Sentence examples for scant substance from inspiring English sources

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With a perfect track record of having missed all dead-lines and achieving few agreements of scant substance since it was launched in November 2001, the Doha Round's negotiations were fully suspended last summer.

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(What Anne's brother, played by Yahya Abdul-MathinksI, thinks of the relationship is never specified). The director, Michael Gracey, delivers quick doses of excitement in splashy scenes but has little feel for the choreographic action, offers scant historical substance, and displays slender dramatic insight.

There is still a Ferrari in the garage, but it is a lonely set of wheels since Mark Philippoussis began discarding the artificial fillers in a life once scant on career substance.

Nonetheless, the Times has always focused on confrontation, bloodshed, arrests and mayhem in covering Occupy, while paying scant heed to civic substance or political significance.

The man they once called "the Black Walt Disney" doesn't even have a Wikipedia page and the collected clips of his original work on YouTube don't even add up to seven full minutes, but the scant few items of substance that Google can come up with tell a fascinating story.

A spokesman for Project Canvas said: "Sky's comments appear to pay scant attention to the actual substance of the proposals.

Surprisingly, scant formal training on addiction and substance abuse is available in American medical schools.

On substance and the numbers, there is scant difference between the House and Senate versions, and President Clinton supports the legislation.

Uneasy new meetings and fumbling reacquaintances at spontaneous parties and dinner gatherings lead to long and whimsical conversations about serious subjects that mirror the rigorous substance of their expensive educations and its scant application in their daily lives.

A task force report by the American Psychological Assn. in 2009 said the therapy could trigger depression, suicide and substance abuse, but also noted that there was scant research on the issue.

In a melodramatic touch that, like all such twists, rises or sinks on the substance with which it's infused (in this case: scant), Willoughby is dying of pancreatic cancer.

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