Sentence examples for barely participating from inspiring English sources

What Mr. Kaprow initially meant by the term, however, was not a free-for-all, but a highly structured series of activities and gestures, performed a limited number of times, for a barely participating audience, with almost nothing left to chance.

But Mr. Pawlenty, evidently, was not sufficiently conservative to win Iowa: in a straw poll in which the two relatively moderate G.O.P. candidates (Mitt Romney and Jon M. Huntsman Jr). were barely participating, he could manage just 14 percent of the vote.

The film, which opens in a few cities later this month and which will subsequently air on Univision and Pivot, may be more helpful than Pawel's account in assessing the lion-in-winter phase of Chavez's career, in part because it shows the imagery involved: friends and followers clustered around Chavez's modest twin bed; Chavez himself hunched in the front row at Mass, barely participating.

At first he barely participated.

Yet another defendant – poor, mentally challenged and hungry – was given food when he came to planning meetings, which tapes show he barely participated in, beyond eating.

Even during the film's one love scene (with Tashiro) he seems entirely detached and unfeeling; beyond passively giving his body, he barely participates in the lovemaking.

While Mr. Obama reaffirmed his support for the proposal shortly after becoming president, administration officials barely participated in the negotiations, a factor that lobbyists said significantly strengthened their hand.

If you want to say something, speak to your children on the drive home: "Did you notice that your cousin Mark barely participated in our evening together?

She has barely participated since; in 2004 she entered one tournament in doubles and in the years since never entered more than two.

When gold rallied earlier this year, silver barely participated.

Following a pattern, small-caps barely participated in the rally.