Sentence examples for scant capital from inspiring English sources

And city officials have been loath to devote scant capital resources to neighborhoods that it believes can and should address overcrowding within existing buildings.

Step into the first-floor parlor and dining rooms, and you can imagine the vistas this house once commanded, appreciate its openness to light and air, and understand the deep affection Hamilton had for it as he poured his scant capital into its construction.

If the deal goes through, it might very well end up that Time Warner makes money off residential telephone service from its cable customers after all, with scant capital commitment on its part.

Tales and displays of violence, blood and horror rang true, answered a need, on some deep, angry level that maybe only those with scant power or capital, regardless of their age, can understand.

They get a 25% margin a $1.75 markup on a $7 set of prints, with scant investment of capital.

In poor urban outskirts, isolated towns and rural locales -- where infrastructure is scant, access to capital spotty at best and technical expertise, tools and machinery virtually nonexistent -- 3-D-printing provides a desperately needed opportunity for building a Third Industrial Revolution infrastructure.

Electricity is scant, even in the capital.

Board members, who are expected to be generous to the institution they serve, have themselves donated a scant $9,100 to the capital campaign.

The gas station business has made successful men out of many of these newcomers, most of whom arrive with scant education and little capital, and has given rise to Turkish communities in places like Medford and Huntington.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- The Haitian government on Friday called off the search for survivors 10 days after the devastating earthquake, and moved forward with plans to house 400,000 displaced Haitians in tent cities in an effort to improve abysmal sanitation and scant security while the capital takes the first steps to rebuild.

Their capital ratios give scant indication of the parlous state that some of them are in.