign issued scant information about the source of his running mate's wealth, saying only that he had made his money "in real estate" and would not be releasing his tax returns.

In 2006, she barely lost her primary race for Congress against Secretary of State Dean Heller, and in 2008 she tried to take on Mr. Raggio, one of the most powerful Republicans in the state, both times with scant money in her campaign coffers.

The body builders might have paid scant attention, but the campaign to institute a minimum "liveable wage" for workers in Santa Monica's hotels and restaurants has so rattled local business owners that they have started their own petition for a rival "living wage" law.

Still others said that Mr. Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as a running mate had produced scant excitement on the campaign trail but significant damage in the news media, manifest in weeks of questions about the financial details of Mr. Cheney's retirement package from Halliburton, the energy services company he served as chief executive.

But on the Religious Restoration Freedom Act in Indiana, which became an international news story in March of last year -- in the news cycle for days as Pence became a laughingstock on national television unable to defend the law -- we've seen scant coverage in this campaign, with Pence rarely asked about it and much of the media hardly raising it.

Awareness of the 2010 campaign was scant and what was recalled tended to be from commercial advertising, for example, from private commercial companies promoting flu vaccinations and household hygiene products.