They know they'd lose".Hamas has scant tolerance for public dissent.
The Chinese authorities have shown scant tolerance for anyone who travels to another town to participate in a protest.
In the Middle East, the United States has long allied itself with regimes characterized by troubling human rights records and scant tolerance for democratic expression.
At the same time, I noticed an enormous pressure on young men and scant tolerance for those who didn't conform.
In "Analyze This," Mr. De Niro's crazy capo, Paul Vitti, may recall his gonzo Al Capone in "The Untouchables" (1987): a crude, impatient man with scant tolerance for the niceties of social intercourse or the ambiguities of human behavior.
In Russia, such an act of collective defiance by members of the business community is quite a feat: over the years, Putin's system has shown scant tolerance for businessmen who dared oppose it.
Liverpool now enjoy scant margin for error at home or abroad, where the aim now is to secure the Europa League trophy.
That would leave scant margin for error in the Senate, where unanimous consent from all members would be needed to waive procedural rules and set up votes before the Friday midnight deadline.
Bouchard came out firing in the second set but her hard, flat hitting provides scant margin for error and can, as it was here, be a millstone when things are less than 100%.
By simplifying the math, we see why these deals, which allowed scant margin for error, were fatally flawed at their inception.
At first blush, the setup seemed like it afforded scant margin for error, given that the AAA investment portfolio was less than 1% larger than the credit default swap obligations.
