The UK is barely different.
The reason, Obama aides say, is to try to convince voters that Mr. McCain is barely different than President Bush through a day or two of uncontested advertisements — until the Republicans learn about them and begin to counter the ads.
We are speaking here of a man who placed this nation under siege during an unrelenting reign of terror that is barely different from the current rampage of Boko Haram.
On the outside, the new New-York Historical Society is barely different from the old one, except for the bronze statues at the entrances, of Abraham Lincoln on Central Park West, and Frederick Douglass around the corner on 77th.
Powell has a punchier rhetoric than some of her predecessors, but dig deep into what she has said so far and it is barely different from the last Labour manifesto: prioritising local oversight of schools, investing in early years, and voicing disquiet about teacher recruitment and retention.
Total consumer spending, which makes up about two-thirds of G.D.P., increased at an annualized rate of three per cent in the first quarter of the year: this was barely different from the 3.3 per cent increase seen in the final three months of 2013.
We have already seen that the earliest tapiroid, Homogalax, is barely different from the earliest horse (Fig. 1).
In that sense, it was barely different than so much of the rock culture it claimed to overthrow.
Using her best silver and making the dinner so special even though, by all intents and purposes, it was barely different from any other dinner.
