Sentence examples for scant warning from inspiring English sources

Lawyers in the Dallas office of Brobeck gave scant warning to staff members that the firm was closing, said Lynn Cleckler, a legal secretary there.

He criticized the Department of Education, citing its announcement, with scant warning, that half of a neighborhood public school would shut down and its space be given to a new charter school.

Moreover, the evidence on efficacy is scant and warnings were issued by Italian and international drug regulatory agencies concerning the risk of increased risk of suicide ideation [ 25, 26].

No sirens or local alert system warned people of the approaching twister, the AP reports; and "even with warning, there are scant places to take cover in the wide-open plain".

Last month the IRS issued a warning that received scant attention from the media but nonetheless could impact millions of taxpayers this year -- particularly low-income, elderly and Spanish-speaking taxpayers.

The scant food they were given, the searches conducted without warning by the German soldiers.

But, because Amy was pursuing patents rather than writing papers, her publication record was scant, and she appears not to have heeded repeated warnings that failing to publish more could jeopardize her prospects for tenure.

In Australia, the media reporting on the IPCC in the only national broadsheet The Australian has been scant, and focused on misleading distortions of the report's warnings.

Democrats and Republicans on the oversight committee traded similar accusations — that the other party had shown scant interest in dealing with the broader issues of intelligence warnings and security matters, and had focused instead on trying to show that their party was better equipped to address volatile and shifting national security challenges.

The prime minister, he suggested, had ignored a warning from the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg about Coulson and paid scant attention to media reports about Coulson's alleged knowledge of phone-hacking.

Those warnings have been around for years, but politicians have shown scant interest in making the hard decisions that would actually stave off disaster.