Scarcely
in sentence
675 examples of Scarcely in a sentence
Almost no attention is paid by Moscow to the huge, largely illegal, inflow of Chinese immigrants into the
scarcely
populated Russian Far East -- an immigration amounting to something like three million people in the past three years.
But if America can evade its guarantee of Ukraine’s territorial integrity, why should Japan’s leaders believe that it will do otherwise in the case of a far-flung cluster of uninhabited islands that are
scarcely
more than rocks inhabited by sheep?
Police at the local station,
scarcely
100 meters away, fled into the bush – despite the fact that senior intelligence officials in Nairobi had warned regional commanders three days before that a terrorist attack might be imminent.
Today, that
scarcely
registers against the other themes: a working-class or unemployed person dared to aspire to resemble someone of too high a status, and spent too much money conceiving too many blameless babies who deserve protection and care, and who have now been put at risk by their mother’s selfish choices.
The children of those employed in these industries now often head for the lights of rapidly expanding cities, where they fill jobs that could
scarcely
have been imagined just a few decades ago.
President Barack Obama was silent on the issue in his re-election campaign, and breathed
scarcely
a word about it in his first campaign, too.
Scarcely
anyone bothers to consider the environmental costs to – or rights of – the country’s poor and powerless.
Their leaders can
scarcely
hold their tongues, so badly do they want a Kerry victory.
Having reached the point at which taxes can
scarcely
be increased further, these governments cannot both repay their debts and keep welfare spending at current levels.
A decade ago, when the last such gathering was held, the private sector was
scarcely
represented.
When the world commemorated the 50th anniversary of WWI in 1964, there was
scarcely
a mention of India’s contribution anywhere, least of all in India.
Stabilizing UkraineMADRID – Even Mikhail Gorbachev, who presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Union with
scarcely
a shot fired, has proclaimed his support for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea.
Individual property rights and contracts
scarcely
existed under communism.
Meanwhile, the world’s key international body – the United Nations Security Council – is
scarcely
playing a role or taking concrete action to stop the fires and the killing.
Once the US claims the right of redefining or dismissing international treaties as it pleases, it can
scarcely
blame others if they do so as well.
Indeed, the postcommunists now hold such an enormous advantage over all their competitors that a vote
scarcely
seems necessary.
For many in the so-called “bottom billion,” life has
scarcely
changed.
The political consequences are
scarcely
predicable.
It may annoy the Polish to recognize this, but if they make such a choice they will be condemned to a perpetual third rate status,
scarcely
above the most wretched places on earth and without any illusion of progress.
Even US-based Nobel laureate Simon Kuznets, the depression-era father of GDP, said in 1934 that, “the welfare of a nation can
scarcely
be inferred from a measure of national income.”
In his speech, Juncker seemed to be alluding to the standard counterargument: that communist atrocities throughout the twentieth century were due to some sort of distortion of Marx’s thought, for which the man himself can
scarcely
be held responsible.
The treatment options for TB have
scarcely
evolved in decades.
(A more extensive military commitment is
scarcely
possible, given how overstretched US ground forces already are.)
While the fires would not have been stopped if we had three times the number of fire brigade workers and firefighting airplanes, a country suffering a decade-long diminution of its public services, its communities, and its morale can
scarcely
be expected to prepare itself well for a calamity made worse by climate change.
Moreover, the international community created frameworks for justice to deal with the consequences of violence, a move that was
scarcely
imaginable during the Cold War.
Europe's citizens
scarcely
grasp the issues at the heart of the European Constitutional Convention in Brussels.
That is
scarcely
a logical reason to leave the EU.
One can
scarcely
bear imagining the consequences: cascading bank and sovereign defaults, a devastating depression, the collapse of the euro (and perhaps even that of the European Union), global contagion, and potentially tragic political turmoil.
But the region’s struggle for power and its sectarian-ideological antagonisms also create an opportunity for cooperation once
scarcely
thought possible.
May’s position on Scotland is
scarcely
tenable.
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