Sentence examples for hardly prevents from inspiring English sources

The requirement that candidates take responsibility for their ads is intended to reduce outright lies (though it hardly prevents them) and provide accountability.

The crowds became increasingly hysterical, and troops could hardly prevent some of them from surging into the prefecture.

Such measures are plainly discriminatory and protectionist, but they have hardly prevented big U.S. corporations from making inroads into the Chinese markets.

Republicans pointed out that lack of backing from Mr. McConnell had hardly prevented Democrats from forging ahead with other bills, and they were fuming about Mr. Reid's maneuver.

Government attempts to alter behavior through speech restrictions tend to be ineffective — in France, laws against anti-Semitic speech have hardly prevented spikes in anti-Semitic threats and violence.

Lovely fruity desserts, chunky pecan pie, tender chocolate cake and homemade ice creams, though delectable, hardly prevented us from snapping up those scrumptious little cheesecake bonbons and wishing for more.

Current treatments for DMD are symptomatic and significantly improve longevity and quality of life but hardly prevent loss of muscle function [ 6].

Guidelines and standards based on a biopsychosocial self-management approach (like the Dutch care standard on COPD [ 26]) can hardly prevent the problem of focusing on the disease rather than on the patient.

When evil did so explode, thinking could hardly have prevented it, because thinking had begun to disappear.

The loss of cementum can hardly be prevented and there is a minimal risk of loss of enamel with twice a day normal brushing with modern toothbrushes, being hand or electric, and toothpastes with RDA values at or below the ISO standards (this is <200).

Such adjectives could also be used to describe most literature, but we would hardly argue that reading prevents us from living out our own stories.