Sentence examples for scant effect from inspiring English sources

Past efforts have had scant effect, experts said.

Many, including Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Barnett Newman, viewed the works, though to scant effect.

The allied airstrikes, coupled with the highly publicized troop deployments, appear to have had scant effect so far on President Saddam Hussein's decisions on Iraqi troop movements.

Citizens are losing confidence in the power of their votes; assemblies and rallies are hurriedly convened to stem the tide of further government cutbacks, but to scant effect.

In response, the antigay-marriage National Organization for Marriage called in March for a nationwide boycott of Starbucks that so far seems to have had scant effect.

Wall Street welcomed the news of the tentative settlement, which investors appeared to read as having scant effect on Microsoft and as removing a lingering cloud over its future.

The research is scant on the effect of arsenic on American communities, largely because the population is so mobile.

Literature is scant on the effect of air pollution on the development of TIA and minor stroke.

Currently, the data are scant regarding the effects of arsenic on the formation of carcinogen DNA adducts.

At UBS, a series of immunity, nonprosecution and deferred prosecution agreements in recent years — evidently the government's preferred approach to corporate crime — seems to have had scant, if any, deterrent effect.

James B. Stewart of The New York Times, in a column in July, discussed multiple settlements by the Swiss bank UBS with the government for violations, including receiving immunity in the Libor investigation, which seem "to have had scant, if any, deterrent effect".