How To Use Hardly a In A Sentence
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Destiny's Wild even went so far as to gripe that Neapolitan had stolen their idea of singing the song a Capella, which is hardly a novel concept.
IGN TV
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Grasses, flax, astelia, griselinia, and coprosma are generally quite hardly and will stand a good deal of rough and tumble before they turn up their toes.
Rotorua Daily Post
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Hardly a day passes without more bad news about the economy .
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Vocab from The Varieties of Religious Experience aseity the property by which a being exists of and from itself; usually used in connection to God apodictic Necessarily or demonstrably true; incontrovertible.concatenated To connect or link in a series or chain.decide Of course, I already knew the definition; it's hardly an unusual word.
Archive 2005-08-01
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However, it is hardly an unsolvable mystery: remember that there were plants with sap, leaves, seeds, spores and pollen in the Paleozoic, long before flowering plants appeared.
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My grandfather's Purple Heart ," Frank replied with hardly a moment's hesitation.
DEVIL'S CLAW
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His St. Petersburg is another "Unreal City" whose wraithlike inhabitants leave hardly a smudge where they've passed.
A Master of Technique
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Obama has hardly any political experience prior to his precedency.
McCain to vote against Sotomayor
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D'ye know, that Irish lunatic absolutely ran the gauntlet of pandy fire to get back into Lucknow, and bring out Outram and Havelock in person (with the poor old Gravedigger hardly able to hobble along) just so that they could greet Sir Colin as he covered the last few furlongs?
Fiancée
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The other kind of holiday I like is going 10 miles from where you live, so that you have hardly any travelling time.
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Wanting a decent job and a home is hardly asking for the moon.
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The idea of consultation with disabled people is hardly a new one.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was hardly a dry eye in the cemetery as we farewelled a friend and relative.
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Michael was hardly able to think straight as he started to feel the effects of the pills, his vision foggy, and his mind a total mess.
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Yet this is hardly an accurate assessment.
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For most managers, hardly a day goes by without confronting the challenge of employee motivation.
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Having said which, the goddesses Thetis, Athena, Hera and indeed the Trojan women, Hecuba and Andromache (and to an extent Helen) are all interesting characters in their own rights; as are most of the men, several of whom (this is hardly a spoiler) get horribly killed off during the conflict.
March Books 17) The Iliad, by Homer
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Hardly a day goes by without a snippet to evoke the ghost of negative equity that followed the 1990s crash.
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He looked up, hardly able to see her through the herringbone patterns that coruscated in front of his eyes.
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It looked, to be sure, nothing like the milky portraits we had been shown in Sunday school, looked hardly at all like the handsome gentleman with the Aryan profile and the five-hundred-watt glow who effulged at us from calendars in Protestant parlors all over Dixie.
Another Roadside Attraction
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Going into the final day on Thursday, there is hardly a threat to her title claim as second placed Nikita Arjun, Saniya Sharma, Nitika Jadeja and Nalini
The Hindu - Front Page
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Hardly anyone has bothered to reply.
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I would hazard a bet that hardly anyone knew or cared what the creators said.
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I know hardly anything about climate models: anything involving fluid mechanics is pretty much a closed book to me.
Climate Bet Details, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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There was hardly a spare inch of space to be found.
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The desert air contains hardly any moisture.
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Deplorable as this preference may be, it's hardly as deplorable as the gulf which these cultural assumptions themselves created between the lowbrow public and the university-educated art world and artists.
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Though Antonio Valencia is hardly a like for like replacement for Ronaldo he is an exciting winger, with all the pace and control necessary to exploit the space he will find on United's right.
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Unfortunately, due to the large number of papers presented at most sessions, hardly any discussion took place.
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Ol 'Chuck there's hardly an Islamic scholar; his level of "scholarship" is too little to impress even a Muslim.
JAFI Charles Johnson
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Your first example hearkens back to the idea of quickening — the point at which a woman “feels” a child inside — hardly at the moment of fertilziation, indeed, often not until week 20 or even later depending on how the placenta is situated.
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I get hardly any mail, bar the occasional postcard from my mother.
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But hardly anyone has fussed about a more practical concern: Some of the more elaborate plate designs make it difficult to read the tag numbers.
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I have ordered them not of chintz, but moreen, which is against your taste, and hardly according to my own; but the latter article proved on enquiry to be far the thriftier as well as the most comfortable; and therefore the best adapted for our purpose.
New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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The thing is, hardly anybody installs a silent alarm these days, except as a supplementary sys-tem.
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His is the remarkable story of a young man with hardly any academic ability.
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We couldn't have asked for a better day, around 19 degrees Celsius, a slight breeze and hardly a cloud in the sky.
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Romani, Imperium Populi Romani, Fortuna Populi Romani_, glitter out of the voluminous periods with a splendour that hardly any other words could give.
Latin Literature
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One searches the family portraits for resemblances and finds hardly a trace.
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The latest news from the terror front is hardly all grim.
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If you read these lines out loud, you can hardly avoid getting an impression of the intended rhythm.
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The renewed violence this week hardly augurs well for smooth or peaceful change.
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The renewed violence this week hardly augurs well for smooth or peaceful change.
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Over to the left I saw an unhappy little urchin, hardly a rag covering his shivering, bleeding body, grovelling piteously in the snow, while his blind and goitrous mother did her best at gathering firewood with a hatchet.
Across China on Foot
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There's hardly a bit of a pig you can't eat, from the head boiled up in a stewy soup to the trotters with their savoury jelly and morsels of meat.
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The cutlass was a clumsy weapon, but sea fighting was hardly a fine art.
Sharpe's Devil
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There is hardly any pleasure like good oarsmanship.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
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With hardly a credible debate on the rationale and justification of rapid disinvestment, some of the most profitable or strategically important public sector undertakings are being privatised.
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The children were hardly awake and watched Tess with big round eyes.
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The army, however, is hardly a neutral arbiter.
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If we had in our power the pen which traced the delicate marvels of Queen Mab, not bigger than an agate that glitters on the finger of an alderman, of her liny chariot, of her diaphanous team, only then should we succeed in giving an idea of a purely ideal talent into which matter enters hardly at all.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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But it's hardly a name that will have long-suffering fans excited.
The Sun
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Instead of urging more diversification, the antitrade prescription winds up suggesting less—hardly a recipe for resilience.
The Fantasy of Survivalism
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A column headed ITV Watch, possibly with a comma and an exclamation mark, would be far more useful, because hardly anyone does.
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My main gripe is that hardly any of the short-list have been able to infuse their performances with even the slightest hint of emotion.
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The sun was pouring down, with hardly a breath of wind.
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If they come back to us and say there is hardly any money, we would be in stasis (a state of stagnation).
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Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.
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Hardly anybody now alive is old enough ever to have seen and heard that boisterous old callithump known as a "dyke," which was famous enough once upon a time.
In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893.
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She drove, gripping the wheel in a trance, hardly aware of her surroundings.
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He hardly ate, a bag of nuts or dry bread seeing him through the day.
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If we must choose between a society that is in fact liberal and an illiberal society that scrupulously avoids formal racial criteria, we can hardly appeal to the ideals of liberal pluralism to prefer the latter.
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It's not that bad because we are only four points of a play-off spot so it's hardly as if we are in a poor position.
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But scratch the surface and it was hardly a ringing endorsement.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is hardly a trace of social realism in this concerto, which seems blithely unconcerned about the world around it.
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Even last night, in all the kerfuffle, there was hardly a cheep out of her.
THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
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It seems that hardly a game goes by without the officials making a wrong call.
The Sun
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It's not that bad because we are only four points of a play-off spot so it's hardly as if we are in a poor position.
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The onion bhaji, though hardly a revelation, was polished off fairly smartly by Tim.
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Despite this disillusioning experience, there has been hardly any internal dissidence.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He was wedged in the hole with hardly any room.
Times, Sunday Times
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I smiled a polite greeting, but the woman hardly acknowledged me.
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He could hardly adapt the style of the building's closest neighbour, the Soviet-like Novotel Hotel.
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He can hardly afford an apartment.
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Well,' said Jo, her hackles rising immediately, `she's hardly a doctor, is she?
TEN STEPS TO HAPPINESS
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St Thomas was hardly a "dumb ox" despite his handle.
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Kocher delivers concentrated doses of unadorned reality - not necessarily harsh and brutal but hardly always pretty, either.
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Then she would do housework, but it was such an austere cottage that there was hardly anything to do.
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Broughan is hardly alone in feeling piqued at the dearth of vision amongst the suits at Queen Margaret Drive.
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The threat of dissolution is hardly a sanction to wield against dissident MPs.
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He had an amazing escape when he was trapped under a 30-ton skip for 90 minutes and emerged with hardly a scratch.
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The result is that most workers found they were left with hardly anything to live on and were unable to pay back the debt.
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In the first-half, it was hardly a see-saw, ding-dong cup battle - City's excellently organised defence and master-plan saw to that - but it was intriguing all the same.
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I was hardly allowed out of the house for fears I'd commit a sin and earn an all-inclusive family vacation in the fiery pits of Hell.
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It's hardly a scalable solution.
Times, Sunday Times
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But this is hardly a definitive answer to the question of handedness.
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They didn't dim their lights; hardly any driver that passed by dimmed his lights.
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Hardly anyone in the town escaped the slaughter when the rebels were defeated.
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Her body accepted the organ with hardly a problem and she resumed her active life.
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Cherokee stalls have long been notable for their supremely gentle nature, sometimes, hardly a stall at all.
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As my father never spoke of his life before marrying, and for truth said hardly a word regarding anything at all, I did not know his history before he plied his trade as farmer in Billerica.
Excerpt: The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
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Hardly anybody attends when it has something to decide on.
The Sun
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The military's hardly a monolithic organization, and you can always find someone in the service who didn't like one of his brothers in arms.
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Criticising the work of such a combative figure is hardly a low-risk occupation.
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Though Buckley is hardly a logician, he is – at his level – a kind of syllogist, and this is what I think, he is trying to say: If liberals think faggotry okay and I call one of them a faggot, why is that wrong in their eyes since there is nothing wrong in being one?
R_urell: William F. Buckley: Father of Modern "Conservatism"
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There was hardly any telly then, so we were avid viewers.
The Sun
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And while it was hardly a pop revolution, there was a simple, unpretentious charm about the performance.
Times, Sunday Times
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But hardly anyone in political circles, including Republican loyalist redoubts on Capitol Hill, believes that right now.
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A section of experts have been saying that since Pakistan beat India without him, there is hardly any need of a world class placer who might create problems for the team management.
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I can hold back on splurges when shopping anywhere, but the restrain only lasts so long, and if I'm shopping alone then it lasts hardly at all.
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The metal can be beaten out so thinly that it has hardly any solidity left, when it appears as gold by reflected light but green by transmitted light.
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`Of course, she'll have to go through the college, but I hardly anticipate...'
HUMAN VOICES
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The thing is, hardly anybody installs a silent alarm these days, except as a supplementary sys-tem.
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He sped home and quickly, hardly able to see the road in his fury.
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The shows are filled with PhD's and experts claiming this and that with hardly a shred of real truth brought to the fore.
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Peter Andre is reported to be 'inarticulate with rage' at the kiss-and-tell revelations, however there is some confusion over this as he's hardly articulate normally.
EXCLUSIVE: Jordan - The Truth Behind My Split With Peter
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His answer was hardly a ringing endorsement.
The Sun
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The bad effect of a higher temperature in increasing the cupellation loss need hardly be considered in the case of such small buttons of gold as are obtained in assaying gold ores, as any loss there may be is hardly appreciable by the balance.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
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This is hardly a circumstance that should be welcomed in the academic disciplines, as it echoes the partisan and highly politicized award process set up at the National Endowment for the Humanities a dozen years ago.
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Quinn rode his first winner in 1981 and at 42 - hardly a geriatric in the flat racing game - he retains a hunger for winners that would shame a man half his age.
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Hardly anybody attends when it has something to decide on.
The Sun
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Pierre, bending over his saddlebow and hardly able to control his shying horse, galloped ahead of the soldiers where there was a free space.
War and Peace
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Hope, fear, alarm, jealousy, the ephemerous tale that does its business and dies in a day, all these things, which are the reins and spurs by which leaders check or urge the minds of followers, are not easily employed, or hardly at all, amongst scattered people.
Paras. 325-349
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Hardly any of those wacks running for office are worth voting for.
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And finally she flares into full loquacious life; squiffy but skewering, hardly able to open her mouth without an extraordinary sentence rasping out of it.
The Last of the Duchess; 13; The Village Social – review
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Now hardly anybody works on Saturday mornings and cars and buses are freely available to make the short journey to Ibrox or Parkhead.
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Hardly a line does not include the first person singular.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's hardly a surprise that many members of Congress avert their eyes when your own safety experts complain that unsafe drugs are being rushed to market while postmarketing safety studies -- so necessary to ensure the public health - are delayed or simply ignored.
Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee: A New Year's Resolution for the FDA: Kick the Drug (Company) Addiction
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At last, after a great many hesitations, Zouhra, who is the bravest of them all, ventured to go out with me, buried in the recesses of a brougham, and protected by a very thick kind of mantilla, which after all was hardly any less impenetrable than a _yashmak_.
French and Oriental Love in a Harem
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Short and light, it kicks hardly at all, gets on target fast, is ultrareliable, and carries comfortably in the hand.
The 50 Best Guns of All Time
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To try to persuade some of them to come back would make economic sense, but hardly accords with the prevailing ideology, which inveighs against a "kulak" or "comprador" class, be it black or white.
Inside Angola
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Even at the best of times, Nicholls is hardly a model of laid-back insouciance.
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Hardly a day goes by without my thinking of her .
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Your prediliction for beaten brass ornaments offends me hardly at all.
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Justinian at Constantinople; an anti-Handelist was looked upon as an anti-courtier, and voting against the Court in Parliament was hardly a less remissible or more venial sin than speaking against Handel or going to the Lincoln's Inn Fields Opera.
A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)
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In many vintages hardly any Beerenauslese wine is produced anywhere in Germany.
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For the most part, though, foreign films have become a tough sell, and their decline is hardly a mystery.
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To some degree, the expostulation heil is obviously a hailing; but it is hardly an unequivocal one.
Patriot Acts: The Political Language of Henrich von Kleist
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And in any case, America can hardly afford to prolong its tumble from the summit of educational attainment any longer.
Wonk Room » Study: Pre-School Investments Increase GDP And Pay For Themselves
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That so little of the above has been aired is hardly a surprise.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even last night, in all the kerfuffle, there was hardly a cheep out of her.
THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
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Anyway, he is hardly a part of the tub-thumping religious zealots on the right.
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It's hardly a grotto at all, merely a kink in the shadowy, soot-darkened stone passageway.
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For instance, there is an entire chapter on mesmerism, but hardly a paragraph on steel.
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But hardly anyone has looked at the global carbon budget in detail.
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The internet is hardly a specialist niche area any more.
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Hardly anyone cares about the antifriction reduction factor in a widget!
Hot Prospects
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Besides , you could hardly accuse Mr Obama of timidity.
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It was hardly any surprise given the emotion leading up to the game that the match itself was unspectacular.
The Sun
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If you don't like it, fair enough, but that's hardly a justification to attack the whole thing.
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As David Corn observes, questioning the intent of major donors who wish to attack candidates while hiding in anonymity is hardly an enemies list.
John Wellington Ennis: When Karl Rove Squeals, You're Doing Something Right
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Very "imperfective" and hardly a "story," it is nevertheless done with sober and conscientious craftsmanship, very much like Bunin and very unlike the usual idea we have of Pilniak.
Tales of the Wilderness
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In the _Merchant of Venice_, at all events, there is hardly a single character from Portia to old Gobbo, a single incident from the exaction of Shylock's bond to the computation of hairs in Launcelot's beard and Dobbin's tail, which has not been more plentifully beprosed than ever Rosalind was berhymed.
A Study of Shakespeare
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For the present government, the "me-too" label can hardly apply.
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It certainly didn't deserve the critical skewering it received, nor should it have failed as miserably as it did, but it's hardly a film to get excited about.
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A long course of training is necessary to instruct a man in the business of jewelling or engraving, and if the cost of his training were not made up to him in a higher rate of wages, he would, instead of learning so difficult an art, betake himself to such employments as require hardly any instruction.
Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader
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That might be good for a car this size, but it is hardly a green alternative to small cars.
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Though a bite from a rat can hurt, it's hardly a mortal danger.
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His wordcraft is so integrated, so thoroughly interfused into our speech, so much a part of the sound we make, we are hardly aware of it.
David Teems: The Other English William
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In recent years there have been hardly any problems at club matches or international games.
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There was hardly any traffic and we drove right along till we got home.
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But scratch the surface and it was hardly a ringing endorsement.
Times, Sunday Times
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The implication - that Jensen was an impoverished unpublished author - was hardly accurate.
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There is hardly any mention, for example, of the portraits of two Dutch plenipotentiaries, Gaspar Meyer and, especially, Jacobus Blauw, a patriot of the left with Babouvist sympathies.
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Taken together, that is hardly an unequivocal sign of economic vigour.
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Hardly a barrel of laughs but it might raise a few smiles.
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There is now hardly any sphere of activity legally barred to women and, in this sense, every male bastion has been stormed.
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The tall grain tower was hardly anywhere near civilization.
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You can hardly avoid the dreaded word anymore if you venture into the fixed-income realm.
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It was hardly an outrageous thing to say given all the evidence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Given the lurid colour of road safety cameras, they are hardly a stealth tax!
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The mahout carried an invaluable knife-weapon, called a parang, broadest and heaviest at the point, and as we passed through the jungle he slashed to right and left to clear the track, and quite thick twigs fell with hardly an effort on his part.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
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Barrel heating, which can be a problem with centerfire varmint cartridges, is hardly an issue with the .17 HMR.
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The written section was tough - hardly anything on quantum theory, and a brute of a paper on the cell chemistry of Micronesian diatomic plankton.
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Instead of buying food or paying the school for food we hardly ate, we pooled our money and cooked.
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What did it say about McCain's judgment and steadiness that he could careen between a liberal apostate he knew well and a frontier salvationist he knew hardly at all who's the opposite in most respects?
John & Sarah in St. Paul
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Reliable tunesmiths, yes, but hardly anyone's new favourite band.
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Hardly an upstart, Maho Bay is instead a pioneer in small-scale, tent-based ecotourism.
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While her observations may be true about some men, they could hardly apply to the entire gender.
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In just one year, Pruitt's subversive japery has become indistinguishable from full-fledged art-world approval matrices -- hardly anyone remembers the ice age of 2009, when the awards were cleverly castrated as "performance.
Selby Drummond: Art "Oscar" for Second Gay Ryan in a Row?
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Hardly a week goes by without the police bleating that they would like ‘a quiet word’ with a celebrity over some alleged incident.
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The path was so narrow that it hardly admitted of two persons walking abreast.
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My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.". Harry S. Truman
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But they were not so young as our foretopman, and no few of them must have known a hearth of some sort; others may have had wives and children left, too probably, in uncertain circumstances, and hardly any but must have had acknowledged kith and kin, while for Billy, as will shortly be seen, his entire family was practically invested in himself.
Billy Budd
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He writes of “a slaughter, hardly a fight, between disci plined well-armed men and scattered parties of savages scarcely armed at all.”
Flashman on the March
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Tall, over-dressed, musquash and those abbreviated sort of shoes with jewelled heels and hardly any uppers — you know the sort of thing.
Unnatural Death
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While acknowledging that the work is a modern one, and describing as "praiseworthy" the city of Rome's initiative to erect the tribute, the Vatican said "the statue's sin" is that it is "hardly able to be recognized.
The Seattle Times
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Implying that the potential project sponsor is a fool for not having already spotted a problem will hardly advance your case.
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I took a nice Sunday drive today and the new road starts out gorgeous, 6 lanes wide and hardly any traffic and that's when it hit me, if this actually takes you somewhere, like the couta, how come no traffic and absolutely no trucks?
Periferico Extension to Zapotlanejo
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The third novel is hardly a novel at all, though the author perversely insisted on saying it was.
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The water is perfectly still, with no current, no wind and hardly a ripple for waves.
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The binding nature of the court's legal opinion is hardly a matter of true concern for Zionists.
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_ -- The cavity containing the brain of a crocodile measuring thirteen or fourteen feet, will hardly admit the thumb; and the brain of the chamelion is not, according to the description of the Paris dissectors, larger than a pea.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 561, August 11, 1832
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If you have been reading this blog, anonymously or otherwise, you know I do not support the Democrats either, so "bush-bash" hardly applies.
I watch the national
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It's hardly a surprise those locked up should take advantage of a mistake by their jailers.
The Sun
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There are no male grandparental role models, and because of economics, there are hardly any male role models as teachers in schools.
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The results are hardly a big surprise.
Times, Sunday Times
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And with the passage of paid-leave laws in Britain (where Prime Minister David Cameron took several weeks off to care for his infant daughter) and Australia (which is hardly a dandified nation), the U.S. is now the only wealthy country that doesn't bankroll a bonding period for either parent.
Men’s Lib
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Yet, if this 2006 cable is indicative, Chinese officials are hardly acting combatively toward Washington in Latin America and, indeed, are all too willing to inveigh against Chávez in private in an effort to reassure U.S. diplomats.
Nikolas Kozloff: Caracas Cables: "Loco Chávez Time," Chinese Ambassador in Venezuela & "Fascist Military Elements"
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But this hardly addresses the deeper mystery of why this administration has gotten itself caught in the Venus flytrap of the Arab-Israeli conflict, after vowing not to do so, and why it has done so with a degree of ineptitude that recalls the dimmer moments of the Carter administration.
The Annapolis Fiasco
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Some of these boys were of Ninth or Tenth Grade age. With hardly an exception, they seemed disturbed.
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Textual and visual sources alike indicate that the passage of laypeople through the screen to participate in services in the choir was hardly a rarity.
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In continental Europe, by contrast, where the past is everywhere and every small city has an opera house, forgotten works are resurrected with hardly a nod to the text of the original.
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Hardly any of us realize just how immeshed in the subprime mortgage mess the major Wall Street firms had actually gotten.
CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2008
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There is, she says, little intellectual challenge, hardly any praise, not even much blame.
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And I still can't do "set filetype = doctest" in vim, which is hardly a new tool.
Planet Ubuntu
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After all, plebeians in ancient Rome were forced to fight against one another - the games of death were hardly an insurrectionary force on their own.
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A 2ish dollar a week avg. is hardly an economic stimulus.
Clinton hits Obama directly in new ad
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‘Even in England, where Lisa was born, there has been hardly a shred of coverage about her murder,’ she said.
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Heart specialists across the world now agree that transplants (from brain-dead patients) are hardly an option.
