Sentence examples for barely embrace from inspiring English sources

The protected areas (covering ~3.9% of the ecoregion) barely embrace the entire ecoregion's high biodiversity and endemism; hence, any remaining forest fragments – whatever their small size – are likely of considerable conservation value (Wikramanayake et al. 2002; McElwee 2016).

Strangely moving as it was to stand silently with strangers in the desert at night, all gazing fixedly on the sky, it was stranger still to think that a lunar pattern that recurs so rarely could have been perceived by a preliterate community whose average individual life span would have barely embraced two cycles.

Despite returning home to a country whose media had barely embraced the tournament (some acknowledged the three-month-long trip as a tour rather than the World Championships), Patenaude had his own story to tell: he had scored the first-ever World Cup hat-trick – two days before the tournament's top scorer, Argentina's Guillermo Stabile, had netted three in a group stage match, against Mexico.

Unlike both his male and female peers, Bieber has barely embraced his large gay audience.

As we approached the mother, she barely embraced her son -- considering his ordeal and the fact that he was away from home for two months.

Barely 30, she embraced a punk ethos, with a fierce directness and a shorn head.

So much for editorial independence.In the 1960s, the association counted over two-thirds of American doctors on its rolls; now it embraces barely 37% of the country's 620,000 practising doctors, most of them white and male.

That's how many urbanites spend their summer weekends, driving three hours or more each Friday evening so that they can embrace an existence that is barely distinguishable from the one they left behind in the city.

His arms, which usually embrace the world after each number, barely reached shoulder level, and the white hankie hung from his hand, unwaved.

Coworkers who once barely got past, "Hi, how's it going?" now embrace.

With temperatures regularly plummeting below freezing and days when the sun barely squeaks over the horizon, they have little choice but to embrace the inevitable gloom.