Sentence examples for scant generation from inspiring English sources

We don't cut off the heads of royal ladies these days, but we do sacrifice them, and we did memorably drive one to destruction a scant generation ago... I'm not asking for censorship," she finished.

A scant generation later, Martin Luther, in Germany, urged the Protestant faithful to raze the Jews' synagogues, schools, and houses, to forbid their rabbis on pain of death to teach, and to burn all Jewish prayer books and Talmudic writings.

She added that although beheadings of "royal ladies" no longer take place, "we do sacrifice them, and we did memorably drive one to destruction a scant generation ago".

Searching textual references, however scant, generations of interpreters have applied their creativity to understanding the seemingly unjust killing of Nadav and Avihu.

Typically, Herodotus gives you everything you could conceivably want to know about Persia, from the semi-mythical, Oedipus-like childhood of Cyrus (he's condemned to exposure as a baby but returns as a young man, disastrously for those who wanted him to die), to the imperial zenith under Darius, a scant two generations later.

Much of the literature on health inequalities in minority ethnic groups has focused on first-generation migrants, with scant research on the health of second/later-generation minority ethnic groups.

All the evidence, he says, suggests that the Bancrofts' disparate branches rarely communicated meaningfully - and that younger generations had scant connection with their forefathers' enterprise.

The evidence on the efficacy of the other first generation antipsychotics is scant and limited to case series or uncontrolled studies [ 10].

Forest systems are increasingly threatened by emergent, exotic diseases, yet management strategies for forest trees may be hindered by long generation times and scant background knowledge.

Penelope Lively's 16th novel is precisely that, if two generations and a scant dozen or so characters (rather than a dynasty spanning 50 years and at least as many Forsytes) counts as a saga.

The literature review produced scant evidence on approaches to demand generation for VMMC, both in terms of understanding drivers of demand and in terms of evaluating existing interventions.