Sentence examples for scant consequence from inspiring English sources

It's as hard to understand what will be gained from a prison sentence in the first case as it is to see how our police forces could have acted so irresponsibly in the second, leading to potentially devastating consequences for the victims, enormous cost for the force, but seemingly scant consequence either for the perpetrators or for those who must have known about it.

However, that Uber is only now checking drivers with an increased level of scrutiny is of scant consequence to the victim, who has since filed a lawsuit in the U.S.

At first, Frankie makes few choices, and the accident has scant consequences.

In Italy, one of the main obstacles to develop and organize new training initiatives is the modest interest of government institutions, - and as a consequence scant funding for these projects.

Nearly 40 years after New York emptied its scandal-ridden warehouses for the developmentally disabled, the far-flung network of small group homes that replaced them operates with scant oversight and few consequences for employees who abuse the vulnerable population.

In the U.S., chemicals are introduced to market with scant understanding of their consequences to human health.

The now-routine use of Rietveld refinement of X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) data can have similar consequences if scant consideration is given to the crystal-chemical plausibility of the resulting structure.

The scant oral intake, as a consequence of his disability, caused progressive undernutrition which closed a vicious circle, delaying his development and his ability to overcome the swallowing handicap.

It should be stressed, however, that it was seamen, who were the poorest informed, suffered the most toxicological problems (perhaps as a consequence of the scant use of masks) and constituted the subset among whom the information received was least effective.

Of course, there has been scant attention paid to the consequences of the schism that still divides those working on agricultural and nutrition solutions.

One consequence of this was scant competition and a highly localised banking industry, with many businesses or would-be entrepreneurs having access to only one bank.