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One can scarcely believe that the heavens dispense their favors according to the number of vowels in mortals’ names.
But Merkel can scarcely take credit for that.
And there has scarcely been any debate about the need for a nuclear deterrent, whether German or European.
It is, of course, difficult to make sense of someone who declares himself just like you and then acts in ways you can scarcely fathom.
Tudor’s party confronts inept, feuding, and confused parties in the governing coalition, and the opportunistic, and scarcely reformed postcommunists led by Iliescu.
In that sense, divorce is scarcely an option.
For example, the world's advanced countries are scarcely less dependent on oil today than they were in 1973, when the OPEC embargo stifled their economies and sent prices soaring.
Even the 20% cut in Japan's Official Development Assistance for China scarcely harmed their smooth economic ties.
Intermediate options, from the Swiss to the Canadian model, are scarcely more appealing.
Many of us realize and understand that America's fantastic economic success - a success story that has lasted for more than a century - has made you scarcely interested in the rest of the world, particularly during your electoral campaigns.
Fifth, the world economy is scarcely thriving.
But instead of happily preparing for that occasion, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania – which scarcely 15 years ago regained the independence they lost in WWII – are uneasy.
This relationship was always more special for the British than for the Americans, who scarcely recognize its existence.
Dr. Khan's proliferation activitiesIt could scarcely be more blatant.
There would then scarcely be any need for engineering schools.
Scarcely seven minutes after the sentence was read out, had the executioners done their work.
Domestic policy issues inevitably demanded Kohl’s attention and skills; had it been otherwise, he scarcely would have been the dominant figure in his party and country for longer than any German chancellor since Otto von Bismarck.
Berlusconi’s ministers have scarcely behaved better.
Across the world, the first "modern" century is coming to its end; in Romania, after decades of communism and seven years of ersatz postcommunism, real "modernity," sadly, has scarcely begun.
Indeed, outside of universities, it scarcely ruffled American life.
Even when he could scarcely breathe with the help of an automatic respirator, Argentines wanted him to assume his role in their dark ritual: "Show us a good time, bring our hearts some fun."
Indeed, so omnipotent is President Vladimir Putin in Russia nowadays that the Duma election would have been scarcely noticed--by the world and Russia alike--were it not for the arrest and imprisonment this autumn of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the oil industry oligarch who dared to put his money behind two liberal parties opposed to Putin.
Yet, although some of the Kremlin’s moves seem clear and reasonable, others can scarcely be described as rational or forward-looking.
How Poverty Reduction Can Survive DeglobalizationNEW HAVEN – The COVID-19 pandemic seems to have curtailed globalization in ways that the current US administration could scarcely have dreamed up even a year ago.
The Fed now follows every policy meeting with a release of statements, minutes, transcripts, blue-dot plots, and a press conference, signaling to markets a level of sophistication that is scarcely realistic in a world of fluidity and heightened uncertainty.
Microsoft’s response to the immediate global success of the iPod was the Zune player – a disastrous flop that scarcely anyone remembers.
Whereas the Chinese government can buy up Chinese-made products that previously would have been sold to the US, thereby preventing mass unemployment and social turmoil, the US government could scarcely do the same for American workers displaced by the loss of the Chinese market.
At the same time, because the vaccine race is focused primarily on Western markets, some candidates are scarcely viable outside of a developed-country context.
Scarcely a week goes by without a new story about African-Americans dying at the hands of police or vigilantes.
The stakes in the US presidential election could scarcely be higher.
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