Sentence examples for barely behaved from inspiring English sources

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The climb was steep and the barely behaved crowd nearly blocked the way, but nothing deterred Lance Armstrong as he seized control of the Tour de France on Wednesday and headed toward a record sixth Tour victory.

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At the start of the masculinization process an individual with a barely visible gonopodium behaved indifferently towards conspecifics, but later on when its gonopodium had developed in size, it performed a "half swing" (gonopodium swung forward 90° from its resting position) towards females.

A redemption drama about a former spy who does good works presumably to make up for all the unspeakable things he did in Bosnia, Tehran, Beirut — you name it — "Burn Notice" has behaved as if it barely wanted you to notice its politics.

But as Congress wrapped up an unusually productive lame-duck session last month, those same Tea Party leaders were lamenting that Washington behaved as if it barely noticed that American voters had repudiated the political establishment.

Eleanor Hawkins, the young woman from Derby currently facing obscenity charges in Malaysia, was barely a toddler at the time I behaved stupidly on Mount Kinabalu.

Judge Posner, who was shown the Dworkin article this week, reacted with barely muted indignation at the notion that he had behaved unethicallly.

The degree of improvement was similar for the ICOAP index, but the difference between groups was barely significant only for constant pain, while the two preparations behaved similarly on intermittent pain.

Last week, at a White House press conference, the President behaved like the unhinged leader of an unstable and barely democratic republic.

Yes, they will voice irrational hatreds and behave with barely comprehensible venom towards their rivals, but they're also enthusiastic to show they have a heart, and they can do dignified as well as anyone.

But less than a decade ago, the credit-swaps market barely existed.Credit derivatives, which behave a bit like insurance contracts, allow investors to buy or sell cover against default by a borrower, and the price moves depending on perceptions about the borrower's creditworthiness.

I barely remember my grandfather – only that he would clap his hands above his head if I behaved well and, more hazily yet, him turning towards a river, a split-cane fishing rod resting next to his perfectly bald head.

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