Sentence examples for scant damage from inspiring English sources

Despite the scant damage, the attack broke the mutineers' spirits; they quickly offered to send a delegation to Santiago to discuss terms, but the government, bolstered by its land victories, refused.

The scant damage inflicted by the guns of Monitor and Virginia at Battle of Hampton Roads and the spectacular but lucky success of the Austrian flagship SMS Erzherzog Ferdinand Max sinking the Italian Re d'Italia at Lissa gave strength to the ramming craze.

So it has proved: university leaders have learned to use redundancy as routine way of managing budgets, with scant regard to the damage it does to people, careers, scholarship, or academic freedom.

Indeed, a FESA official noted that initial reports of damage were "scant".

Of course, while there's scant evidence that immigration damages the environment, it's pretty clear that current efforts to curb illegal immigration are having a serious negative impact.

Yet for the U.S. economy overall, the damage will likely be scant.

Information remains scant about the full extent of the damage, and casualty reports are only beginning to come in.

American and European missile and air attacks have already shown that we can inflict substantial damage on Colonel Qaddafi's military at scant risk.

Others suggested that Bishop Egan, who came to his post with scant parish experience, could not appreciate the magnitude of damage caused by sexual abuse of children.

Without such protections, governments with scant regard for evidence could inflict a great deal of damage on the research and innovation landscape.

There appears scant understanding among U.S. politicians swayed by special interest groups of how much damage has been done to the relationship with a natural ally by the Kopassus issue.