Sentence examples for hardly a matter from inspiring English sources

The Oscars are hardly a matter of art.

These eccentricities were, in themselves, hardly a matter for alarm.

IN MOST African countries, the fight against corruption is deemed important but hardly a matter of life and death.

But practically, the loss of a few hundred passports here and there is hardly a matter of grave concern.

That Mr. Moi, who has held office since 1978, ought to retire is hardly a matter of controversy.

That Blair "shut him out" of crucial meetings must have been upsetting for him personally, but is hardly a matter for public commiseration.

But the problem with Obama's appointments is hardly just a matter of bad vision on Iraq.

There is a consensus that the split is mostly, though hardly exclusively, a matter of blacks' pulling away.

"Unprecedented power" is hardly a technical matter.

So it is hardly a trivial matter.

As many small shops were engulfed by the sea, coddling them is hardly a pressing matter.