If his ankle injury scarcely proved a problem during an autumn of continuity in selection, another midfielder's absence has come at a greater cost.
This wasn't just a problem for the textile industry: President Lincoln could scarcely hope for a favorable trade balance without cotton.
Yet scarcely any problem that people care about passionately is any longer susceptible to a purely national solution, even by a country as big, powerful and besotted with the perfume of sovereignty as the US.
In Austin, the bill was being sold as a way to protect women against sexual predators who might pose as transgender — a problem that scarcely exists.
And the quote is, "When all the new lands have all been opened to cultivation, and when thousands of millions of human beings occupy the Earth, the demand for food will constitute a problem which we scarcely apprehend today.
His enthusiasm for attending the theatre has scarcely increased, something he attributes to a "problem" with audiences.
Each of these, either separately or together, takes on special relevance in GBC, because they represent a problem that has scarcely been resolved in the three high-priority areas of oncology research: prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment.
Oddly, it's the distribution of produce that seemed to pose a problem: the rabbit pappardelle scarcely yielded evidence of its promised vegetables; both the rhubarb tart and the strawberry shortcake suffered from a dearth of fruit.
The fact that it has scarcely been debated as such demonstrates the existence of a problem rather than its absence.
But were the protocol not in force, scarcely a day would pass when the problem did not impinge on our consciousness.
