Sentence examples for scant working from inspiring English sources

With Republicans in charge, gridlock at its peak and scant working days left on the congressional calendar given this is an election year, it's a daunting challenge. .

After introductory remarks by Mr. Meacham and Mr. Dart, his not-quite-ready-for-prime-time players haltingly portrayed a job interviewer soliciting political support for a boss from an applicant; a supervisor turning a deaf ear to a worker's claim that a secretary colleague with clout does scant work; and a jail guard flaunting political ties to get a promotion, among others.

Examples of such scant works are as follows.

Scant work, however, is available for the case in which the girders are hybrid and, simultaneously, longitudinally stiffened.

In recent months there has been much gnashing of teeth over young people flooding into these positions, unpaid or poorly paid, with scant observation of working rights, desperate to get a foot on the career ladder.

Christian de Portzamparc and Mr. Ando, who received the prize in 1994 and 1995 respectively, are architects of considerable talent whose work has had scant influence on their peers.

As a younger filmmaker working with scant means and the people at hand, Swanberg often did his own camera work and lighting, and his compositional sense was sometimes impetuously freehanded, sometimes drastically static.

And some independent filmmakers, working with scant crews and profuse imaginations, have managed to keep a blazing clip of production of films that have a first-person and diary-like aspect.

The figures represent significant progress for women, but also reflect how traditional gender roles and scant social support for working parents make life in this new economy unnecessarily difficult for moms, dads and kids.

Both of these ideas may well have been born of necessity — working with scant crews and equipment at hand, working with actors who are friends (or recruiting friends to work as actors) rather than casting from among the ranks of professionals.

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