Sentence examples for scant margin from inspiring English sources

Liverpool now enjoy scant margin for error at home or abroad, where the aim now is to secure the Europa League trophy.

That would leave scant margin for error in the Senate, where unanimous consent from all members would be needed to waive procedural rules and set up votes before the Friday midnight deadline.

Bouchard came out firing in the second set but her hard, flat hitting provides scant margin for error and can, as it was here, be a millstone when things are less than 100%.

With that scant margin went the Presidency.

By simplifying the math, we see why these deals, which allowed scant margin for error, were fatally flawed at their inception.

At first blush, the setup seemed like it afforded scant margin for error, given that the AAA investment portfolio was less than 1% larger than the credit default swap obligations.

At first, the publishers worried about the scant profit margin — probably three to five cents per book.

Yet because national averages show impressive improvement, those on the margins receive scant attention.Armed with the data, the donors and the IDB agreed on stringent 18-month targets for improvement with the eight regional health authorities, giving them the freedom to design their own approaches to meet the goals.

And AT&T is in distribution, a commodity business under unrelenting cost pressure; it owns scant content, a higher-margin product that retains value even amid digital upheaval.

And AT&T is in distribution, a commodity business under unrelenting cost pressure; it owns scant content, a higher-margin product that retains value even amidst digital upheaval.

From the release of financials to the mailing date could be just a matter of a scant few weeks, leaving no margin for error.