Sentence examples for hardly on a from inspiring English sources

But parking garages are hardly on a par with football stadiums as far as monumentality or pizazz.

While undoubtedly a major step, it is hardly on a par with trying to tackle poverty or defeat terrorism.

As grand theatrical charades go, it's hardly on a par with Rufus Wainwright's even more preposterous wish-fulfilment exercise, in which he booked out the London Palladium for a note-for-note reconstruction of Judy Garland's legendary Carnegie Hall programme.

Though hardly on a par with the Russian Constructivist Vladimir Tatlin's designs for the tilted, open-worked spiral tower of his "Monument to the Third International" (1920), "Light Prop" exudes a similar optimism for a world not only bettered by technical know-how but set on a whole new footing.

Having been overlooked for decades, Martin Scorsese finally earned a best director statuette at the 79th Academy Awards for The Departed – a decent film, sure enough, but hardly on a par with Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull or Goodfellas, all of which had earned him umpteen international trophies (Baftas, Cannes awards etc) while leaving him beaten to the punch at the Oscars.

Definitely but hardly on a budget.

He was taking several medications, and Jodi felt that he could hardly carry on a conversation.

Having established Public Enemy as ruthlessly puritanical, it's hardly on-message to cultivate a crack habit.

A recent graduate from a less affluent family faced with thousands of dollars in college debt can hardly take on an unpaid internship.

But the Americans are hardly on an extended losing streak.

Belgium is also set to take up the reigns of the rotating EU presidency in July, a job it can hardly take on without a government.