Sentence examples for hardly the example from inspiring English sources

"It's hardly the example that we want to copy for this young and fragile democracy".

Progrock, with its cornucopia of influences and substyles, with no clear formula or approach (every progrock band sounds unique) is hardly the example the majors might want its next roster of big sellers to emulate.

In an era that featured Buffalo Springfield, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dylan and the Band, artists hardly needed the example of Gram Parsons to dig into rock's rural roots.

The case was the worst but hardly the only example of young Long Island men attacking Latinos for sport, which the police and other authorities failed for years to detect, prevent or punish.

She is hardly the first example of a buzzy beginning flaming out fantastically fast.

The arrest itself is hardly the best example of either racial profiling or police-state oppression.

It was hardly the first example of Mr. Bush holding his alma mater at arm's length.

This incident in Madison County, N.C., known to history as the Shelton Laurel massacre, was hardly the worst example of violence visited on civilian populations during the Civil War.

This is hardly the first example of News Corp. properties shying away from covering the phone-hacking scandal ensnaring their boss.

"Community" may be the most notorious case this season of a series changing show runners midstream, but it is hardly the only example.

The most telling, but hardly the only, example was a five-part series in 2002 by John McQuaid and Mark Schleifstein in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, a newspaper that heroically kept publishing on the Internet last week.