Sentence examples for has barely dented from inspiring English sources
Yet it has barely dented the numbers in the camps, where girls often become mothers in their early teens.
Yet Abe has barely dented Japan's male-dominated corporate and political cultures during his first two years in office.
Massive stimulus spending has barely dented the jobless numbers and has pushed the deficit to vertiginous heights.But what if the Republicans do capture the House?
But someone forgot to post the memo in high school cafeterias and locker rooms across America, where the shift has barely dented teenagers' rigid social hierarchies.
Nigeria is the world's sixth-largest oil producer, yet the president has barely dented the corruption that keeps most Nigerians poor.
The London Whale incident led to Dimon's annual pay packet being halved, to $11.5m from $23m, although this has barely dented his total wealth as calculated by Bloomberg.
The United States and the Soviet Union together possessed more than 50,000 nuclear weapons; the treaty would have barely dented their arsenals.
The bloody catastrophes brought on by over-aggressive federal SWAT teams at Waco and Ruby Ridge have barely dented the growing popularity of paramilitary police units.
A split within the ANC between a thoroughgoing left and the new crony-capitalist establishment may one day occur, but there is no sign of it happening soon; previous splits have barely dented the ANC's dominance.With good reason, Mr Zuma devoted almost his entire 90-minute centennial oration in Bloemfontein to the ANC's glorious struggle against apartheid.
He was overruled, however, and French assaults on the 100-mile stretch of available front along the Franco-German frontier had barely dented the German defenses when the collapse of Poland prompted the recall of Gamelin's advanced divisions to defensive positions in the Maginot Line.
"Not only were the films, toys and comics of the era consistently lashed to it," he said, "but the resentments and the assumptions it nurtured fostered a kind of mental outlook that six-and-a-half decades of European peace have barely dented".
