But there is scant evidence to support this view.

However, there is scant evidence that he personally performed alchemical experiments.

Firm evidence for specific early performances of the play is scant.

What safety they had was very scant.

What little was published during his lifetime attracted scant public attention.

Parasites, pimps, and courtesans often praise the gods with scant ceremony.

The rainfall, scant as it is, also presents the threat of flooding and has been a danger since earliest times.

Peter Nolasco Sources for the origins of the Mercedarians are scant and almost nothing is known of the founder, St. Peter Nolasco.

Moreover, for developing countries that were foolish enough to sign such agreements, the evidence is that the benefits, if any, have been scant.

Language and writing Knowledge of the spoken and written language of the Minoans is scant, due to the small number of records found.

But I was disappointed in the scant and scattered information available online on Guyanese writers and their work.

Lettow Vorbeck then assembled his men and their scant supplies to attack the British railways in East Africa.

But one thing is clear a great game is beginning among Asia s great powers, and there are scant rules in place to manage how it will be played.

There was scant opportunity for a musical career in Russia at that time, and no system of public music education.

Although some scattered reports describe mass killings of dodos for ships' provisions, archaeological investigations have found scant evidence of human predation.

While evidence is scant, one has to assume that this support came in recognition of the Order's work in ransoming captives in a war zone that remained quite active.

Critics point to his sometimes reckless sexual behavior to his scant legislative record and to his failure to match words with deeds.

Many of us work for or hold stock in commercial organizations that seem to pay scant regard to national tax or regulatory authorities.

Scant details have survived regarding the criteria used by the Portuguese government in its selection of Cabral as head of the India expedition.

Bismarck believed that Wilhelm was a lightweight who could be dominated, and he showed scant respect for Wilhelm's policies in the late 1880s.

According to the scant information he s provided about himself, he is well spoken because he comes from an intelligentsia family and was a straight A student in school and at the university.

Hollande s reference point seems to be the post war idyll of his youth, a time of rapid growth, demographic recovery, scarce immigration, and scant global competition.

In 1930 s Spain, of course, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy fully supported General Francisco Franco s rebellion, while the democracies reluctantly offered scant help to the Spanish Republic.

The 12th century English historians and chroniclers Walter Map and William of Newburgh recorded accounts of revenants, though records in English legends of vampiric beings after this date are scant.

There's scant chance of life there that's because there's been no time for the nuclear fusion in stars to make silicon and carbon and iron, the building blocks of planets and of life.

Dissemination of news about the tragedy has also been scant and weak, as the state owned Iranian radio and television (IRIB) have mostly kept quiet about the extent and depth of the disaster, and the imminence of more complications, is escalating by the minute.

In a shrinking economy, a country s debt to GDP ratio rises rather than falls, and Europe s recession ridden crisis countries have now saved themselves into a depression, resulting in mass unemployment, alarming levels of poverty, and scant hope.

The summit took place against a background of scant progress in negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program and growing pressure from Israel for the international community to establish a trigger a line that the Islamic Republic must not cross.

A parade of government subsidies is going to proposed big box and stadium developments in the South Bronx, but there is scant coordination between city agencies on how to deal with the cumulative effects of increased traffic, pollution, solid waste and the impacts on open space. And their approaches to local economic and job development are so lame it's not even funny.

And it lay precisely in that insatiable curiosity, that irrepressible desire to know, no matter what the subject, no matter what the cost, even at a time when the keepers of the Doomsday Clock are willing to bet even money that the human race won't be around to imagine anything in the year 2100, a scant 93 years from now.

Finally, as the committee representing energy, we would have liked the issue of support for renewable energy resources from Cohesion and Regional Development funds to have been emphasised still more, thus, through a process of coordination, increasing the use of renewables so that the scant funding resources in the energy programme might have been compensated by means of these more substantial sums.

It's the spell of journalists by the police apparatus of the state from the construction site of the most expensive work of the history of Brazil under a full democracy,.... made with public money, with very serious human and environmental impacts, scant evidence of its usefulness, many accusations of violation against the law, and on this weekend , the unbelievable novelty of journalists being expelled by the police, during a full democracy.

Of the District's population, 17 is Baptist, 13 is Catholic, 6 is Evangelical Protestant, 4 is Methodist Pietist, 3 is Episcopalian Anglican, 3 is Jewish, 2 is Eastern Orthodox, 1 is Pentecostal, 1 is Buddhist, 1 is Adventist, 1 is Lutheran, 1 is Muslim, 1 is Buddhist, 1 is Presbyterian, 1 is Mormon, and 1 is Hindu.

Is it Plato, is it Aristotle, is it Kant, is it Mill?

This is your life. This is ... this is ... this is your life.

The length is , the width is , the height is , the wheelbase is , and the curb weight is .

Five is blue, seven is yellow, eight is chartreuse, nine is indigo, OK?

What it is is intelligence is defined by prediction.

Is it prey? Is it predator? Is it mate?

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Is the information verifiable? Is it a hoax? Is it true? Is it what?

So it is better, it is safer it is affordable, it is energy efficient.

There is birth, there is death, there is issuing forth, there is entering in.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present .

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.