Sentence examples for use of scant from inspiring English sources

Making resourceful use of scant archival material, Miles describes an enslaved African-American family whose patriarch led an all-black militia defending Detroit against the threat of native insurrection, and filed a lawsuit for his four children's freedom, to no avail.

The prevention of delays in the use of the most effective treatment for each patient, the avoidance of unnecessary secondary effects and the rational use of scant economic resources have all stimulated the search for biomarkers that predict the response of individuals to different RA treatments.

Scotland, however, should have learned long ago to make the best possible use of what scant resource it has available.

Likewise, mention is made of the most common methods used to magnify the results obtained by a RCT: the assignment of greater importance to statistical significance than to clinical relevance, the graphical manner of presenting the results, or the use of variables of scant relevance from the clinical perspective.

"So when I say I don't want to see small time personal users prosecuted, it's because I don't think it is the best way of using of the scant resources of the police or the courts to tackle the harm caused by drugs.

Such firepower proved of scant use.

And though Dr. Thomason believes that the basic structure of Space English is not likely to change much from that of the mother tongue, teenagers will, of course, invent words of their own and drop words of scant use.

Yet with all of this, the country has made surprisingly scant use of solar energy at home.

Dr. Fred S. Berlin, founder of the Johns Hopkins Sexual Disorders Clinic in Baltimore and a longtime critic of civil commitment, said he was troubled by the scant use of antiandrogens.

The administration has in part blamed its scant use of commutations, compared with other presidents, on this mass of paperwork and the criteria for applications.

But unless you know the city intimately, you will make scant use of its endless lists of attractions containing little more than their telephone numbers.