1.   Bolanos began his venture with a friend, one personal computer, scant hope of riches and no intention of abandoning his work as a producer.

2.   Across the nation, death penalty cases are mishandled at an alarming rate, with defendants often provided inappropriate counsel and scant hope of relief in appellate courts.

3.   But men who produce little or no sperm have scant hope of becoming fathers.

4.   But unlike the aforementioned jillionaires, they are under real pressure, on the scant hope lives are still at stake.

5.   Dr. Sheppard held out scant hope for the efficacy of the stone owl.

6.   It was made at a moment when there appeared scant hope of a breakthrough in the impasse over disarmament that has continually blocked progress.

7.   Leaders of the Gypsy community expressed scant hope of such a solution.

8.   Piot offered scant hopes for any improvement next year in the global AIDS picture, despite prospects for fewer deaths in the United States and Western Europe.

9.   There is scant hope among officials that a renewed appeal will raise anything near the amount to meet even a few immediate needs.

10.   They have scant hope that any peace will hold in Bosnia, and fear that American troops would be pulled into a bloody conflict.