Sentence examples for scant cause from inspiring English sources

But that is scant cause for comfort.

That sketch is just one of 79 16th-century Florentine works, shaped into a thematic exhibition that would give even the fault-finding master scant cause for complaint.

For the waste pickers that have traditionally made a living sifting through the mountain of discarded litter that blights the streets of Cairo, there has been scant cause for celebration these past 10 years.

As Sarah Stillman pointed out in the magazine in 2013, the practice has effectively incentivized corruption among cash-strapped police departments, which now have both a rationale and a financial motive to pull over motorists and seize their cash and vehicles with scant cause.

Beef sales have fallen precipitously throughout Europe; five of France's neighbours, among them Italy and the Netherlands, have imposed partial bans on importing French beef.The number of new confirmed cases one each in Germany and Spain may seem scant cause for concern compared with the thousands of stricken cattle in Britain, Portugal and other harder-hit countries.

But Arizona has given the selection committee scant cause to use the injury in its deliberations.

This is the first time a major health organization has suggested such a link, and it was promptly disputed by many scientists, who have been saying for years that there is scant evidence cellphones cause cancer and that it is biologically implausible to think they could.

These events caused scant angst.

Yet it's caused scant stirring in the House or, indeed, the media.

Colleagues don't detect signs of Mr Corbyn resiling from that commitment, but some are becoming jittery that he is displaying scant enthusiasm for the cause.

Indeed, the news appeared the cause of scant delight on Mr. Bloomberg's side of City Hall, although the official comment was deadpan.