The phrase
"scant attention" means that very little focus or importance is given to something.
Full definition
Among the many issues that were
given scant attention in the recent election campaign, foreign affairs must rank as one of the most neglected.
If you've been paying even
scant attention in recent years, you know football has been under the ethical microscope.
All value was placed on the act of counting,
with scant attention paid to exactly what was being counted.
Although growing and gathering food is humanity's most important activity, the potential global food problem is given
scant attention by either the media or in education systems.
Interestingly enough, the wars that were most important from a political and military standpoint had no overt religious dimension and consequently
received scant attention him the biblical writers.
Look, I can see his arguments in the long run, but in the intermediate term there are big issues to be dealt with that the author
gives scant attention to.
While Stefanik, a former White House aide who turns 30 next week, entered the race last August, the race received
scant attention until incumbent Bill Owens announced his retirement in January.
Scant attention also was paid to the role of the commercial sector in the future U.S. space program.
«A petty campaign that
draws scant attention outside the blogosphere, and which sways no one, will be fine by (Cuomo).»
The proposed changes to NSF's peer - review practices, which generated a firestorm last spring among White House officials, scientists, and their professional organizations, received
scant attention at today's markup.
This fundamental deficiency
garners scant attention in much of the country because, in most suburbs and rural areas, parental guidance or social support enables students to reach adulthood passably educated.
For the first time in Europe the SCHIRN is presenting a comprehensive overview of this great» artist «s artist ``, who has received
too scant attention to date.
He
devoted scant attention to it in the campaign and has delivered a mixed message about its importance since the election.
In the lead up to the introduction of the new Provincial Division, «scant attention [was] paid to the scheduling or management of cases (because they did not appear to require it) and the judge's role was simply to adjudicate the disputes that appeared on the court docket.
President Clinton gave
housing scant attention in his State of the Union address in late January, but he included initiatives that could boost investment in depressed urban and rural areas and spur homeownership among low - and moderate - income families.
Although housing issues got
scant attention during the campaign, Trump's tax - change plans, linked up with ideas already proposed on Capitol Hill, could contain some jolts for many people.
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.»
W.F.P. leaders have tried to remind voters in recent weeks to cast their ballots for the third party, which has received
scant attention from Cuomo since he won the party's endorsement in May by promising, among other things, to campaign for Democratic control in the State Senate.
The story received
scant attention until the Wall Street Journal reported last week that Trump's longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, negotiated a secret $ 130,000 payment to secure her silence days before the 2016 presidential election.
Like Hillary Clinton, Trump paid
disappointingly scant attention to education issues on the campaign trail, perhaps fearing, as she did, the alienation of potential voters who were feverishly caught up in various «education wars» over «hot button» issues like charter schools, Common Core, teacher evaluation, and testing.
The fact is, of course, we pay
shamefully scant attention to our dear cousins Down Under — not entirely without reason, of course.
They weren't popular then and, in the ensuing years, they have been given
scant attention by scholars and almost excluded from Pollock exhibitions.
Stage two — shrewdly using that experience in your application and interview to really impress a potential employer — is an area often
given scant attention, and yet it could be the difference between getting the job, and not.
But Mr. Doniger said the lesser greenhouse gases, including HFC's, often end up
getting scant attention in climate - treaty talks.
Garbage on both islands, but especially on Kecil, is a major problem which appears to be
receiving scant attention from hoteliers.
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.
It has received
scant attention, but one possibility Amazon floats in its criteria is «a greenfield site of approximately 100 acres certified or pad ready, with utility infrastructure in place.»
With a few exceptions, one of which Ms. Boyd noted in her essay — Graber's employment of internal rhyme of the words «coo,» «soothe,» «vacuum,» and «womb» to interesting effect in her poem «Dead Man» — Graber pays
scant attention to such sonic devices, another reason why her lines tend to lack the music of well - honed verse.
Coontz gives
scant attention to these sources.
Second, they can join the evangelicalism stampede, providing heart - warming and entertaining experiences, which will provide very little connection to serious thinkers today, and gives
scant attention, except for a few voices like Sojourners, to the truly catastrophic issues in the Social and the Cultural areas described above.
In fact, much pastoral guidance tends to focus on interpersonal sharing and helping skills, giving
scant attention to the potential contribution of theology in the pastoral care of the grieving and bereaved.
Though the phrase «just society» appears in the title of Dodaro's book, there is
scant attention to the corporate dimension of the city of God.