Sentence examples for scant relevance from inspiring English sources

Specific nouns are of scant relevance in trying to evaluate leadership potential, which is what Cason, the widow of Elliott Jaques, the management theorist and the coiner of the phrase "mid-life crisis," has been trying to do for decades.

Reporting in this month's issue of the journal Animal Behaviour, researchers from the University of Glasgow addressed the widespread concern that the findings of animal personality studies, so often performed on captive subjects, may be laboratory artifacts, with scant relevance to how the creatures behave in nature.

Likewise, mention is made of the most common methods used to magnify the results obtained by a RCT: the assignment of greater importance to statistical significance than to clinical relevance, the graphical manner of presenting the results, or the use of variables of scant relevance from the clinical perspective.

There is, for instance, scant relevance of the Inland Regional Centre, a niche organisation in a town of little significance, to the wider political aims Farook and Malik may have been trying to expound.

6. Relevance is relevant.

The review found scant evidence of rigorous research demonstrating the relevance of leadership theory and models for education, training and development in the aged care sector.

As previously said, available diagnostic tools in the pre-hospital setting are scant and clinical examination of the patient, whose relevance is in itself already arguable, can be further flawed by environmental factors and thus may be deemed unreliable.

Cuil pays scant attention to the links but aims to do a better job with relevance.

Research on a direct link between cultural relevance in books and reading achievement at young ages is so far scant.

Isn't Anna the Ambassador, like the idea that women are idiotic enough to invest in an ugly, camel-coloured shoulder-cosy that leaves most of the body exposed to prevailing weather conditions, just one of those fantasies that fashion has to keep circulating, with scant regard for practicalities, in order to create an impression of feverish activity and relevance?

Such perceived difficulties include potentially compromising influences on the working conditions during data entry, deficient in-house management of the data, scant knowledge of staff about the use of the data, and negative attitudes regarding their relevance, particularly among physicians.