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The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, which led the previous government) has criticized the current administration for not “expressing concern over the use of force by the Chinese government” and instead “adopting a policy of appeasement towards China with scant regard to the country’s national honor and foreign policy independence.”
Others admit to having scant regard for religion, but say that Pakistan has come to mean so little to them that their religion supersedes their loyalty to the country.
America, eager to bring both Ukraine and Georgia into NATO, felt scant need to consider Russian concerns, convinced that the Kremlin would have no choice but to bow to the inevitable.
Unfortunately, there is scant support for this idea.
Even though reform bolstered economic growth by improving productivity in the non-agricultural economy, scant progress was made in raising the living standards of the poor.
In Afghanistan, that so-called war has essentially been based on eradication campaigns and alternative livelihood projects, which have achieved only scant results.
Apart from the significant cumulative appreciation of the US dollar, there are scant similarities between the current environment and 1985.
China’s direct investment in Africa has grown from a scant $500 million in 2003 to $15 billion in 2012.
And there is scant evidence to support the claim that businesspeople somehow embody pragmatism, given that so many powerful US business leaders are committed ideologues.
The constitution says that power belongs to the people, but in reality the rights of the people belong to the Communist Party and its leaders, from whom workers and peasants receive scant attention.
While the negotiations officially continued, scant progress was made.
Moreover, because the elected deputies from Unity joined the party for no other purpose but election, their discipline is likely to be scant.
There is scant empirical evidence for this set of conditions, because such cases were rare until recently.
There was scant hope that my life would be better than that of my mother and, more dispiriting, even less hope that I would be able to build a better life for my young daughter.
The Front’s scant number of elected officials reflects the strategy pursued by its two main adversaries, the Socialist Party and President Nicolas Sarkozy’s Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP, formerly the Gaullist party), which have essentially shared all elected posts at the national and local level since the 1980’s.
Yet when it came to US action, the most that the US could offer financially was slight debt relief for Egypt ($1 billion), scant loan guarantees ($1 billion), and some insurance coverage for private investments.
Apart from an on-again, off-again private market in the capital, Pyongyang, as well as the occasional side-of-the-road vegetable market, there are scant signs that North Korea is reforming, or that anyone in the leadership is (or was) pushing for it.
But what happens to scientists and other scholars, such as those in the Middle East, who have different research concerns from – and scant connections to – the professional journals that can make or break an academic/scientific career?
This official effort to portray native “Taiwanese” as a separate ethnic group, with scant relation to Chinese culture, was extended to language, as Chen favored using the Fujian dialect in lieu of the Mandarin spoken by 1.3 billion Chinese and taught all over the world.
After all, there is scant support for the notion that violence-related issues are sufficient to move people to throw political incumbents out.
Consequently, it pays scant attention to how the choice between work and leisure promised by economists can be made effective for all.
Perhaps the world economy is at a turning point, just ahead of the American bubble bursting at last, so that it is even now possible to put the US success in perspective as something that "obviously could not last", not with America's big external deficits, scant household savings, and prosperity driven by paper wealth.
TB not only gets scant attention, but also a fraction of health funding.
Moreover, for developing countries that were foolish enough to sign such agreements, the evidence is that the benefits, if any, have been scant.
Even when generic-brand essential medicines are available, they often are unaffordable for low-income patients in countries with scant state subsidies and no risk-pooling insurance mechanisms.
On a grander scale, Putin’s Russia has become a great power in terms of energy production, but that looks to be temporary, as scant investment is being made to maintain and improve the oil and gas fields.
Bachelet’s margin of victory was far larger than the scant 31,000 votes that brought Lagos to power in January 2000.
It draws scant media attention or celebrity firepower, which are often crucial to attracting charitable donations to a cause.
According to an old Chinese saying, “a just cause enjoys abundant support, while an unjust cause finds scant support.”
As a result, China has little control over its neighbor and purported ally, and probably scant knowledge of what is going on there.
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