Sentence examples for sparse public from inspiring English sources

Critics including unlikely allies such as the Ramblers Associationn and the TaxPayers' Alliance have called the bridge an absurd vanity project on a stretch of the Thames already well stocked with bridges, which will block historic views along the river and prove a long-term drain on sparse public funds that they say could be better spent on more useful transport schemes.

Questioned at the 2014 annual meeting about Reece's sparse public disclosures, he said he learns a lot about competitors from investor briefings.

Higher employment rates among the Russian patients and a sparse public social support system in the Russian federation probably contribute to this association.

The crowds at protests are sparse, and the public doesn't seem much interested in bringing democracy back quickly.

The airport arrival ceremony was broadcast live on television, but reaction from the public was sparse.

Next door in equally sparse Grant County, a public utility that also owns two dams on the Columbia has made even more money maximizing the market.

Some community members have worried aloud that the school, which will open in the fall of 2003, will drain already sparse resources from local public schools by luring young, bright children and their supportive parents.

Conclusions that would be quite easy to reach from stronger feminist principles, or other comprehensive principles, are much harder to reach using the sparse … toolbox [of public reason]" (Lloyd 1998, 210).

Kagan, who seems likely to succeed in her bid to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, has among the sparsest written record of public writings of any nominee in decades.

Public restrooms are sparse in American cities – "as if the need to go to the bathroom does not exist", travel expert Arthur Frommer once observed.

In both, the actual contests are few, meaningful public information is sparse, and, as a consequence, their enduring popularity has less to do with any resolution than our fevered speculations along the way.