Sentence examples for hardly born from inspiring English sources

Some of today's voters were, after all, hardly born when the conflict ended.

The new is hardly born, and no one knows what its lineaments will be.

But friends and Enron colleagues have applauded Ms. Watkins's testimony and say her decision to write a memo to Mr. Lay was hardly born of self-interest.

The 31-year-old Barcelona native was hardly born to the calling; he worked for years in information technology, and got his first kitchen job at a pizzeria.

Although not brought up on a favela, Elano was hardly born with a silver spoon and grew up alongside his two sisters in Iracemapolis, a rural village in Sao Paulo state where his family worked processing sugar cane.

The willingness to break the price barrier is hardly born of altruism.

Sarkozy, a fine orator but hardly a born smiler, seemed more impatient than relieved; triumphalism does not become him, being no substitute for work.

I was hardly even born when my country stole the Congo's fledgling independence and resources, but undoubtedly my country and I have benefited materially from that piracy, so how am I supposed to feel about that?

I was hardly even born when my country stole the Congo's fledgling independence and resources, but undoubtedly my country and I have benefited materially from that piracy, so how am I supposed to feel about that?

She suddenly conceived her mission as "teaching people how to stay well," or, in other words, "preventive medicine" — which, she wrote, "had hardly been born yet and had no portion in public-health work" when she took the helm of the newly founded Department of Child Hygiene, in 1908.

Hardly anyone is born subject to hay fever; to become a victim, one must become sensitized to a pollen or other allergen, usually by absorbing a large dose.