Sentences with phrase «scant support for»

It provides scant support for the proposition (Patterson et al., 1993) that coercive behavior is learned at home and then carried to the playground.

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.

(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.)

Even among residents who endorsed the tariffs, there was scant support for hitting Canada.

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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.

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?

But while a decade - long slump in tourism has resulted in scant state support for conservation programs, not all the news from the front lines is bad: For instance, managers are making inroads against a particularly nasty invasive plant called miconia, and fences erected around preserves have helped reduce populations of pigs, goats, and other unwanted animafor conservation programs, not all the news from the front lines is bad: For instance, managers are making inroads against a particularly nasty invasive plant called miconia, and fences erected around preserves have helped reduce populations of pigs, goats, and other unwanted animaFor instance, managers are making inroads against a particularly nasty invasive plant called miconia, and fences erected around preserves have helped reduce populations of pigs, goats, and other unwanted animals.

But there is no mention of the support, if any, for research into climate change,» and «the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization... got scant mention.»

The bottom line of the hearing was strong support for human exploration of the Moon and Mars with scant attention to how it will be funded, other than Young's warning.

My day's agenda consisted of a whirlpool bath, a deep steam, and a lymphatic drainage massage — a type of bodywork celebrated in holistic circles for its ability to detoxify, but one with scant scientific support.

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.

... EdTrust's support for hiring Teach for America Corps Members, those un-credentialed, unqualified folks who have but a scant 5 weeks of summer school training and zero classroom experience — 70 % of whom leave the classroom after two years, and 85 % leave the classroom after 3 years.

Ryan, (if you're reading this) Along with countless parents, I am at a loss as to how you — or anyone else at EdTrust — can reconcile...... EdTrust's advocacy for high quality teachers for every child in California, with...... EdTrust's support for hiring Teach for America Corps Members, those un-credentialed, unqualified folks who have but a scant 5 weeks of summer school training and zero classroom experience — 70 % of whom leave the classroom after two years, and 85 % leave the classroom... Read More

The consequences of his choice won't be clear for decades, but it already is abundantly apparent in mid-2006 that the U.S. government went to war in Iraq with scant solid international support and on the basis of incorrect information — about weapons of mass destruction and a supposed nexus between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda's terrorism — and then occupied the country negligently.

The Google Nexus S isn't the best multimedia device for example, video formats supported at core level are rather scant and it has no interest in any content you might have on a media server.

For the moment, there's scant evidence to support this at any level — in the basic data on storm patterns or in tallies of damage and deaths.

The new regime comes after a similar plan was turned down in 2001 when it attracted scant support in consultation from anyone but the good for the moneyites.

For now, scant evidence supports any claims about EOS performing better than bitcoin or Ethereum.

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