Sentence examples for scant relation from inspiring English sources

At first glance, these pictures bear scant relation to Penn's more acceptable obsessions.

The articles, Mr. Fletcher wrote, "bore scant relation to the truth," but they helped spawn an anti-European Union movement in British journalism just the same.

Once you admit that the Jane Austen depicted onscreen bears scant relation to any person named Jane Austen, living or dead, the film fulfills its purpose.

But, according to Ms. Botea, the chief prosecutor, much of what Mr. Dogaru, 29, and his 50-year-old mother, who was arrested in March, have said has scant relation to the truth.

In the absence of that once-in-a-generation sense of community, you are reminded how the calculated geometries of the park bear scant relation in atmosphere or aesthetic to the boroughs — Stratford, Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Bethnal Green, Waltham Forest, among which they find themselves.

Now, we don't want to typecast it as torpid, and maybe that city's generic/general rhythm has quickened in recent times from the indolent pulse of trip-hop, but this bears scant relation to anything we've ever heard coming out of St Paul's or environs.

"The Portrait of a Lady" that I read in my late teens bears the scantest relation to "The Portrait of a Lady" that I read today.

However, the literature on the core enabling technologies of big data analytics is scant in relation to smart sustainable cities and related sustainability applications.

And although there is an MDG to promote gender equality and empower women, there is scant reference in relation to this MDG of the imperative of reducing violence against women and girls – something that is often associated with contemporary slavery.

Such studies are widely used in human and veterinary medicine (Khoury and Beaty 1994; Pike et al. 1975; Shapiro 1989) but have received scant attention in relation to wildlife.

Unlike Russian-European or U.S.-Chinese relations, the scant economic and human ties between the U.S. and Russia provide inadequate ballast when problems arise.