Sentence examples for hardly substantial from inspiring English sources

One aspect of the case has already been overruled, and another cast in doubt, see infra, at 2303; its dicta, and the dicta of a later case quoting its dicta, are hardly substantial support for the new constitutional principle the Court adopts.

The key passage from the minutes:Many members judged that additional monetary accommodation would likely be warranted fairly soon unless incoming information pointed to a substantial and sustainable strengthening in the pace of the economic recovery.The data have gotten a bit better since that meeting, but the improvement is hardly substantial, and fiscal drag militates against it being sustained.

"Not just substantial, but going beyond substantial".

All together, the seven strips of greenery hardly seem substantial enough to amount to a park.

The fact that Cox doesn't is hardly a substantial challenge to that statement.

To be sung, you've guessed, by Mr. Pavarotti and Mr. Domingo, with Ms. Fleming and a host of hardly less substantial stars, like the pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Hence, while the markets have sold off today, the declines have hardly been substantial (between 0.8% and for the FTSE and 1.4% for the Dax at the time of writing).Of course, that brings up yet another analogy.

There is hardly any substantial investment in agricultural productivity, social facilities, infrastructure, trade or development.

The first Bayonetta was a critical hit but hardly a substantial seller, more a cult classic than a cornerstone of collections the land over.

The $20.7 million $3.5 millionn + $8.1 million + $9.1 million) the Fenty Administration alleges the Council "cut" is 2.7percentt of the DCPS FY 10 budget -- hardly a substantial sum that has to be recouped by firing teachers.

Donald Trump's paranoid fantasies may be even more baroque than Goldwater's, but they are hardly less substantial, or onerous, than George Bush's mushroom clouds or Ronald Reagan's Welfare Queens.