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For a moment, I wondered whether they planned to tie me up to be baptized yet again, but most of them took scant notice of my panic.

In Bangladesh, she had been given scant medical care; in Washington, a counselor implied that she was to blame for the attack.

The other bit of news with these cranks, as well as the Next and SIXC, is the new bottom bracket which comes in at a scant 85g.

The position of the Moon and its resultant gravity pull has scant influence on the matter.

And the scant and skimpy equipment which jogging demands must make it a marketer's least favored form of recreation.

And the scant equipment which jogging demands must make it a marketer's least favored form of recreation.

The regular entrance of thirty-five dollars a week to one who has endured scant allowances for several years is a demoralising thing.

My wife sits up in bed with her tablet in one hand and the other stroking our dogs, while paying her husband scant attention.

The Daily Telegraph newspaper said the drawing of Sarah Brown "bears scant resemblance to her" .

His daughters had but scant respect for his theory and were perhaps constantly upbraiding him for his infatuation.

He had never run anything in his entire life. He had a scant public record, but oddly this worked to his advantage.

His hair was scant and grey and his face , when the waves of expression had passed over it, had a ravaged look .

Wes pauses over his sandwich. His eyes reproach me for my scant faith in the magic of Christmas.

By dint of effort she contrived to get a glimpse of the light of truth here and there, and hoped that scant ray might suffice to guide her.

While Benson continued to fill in the scant details, Edwards concluded that an assassination might prove an advantageous event.

Most have made scant advancements in the face of sophisticated global competitors and a stubborn lack of name recognition.

Often the developers who wrote these applications have left the company, leaving behind only scant documentation.

Coming off Monday's sell-off, investors seem to have scant appetite to own more stocks.

If the educational equipment which Gerald brought to America was scant, he did not even know it.

A scant five years ago the only time you saw Robert Downey Jr. getting big play in your newspaper came when he was on a perp walk.

Algeria has scant motivation to cut back in light of an expanded quota agenda.

The experience when I begin to do a website is scant, did not do enough market research with respect to mount a horse.

China has made scant progress on schemes drawn up nearly a decade ago to limit pollution in and around the reservoir.

At a large US bank, a Java team was asked to enhance a legacy application which had scant documentation.

And, despite six days of round-the-clock talk, there was scant sign of it this week.

The July stress tests, which did not allow for sovereign defaults, offer scant guidance.

There are a few scant rumors claiming the tablet will be carried by Verizon, but none seems substantive enough to bet money on.

Some unemployed miners had been expected to join militias, though evidence that they have done so is scant.

Adding to the mix: scant year-end trading, which tends to exacerbate price swings.

In the scant century and a half since then, we've bumped atmospheric carbon dioxide up to 390 ppm.

China's leaders have made that economic transition a priority since at least 2007 but have made scant progress.

Though many companies are predicting a rebound, the evidence of a turnaround has been scant so far.

Botox injections to help relax Mr. Fox's face provided scant relief, Mr. Philippi recalls, and long days at work began worsening the spasms.

A scant 700 feet off the water, the flight engineer was able to restart a second engine.

The signing attracted scant notice in the news media, and the White House issued a one-paragraph statement on Bush's action.

Indeed, for the personnel hours involved in working on such a deal, it is a relatively scant reward.

In any case, China treats North Korean defectors with scant sympathy and encourages its citizens to turn them in.

Sometimes they threw (him) bits of food, and got scant thanks; sometimes a mischievous pebble, and a shower of stones and abuses.

International nonprofit marketing, which has received only scant attention, should not be overlooked.

But these inflows have been scant in recent months as investors globally have stayed away from risky assets like emerging-market stocks.

So far there's been scant or no reporting supporting this view, which SEC chair Mary Schapiro has vigorously denied.

Congress's final tax and spending decisions often bear scant resemblance to the White House's requests.

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs .

Restructuring in court is expensive and a growing list of companies are competing for scant financing.

Thankfully, these immense humanoids are rare, with only a scant few being spotted in the forests of the verdant moon.

But he quit in November, frustrated by his scant commissions.

The US, far across the Pacific, has scant ability to act independently of its Korean ally.

But there was a fatal flaw in the new system. The banks' new competitors received scant oversight.

The announcement of his candidacy on Tuesday drew scant attention from the state-backed media.

However, Washington appears to have engaged in scant consultation with Europe before last week's announcement.

The child who, in these not very impressive circumstances, appeared in the world, received but scant attention.

Western governments see public interests threatened, but so far the evidence is scant.

But details are scant, even as many states have scores of "shovel-ready" infrastructure projects set to be axed .

Many people get a scant introduction to biology in high school, dissecting a frog and learning the parts of a flower.

After heading two major tech companies, Autodesk (ADSK) and Yahoo--there's scant chance she'll run another, she admitted to me last week.

Given the era's scant documentation, the motive behind the burial of the Staffordshire Hoard is best surmised from the hoard itself.

With unemployment rising and real incomes squeezed there is scant chance of that happening.

Underpinning Mr Fayyad's rule is a Palestinian security corps, freshly trained by the Americans, with scant allegiance to Fatah's old guard.

Lenovo, the PC maker which sits on an impressive roster of Olympics sponsors, is receiving scant bang for its buck.

However, solutions which have empirically proposed for the problem Japanese voiced and voiceless plosives learning are scant.

One recent week, the Sunday Book Review was a slender twentyfour pages and contained scant advertising.

Traditional manorial organization provided scant encouragement for economic growth.

It was a clear and scant-started night with his sister, Bai Suzhen green, and Xu Xian meet in the beautiful West Lake.

Yet Mr Singh's government has made scant progress towards one of the main goals it set itself in 2004.

The Afar are a nomadic people who drive their camels, donkeys, and goats in search of the region's scant pasturelands.

In UNIX days of yore (a scant two decades ago), you typically accessed a UNIX machine through a dumb terminal.

Importantly though there is scant evidence of a meaningful local M&A marketplace; double digit million sales are considered very rare.

When CP B won the Burger King account in 2004, America's second-largest burger chain had been trying with scant success to revive the brand.

A simple summary of Mr Pollack's main ideas does scant justice to this thoughtful and informative book.

The speech offered scant details about the stimulus plan and failed to meet Wall Street's expectations.

The theory of vested rights receives scant support at present day and it has, indeed, been devastatingly criticized.

Ms Ramm, who lives in New York, has had scant help from the American police, who say the offence is committed in Singapore.

So far this year, this GSE issue has attracted scant political attention.

United must sense the continuing value of these specialists, despite tactical systems that leave scant room for them nowadays.

As the postwar order falls into disrepair, there is scant enthusiasm beyond the west for a new system of global governance.

Details are currently scant, but mobile devices may be better suited for the tech than full-size displays.

The meanings of prepositions have received scant attention in traditional linguistics, and have been treated as arbitrary by and large.

Sometimes well-connected shell firms take a fat cut and then pass the real work on to subcontractors, with scant regard for standards.

The only problem with this argument is that there is scant evidence to support it in the history of Arab-Israeli peacemaking.

Many nations also say that there are only scant chances of a deal in 2010 after Copenhagen fell short.

in logic they could scant ignore, he summarised his opposition with one line: "Physical education never did anything for me. "

Even the scant information officials have disclosed gives a glimpse into the suffering of workers inside.

If the "G spot orgasm" seems semi-mythical, however, that's because there has been scant evidence of its existence.

Until now, however, there has been scant direct evidence of this activation during learning in the mammalian brain.

True, the average work week ticked up to 33. 6 hours, but evidence of latent demand for labour remains scant.

Western scientific evidence for the formula is scant, though one recent preliminary study found it effective.

Big emerging economies are in the best shape, with strong growth in domestic demand and scant spare capacity.

There is scant evidence that leaving their fate to market forces, though it may be painful, would bring down Wall Street banks.

Information about the charges has been scant and diplomats are barred from parts of the trial.

Their findings were scant but enough to savor and survive.

Even so, there was scant security with William Gallas partnering Vermaelen.

Until recently, most of the answers have come from scholars with scant knowledge of economic theory.

The central bank held low foreign-exchange reserves, leaving it with scant ammunition in a crisis.

Although Jewish by cultural designation and kindred instinct, they displayed scant interest in the religion or its rituals.

Most of the cases have received scant notice, having been overwhelmed by the economic crisis.

Running water in Tripoli is in short supply. Electricity is sporadic. And food for this Eid al Fitr holiday is scant.

For all his time courting the world's elite, Mr. Barnett has shown scant interest in joining their club.

This story does scant justice to the efforts Mr Obama made on the economy, but you can see why it has stuck.

It is odd that the Queen's online persona is administered by an empire based in America, with scant regard for constitutional niceties.

Although nectar is crucial for most pollinators, its evolutionary origin has received scant attention.

This sweltering summer people rioted in protest against the scant supply of electricity.

Already, Holland's euthanasia guidelines offer scant protection to the mentally ill and newborn babies.

Heatstroke can strike with scant warning, even after as little as a half hour if you are exercising hard, doctors say.

He pays scant attention to what people are saying: his entire focus is on his own performance.

Despite the seriousness of the charges, the case has received scant public attention.

Made out of a scant 30 inches of fabric, Reard promoted his creation as "smaller than the world's smallest bathing suit. "

The Group-of-20 nations pledged last fall in Pittsburgh to rebalance growth, but so far there is scant evidence of fundamental change.

But a host of uncertainties over how CCPs will function in this new era mean there is scant confidence that problems will be avoided.

Politicians in Washington have long known about the grid's limitations but have made scant headway in solving them.

Yet Benedict has reduced still further the scant resources assigned to external communications.

Greece's government must wisely spend what scant political capital it may have.

Scientific studies, mostly in Asia, have found the herb boosts the immune system in humans, but Western studies are scant.

The details behind the headline figure for overall inflation offered scant comfort.

The tumor is characterized by lakes of stromal mucin containing scant malignant epithelial cells.

Although numerous studies have been promising, there are scant data from randomized clinical trials.

There is scant evidence that wages are driven down by multinationals, nor that they help perpetuate indefinitely bad working conditions.

The imperfect social security system is the main cause of scant consumption demand that has been existed for a long time.

But his leverage was scant, which is why the White House threatened to to take other steps.

Crops are withering, and on Tokelau people are subsisting on bottled water after six months of scant rainfall.

CONSIDERING it is a business that has provoked wars in centuries past, scant attention is paid to the modern slave trade.

But there would be scant need to worry about a broad slip in productivity.

Your attachment to substandard lodgings and scant tuition in Dover is clearly irrational.

Vietnam has hesitantly dabbled in credit-guarantee funds in the past, primarily at the provincial level, with scant success.

By contrast, Korea brings no political baggage and has scant fear of rivalry on the international stage.

Until we see an actual announcement from Google, almost everything we can say about this OS is speculation based on scant information.

In this paper, two new scant hair mice were obtained by ENU inducing and mutant genes were mapped on chromosome.

Ex-child soldiers returning to their home region, often with scant education or skills, may grow up into sadistic adults.

Its scant natural resources and tradition of openness point the economy towards trade.

The Lusitania slipped below the waves a scant 18 min. after the German torpedo hit it.

Einstein's latest words offer scant comfort to the traditionally faithful.

There is scant chance that the present administration would emulate the Guam precedent - for political, not security reasons.

endosperm abundant [scant in saprophytic genera].

In illiquid markets, trading for fundamental reasons is scant or infrequent.

It is disheartening to find out that all we have to work with is these five drugs, and the evidence on these is scant.

And there is scant peer-reviewed literature to advance knowledge of the potential cultural or religious obstacles to crowd-gathering.

Anything that can add to our scant arsenal of available treatments for combating this devastating disease is an important step forward.

The book shows scant political understanding.

Poverty is the norm . Scant attention is paid to their particular cultural interests and heritage .

Scant tyrannosauroid teeth and scraps of bone had previously been found in the Southwest.

In densely packed Rochester, N. Y. , commutes are short; a scant 3% of commuters spend an hour or more in traffic on their way to work.

While many business people are dismayed by the scant availability of credit, they are also painfully aware of inflation.

Scant attention was paid to modern Indian art until the end of the 1990s.

She preferred to wear a ponytail, scant makeup, khakis, sweaters and loafers.

Before his election Lech (like his brother) displayed scant interest in them.

And there is scant lending available, even if investors wanted to gear up their portfolios in these volatile times.

Government forces, they say, have shown scant regard for civilians.

There are several reasons to explain the scant demand of goods and services from domestic and abroad by individuals or by groups.

Low demand, wide uncertainty, and scant inflation is putting a lid on salaries.

Still, the rain was welcomed by many in this agricultural area which has seen scant rainfall this monsoon season.

That Britain was still well off in absolute terms was scant consolation.

But Republican support for either version remains scant.

To be efficient, they put very little work into each message and therefore pay scant attention to each woman's profile.

ansari says she ' s received email messages from many of them , although her flight has received scant attention in iran.

"I have in the past for the defeat you. " He scant people, said: "I will sacrifice for you own, but will not sacrifice their youth. "

I saw him a scant three days ago.

Neighbouring Kenya and Uganda have highways. The vast, war-torn south, by contrast, has a scant 60km of paved roads.

That's about the amount found in a scant one-teaspoon measurement.

Debt-ridden rich countries such as America have seen scant growth since the financial crisis.

As my colleagues and I have reported in the past, the presence of women in the boardroom in most countries is scant.

But its public- debt stock is approaching 200% of GDP, so Japan has scant room for more fiscal stimulus.

The thing that strikes me the most is their scant understanding of RUP concepts and principles.

Individual fixes will be scant defence against future crises.

But there is scant evidence that most North Koreans know anything about the South Korean-run factories in their country.

We prattle about scientific discoveries, but we have made scant use of them for our benefit.

In general, scrutiny of China's water projects is scant, and the government is in a hurry.

Interestingly, a scant 4% of Caucasians saw any evidence of bias against Asian people.

Without cutting the debt overhang there is scant hope of fresh flows of market finance ever reaching Athens.

Most European countries have scant room for higher taxes.

Inflammatory infiltrates are scant if any.

There's a scant supply of this popular item.

The Arts Council and other victims of cuts in cultural spending will win scant sympathy.

The Confederates were on scant rations and practically without drugs or bandages for their own sick and wounded.

We were scant of breath after the lengthy climb.

But regulators have scant sympathy for such views.

The rise in digital music-sales is scant compensation.

Minishing friction and optimizing traction points space is a good way to better control the scant displacement.

But don't assume any field in finance is off limits because of a scant work history.

But that is scant consolation to Democratic candidates facing difficult races at the mid-term elections in November.

The solid state drive's thickest point is the 4mm SATA connector. The rest of the drive is a scant 2. 9 mm.

It is worth considering the scant evidence available.

Lincoln's single term in Congress, for 1847-1849, gave Mary and the boys a winter in Washington, but scant opportunity for social life.

As in other countries, data on health-care fraud are scant in China, but Hu believes that medical insurance fraud is widespread.

Scientific evidence is scant.

Tyrion Lannister had scant experience with other dwarfs.

However, he paid the scant attention-everybody to their own troubles.

When sudden outbreak scant of breath and foot pain.

George Bush's budget has scant chance of becoming law.

At the time market players paid scant attention to it.

FDA Scrutiny Scant In India, China as Drugs Pour Into U. S.

He was wrinkled and black, with scant gray hair.

The movers gave me a scant hour's notice of their arrival.

We prattle about scientific discoveries, but we made scant use of them for our benefit.

Maybe so, but withinAmerica's political class there is as yet scant evidence of "closure" .

Perhaps reflecting that agenda, Saturday's attack on U. S. citizens was given scant attention in China's state-controlled media.

The honey-tongued US president was given scant opportunity to charm the Chinese masses.

But despite headlines such as "Obama's War on Interns, " so far there is scant evidence of change.

But there is scant risk of too much fiscal probity in Washington.

But for investors in those funds that got carried away at the top, that is scant solace.

He came here a scant three months ago.

It is worth mentioning that their knowledge on reading itself and what it frequently involves is undoubtedly scant.

perisperm scant or absent.

reason for not scant your pocket monkey.

Johnny paid scant heed to all these attention.

Or were they focused on the paralysis and the denial of paralysis, and paid scant attention to anything else?

3: The old man was wrinkled and black, with scant gray hair.

Furthermore the taxon sampling is very scant.

First frost comes in the night, a clear, scant-starred night when the moon is near its fullness.

First frost comes in the night, a clear, scant-started night when the moon is near its fullness.

And there is scant evidence that AK has used its time in office to subvert secularism.

Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?

no seniority and scant experience means you have little to lose.

Had to scant the older children In order to nourish the newBorn.

The Bonn meeting, the third in Germany this year, was added because of scant progress with the deadline looming.

Then on June 25, we failed on a tie vote, 204 to 204, to obtain even this scant relief.

In a "flat" world, not only is there scant hope for US manufacturers but also no future for white-collar service jobs.

Progressives and champions of social justice in the North at first paid scant attention to the Niagara rebels.

He's fat and scant of breath.

'We don't have the data in the UK because of scant social science research.

What safety they had was very scant.

Japanese households sit on ¥ 1, 500 trillion of assets, half of which is buried in bank deposits earning scant interest.

Yet there is scant sign of progress.

The person in the picture is wrinkled and black, with scant gray hair.

The haiku, a poem of just 17 syllables, for example, makes scant sense as standalone verse.

Liu's quick victory was no major action in itself and observers paid it but scant attention;

The expeditions were often out of meat, and scant of clothes, but they always had the furniture and other requisites for the mass;

that he shows scant interest in their views on which tax cuts would persuade them to hire people;

She therefore replied by glancing over her scant habiliments;

A treasury of gold from his scant coffer;

animal in pig unit Hygiene can be poor and the nutrition of the boar has received scant attention Boar is most important

the bill , which will now go before the house of representatives , allows a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer ( scant )

Effect on the Scant Displacement of Switch Rail Induced by Friction of Slide Baseplate

Compact-line Balance Line Scant Length Calculation

But that is scant consolation to suburban voters with long daily commutes to work, summer travel plans and big, inefficient CARS

this paper is scant in documentation

fat and scant of breath

he paid scant attention to my warnings

A scant cup of sugar