Sentence examples for hardly prepare from inspiring English sources
But that dry run could hardly prepare them for the punishment that lay ahead.
That description will hardly prepare you for the subtlety and incisiveness of his work.
But that could hardly prepare audiences for the ambition and reach of his black-comedy-with-a-conscience, Three Kings, about a gold heist that takes place at the end of the 1991 Gulf war.
One senior Polish official said: "If we're not involved in the planning, and if our application for the European Union is not acted upon until 2004 or 2005, then we can hardly prepare our forces to take part in the E.S.D.I.
As Moyes discovered during his dismal tenure, the light shone on the United manager is directed to all corners of the globe in a fashion that even being a title-winner at all of those previous clubs can hardly prepare Van Gaal for.
My encounters with percebes hardly prepared me for my introduction to picorocos at Patria.
But these stereotypes hardly prepared the West for, say, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the fight against colonialism, the Japanese economic miracle and the rise of the Asian "tigers".
Critics point out that she has never run a publicly traded company, and say her experience in magazines hardly prepares her for the gritty battles in Britain's newspaper business.
The elder is a disciple of Averroes, which is laudable as far as it goes but, in the caliph's view, hardly prepares one for the realities of leadership.
Our gracious attendant, ritually apologizing every few steps for the length of our walk through corridors adorned with miniature sculptures, prints and breathtaking arrangements of flowers at every turn, hardly prepared us for the design and spaciousness -- even by Western standards -- of our suite.
But the initial fitting grants few such epiphanies, and even though I write critically about clothes, I was hardly prepared to give a bright opinion when the fitter asked, tugging at my jacket, "How does it feel?" Relative to what -- an Armani jacket?
