Sentence examples for hardly encourage from inspiring English sources

But this will hardly encourage newspaper owners.

This week's gory pictures will hardly encourage them.

These prospects hardly encourage people to look forward to old age.

MI6 was almost as stunned as Macmillan, for such a sentence would hardly encourage any future Soviet spy to confess.

But tearing up the peace agreement will hardly encourage the Maoist leaders, with their standing army outside Kathmandu, to honour it.

That will hardly encourage them to create jobs.But finding alternatives to taxing labour is hard, and likely to get much harder because of globalisation.

That's hardly encouraging.

The portents are hardly encouraging.

Their parents were hardly encouraging.

Besides, the tiny kitchen hardly encouraged cooking.

As boasts go, that's hardly encouraging.