Sentence examples for hardly a given from inspiring English sources

That outcome was hardly a given.

Both things are hardly a given.

Given last year's debacle, a playoff berth is hardly a given.

But a trip to the title game was hardly a given.

But it is hardly a given that citizenship is a route to better jobs.

Bringing this brainless agent into a contemporary — and profitable — context is hardly a given.

*Jeter will have a full no-trade clause, hardly a surprise given the level of the Yankees' financial commitment to him.

Consumer spending remains weak, hardly a surprise given job insecurity and austerity programmes.

That's hardly a revelation given that Ed Miliband has proposed cutting retail energy prices by 10%.

This is hardly a shock, given the flood-the-zone coverage and analysis of the crisis since it erupted four years ago.

This was hardly a surprise, given Truman's sinking approval rating, which would bottom out, weeks later, at twenty-two percent.