Sentence examples for scarcely asked from inspiring English sources

As I was leaving, he asked me where I was going — the kind of friendly question he had scarcely asked in his self-involved state.

General Powell was scarcely asked about when and how he would apply his military doctrine -- known as the Powell doctrine -- that calls for a clear definition of goals and overwhelming force to accomplish them.

The central bank could scarcely ask America's Federal Reserve for a credit line.

You could scarcely ask for a better illustration of the low end of the British mentality.

Truth to tell, neither was quite the Chekhov night out of one's dreams, though as studies in antithetical approaches to the same text, one could scarcely ask for a better set of contrasts.

As with so many of these stories, we have no independent verification – because reporters from the British Daily Telegraph, to Reuters, to the Huffington Post are simply taking dictation from New York Representative Peter King and from the Pentagon, and scarcely asking for backup evidence of their elaborate assertions.

A thin brunette who was scarcely conscious asked a much younger man if he "wanna dink".

Icahn could scarcely have asked for a more business-friendly figure at the E.P.A. But, when news leaked about a policy shift on the point of obligation, the ethanol industry protested.