Sentence examples for have barely given from inspiring English sources

Most governments and most citizens have barely given the question a thought.

Since then, I've discovered the likes of watercress, endive and ruffled Treviso and have barely given spinach salad another thought.

(As for his predecessor, Blinder writes, "Can you remember even a single Bush speech on the nation's developing economic crisis?") Likewise, the two Treasury secretaries during the crisis, Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner (a "terrible orator"), between them have "barely given a single coherent speech explaining what happened and — perhaps more important — why they did what they did".

The Peña Nieto government's aggressive reform laws have barely given any tangible dividends to the average Mexican consumer.

The Security Council has barely given Sudan a slap on the wrist.

After all, for much of the last 50 years our national conversation about educational inequality has focused almost exclusively on strategies for reducing inequalities between the educational successes of the poor and the middle class, and it has relied on programs aimed at the poor, like Head Start and Title I. We've barely given a thought to what the rich were doing.

To my parents' relief, I soon drifted apart from Linda and Sam, and I've barely given Page 3 a thought since, tending to assume campaigners seeking to ban the boob were killjoys who didn't grasp the seaside sauciness of our national character.

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So far, Egypt's military, which is financed, armed and sustained by Washington, has thrown former dictator Mubarak to the wolves to appease popular anger, but it has barely given an inch on other key issues.

In response to the question of what views, feelings or expectations the participants had held in the run-up to the training, two of the SPs explained that they had barely given it any advance thought.

Nonetheless, it has barely been given high priority in similar studies thus far conducted [ 7- 10].