Sentence examples for scant claim from inspiring English sources

Moreover, the material was from a public setting and the sources have scant claim to confidentiality.

Others are banal in sentiment, and a large number make scant claim to any kind of versification.

When I first visited St . Petersburg in 2004, the city laid scant claim to being a center for contemporary art, beyond the exhibitions staged by the Russian Museum's indefatigable Alexander Borovsky.

The case record contains no request for an injunction and scant claims of harm from the law by the challengers.

Here, the nameless compiler comes across a French book in 1968 that, supplemented "by historical information that was actually quite scant,... claimed to reproduce faithfully a fourteenth-century manuscript that, in its turn, had been found in the monastery of Melk" in the eighteenth century.

When in power the Taliban claimed that girls were being denied education only because of scant resources, a claim that Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taliban's former ambassador to Pakistan, recently repeated.

But he may also reap the political rewards of Keynesian projects for which he can claim scant credit, such as Crossrail, a new railway that will traverse the city, and construction for the 2012 Olympics.Londoners might well emerge from recession craving a new, gentler life, and this may chime with Mr Johnson's distaste for the boundless growth and development pursued by his predecessor.

Just what the general manager might have told the manager concerning how the Mets need to win soon remained uncertain because each offered scant insight and claimed that sort of chat was normal.

But Taser has scant evidence for that claim.

There has been scant evidence of either claim.

The 9/11 Commission backed this up, but the actual evidence for this claim is scant to nonexistent.