Sentence examples for hardly resist from inspiring English sources

Northerners like Roy and Blanche Harvey, who arrived in the area from Cleveland in the '20s, could hardly resist.

The government's financial secretary, Henry Tang, argues that this is a global trend which a small, open economy such as Hong Kong's can hardly resist.

Smooth open road is so rare, at least in the denser parts of the city, that a lead foot can hardly resist the urge to hit the gas.

Vicky: Even though it was a poorly disguised attempt to lure me into going for a bike ride, I could hardly resist a night at the Harbourmaster Hotel, and I love west Wales.

Much as he respects the rigor of close-hand trickery based on tried-and-true techniques, this filmmaker, whose other movies include "Insomnia" and "Batman Begins," can hardly resist flights of theatrical and cinematic bravura.

It may not have been a moment of monumental cultural importance, but it said a couple of things about movies: that people can hardly resist watching, if you can get a film in front of them; and that they like watching movies with others.

Bolt himself hardly resists the giddy anticipation of a sprinting showdown on Sunday 5 August.

In general, masonry shear walls are modeled using no-tensionassumption given the fact that masonry hardly resists tensile forces (Corbi 2013; Baratta and Corbi 2010).

I can hardly ever resist the sachertorte or a cold coupe of vanilla ice-cream with wafers and hot butterscotch sauce afterwards.

Utterly exhausted and debt-ridden, Austria could hardly have resisted any further demands of Napoleon, but it was then no longer the main object of Napoleon's hostility.

Hardly anyone can resist the change it brought.