scantiness


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(99) The scantiness of Gelayev's paramilitary outfit was especially marked by the time he reached Pankisi in mid-2001.
On the scantiness of direct market research see Miguel Angel Flores, "Vinos argentinos en EEUU: Entre marketing y mujeres," LosAndes online (September 16, 2007).
e) when considering the cityscape's objects and details, the following essential difference should be discerned: the polis reveals a small shape variety and a great detail variety related with their functions; contrariwise, the megapolis demonstrates a great variety of shape unrelated with concrete functions and the scantiness of details that frequently specify the function.
Folsom reports that Moley--organizer of the original "Brains Trust"--wrote the following about Roosevelt in 1936: "I was impressed as never before by the utter lack of logic of the man, the scantiness of his precise knowledge of things that he was talking about....
In the first case, they protested against an alleged scantiness of clothing; in the second case, against an alleged excess of clothing.
The scantiness of work on this tribe is so immense that I was not surprised to read Alexander W.
Most likely owing to the scantiness of relevant information and the lack of a scientific basis, the practice has not drawn due scholarly attention.
a Kind of Revenging our selves upon the Narrowness of our Faculties, by exemplifying that extraordinary Charity upon One or Two which we both owe, and are also ready and disposed, but by reason of the Scantiness of our Condition, are not sufficiently able to exercise towards all.
The scantiness of materials is indeed a formidable difficulty; but no one knows better than Dr.
This division is becoming more common in the Chinese medical literature as genetic factors are becoming more and more recognized.) Under former heaven causes, Wang lists systemic yin vacuity with fluid and humor depletion and scantiness and systemic yang vacuity with inability to move water.
In the Belle Epoque literary tradition, the nature of Asia invoked a sense of oblivion and scantiness of human effort; it was reminiscent of merciless forces that were wiping off the traces of human existence from the face of the earth.
Appearing a few weeks later in the Sydney Gazette, with his customary apology for the 'exceeding scantiness of my knowledge of their language', the untranslated 'Songs' stand out starkly amidst the dense columns of colonial news.
While some of these sites are serious and open to improvement, the major deficiency of all the Arab environmental sites is their lack of interaction with the public and the paucity of users reflected in the scantiness of comments, and failure to attract "chatters."