Sentence examples for could hardly survive from inspiring English sources

The empire could hardly survive Alexander's death as a unit.

I figured that her malign power could hardly survive in a household as impious as mine.

Given the leave campaign's concern about borders, the current ease of crossing could hardly survive.

They would form the third big carrier, possibly even joined by Northwest, which could hardly survive on its own.

The pretense that Athens was merely leading a voluntary association of willing Ionian cities in need of protection could hardly survive the reduction of Aegina.

The teenage Max there finds a soulmate in jaded Bill Murray, but that was a relationship which could hardly survive Max's growth into adulthood.

Otherwise it could hardly have survived unchanged for 65 years.

If it were, the NHS, whatever future problems it might be facing, could hardly have survived so long (and performed more efficiently than the rival US system, where many patients really are "picking out" their preferred treatments).

Weyerhaeuser's architect, Edward Charles Bassett, of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's San Francisco office, said of the design, "I wanted to find a point where the landscaping and the building simply could not be separated, that they were each a creature of the other and so dependent that they could hardly have survived alone".

The Confederacy could hardly have survived long.

Without the United States, NATO can hardly survive.