Sentence examples for scant electricity from inspiring English sources

But with scant electricity, an 11 p.m. curfew and rampant street crime, it is hard to lure audiences for matinees, much less at night.

And the "good" half -- with its scant electricity, no phones, no mail, a 10 p.m. curfew and only a bare minimum of food -- looks like a caravan ghost town.

There is no paving, scant electricity and so little lighting, no sanitation; people have to pay even to use the rare communal lavatories that often overflow or to take a shower, so their ablutions often take place on sidewalks riven with makeshift drains.

With almost no electricity, scant running water, an unemployment rate of 80percentt and a life expectancy of 42 years, Liberia remains in rough shape.

Electricity is scant, even in the capital.

Water supplies are scant, there is no electricity.

It had been eerily quiet when we'd rolled into Dong Van, where cars and telephones are almost nonexistent and electricity is scant.

Electricity is scant, and the thought of spending the night in the unheated maternity ward makes Lama restlessly shake her black bob from side to side.

Is this place, which is without electricity (except for batteries) and has scant food or water, worth living in or not, the film wonders.

Denise Aziz, who lives in Red Hook Houses West, on the side where the electricity was largely out, said updates had been scant from the New York City Housing Authority, the agency that serves as the landlord.

In exchange for the right to borrow the art, the Asia Society has pledged to provide training in conservation techniques to Myanmar's museum employees, who must make do with a scant $100,000 budget that leaves the nation's museums with little electricity, poor air-conditioning and no money for acquisitions.