Sentences with phrase «scant knowledge of»

Having access to this carcass is incredibly exciting for us as so little is known about these animals, their diet and biology... this is a once - in - a-lifetime opportunity for us to collect detailed data and to add significantly to the scant knowledge of this species.

Journalists with deadlines and scant knowledge of the field quite often do not know where to go for this context on papers that are being pushed by some of the partisan think - tanks or other interested parties.

A great many urban dwellers go bushwalking, climbing, abseiling, rafting and canoeing poorly equipped, without proper navigation and survival skills, with scant knowledge of weather conditions and of the fickleness of the weather and without telling anybody of their plans.

Not exact matches

My knowledge of the British diplomacy service is scant; it is gleaned solely from avid viewing of Spooks and devouring of John le Carre novels.

This is laughable, because even with my scant economic knowledge and misspent youth I remember that in 2010 most of these newspapers and analysts were supporting his policies to the hilt.

«One of the biggest barriers for broader understanding is that there is scant knowledge on the female genitalia of reptiles, compared to a relatively large body of literature on male genital development and diversity,» she said.

I think our analytic knowledge of biology is still too scant to comprehend the complexity of health and diet and all the individual physiologic / metabolic differences between us.

After a scant few supporting turns, Purcell's first major starring role arrived with his lead portrayal in the series John Doe (2002), a kind of cross between Coronet Blue and The Bourne Identity about a supremely intelligent fellow with knowledge about everything in the world except for his own identity.

The striking teachers — and politicians caving to them — lack a rudimentary knowledge of the real reasons teacher salaries aren't as high as they want and their school books and materials are old and scant.

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.

They had limited pedagogical knowledge and scant opportunity for critical reflection limiting the depth of their classroom interactions.

Most GPDVMs have never heard of the disease, or if they have, their knowledge is scant.

«The Conservative Party now has scant direct knowledge of the northern cities.

There is only scant knowledge about how these variables relate to psychological violence, and hence these analyses were not deemed appropriate for the purpose of assessing validity.