In 1945, when his party was voted out of office, Winston Churchill refused the honour when it was first offered to him, explaining in private, "I can hardly accept the Order of the Garter from the king after the people have given me the Order of the Boot".
In short, one can hardly accept that preschool and first-grade children understood what usefulness means and yet did not find the shape of the scissors useful.
The direct observation of the sinus membrane showed that it is stretchable and can be easily elevated in eight cases where the membrane morphology was classified as thick (group B), whereas in the other four cases (group A), the membrane was thin and hardly accepted the lifting procedure (Tables 1 and 2).
One would hardly accept an Op-Ed article on stem cell research from a military historian.
After rejecting the high-risk option of leading the EU "out" campaign, Boris would hardly accept what "a friend" wittily describes as "literally a hospital pass".
Moreover, a politician who once compared himself to Napoleon can hardly accept words like "defeat" or a luxury retirement in his villa in Arcore.
25 Apart from the fact that the primary election may be more crucial than the general election in certain parts of Texas, 26 we can hardly accept as reasonable an alternative that requires candidates and voters to abandon their party affiliations in order to avoid the burdens of the filing fees imposed by state law.
But at the same time, we can hardly accept Mill's descriptions at face value, either.
They are relatively rich and can hardly accept losing the privileges and the social prestige associated with the management of conventional cotton cooperatives (see also Alidou, 2014).
And if economists were evaluating the government finances of some other country, they would hardly accept its legislature's definition of budget deficits or surpluses in performing their analyses.
Moreover, what one can hardly accept is the fact that, on the waiting list there are also young people, who are in need of a heart transplant.
