It gives scant attention to environment and social costs of the kind we saw in the eyes of the displaced families.
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But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.
I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.
I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.
To provide for the future is a part of one's responsibility in life and the world has scant consideration for the man who neglects it.
O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy,
In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!
The northern border gets scant attention compared to the border with Mexico, but it presents a significant threat to our security from illicit drugs and terrorism.
It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.
Too few the mornings be,
Too scant the nights.
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
The wretched war had destroyed not only their country but all their presumptions of human self-regard. What a scant, foolish pretense was a family, a culture, a place in history, when it was all so easily defamed. And God was behind this.
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
'These cheap slaves fill every place. Their dress is scant and cheap. Their food is rice from China. They hedge twenty in a room, ten by ten.
Tying voter ID requirements to the REAL ID Act is bad for voting and for privacy, ... There's scant evidence that inadequate voter ID is a factor in election fraud. And the Commission admits to concerns that voter ID requirements could disenfranchise eligible voters, adversely affect minorities, or be used to monitor voting behaviors are 'serious and legitimate.' Moreover, the REAL ID Act turns drivers' licenses into de facto national IDs by forcing states to link their DMV databases so that drivers' personal data will instantly be available to a wide range of state, local, and federal officials. Once created, history has shown that law enforcement, employers, landlords, credit agencies, mortgage brokers, and direct mailers will find a way to access, and in all likelihood abuse, those databases.
Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
you saw her fair, none else being by,
Herself pois'd with herself in either eye;
But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd
Your lady's love against some other maid
That I will show you shining at this feast,
And she shall scant show well that now seems best.