Sentence examples for scant interest in a from inspiring English sources

This was six months ago, when the Northern Alliance controlled only a tenuous pocket of the Afghan highlands and the United States military had scant interest in a far-off civil war.

The sultry song wafts over this sleepy place, as unlikely as a rainbow, and abruptly everything does seem perfect enough: the sun is shining, the well-known police informer in the corner is showing scant interest in a stranger and Slobodan Milosevic is history, ousted in Europe's last democratic revolution.

The Soviets found the human remains but had scant interest in an accurate identification of them as Jews.

He notes that the vast majority of Muslims are secular with little knowledge of the Koran, scant interest in entering a mosque and more focused on trying to succeed in life than on pondering questions of religion.

In 1896 there was scant interest in stories by a little-known writer, especially one whose prose was described as "delicate and fine".

Unfortunately, too late....by then there was scant interest in doing such a film.

That they are run with a scant interest in building the tech startup eco-system and appear to be a gratuitous and blatant revenue raising exercise rather than a prestigious event which can gain a startup traction amongst investors.

The social democratic chancellor, Werner Faymann, is described as a leader with scant interest in foreign affairs.

It may disappoint those who wish to ascribe sharp elbows to David Cameron that at Oxford in the mid-1980s he showed scant interest in getting on in university politics, traditionally a breeding ground for future leaders (among them at that time, Labour's Ed Balls and his Tory colleague Michael Gove).

In his 2003 book, "Universities in the Marketplace," Derek Bok, the former Harvard president, made the shocking observation that "faculties currently display scant interest in preparing undergraduates to be democratic citizens, a task once regarded as the principal purpose of a liberal education and one urgently needed at this moment in the United States".

With scant interest in perspective, he placed the human figures on a grid, same as all other objects.