Sentence examples for scant gain from inspiring English sources

These ad hoc salespeople belong to the still sizable number of Russians who have seen scant gain from 15 or 20 years of change.

But the comeback has been fitful amid scant gains in consumers' incomes and weak bank lending.

The economy has delivered scant gains for many middle-class and blue-collar workers over the past decade, and the Republican base now includes large numbers of these workers.

Mr. Bush's second term posted a scant 1.1 percent gain in private-sector employment — a gain that was wiped out during the first two months of 2009.

The poor uptake was reflected in scant educational gain as measured in terms of any improvement in cognitive skills in multiple-choice tests.

But the ruling generals, with dismaying convolutions, have brought scant political gains or economic relief, questionable justice and a dangerous polarisation.

But such numbers, which run into the hundreds of thousands, gain scant attention.

VENICE — Francesco Guardi's pictures gained scant attention during his lifetime and fetched pathetically low prices.

Mr. Zuma, a rough-edged, unschooled and occasionally socialist populist whose scant education was gained in an apartheid prison, is as charismatic as Mr. Mbeki is cold.

But until they can be foreseen, any such therapy has scant chance of gaining regulatory approval.

Put an S&P 500 stock fund in an annuity and you will be gaining scant deferral that you couldn't have had merely by buying and holding the SPDR 500 in your brokerage account.