Sentence examples for barely embraced from inspiring English sources

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.

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).

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

Indeed, the Pakistan of today, and the brand of Islam much of the nation has embraced, is barely recognizable even to many educated Pakistanis older than the Zia generation.

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.

But it quickly embraced her with barely a whiff of prejudice and was soon in awe of her.

This was said without double entendre: The fact that Honey Dijon is transgender has caused barely a shrug in the widening circles that have embraced her.

Quickly, responders within the Unified Command embraced the idea, even though its implications had barely been studied.