Sentence examples for hardly helping him from inspiring English sources

It is possible that he is attempting to play against type by attacking, but the failures of the top two are hardly helping him or the team.

"You can hardly help him.

His wide receivers hardly helped him, dropping several passes, including an early fourth-down throw that cost Jacksonville a chance at points.

Xavier Teixido, who runs Harry's Savoy Grill and Harry's Seafood Grill in Wilmington, Del., applauded the president's proposal, saying that existing guest-worker programs hardly helped him.

He has one friend, Schmücke, who is, indeed, a schmuck - an utter innocent who loves Pons but can hardly help him against the vultures who gather once the news of his wealth emerges.

Mr Schröder is not so close to the Greens, and it hardly helps him that this week's row over atomic waste occurred in his own Lower Saxony, home of the disposal plant which sparked the uproar.But Mr Lafontaine's hopes of becoming chancellor still look dreamy, since he remains far less popular with ordinary voters than with party activists.

This hardly helped him in the unforgiving climate of post-1989 Poland.translationtion by Antonia Lloyd-Jones makes the sweep and tone of Mr Domoslawski's Polish readable, without sacrificing its curious, to English eyes, use of the present tense and rhetorical questions.

He said the "anemic" re-entry services offered at the prison hardly helped him prepare for the difficulties he may have faced in the real world.

The instability at the club in recent years can hardly have helped him.

That will hardly help them command the global stage.

Three minutes before the interval Hart mis-controlled a regulation backpass, hardly helping to support the idea Guardiola is unfairly maligning him for a clumsy touch.