Sentence examples for hardly expected that from inspiring English sources

This came as a shock to the Targowica Confederates, who had seen themselves as defenders of centuries-old privileges of the magnates, but had hardly expected that their appeal for help to the Tsarina of Russia would further reduce and weaken their country.

It was hardly expected that lysozyme M deficiency resulted in delayed clearance of S. pneumoniae from the middle, considering lysozyme M is just one of the anitimicrobial molecules.

YOU would hardly expect that four years trying to break up Microsoft, the world's most successful private company, would prepare you for running any business least of all that most creaky of public monopolies, New York city's public schools.

Asked by reporters if Ukraine would come up, Peskov said: "This is the first telephone contact since President Trump took office, so one should hardly expect that (it)...will involve substantive discussions across the whole range of issues.

San Francisco, the city built on the gold that lured the prospectors to California in 1849, could hardly expect that a century and a quarter later it would become El Dorado for America's homosexuals.

The loss of Brian Cushing for the season deprives this team of a defensive leader, and though I hardly expect that to derail them altogether, something tells me they may be in for a wobble.

This disproportionate impact of structure within sub-Saharan Africa on analyses of worldwide genetic diversity clearly emphasizes both the importance of such structure and the great need for further in-depth genetic characterization of sub-Saharan African populations [22]; we would hardly expect that these six groups encompass all of the genetic diversity in sub-Saharan Africa.

One may hardly expect that a reader-oriented publisher would be willing to pay the cost associated with pursuing such a goal.

The subsidised lending was done largely to firms of good standing that were hardly expected at the time to be caught by a cyclical downturn.

The death over the weekend of the company's patriarch, Harry F. Oppenheimer, is hardly expected to alter that strategy.

I knew about his penchant for artistic mélange but hardly expected to find that the new museum's 24 rooms would be assiduous replications of the old Merion galleries — albeit better lighted — complete with the ensembles he designed.