Daily Telegraph "The impending relaxation of the licensing laws has hardly been greeted with the jubilation that the government hoped.
He has hardly been greeted with rapturous receptions this summer and it is still difficult to imagine him generating the clear warmth of feeling which was accorded Joe Root's sublime 180 in the second Test at Lord's.
Widely dubbed "Coppélia with castanets", this twee, hand-me-down staging of Petipa's classic has hardly been greeted as a hot debut for the man hired to lead the Royal into the new millennium.
Where do you see Wall Street firms going four, five years from now? A. There's a move to eliminate the intermediary and that's hardly something being greeted with enthusiasm on Wall Street.
Even though both cities having large Hispanic populations, she says she's hardly ever been greeted in Spanish in either city.
I was freezing in the dress and thin tights I had worn, and when I found the restaurant that had placed a vague Craigslist ad, the middle-aged man who greeted me hardly glanced at my résumé.
The studio audience, hearing the news, hardly reacted -- they greeted it, to my hearing, with silence, stunned or skeptical, though it should have been clear from the build-up what was coming.
These proposals were greeted respectfully, although hardly with universal acclaim.
Hardly surprising, then, that scepticism greeted reports, on March 27th, of Mr Assad's agreement to the plan for a settlement recently devised by Kofi Annan, the joint UN-Arab League emissary.Syria's seemingly inexorable drift towards greater tragedy justifies doubt, but this time it may be slightly misplaced.
