Sentence examples for hardly rated from inspiring English sources

I have lost count of the number of references to this residual economic statistic that for decades hardly rated a mention in the press.

Despite the length and breadth of his subsequent off ending career, the apparent ineffectiveness of his brief first sentence hardly rated a mention.

In those benighted times, video games hardly rated a blip on the mass-entertainment and cultural radar — that took a few more years and the likes of the Wii and World of Warcraft.

A nice guy, however, whose thinking (to judge by his own presentation) hardly rated comparison with the sharp focus and simple solutions of the Tea Party.

They were bamboozled by the communist tyranny". Past memorials hardly rated a notice in Appleton, a bustling center of paper mills and insurance firms, where most folks would rather recall the area's other world-famous native--Erich Weiss, the rabbi's son better known as escape artist Harry Houdini.

As party planning tips go, these would hardly rate a second glance except that they were compiled by an organization better known for its factory-floor radicalism than for its mayonnaise dip: the American Communist Party.

But although we are living through the greatest discoveries about the processes of life generally, and human beings in particular, the new findings hardly rate a blip on the collective consciousness.

As maritime emergencies go, it hardly rates.

It hardly rates being described as a movement.

Today, Britain's ability to pay its way in the world hardly rates a mention in the election campaign.

At the 2001 show, those concepts -- lumped together under the heading of telematics -- hardly rate a byte of attention.