Sentence examples for scant passages from inspiring English sources

There are scant passages of soaring melody.

There are scant passages of soaring melody, no arias and few times when two or more of the 31 characters sing at once.

With only a scant chance of passage, the plan would give the most conservative House members, especially those backed by the Tea Party movement, some political cover with a chance to vote for both Ryan's plan and the more drastic RSC version.

A landmark immigration overhaul passed by the Democratic-led U.S. Senate in June seeks to tighten security on the U.S border and a path to citizenship for millions of unauthorized immigrants living in the shadows, although it faces scant chance of passage in its current form in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

There are scant traces of his passage to and fro.

It was the first time any government had ever reserved a large chunk of land for public use, but the bill's passage received scant notice.

Occasionally linking passages are too scant.

"Augustown" doesn't match the stereotype of a "poet's novel"—that is, it isn't introspective, replete with long passages of description, and scant of plot.

It was no surprise, however, given the heat of the presidential campaign, that much of the scant coverage of Somoza's guileless speech focused on a minute-long passage in the middle about Clinton's Republican opponent, Donald Trump.

The fact that they aren't given much chance of passage raises a question, not about unredeemable bottles but about the scant possibility of redeemable politicians.

Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) generated from adult fibroblasts of X-CGD mice were adapted to feeder-free condition for five passages and subsequently characterized for stem cell morphology (round shape, large nucleus, and scant cytoplasm), alkaline phosphatase activity, and expression of pluripotency markers Sox2, Oct4, Klf4, Nanog, SSEA-1, and c-Myc (Fig. 1A).