Sentence examples for scant means from inspiring English sources

Many Africans were desperately poor and isolated in rural areas; they appeared to have scant means to climb from poverty.

The best independent filmmakers manage to turn their scant means into the bounty of rapid and frequent production.

They have been stranded, six nautical miles off Ajman port, with no supplies, no wages, no fuel and scant means of communication, for 18 months.

Edgar G. Ulmer is the master of the B-movie, and his cautionary-futuristic 1960 mind warp "Beyond the Time Barrier" works wonders with scant means.

Its practitioners are frequently artists whose Dadaist intent and scant means resulted in early careers devoted to performance or ad hoc installation art.

He had grown up in Mashpee, Mass., on Cape Cod — "16 miles and $600 million from the Kennedys" — the fifth of six children in a family of scant means but deep faith.

Scant parking means the clean, modern subway and monorail are heavily used.

But however much Europeans want to accelerate the process, there are scant legal means to jump-start it.

No official had asked us for our phone number," said Samuel, a mechanic, whose scant earnings means he shares a single phone with his wife, Rebecca.

Roger Pielke Jr., an environmental studies professor at the University of Colorado, has pointed out that the international community's definition of "modern energy access" tends to be quite scant — it means providing people with a mere 2.2percentt of the energy that the average American uses.

Even if Rimbaud is now a hero to Beat poets, intellectual rock stars, gay activists and teenage rebels (Breton called the writer "a veritable god of puberty"), Mr. Robb argues that the scant evidence means "there are at least as many Rimbauds as there are personae in his work".