Sentence examples for hardly collapsed from inspiring English sources

Ticket sales for the $65 million "Spider-Man" hardly collapsed in the face of critical evisceration (the New York Times and Washington Post theater critics both called it one of the worst musicals in history), but the show's grosses went up minimally in an otherwise robust week on Broadway.

Overall consumer spending on goods and services, as indicated by the January and February numbers, has hardly collapsed.

We went through this same debate in the 1930s, and it was only settled by Pearl Harbor, when suddenly deficits that put our present one to shame were viewed as absolutely right and just and the economy hardly collapsed then or in the postwar era.

Ms. Kallos set the end of this week as her deadline for most situations, but added that the world would hardly collapse if people took more time.

But while the world's second-largest economy grew at its slowest pace in a quarter of a century last year, China is hardly collapsing.

As Sir Alex Ferguson noted during the Christmas programme, the pitch has "collapsed", which hardly aids United's preferred passing game.

Tracking down the North American would hardly have been so simple — it collapsed after just twenty-eight issues.

On the other extreme, it's obvious that our thinking through of capitalism and its inequalities and how to mend them anew has hardly begun; the Occupy movement collapsed for that reason.

Stanford's 95% figure is down by two points compared with 2008; hardly a collapse.

We had that when the Milken empire collapsed and the economy hardly budged.

Six months have passed since the chain collapsed so he can hardly be surprised that MPs have decided to vote on his de-gonging.