Sentence examples for scant connection from inspiring English sources

Currently, there is scant connection between the customs systems of most nations, impeding their ability to issue warnings about suspected terrorists or arrest them at borders.

What she was doing initially had scant connection with the concerns of the larger art world, but she was by no means isolated from that world.

Many smaller, traditional farms and ranches in the United States have scant connection to carbon dioxide emissions because they keep their animals outdoors on pasture and make little use of machinery.

In an effort to ground their conclusions in history, the authors point to radical organizations of the nineteen-seventies, such as the Black Liberation Army, which has been defunct for longer than Johnson had been alive, and for which they offer scant connection to the B.I.E.

Though it has scant connection to the Internet, there is a thrilling account of another "little social experiment," the slugfest between two companies, TiVo and Replay, over who will control a new digital device that lets consumers fetch whatever programming they want from their televisions.

A few trenchant moments are scattered through the two-and-a-half-hour work, but "Ermione" is mostly Rossinian boilerplate: chirpy tunes with scant connection to the words being sung, much less the emotions they evoke, and plenty of florid stuntwork for the soloists.

His connections to Brooklyn were scant.

Both come from middle-class families with scant political connections: Tian's parents were scientists who were banished to a remote province during the Cultural Revolution.

But the evidence supporting this connection appears scant.

Lumping them in with more potent jihadist groups, on scant evidence of their connections, is a prescription for ascribing indefinite and elastic war powers to the White House.

Scant ½ teaspoon cinnamon.