For decades Israel drilled for oil with scant success.

数十年来，以色列在石油开采方面不算成功。

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Vietnam has hesitantly dabbled in credit-guarantee funds in the past, primarily at the provincial level, with scant success.

越南曾经也迟疑地涉及过信贷担保基金，主要是各省提供担保，收效甚微。

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Yet the United States has spent much of the past decade trying to do precisely that in Iraq and Afghanistan, at great cost and with scant success.

然而，在过去几十年，美国却在伊拉克和阿富汗做着同样的事情：代价惨痛，收效却甚微。

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Some say the front-runner is Amr Moussa, now 75, who served as Mr Mubarak's foreign minister for a decade and then led the toothless Arab League with scant success.

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The Duma had already rejected Mr Chernomyrdin twice, and would probably have done so again (not surprisingly for five years, until he was sacked in March, he governed with scant success).

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Dr Williams responded to the criticism by saying his earlier comments on sharia law had met with "scant success".

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