Sentence examples for hardly qualifying from inspiring English sources

They cruised through the first three rounds, two Game 4 losses hardly qualifying as trying circumstances.

Hanga Roa, on Easter Island, might be thousands of miles from any significant settlement, though it only has a few thousand residents, hardly qualifying it as a city.

Disney is still the king of animation, despite efforts by competitors to take a sizable chunk of that market--witness Warner Bros.' recent effort, the hugely disappointing "Quest for Camelot". But Disney's last two releases, "Hercules" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," each stalled at about $100 million domestically, hardly qualifying as blockbusters.

It hardly qualifies as a defense.

But it hardly qualifies as commentary.

The engineers say they hardly qualify as security researchers.

By comparison, Vice hardly qualifies as a start-up.

This hardly qualifies as overlooking their anti-Semitism.

Under a Socialist administration he hardly qualified as banknote material.

That would hardly qualify as a "pioneering step".

That contention hardly qualified as a new line of debate.