My encounters with percebes hardly prepared me for my introduction to picorocos at Patria.
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.
Star has not practiced law in 20 years and her short stint as a prosecutor hardly prepared her for a career - - two decades later - - as a general legal analyst.
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".
But to many, the government hardly seemed prepared for the upheaval that Mr. Trump's actions put into motion.
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.
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.
