Sentence examples for barely operates from inspiring English sources

It would not exist if lax policing, vague laws, a needlessly complicated bureaucracy and a justice system that barely operates didn't facilitate it.

The jihadist group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis (Partisans of Jerusalem), once one of the most threatening in the country, now barely operates outside its base in North Sinai.

At times we barely operate with what staff we've got.

So when American engineers found the antiquated plant barely operating earlier this year, there was no question that repairing it was important to the rebuilding of Iraq.

The government authorities can barely operate in parts of the north; in Borno, says a security expert, ten out of the state's 27 districts are virtually off-limits, with council chairmen fleeing their posts.

Back in Grangemouth, a "horrendous" petrochemical town in Stirlingshire, she had seemed destined to follow her mother into the local rag trade until she realised that having "boxing gloves for hands" meant she could barely operate the machines.

"China is so dirty now and so expensive, and takes no stance whatsoever against the American imperialists", says one (with its industry barely operating, North Korea's air does seem refreshingly unpolluted to Chinese visitors).The kind of tourism North Korea prefers is the carefully controlled tours by South Koreans to Mount Kumgang, a scenic resort on the northern side of their common border.

He then gave a highly personal interview seemingly to show himself as more human and close to the people, saying he was so "rubbish" at technology that he didn't know how to work the three TV remote controls at home, and suggesting if his wife, Carla Bruni, wasn't with him he could barely operate the television.

Today, dozens of enormous abandoned warehouses line the shores of Gioia Tauro, a port that is barely operating at sustainable levels and that is known as the playground of the 'Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia that has transformed the town into the major entry point for cocaine into Europe from South America.

"Cargo transported," flashes my engineering station screen, barely operating with sparks flying everywhere.

(A delicious irony: this technological incompetent--he didn't drive a car, could barely operate his tape recorder, never used a computer--is gloriously preserved on the Internet).