Sentence examples for making scarcely from inspiring English sources

Solar passenger planes, blended wing bodies, hydrogen jets, algal oils, other biofuels: all are either technically impossible, commercially infeasible, worse than fossil fuels or capable of making scarcely a dent in emissions.

When she compounds her crime by stealing Rose's first man in years, she flees her sister's wrath and takes refuge with the grandmother neither knew she had, which introduces a third powerhouse actress: Shirley MacLaine.After making scarcely a wrong move for the first hour, Curtis Hanson, the director, rarely makes a right one.

An ungovernable mess, buzzing with activity but making scarcely any headway?

But they make scarcely any money.

Germany's biggest stock offering in years, Postbank, made scarcely a ripple on its first day of trading on Wednesday.

— In his seven weeks as one of CNN's newest contributors, Erick Erickson has made scarcely more than a dozen appearances on the network.

For all the changes that Daley has wrought in his city, he has made scarcely a dent in Chicago's breathtaking capacity for corruption.

Thus the reader is fed tranches of economic theory in the early chapters, made scarcely more palatable for being dressed up as dinner-party conversations.

A growing body of inactivity research, however, suggests that this advice makes scarcely more sense than the notion that you could counter a pack-a-day smoking habit by jogging.

If history is the sum of innumerable biographies, it is bound to be full of gaps; for most human beings made scarcely a mark on the annals of the past, perishing as though they had never been.

Fleets of Webvan vehicles, some having made scarcely a journey for the failed online grocer, now sit for sale in parking lots, silent witnesses to their owners' waste of over $1 billion.