Sentence examples for scarcely always from inspiring English sources

Of course, they may be wrong; states are scarcely always rational actors, and Islamic fundamentalism may be a more crusading faith than Communism ever was.

In electronics they scarcely ever decelerated.

To be an American civilian, then, is to have war as a distant background hum, a known reality that's scarcely accessible and always shrouded in mystifying propaganda and unclear motives.

However, it does not follow from here that copying mechanisms are always scarcely faithful, or that stable traditions are never supported by high fidelity copy.

Although it has always been scarcely more than a peripheral idea, the notion of providing a universal basic income is in fact not a novel proposition, as philosophers from Thomas Paine to Thomas More and John Stuart Mill speculated about the potential it had for addressing the social ills of their times.

So while the threat of a catch was always there, it scarcely eventuated – just three slip catches from 281 overs that the pacemen delivered.

Such improvements are always welcome, but they scarcely amount to cutting red tape.

Her eldest child soon learned that his mother "scarcely belonged to us: she was always in the hospital, having another baby".

He is quieter in person than he is onstage, though scarcely more relaxed: he says "sir" and "ma'am" a lot, though not always warmly.

As always with literal translations, the result is often clumsy and sometimes scarcely intelligible.

There can scarcely have been a more sincere and heartfelt performance of a football chant that is always capable of prompting goosebumps regardless of one's football allegiances.