Sentences with phrase «paying scant»

States, districts, and individual schools, pressed by federal policies and metrics, have concentrated attention and resources on low - achieving and other «at - risk» youngsters, while paying scant heed to the fate of smart, eager pupils.

The film opens in the present, with the Number 1, here played by Malcolm McDowell at his gleefully wicked best, puffing on a cigar at a posh club, laughing and swapping stories while sipping champagne and paying scant attention to the boxing match at which he has ringside seats.

The bad news is that after all this focus on your area of science you might tend to ramble on about the genetics of an unusual small fish, inadvertently paying scant attention to the companies needs.

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

It paid scant attention to the economic tensions which slowly developed between England and the colonies and reached their peak after the conclusion of the French and Indian War.

Crucially, in general, interventions and programmes pay scant attention to fathers — for example, few parenting interventions address father - engagement, or consider men's role in parenting (and child maltreatment); evaluated programmes aiming to promote child wellbeing or prevent violence tend to be exclusively mother - focused.

You don't have to worry about hiring a teenager who's essentially a stranger and might pay scant attention to your kids or do things in your home you don't entirely approve of.

A succession of ministers has already learned that the Prime Minister tends to let them get on with it, pays scant attention to detail during policy planning, but then finds he has to step in.

And most courts pay scant attention to how memory - evidence was collected and retrieved.

Rapid Climate Change is a real and present danger that short - sighted denialists / industrialists pay scant attention to.

Like the conclusions of Risk, the task force's recommendations pay scant attention to the educational influences that affect children outside of school.

Noting that the six national education goals adopted by President Bush and the nation's governors paid scant attention to higher education, the resolution also called on the President, the Congress, the governors, and state legislators to include higher education «in any statement of education goals.»

It paid scant attention to the K - 8 years, seeing them as providing a reasonable level of basic skills, when in fact many children were failing to gain the fundamental knowledge they would need to continue learning in subsequent years.

School and district leaders have embraced student achievement data but have paid scant attention to collecting or using data that are more relevant to improving the performance of schools and school systems.

Programs for the gifted have paid scant attention to critiques of IQ tests as narrow and arbitrary and as assessing test - taking skills rather than the ability to think critically, understand complex materials, and break new intellectual ground.

Our newly formed venture, Just the Skinny Publishing, worked hard to release its first title, Photoshop - Just the Skinny, but paid scant attention to the promotional plan that needed to follow.

«The Norwegian government's decision confirms what Global Witness and others have documented over many years: that Samling is a predatory company that pays scant regard to the laws of the countries in which it operates,» said Ashworth.

The rant pays scant regard to what Bates actually said, which is actually the issue.

Severinghaus and his associates concentrated on isotope rations for different atmospheric gases but paid scant attention to CO2 because they concluded that fractionation of gases with molecular diameters larger than 0.36 nm was insignificant.

It had little to do with meteorology, which itself was predominantly a craft that paid scant attention to physical theory.

In making its award, the Court of Appeal paid scant regard to what had hitherto been regarded as the law, viz:

This mistake pervades nearly every information privacy law, regulation, and debate, yet regulators and legal scholars have paid it scant attention.

The government responded to the concluding observations of the Committee by stating that the «Committee's report is an unbalanced and wide - ranging attack that intrudes unreasonably into Australia's domestic affairs»; that «the Committee has apparently failed to grapple with our unique and complex history»; and that the Committee «paid scant regard to the Government's input and has relied almost exclusively on information provided by non-government organisations».

Not exact matches

Workers in support of the strike argue that their employers have failed to pay overtime or provide rest breaks, and offer scant opportunities for upward mobility.

Traditionally, most attention in Canadian government support has been given to technology and product readiness, with scant attention being paid to the fact that without proper commercialization strengths a large number of Canadian start - ups have died or have been acquired for a pittance by foreign businesses which then proceeded to harvest the economic benefits for the innovations initially developed by Canadian companies.

Companies that use independent contractors, or offer scant benefits for employees, would have to add on a certain percentage of their pay as a contribution to those accounts, which would cover health care, unemployment insurance, and more.

Pay is low, turnover is high, training is scant, and safety is an afterthought, usually after someone is badly hurt.

If people are being asked if they value same - day enough to pay a premium for it, I'm not surprised only a scant few said yes.

If you've been paying even scant attention in recent years, you know football has been under the ethical microscope.

Has not the church created a new position and that is why we can find scant Scriptural support for paying the people who hold that position?

My survey in the preceding chapter documents how scant has been the attention paid in the last quarter century to the congregation's culture, idiom, or identity — its storied dimensions.

Scant attention is paid to the little people behind the scenes, tugging at the ropes and levers.

We give the lion's share of parenting leave to mothers — up to 52 weeks compared to 2 weeks (paid at a low level) for fathers — offering scant opportunity for dads to learn how to become confident, independent, hands - on carers in the crucial early months of their children's lives.

«Far too many of the new jobs currently being created are of the insecure and temporary variety, often with scant access to training and on low rates of pay, when what working people and our economy needs are highly skilled, well - paid jobs with real prospects.»

Because most of the pundits predicted an Opposition win, scant attention was paid to the commitments to science and technology contained in Keating's policy speech.

Beyond this, there is scant attention paid to two major supporters of university research: the Department of Defense (DOD) science apparatus and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

However, there has been scant attention paid to the rules and methods of cougar dating when hormones take over.

The price the filmmaker pays for refusing to replicate the propagandistic, assaultive, one - directional products of the mass media is a limited audience and scant recognition.

Washington — Despite the scant attention paid to vocational education in the report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell said last week that the nation's vocational system is nonetheless an important educational concern and should become an equal partner with college - preparatory programs.

NCLB's remedy provisions bear all the marks of concessions to various ideologies, advocates, and interest groups, with scant attention paid to how they fit together, the resources or authority they require, or whether they could be sensibly deployed through the available machinery.»

However, many countries, particularly the developing countries, are facing an acute shortage of qualified teachers, while serving teachers are paid poorly (and sometimes irregularly) and, because of the scant qualifications needed to enter, suffer from low social and professional status.

Even these simple principles may be hard to implement, some educators say, because preschool instructors are often paid far less than public schoolteachers and receive scant training.

The fact is, of course, we pay shamefully scant attention to...

The fact is, of course, we pay shamefully scant attention to our dear cousins Down Under — not entirely without reason, of course.

There's scant attention paid to the company's fundamentals, which could be poor or non-existent (think of Sino - Forest and Bre - X, both of which were in the big broad index).

Over the many years I've written on financial independence, I've paid only scant attention to a subgenre of the field known as «Early Retirement Extreme.»

Scant attention was paid to US opposition.

Authoritative sources such as EarthTrack have placed the fossil fuel industry's tax and fiscal subsidies at around $ 25 billion a year, a figure that pales beside the roughly $ 1,000 billion (one trillion dollars) paid annually for coal, oil and natural gas burned in the U.S. Do the math: withdrawing those subsidies would lead to at most a 2 - 3 percent rise in the market prices of fossil fuels — scant incentive to reduce their use and concomitant emissions of CO2.

Howard Bashman points us to these news stories, here and here, about the recent aquittal of a disgruntled customer who was prosecuted for failing to pay his restaurant bill, following his disappointment with the scant amount of seafood included in the dish.

The paid version is a scant $ 2.99.