Sentence examples for hardly an act from inspiring English sources

Accepting the job on these terms was hardly an act of independence.

That said, the currency union was hardly an act of martyrdom by Germany.

"The Reagans" may not be a cinematic masterpiece, but it is hardly an act of treason.

And they picked Mitchell Johnson, which was hardly an act of genius.

He is a bit of a smart aleck, but his reclusiveness is hardly an act of arrogance.

Clashing your prints is hardly an act of civil dissent, but it's something we're generally discouraged from doing.

Indeed, the LPO itself recently made a film in solidarity with Dutch musicians, in the wake of government arts cuts in the Netherlands: hardly an apolitical act.

So in that sense, it was hardly a revolutionary act, or a symbol of a new and better education system.

HIS announcement -- like those of many other homosexuals who have gone public over the years -- was hardly a voluntary act.

Describes copying text from a wire service story into one's own....Often the language arranges itself in ways so trite and predictable that taking it in is hardly a conscious act... What's clear is that not all plagiarisms are the same, nor is originality a simple concept.

If that is the case, one could hardly call this an act of clemency.