Sentence examples for hardly serve from inspiring English sources

But the complaints about Diallo hardly serve as an exoneration of D.S.K.

While spectralist music would hardly serve as the soundtrack to a yoga session, it does have the capacity to generate a state of eerie calm.

While the series might serve as a riposte to those who say that the Royal Family don't work, they would hardly serve as effective recruiting posters for the RAF.

One answer is that it seems absurd to pay several hundred dollars for a cotton T-shirt from a "name" designer when a virtually identical garment can be bought in a supermarket for $10; or to spend almost $300 on a bikini so tiny it would hardly serve as a handkerchief.

Charlie feels restored, though his sackful of goodies — many of them intended for his nonexistent children, whom he has invented in a lie whose "majesty … overwhelmed him" — will hardly serve his purposes, and he passes them on to others, who pass them on in turn.

Hence, for Astana, closer ties with the bloc may hardly serve as a workable counterbalance against Moscow, especially considering that in 2014, the bloc failed to protect even Ukraine, a country whose ties with the EU are far closer than those of Kazakhstan.

But that hardly served as a predictor that he would oust Tsonga.

This has already happened many times, and it hardly serves the interests of the press once it is revealed.

But that hardly served to make the performance itself more meaningful than a simple — and pale — reflection of reality.

Such a feast of nostalgia, wrapped in celebrity hype, hardly serves to differentiate City Opera from the Met.

Victory against relatively limited Bulgarian opponents hardly serves notice of startlingly improved times ahead but anything less was inconceivable.