What a scant, foolish pretence was a family, a culture, a place in history, when it was all so easily defamed.
The mouth that went too far also did what a scant few weeks earlier would have seemed almost unthinkable and that's convert Cruz from a man that the GOP establishment loathed not only into a seemingly respectable, reasonable, even thoughtful GOP presidential nominee, but a guy who had the right stuff to be a worthy GOP president.
The track is used by Metrolink and freight trains, but it's what lies a scant one hundred feet east of Woodley that elevates this hardscrabble section of Van Nuys from the mundane to the mysterious.
Mr. Rykwert cites, with bemused approval, G. K. Chesterton's sneering reaction, decades ago, to New York, with its billboards and scant public places: "What a glorious garden of wonders this would be, to anyone who was lucky enough to be unable to read".
Carolyn Sampson's nicely focused soprano gave Esther a measure of dimension beyond what the scant libretto suggests, and she was well matched in the duet by Paul Agnew, as Ahaseurus.
The question is whether someone who is so little known and has what even Republicans describe as a scant résumé has the authority to make those attacks credible — unlike, say, her counterpart on the Democratic side, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, a veteran of foreign and domestic policy who attacked Mr. McCain last week.
But only 19% of the policies set a ceiling for the size of a faculty member's financial stake in the corporate sponsor of their research, and a scant 12% limit what companies may say about the publication of research results.
Meanwhile, the United Nations, an organization expected to prevent conflict and aid millions of people through its development programs -- in other words, to promote "inclusive growth," --receives a scant 7.5percentt of what its member states spend on weapons.
WHEN he came to write down the highlights of his life in 1999—his physical faculties, though not mind or memory, already crippled by Parkinson's disease Jeremy Thorpe devoted a scant nine pages to what the press had called "the trial of the century".
In 2009, too many who worked hard and played by the rules are still suffering, while too many who bent or broke the rules with little or no accountability are back reaping a disproportionate share of what scant prosperity there is.
As a result, authors have arbitrarily nominated values based very loosely on a combination of clinical opinion and what scant research data existed at the time of publication.
