Sentence examples for scant he from inspiring English sources

Disclosure might have prevented persecution in cases where evidence was scant, he said.

When I proposed to Blahyi that evidence for his death count seemed scant, he said, "I wish it was nobody at all.

Even in 1968, when recordkeeping of all kinds had presumably improved, a federal commission had difficulty measuring gun production because records were scant, he said.

One can find work any place where drivers have to wait at a light and where police coverage is scant, he said, adding that the best spots are the arteries around Yankee Stadium on game day.

And the difference in the monthly payments is scant, he said, noting that with a 40-year loan it would be $734 a month, while for a 30-year loan it would be $769.

Although the records are scant, he finds that on average richer people were more likely to marry than poorer people, they married at earlier ages, they lived longer once they were married, they bore more children per year of marriage, and their children were more likely to survive and to bear children themselves.

And in the one area of his influence that Barbour unaccountably scants, he had contrived the oddest, most alluring prose of his century – perhaps of all English essayists.

He continued at a breathless pace, suggesting that he had rehearsed for the scant moments he was likely to have: "What the Iraqi people would like to hang on their walls would be banners saying, 'Yes, yes, Mr. Bush.

"Snarlin' Arlen" was his nickname on Capitol Hill, and his inability to practice touchy-feely politics, and the mistrust he inspired on both left and right, doomed what scant chances he had in his lone presidential bid, for the 1966 Republican nomination.

In his speech Monday, Trump said he would cut taxes on middle-class Americans, but the scant specifics he gave about his tax plans seemed to make it clear that his reforms would be tilted in favor toward the wealthy.

After scant success he is making his return.