Sentences with phrase «making scant»

So why is Connecticut turning students and families away from charter schools in droves and making scant effort to meet this demonstrable public need?

Psoriasis is notoriously difficult to treat, and many practitioners have a tendency to treat psoriasis mainly by recommending different kinds of creams, lotions and ointments for topical application while making scant dietary recommendations, and only rarely offer lifestyle advice.

I recommend making scant measurements of everything for the sauce and then adding more of this - and - that to taste to round it out.

As he huffed and puffed and made scant progress, a light bulb suddenly blazed for Frayne.

Elsewhere, the Department's Third Offset Strategy — a touted effort initiated under President Obama to maintain and accelerate superiority in advanced technology areas like hypersonics and human - machine collaboration — makes scant appearance in this year's budget request, even though Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work, a key architect of the strategy in the prior administration, has so far stayed on at the Pentagon.

Then again, Vinterberg seems to have rather clumsily loaded the story in favour of the smouldering Schoenaerts, who makes scant effort on the accent front but lets his glowering looks do the talking — a world away from Alan Bates's earlier reading, where the character's sheer decency has to work extra-hard to outweigh a seriously unappealing vintage beard.

The female characters, alas, are given considerably less to do: Sophie Cookson makes scant impression as one of Eggsy's fellow recruits; and Sofia Boutella, who plays Valentine's right - hand woman, is notable principally for her razor sharp prosthetic legs — an ironic updating (and not the only one) of Rosa Klebb's switchblade shoes in From Russia with Love.

Sally Field's Aunt May makes scant impression and over-familiarity haunts the «I know I'm not your dad» exchanges between Peter and Martin Sheen's Uncle Ben, although the repetition is deepened by Garfield's bubbling emotions and leavened by Sheen at his warm, witty best as Ben embarrasses Peter at school.

«While current literature on school dropouts makes scant reference to specific needs of middle - grades students, current literature on middle - level education largely...

The history of American education as taught today to prospective teachers makes scant mention of Kandel.

It's a tough, efficient retailing machine that makes a scant three pennies in profit on every dollar in goods it moves off the store shelves.

NYT coverage has made scant mention of these issues, although the connections are well - documented; blame was put on older technology but sufferers» experiences indicate that the problems have not been eliminated.

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For one thing, the budget for these types of projects can be scant, and it's up to the startups to make ends meet.

It's been two months since Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico on Sept. 20, and daily life is still a grind on the island with a new slate of problems for residents on the ground and scant progress on the horizon.

Six administrations have made similar pledges, with scant success.

While fighting games peaked in the 1990s with the rise (and fall) of arcades, a scant handful of blockbusters managed to make the transition from arcade to home consoles successfully.

Our monkey brains panic when resources are scant — which makes consumers more likely to buy.

Even the Pope's understandable nostalgia for the European welfare - state too much scants the self - interests, self - deceptions, and false presuppositions that are bringing that system to a crisis of its own making.

Even though huge numbers of us are exhausted and isolated as our mothers never were, feminists, corporate leaders, and the child - care lobby are effectively forcing us to remain in the workforce against our deepest wishes, our lives made just bearable by scant leave and scanter subsidy.

And yet the models offered by the social sciences for making sense of modern religion pay scant attention to these international and global realities.

I made half a batch using 150g of dates and only 1 scant tablespoon of maple syrup, because I felt like they'd be a bit too sweet considering all those dates I had already put in!

* Make your own buttermilk by adding 1 tablespoon white vinegar or lemon juice to a scant 1 1/4 cup of whole milk.

okay, i made them again, this time dialing the salt back to a scant teaspoon to account for the salted butter, and only using 3.5 T of sugar.

Just made this, had to create my own curry powder because I had a scant of some in a spice botttle.

The dessert selection is somewhat scant, with a couple selections erring on the sweet side (spiced pudding sounds intriguing, with half the sugar listed); some other sound positively outrageous: The oatmeal cookies (making them); molasses cake; halvah chocolate bars (must make them for my daughter who goes gaga for all things halva); anise rings (I pray this recipe finally turns some recalcitrant American palates onto anise).

* I make my own buttermilk by measuring a scant 1/2 cup of either 2 % or whole milk and adding about a teaspoon and a half of white distilled vinegar or lemon juice.

The salsa verde will yield a scant 1 cup and can be made a day in advance.

** To make your own buttermilk, measure out a scant cup of milk and add 1 tablespoon of lemon juice or vinegar (this recipe calls for 2 1/4 cups, so measure accordingly).

* You can make your own buttermilk by measuring a scant 3/4 cup of milk (whole or 2 %) and adding about 2 teaspoons of lemon juice or vinegar.

I made this two times and both times the recipe made a VERY scant two layers, not three, and they were flat!

To make a deeper cake, measure your other, 9 × 13 inch deeper pan with water to a scant half full.

Tuesday: Pad Thai (made with gf soy sauce and no egg) with Asian slaw (modifying with scant amount of oil and sugar and adding crucifers in the form of broccoli slaw) for us and Hokensons.

Bought vegan breakfast patties can be so expensive, and these satisfy the fast - food - like horrible / lovely cravings just fine I made them gluten free by subbing the flour and wheat bran with just over 1 and 1/2 cups of my usual gf flour (1:1:1 of chickpea flour: arrowroot flour: almond meal + about 2 Tbsp ground flax meal + scant 1 / 2tsp xantham gum for every 1 cup of mix) and they turned out fantastic!

If you are buying oat flour, not making your own, measure out 7 oz / scant 2 cups.

Note: makes six servings, for a single batch divide by 6 = 1 cup flour, scant 1 Tbsp.

I use the same method for making crust, with a scant 2/3 «s cup canola oil and enough cold water to make a cup of liquid.

I make a wonderful pasta bake with onions and a tin of tomatoes into which I whisk a scant tbs flour - cook onions first, then add tomato / flour mix and bring to the boil, stirring all the time.

Our favorite version makes a quadruple batch where we add a scant 1t vanilla, 1 / 2t salt, 1T coconut flour, 2T almond flour, 1t cinnamon (they only ingredient in the original recipe that is not X 4), and 1 / 4t nutmeg.

Into a blender I put 4 extra large eggs, 8 oz of cut up cream cheese chunks, and a scant 1/4 cup gluten free biscuit mix (my personal favorite is made my a Denver gluten - free bakery and the first ingredient is rice flour... so there is a bit of carbs), and that's it.

scant 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper or to taste - note, I just add a dash or 2 when I am making a half serving of this for myself and find that just fine.

1 pound carrots, peeled, trimmed, and halved crosswise 1 medium garlic clove scant 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin 1/4 teaspoon ground coriander 1 teaspoon red wine vinegar 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice 2 tablespoons tahini — made with roasted (not raw) sesame seeds, well stirred 1/2 teaspoon Himalayan salt

Georgia had won three of four to keep its scant NCAA Tournament hopes alive, but it will need to upset Tennessee again on Saturday and make a long run in the league tournament next week.

The Crispins are from NJ (I believe that was Jerry Dunn), and Dechellis made frankly scant attempt to recruit Philly.

Reportedly, there is scant spectator interest in the coming tournament whereas, in the past, it was said that football made the most money of any Olympic event, including its centrepiece, the athletics.

A debut appearance against Yeovil provides scant grounds to make an early verdict, but Sanchez earned the praises of Mourinho nonetheless, with Mourinho believing that Sanchez brings «maturity and experience» to the side.

The first two games will be played without Rooney, but to be frank, when he did come on early in the second half, against Belgium, he made surprisingly scant impact.

That Southgate has been bold enough to support him now is a tribute to the manager and something of a reproach to Wenger, who has himself praised Wilshere publicly but still made such scant use of him in the top team.

The women sign a guest book and leave, seeming to give scant notice to the array of art on the walls, a series of cardboard and papier - mache neo-primitive masks made by Sperry and Abshire in a virtual Crayola box of hues, or the chair in which Sperry is sitting, an ingenious contraption made from bicycle parts by artist Andrew Gregg.

But thanks to what appears to be a rather lucrative five - year contract deal — it's hard to tell, exactly, because scant details on the agreement have been made public — Donohue appears to have had a change of heart where Cuomo and his political aspirations are concerned, though the union president's newfound magnanimous attitude toward the governor likely won't extend beyond 2018.

The usual disclaimer for proceedings: I will make several typos, not just because of my scant regard for proper spelling and grammar and also because that is the way with live coverage.