Sentence examples for scant position from inspiring English sources

But Australia is in scant position to complain when it shoots upward of 3 million wild kangaroos a year to protect crops and grazing for sheep and cattle.

Azharī formed the new government in January 1954, and the southern Sudanese, who had received a scant number of positions in the new administration, felt increasingly marginalized.

Although some studies have been conducted on the skier's body and ski positions, scant or no study on aerodynamic behaviors of the ski suits and skier has been reported in the open literature.

The agency has regularly taken on American companies and their deals with scant attention to the position of United States government officials.

General Clark announced his candidacy last week in Little Rock, Ark., offering scant insight on his positions on key issues.

In the jockeying to choose new leaders, some analysts say, there is scant incentive to take positions that rivals could criticize as weak.

By most accounts, the framers paid scant attention to the constitutional positioning of the office of the vice president.

Weaving through mud and freshly-turned earth, the labyrinth of trenches provides scant shelter between each fortified position.

One is to purchase a place in the few scant rows of seating that are positioned, arena-style, surrounding an open stage on four sides.

Their status was complicated by the fact that Johnson, who had visited the House of Commons only once, wrote the debates on the basis of scant information about the speakers' positions.

Finally, she settled it a scant inch south of its original position.