Sentence examples for scant common from inspiring English sources

As a reformist Conservative pressing ahead with, among other things, a plan to legalize gay marriage, he has scant common ground with the "little Englanders" in his party, the core of about 100 members who make up a third of its representation in Parliament.

Yet, despite its scant resemblance to our common image of a fish, the Mola has survived as a fish for millennia because it adapted to its environment through time and ultimately found a niche that no other organism had capitalized upon.

In the elderly persons, hemoglobin concentrations slightly below the lower limit of normal are common, but scant evidence is available on their relationship with significant health indicators.

Everywhere, we see power abused, the common good scanted.

The combination of overcrowding, lack of emergency exits, improvised electrical wiring, an unlicensed kitchen and scant fire code inspections is common in this city of four million, Mr. Briceño said.

Type 1 PRCC (single layer of small cells, scant pale cytoplasm) is more common and has a favorable prognosis compared with type 2 (pseudostratified high-grade nuclei, abundant eosinophilic/oncocytic cytoplasm).

Because Europe is much more forested than Britain, the EU's common agricultural policy provides scant reward for afforestation.

Anecdotally it appears that cases of sexual assault and harassment are becoming more common in Egypt, though there are scant statistics from previous decades to use as a comparison.

Nonetheless, scant scholarly effort has been invested in handling common method variance in hospitality research.

In common with other EU countries, Britain provides scant opportunity for legal immigration.

This arrangement is common in Japanese commuter hotels but has scant precedent in New York outside institutional settings.