Sentence examples for scant power from inspiring English sources

"Voting for national representatives, an old expression of citizenship, achieves nothing, because they have scant power.

Coming from a man who has scant power but acts as a kind of moral arbiter, that little word "stolz" (proud) had a particular resonance.

Tales and displays of violence, blood and horror rang true, answered a need, on some deep, angry level that maybe only those with scant power or capital, regardless of their age, can understand.

Bowden offered him the no-frills job, with barely as much money as he had made from his last two postseason shares when the Yankees won championships, and with scant power in hiring his coaches.

And the party has a new reason to listen to them.The Scottish referendum has supercharged the "West Lothian Question"—the anomaly, caused by devolution, by which Scottish and Welsh MPs can vote on laws affecting England while English MPs have scant power over Scotland and Wales.

Banks have started lending to them with worryingly easy-going covenants, which give lenders scant power to intervene if a loan risks going bad.Basel: more exciting than you thoughtPrivately, virtually every investment banker expresses nervousness about the hard-to-quantify "tail risks" in the new banking model.

Because of their scant offensive power this year, the Yankees have little margin to accommodate sloppy play.

Other than lawyers, the people who deal the most with the state court system are those accused of crimes, a group with scant political power in Albany.

But there was no question that Mr. Wahid had lost his political support after serving just 21 months of his five-year term and that he had scant bargaining power left.

This results in a unique architecture for an AKR active site with scant catalytic power.

Little does it understand how scant was the power its ministers actually wielded from their offices.