With the mainstream media's national attention on the Zimmerman murder trail, I think it's stunning that scant, if any, attention was given to the violence raging in Chicago or other cities across the country.
Michael Azerrad's "Come as You Are," published in 1993 and written with Nirvana's cooperation, provides an intimate sense of Cobain and his band mates, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, even if it scants their backgrounds and minimizes Cobain's heroin problem.
If these things can wait a year, Americans should be told why -- and why, if there are scant resources, it makes sense to siphon off these resources for wasteful tax cuts.
He gave scant, if any, thought to moderating his behavior or large style.
At UBS, a series of immunity, nonprosecution and deferred prosecution agreements in recent years — evidently the government's preferred approach to corporate crime — seems to have had scant, if any, deterrent effect.
James B. Stewart of The New York Times, in a column in July, discussed multiple settlements by the Swiss bank UBS with the government for violations, including receiving immunity in the Libor investigation, which seem "to have had scant, if any, deterrent effect".
Other people who have carried out recent attacks, including the one in Nice, France, that killed 85 people in July, had long histories of psychological troubles but scant, if any, links to the Islamic State, even as the group declared them "soldiers".
In his public remarks, Mr. Bush made scant, if any, reference to his legislative failures on Capitol Hill, including the energy and the medical liability bills, which passed the House last year but failed in the Senate.
Given the scale of bonded labour in India (some experts estimate the number to be as high as 12 million), these changes are significant in communities that until now have had scant, if any, information about rights, no exposure to media, and a history of exploitation.
Certainly, comparisons between the pepper spray of Oakland and the tank shells of Homs can be facetious, and the triumphs of the protester – named this week as Time's "person of the year" – appear scant if limited purely to the arena of formal political change.
