Sentence examples for scant state from inspiring English sources

"Cities are left to their own devices to stimulate their economies," Mr. Mooney said, summarizing the lay of the land in an era of scant state and federal help.

But while a decade-long slump in tourism has resulted in scant state support for conservation programs, not all the news from the front lines is bad: For instance, managers are making inroads against a particularly nasty invasive plant called miconia, and fences erected around preserves have helped reduce populations of pigs, goats, and other unwanted animals.

Details about the agreement were scant, but Syrian state television reported that it would be announced Wednesday at Arab League headquarters in Cairo.

It is a six-way race, with polling scant in the state, but the Democratic contender will be a heavy favorite to win in November.

Hungary has become a major transit country for migrants and refugees in recent months, but while M1 was quick to broadcast footage showing demonstrations outside the overcrowded transit zone at Budapest's Keleti station over the weekend, protests against government policies on refugees have received scant coverage in state media.

He comes to the job with a series of big ideas about monetary policy and scant fear of stating them.

He has devoted himself to winning Iowa, addressing more than 360 townhall meetings in the last year, but has scant organisation outside the state and is one of the worst-funded of the candidates.

Despite knowing that over a third of people in the prison system have been in local authority care as a child, the plan pays scant attention to the state itself as a problem parent.

The former is evident in his inferences, from scant data, about the state of the "rather sudden" marriage of George Kennan and his slightly older wife Abigail in the 1790's.

In the face of such intense sectarian animosity, and with scant protection from the state, Egypt's Christians now face the daunting prospect of being caught in the crossfire between the military-backed transitional government and Islamist supporters of Mr. Morsi.

But his political opponents have portrayed him as out of touch with his constituents, playing up a report that he did not own a home in Kansas and had scant ties to the state.