The problem persisted on the other - they had never seriously threatened to match their rivals' 1967 European Cup victory (a Cup Winners' Cup in 1972 hardly compensating).
The building was not entirely well received; William Sherwood, Mayor of Oxford and Master of Magdalen College School, wrote: Oriel [has] broken out into the High,... destroying a most picturesque group of old houses in so doing, and, to put it gently, hardly compensating us for their removal.
And the bank can hardly compensate for this effect by lowering the bank rate: it already stands at 0.5%.
There has been some good news on the injury front, although the return of defenders Glen Johnson and Fabio Aurelio hardly compensates for the loss of Gerrard.
Hunt's subsequent Twitter claim that the Mail on Sunday story was "nonsense", along with a pledge of support for Miliband, hardly compensated for his mistake.
To Mr. Jaffee, the book's lighthearted vignettes hardly compensate for the absence of "ice-box drawings," his term for the well-preserved artifacts that products of stable homes — with magnets on their refrigerators — give biographers to chew on.
The film concludes with a fascinating, if sketchy, account of Ford's own celebrity, but it can hardly compensate for the sluggish indulgence of the preceding couple of hours.
Over all, it was hard to shake the nagging thought that Battistelli's contribution could hardly compensate for the final touches that Donizetti's genius would have brought to a completed opera.
Whatever its terms, analysts say, they would hardly compensate BP for the field, Kovykta, which is thought to hold immense gas supplies — and for the millions of dollars that the venture had already invested there.
A brawling, hard-drinking, womanizing brute — whose occasional flashes of decency, bravery and charm hardly compensate for his selfishness — Sigge, as he is known, is threatened by any self-assertion on his wife's part.
Parachute payments of £48m over four years may ease the burden of going down, but they hardly compensate for the loss of up to £40m a season that membership of the Premier League promises.
