Sentence examples for scant rationale from inspiring English sources
Critics say there is scant rationale for the project other than to please Beijing and provide business opportunities for the clique of companies that dominate Hong Kong's property, utility and retail markets and enjoy cozy relationships with senior bureaucrats.
Since Goldwater had no hope of carrying New York state, the choice of Miller had scant electoral rationale.
That rationale will be scant comfort to anyone who was planning to take a big lump-sum distribution from a plan this year and suddenly finds it out of reach.
The pure economic rationale for migration is largely missing from the German narratives, and there is scant mention of the crisis, either in Germany or the UK.2 Rather, paraphrasing Conradson and Latham (2005b, 2007) in their research on young New Zealanders in London, what is most relevant are the 'affective possibilities' of London as an exciting setting for a journey of self-realisation.
As Sarah Stillman pointed out in the magazine in 2013, the practice has effectively incentivized corruption among cash-strapped police departments, which now have both a rationale and a financial motive to pull over motorists and seize their cash and vehicles with scant cause.
