Sentence examples for scarcely avoid from inspiring English sources

Camden Town painters, especially Walter Sickert, he could scarcely avoid.

Though she could not get a credit card in Saudi Arabia, in the Emirates she could scarcely avoid one.

Plovdiv's residents are proud of their history, which is good: they could scarcely avoid it if they tried.

Readers, by the last page, can scarcely avoid that question, or the larger algorithm that Shipler offers: "To appraise a society, examine its ability to be self-correcting.

Maxwell concluded that he could "scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena".

She can scarcely avoid being bitter against boxing now and many who have not suffered such personal agony because of the hardest of sports will be asking once again if the game is worth the candle.

A gridlocked Congress has struggled to move any legislation, scarcely avoiding a shutdown of federally funded highway projects earlier this year.

Thus, each day before venturing forth from La Gaffe, a guest like me could sample--in fact, could scarcely avoid--hotelier Bernardo Stella's rhyming observations on rain, birds, forbidden love, the Queen's Silver Jubilee and so on.

But, in a system that prides itself on dividing power so as to avoid them, they are scarcely tolerated at all.

"As it is my design to make those that can scarcely read understand," he explained, "I shall therefore avoid every literary ornament and put it in language as plain as the alphabet".

But Theseus, in his forgetfulness and neglect of the command concerning the flag, can scarcely, methinks, by any excuses, or before the most indulgent judges, avoid the imputation of parricide.