Sentence examples for scant expectation from inspiring English sources

While there is scant expectation of integrity in online dating (six feet tall? 35 years old? full head of hair?), the obligation of honesty persists even at JDate or Match.com.

Tickets were sold out last November, an unprecedented feat, but after the slim pickings and dull cricket of Friday and Saturday's washout there can have been scant expectation of anything beyond a slow drift to a draw.

It would be nice if Mr Obama could do the same, but there is scant prospect of it.History has built up unrealistic expectations of the presidency.

Expectations were scant, their priority merely to compete with pride.

Wal-Mart Stores, the world's largest retailer, said March sales at stores open at least one year rose a scant 0.7%, falling short of expectations for its U.S. discount stores.

While personal beliefs, values or expectations may influence judgements, there is scant evidence of how this manifests in a clinical attachment setting.

Wordsworth is against expectation invoked here, too, though there's scant poetry in the behavior of a citizenry collectively revealed — derided, even — as so many fantasists, the vainglorious Khlestakov chief among them.

The report of slower growth in California comes two weeks after the U.S. Labor Department reported a scant 142,000 net new jobs in September, coming well below analysts' expectations.

Scant consolation.

It drew scant attention.

Winds are scant.