Sentences with phrase «scant hope of»

Women with few prospects for marriage in their own social circle had scant hope of financial security unless they found a way to make a match elsewhere.

K2 is a more limited transit survey and has scant hope of finding a mirror Earth.

And although he enjoys running and trained hard this winter (mostly in the evening or during his lunch hour) he had scant hope of competing in the big indoor meets.

Not exact matches

Recognizing scant hope in this approach, the Faith and Order Commission meeting in Lund, in 1952, decided to appoint a new commission, «Christ and His Church in the Light of the Holy Spirit.»

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.

It is this blanket criticism, with scant institutional memory, a wilful disregard of the shambles the Jonathan government left behind — even after a year — that passes Nigerians as unfeeling; and not able to appreciate the epochal chaos that Buhari and his government are battling with; from which they hope to rebuild the commonwealth.

But the scant differences found so far «offer only slim hope that something useful will come out,» says Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, director of the Federation of American Scientists» Chemical and Biological Arms Control Program, who has closely watched the federal investigation.

I was deep in the throes of exhaustion and broken, scant sleep, and again, my husband hoped this would be it, that he'd have someone to share his addiction with.

With the Dark Lord holding sway over the wizarding universe, from the Ministry of Magic to Hogwarts, hope seems scant as Harry, Hermione (Watson) and Ron (Grint) hunt the tattered remains of Voldemort's soul — their only defense against his return to full strength.

Running a scant ninety - two minutes, at least sixty of them consist of people frantically yelling at one another in the hopes the profanity — largely in front of a toddler, who's always finding and playing with a dildo as the film's running joke — keeps the viewer's interest.

However, there is scant insight into the hopes and dreams that propelled Bettie on her journey of self - discovery.

I've never experienced anything like it,» he thinks, as he lugs his scant possessions down to an apartment building at the end of the ironically - named «Calle Feliz» («Happy Street»), where he hopes to find a vacant room.

Across the globe today, some 1.6 billion people have scant access to electricity, and the designers hope to make the lamp available to 50 million of them within ten years.

I also hope that tussles at the edges of understanding, where data are scant or uncertainty is high, don't distract the public too much from the basics of climate science, which are boringly undisputed yet still speak of a rising risk that sorely needs addressing.

Months after the bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef, signs of the hoped - for recovery are scant.

Worse, a drop - off in the number of potential renters contacting leasing agents provided scant hope that occupancy would improve anytime soon at Arbor Mill, which is owned by Atlanta - based multifamily development and management firm Lane Co..