Sentence examples for hardly level from inspiring English sources

The smaller powers were not helped by the pool-stage schedule, in which the playing field was hardly level.

Though the playing field was hardly level, it was the most competitive election Russia has seen in years.

The odds are against it, the financial playing field hardly level, but as long as Dyche is in charge his team has a chance.

While American and European election observers concluded that the political playing field was hardly level given the M.P.L.A.'s control of state media, they also said the election itself was evidence of democratic progress.

For one, the playing field is vast, and it's hardly level.

The cold war period, I'm told, was not exactly calm and collected; the era of witch trials was hardly level-headed.

Hardly the level of certainty that our businesses want.

But the oceans, even when unjostled by wind and waves, are hardly perfectly level from one place to another.

He is not a democrat; though he has held elections, the playing field has hardly been level, and the media here are not free and independent.

Within two weeks, the Queen's chemical signals had dropped to a hardly detectable level in the outermost reaches of the nest, and the Trailhead myrmidons understood instinctively that they were in trouble.

It was hardly a level playing field yet, though – in 1904, a modest Games held as part of the World's Fair in St Louis, featured 645 men... and just six women.