Sentence examples for scarcely attempted from inspiring English sources

Marketing and financial management are scarcely attempted; nor, often, is the maintenance of equipment.

The enforcement of international labour norms is scarcely attempted in slums.

He does, it is true, sometimes give that impression (as in his essay Utilitarianism); but elsewhere (as in his essay On Liberty) he scarcely attempts to conceal the fact that his premises are completely independent of Bentham's.

Yet that historically informed role for Alidoro is barely touched upon in this production, just as Hall scarcely attempts to examine the question of Cenerentola's background and the exact nature of her connection to Don Magnifico and the sisters Clorinda and Tisbe.

Those poorer parts include some countries in Asia, including Pakistan and Central Asia, and some in Latin America as well as most of the Middle East, where liberalisation has scarcely been attempted and revenues from oil have lately declined.

Jazz is neither a war nor a sport -- it is an art form, one significant enough to be chronicled in its own right and on its own terms, something that "Jazz" scarcely even attempts to do.

It is scarcely worthwhile to attempt remembering how many times the sun has looked down on the slaughter of the innocents.

Such diffidence was unsurprising: scarcely a dozen Americans had attempted to do so up until that time.

'No Blood for Oil,' they cried, and the oil wealth of Iraq has been duly rescued from attempted sabotage with scarcely a drop spilled".

Surging unemployment, sluggish domestic demand, rising levels of unwanted inventories and an uncertain international economy: the attempted reforms could scarcely be taking place against a harsher backdrop.The coastal region provides problems of a different kind for a Chinese leadership perennially concerned about national unity and control.

Spain didn't join the EU until 1986, barely five years after Colonel Tejero's attempted coup d'etat and scarcely 10 years after the death of Franco.