Sentences with phrase «scant support»
"Scant support" means that there is very little or not enough assistance or backing provided. Full definition
The reform movement received scant support... from the powerful professional organizations that represent the managers of the nation's schools and school systems.
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He said the government's schools reforms were «a free market experiment brought in at break - neck speed with scant supporting evidence».
He ended his quest to develop that site because of scant support from local political leaders, according to a representative.
Oil prices got scant support from the equities market.
In addition, two large - scale U.S. investigations revealed scant support for the idea that St. John's wort could ease depression.
Kingston Republican Committee Chairman Tony Sinagra said that he had hoped that Polacco would abandon the mayoral contest after he received scant support at the party's June convention.
A rehabilitated Irwin has now pivoted into theoretical physics, a field in which fantastical claims with scant supporting evidence can still boast a degree of respectability.
For instance, there was scant support for using genome editing to enhance a germline; just 26 % of people found that acceptable and 51 % said it was unacceptable.
Or, in fact, a critique of the American war machine which sends young men out to be slaughtered and provides them with scant support?
Even among residents who endorsed the tariffs, there was scant support for hitting Canada.
(That's one reason there's scant support for the second sentence in that glacier statement above, which definitively fingers greenhouse gases from humans as the main cause of the ice loss.)
This scant support stands in stark contrast to the right wing, which invested early and heavily in its systems for identifying, tracking, testing, training, inspiring, and placing thousands of emerging leaders.
As I explain above, there is scant support for using contractions in briefs, and no support for using contractions in ultra-formal legal documents such as contracts or wills.
There's been scant support for the Mac operating system from publishers of specialized real estate software, Web sites, and MLS providers.