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So will 2015 be the year Myanmar becomes a vibrant democracy?The country's record gives scant reason for hope.

There's scant reason for optimism after the performance this week by legislative leaders who chose to dither rather than act in the face of enormous budget deficits.

Sometimes it seems as if victories for progressive social change are so few and far between and that protections such as fair pay and workplace rights are under such constant attack with the rise of zero-hours contracts that there is scant reason for optimism.

The core business has been so good Intel has had scant reason for branching out.

A six-time All-Star on a cap-crippling contract was dealt to Brooklyn for a heap of salary scrap, and yet there appears to be scant reason to mourn for the end of an era in Atlanta that's hardly finished.

They need his help with Marcel (Charles Michael Davis, who raises the energy level of every scene he's in), a former Klaus protégé who now controls New Orleans and its witches and likes to kill for scant reason.

Throw a dart at a map of the world, it seems, and there is an excellent chance of hitting a spot where people are arrested, persecuted, abused for scant reason: Algeria, Romania, China, Sudan.

The grand macro-solutions often neglect the nagging micro-foundations.The staff of rural schools and clinics, for example, have scant reason to do their job well.

With scant reason to think that the economy will grow rapidly in the next couple of years, the labor market's woes present a serious challenge for government.

But there were three weeks last autumn that gave him scant reason to chuckle.

Perhaps because poorly supervised and largely unaccountable managers have scant reason to be careful with other people's money.