Sentence examples for hardly stepped from inspiring English sources

It should be noted that for 20 years, up to 1995, I hardly stepped foot on the Columbia campus even though I lived and worked in New York City after graduation.

In his treatise "An Actor Prepares," the young actor Kostya, describing a rehearsal of "Othello," says, "I had hardly stepped on to the stage when there loomed up in front of me the immense hole of the proscenium arch, and beyond it an endless expanse of dark mist".

But he also painted a picture of a woman whose health has not been good in recent years and who hardly stepped outside the family home in Chongqing.

In fact, they'd hardly stepped outside of their apartment.

Even after popular unrest in 2011 forced him to sign an internationally brokered deal to transfer power to his deputy (current President Abd Raoubo Mansour Hadi), Saleh has hardly stepped out of the limelight.

He's hardly stepping away from his old haunts.

I could hardly step onto the roof without looking to the east and counting those flares like a catechism.

Boeing could hardly step into a more sensitive, touchy deal than the imminent agreement to sell about 100 passenger jets to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

But these days, Dr. Dean can hardly step off an airplane in Iowa or New Hampshire without crossing paths with Mr. Kucinich or Ms. Braun or Mr. Sharpton.

Dimly bathed in colored lights, Mr. Jones and Justin Chancellor, the bassist, were positioned at either end of the stage while Mr. Keenan and Danny Carey, the drummer, stood on two raised platforms, with Mr. Keenan hardly stepping onto the stage.

In the political arena, Democrats from the President on down, long reluctant to embrace an issue more often associated with Republicans, can hardly step to a podium without invoking values.