"Ignorance of what is happening to forest elephants has not served them well," said Hart. "Major poaching of some populations has happened with scarcely any ripple of this coming out of the forests.
What happened next was scarcely credible.
Bleary-eyed, the circus heads to Bristol, scarcely believing what has just happened.
As far as the writers of the defeated Byzantine and Persian empires were concerned, the Arab invasions might scarcely have happened.
It is also, in theory, possible (but it has scarcely ever happened in practice) that an American parent company could be held liable for the acts of foreign subsidiaries "where they authorised, directed or controlled the activity in question".The power of American legislation to bring charges for bribery by non-nationals is, however, negligible.
He was followed by a royal train of grinning family members, political allies and campaign aides, some scarcely able to believe what just happened.
If that happens it will scarcely be thanks to Mr Osborne, who has avoided splurging on the sort of capital investment that makes the economy run better.
In his preface to Bérénice (1670), he asked what probability there could be when a multitude of things that would scarcely happen in several weeks are made to happen in a day.
But the 3D picture of prison rape in America, the how and why and what happens next, is scarcely uttered because those who survive the system almost invariably have no voice.
They also have concerns about patients' unrealistic expectations about surgery such as returning to the functional performance lost a long time ago: "There are the objectively unsatisfied patients: when there is a problem with the prosthesis, when it is loosening or when there is an infection, but that scarcely happens.
The villagers scarcely fathom what happened, but they are touched and want to help.
