Sentence examples for is hardly designed from inspiring English sources

The system is hardly designed to foster excellence.Lousy teachers hurt children.

The house of fellow nondrinkers provides a safe haven of sorts, but it is hardly designed to be a cloistered existence.

But the bus is hardly designed for privacy either, decked out as it is with stars and stripes, the Liberty Bell and the constitution, and, in giant letters against a glorious mountainscape, Mrs Palin's own flowing signature.

Then again, the show -- with its glitz and inbred dumbness -- is hardly designed to find the next Kurt Cobain or Ryan Adams.

As for IS, while its constant output of increasingly baroque atrocity porn may thrill its horde of teenage internet fans, it is hardly designed to make ordinary Syrian civilians welcome them as liberators.

But Hydroptère, the equivalent of a sprinter, was hardly designed to race around the buoys — upwind, then downwind, then do it again — like an America's Cup yacht.

His self-published "revelations" about David Cameron are hardly designed to please the leader of the party he financed for many years.

Flagging up these priorities so publicly was hardly designed to flatter a nation which views a chip on both shoulders as a sign of balance.

Illustrating math problems with the likes of Snow White, Eeyore and Owl, in one expert's decisive opinion, was "hardly designed to instill a sense of patriotism" in young Russian minds.

He observed wryly that "Macbeth" was "hardly designed to entice me to a public career" but that through the play, "I learned about the dangers of blind ambition, the fleeting nature of fame, the ultimate emptiness of power disconnected from higher purpose".

Planes were hardly designed to be economical with fuel costs at $50 a barrel much less so when oil spikes above $100 notes Michael Boyd, who runs aviation consultancy the Boyd Group in Evergreen, Colo.