ANNE HUTCHINSON, the first female defendant in the colonies, was banished from Boston for heresy in 1638, but her case is hardly closed.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's re-election race may be over, but she is hardly closing up her campaign shop or worrying about deep debts.
The report found while things are going well in some areas, such as early childhood education, in others, such as reading, writing and numeracy and life expectancy, the gap is hardly closing.
After all, the two are hardly close ideologically, and their countries have plenty to quarrel over, from protectionism to Iraq.
It is also of interest to China that half of the 24 mainly small countries around the world that still recognise Taiwan rather than China are in Latin America and the Caribbean.Despite a flurry of presidential and ministerial visits in both directions, and mounting mutual curiosity, China and Latin America are hardly close.
While there appears to be no lingering hostility from the 2005 Masters, when they nearly came to blows during a heated exchange in the Champions locker room over spike marks Singh accused Mickelson of leaving on the greens with long (but legal) spikes, they are hardly close.
Asking people to spend a late summer Friday afternoon in town would be demanding a true quality-of-life sacrifice — or at least some heavy rescheduling — although she, a character from another New York, sacrificed time and money again and again for people who were hardly close to her.
Kepler-186f may be close to Earth size, but it's hardly close by.
Pigs are hardly close to providing the solution to the world's massive shortage of donor organs.
Kepler-186f may be close to Earth's size, but it's hardly close by: It sits about 490 light-years away.
