Sentence examples for hardly on par from inspiring English sources

And while their experience is hardly on par with the hardship of ordinary Americans who are absorbing cuts to programs like tuition assistance and after-school child care, inconveniences like longer lines for their guests at Capitol security and fewer taxpayer-financed trips abroad are starting to gain notice.

"Rap Devil" was hardly on par with "The Story of Adidon," Pusha-T's volcanic diss track from earlier this year, but at least there was something noble (albeit masochistic) about MGK putting up a fight against one of rap's biggest names.

Though it's hardly on par with the scientific breakthrough represented by mitochondrial replacement, the so-called three-parent law stirred deep fears about the durability of traditional family life in the modern era.

One would think Democrats' concern for Israel is pro forma, hardly on a par with abortion rights or global warming.

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.

It is hardly on a par with Hitler's invasion of the Sudetenland, or the west's violent seizure of Iraq and Afghanistan.

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.

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.

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.

Kicking a ball around with opponents trying to kick you and thousands looking on might get the ticker going, but it's hardly on a par with being attacked by a 17st man with wrecking-ball hands.