Sentences with phrase «scant time»

Stec has long lashed Albany's culture of tying policy proposals to the budget and passing a flurry of bills at the last minute, giving lawmakers scant time to read and digest the legislation.

After focusing on producing my first CD last year after two decades of songwriting and performing with Uncle Wade, Breakneck Ridge Revue and Pete Seeger, I've had scant time for tunes of late.

Other countries, like the US and India, want to delay even discussing a deal until then, leaving scant time to the desired emissions peak in 2020.

Humanity has pushed the world's climate system to the brink, leaving itself only scant time to act, the head of the UN's group of climate scientists said on Monday.

As Congress stares at a Friday deadline to fund the government, the reality that members will have scant time to actually read or process the $ 1.3 trillion fiscal 2018 omnibus before voting on it is starting to sink in.

With just over eight months left in his term, Paterson has scant time to salvage any semblance of a positive legacy from his troubled tenure.

«Nineteen days left,» Democratic City Council candidate Frank Gulluscio told a supporter who greeted him as he entered Sapienza Bagels and Deli in Howard Beach last Thursday for a buttered sesame bagel and coffee, referring to the scant time remaining before the Nov. 3 general election.

They carp about their lack of participation in the preparation of the budget, the scant time they have to evaluate it and the lack of an open process.

They had scant time to serve teachers as instructional leaders and even less for their own professional growth and development.

Cash - strapped school districts in areas ravaged by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are worried they may have to return federal aid meant to cover the cost of educating displaced students because a federal deadline allows them scant time to determine how to use the money.

They warn that scant time is left to reduce heat - trapping emissions to safer levels.

In the scant time we had together at the law clinic, I tried to guide him to some resources that I thought he might find helpful.

The decision does not reflect a sense of urgency and the scant time dedicated means it is unlikely to result in significant steps forward.