Sentence examples for scant provision from inspiring English sources

A prison built to house 900 inmates now holds 1,300, and there is scant provision for the most vulnerable amongst them.

The camp, with its scant provisions for sanitation, is not a long-term option.

Without it, the 16 survivors out of 45 in a famous 1972 plane crash in the Andes that decimated a Uruguayan rugby team wouldn't have made it through 72 days in a frigid wilderness with scant provisions.

What -- there's a very -- as you point out, there's scant statutory provision concerning the contest.

Provisions are scant: I am out of my most important food group, Caffeine Free Diet Pepsi.

SMSC provision is particularly scant after the age of 14, says the report, because of exams "leaving little space to focus on wider development".

But division over the drilling provisions and its scant funding for mass transit brought opposition from moderate Republicans, while conservatives objected to the amount of federal largess in the bill.

Although some scattered reports describe mass killings of dodos for ships' provisions, archaeological investigations have found scant evidence of human predation.