Yet there is scant sign of those thousands taking to the streets in an Egyptian-style uprising against Mugabe's 33-year rule.
The five central Asian republics have made scant progress towards democratic reform in the two decades since independence.
I have vowed to stick to sites that offer the best security measures and to avoid the likes of globalfreeloaders.com and stay4free.com, where members' profiles offer scant details.
Google would be forgoing Gmail's scant profit, but its actions would be consistent with the idea that the net belongs to its users throughout the world.
I doubt it and I wouldn't put so much at risk to achieve such a scant outcome.
Dortmund were one of the clubs in favour of embracing the 21st century, incidentally, but that was scant consolation when they found themselves on the wrong end of another wrong goalline decision in their 2-0 DFB Cup final defeat to Bayern.
Despite its scant donations, the trust used a complex web of transactions to seek £46m in gift aid, and its "donors" claimed £55m in charitable-giving tax relief.
"Recipes" were scant lists of ingredients, half methods, several things on the go at once – fine for the practised chef, but brand new to me.
The final report, co-authored with Stefano Conti, bemoans the scant detail Stefanoni used to back up her findings.
But it would be equally rash to brush off this cautionary tale, which, at the least, suggests that creating hundreds of independent institutions offers scant protection against a slide in standards.
It found that there were lots of anecdotes either way, but scant evidence to suggest changes in behaviour.
