Sentence examples for scarcely can from inspiring English sources

Ezra Pound scarcely can be blamed upon the English, and T. S. Eliot, despite his conversion in citizenship and faith, remains an American phenomenon, a monument to a past illness, a literary malaise now largely vanished.

General Powell, who scarcely can get through a visit to Capitol Hill without the subject of Sudan coming up, has begun a review of American policy toward the country.

677, 698, 91 L.Ed. 884. 9 Clearly, if the civil and criminal sentences could have been imposed simultaneously by the court on June 26, as the United Mine Workers case holds, it scarcely can be argued that the court's failure to invoke the criminal sanction until June 30 was fatal to its criminal contempt powers.

It might also be relevant to point out that in the anarchy of the old days some of the most cynical perpetrators of the "over the ball" tackles were, necessarily, the most skilful players – a charge that scarcely can be levelled at such functional figures as De Jong, Henry and Shawcross.

Still, a dozen pieces by British and American playwrights scarcely can begin to address the vast and bloody tale of Afghanistan, "its history being one of successive invasions and resistance, from the time of Alexander the Great," as David Edgar writes in his entry, "Black Tulips".

Advanced music, to the extent that it reflects the knowledge and originality of the informed composer, scarcely can be expected to appear more intelligible than these arts and sciences to the person whose musical education usually has been even less extensive than his background in other fields".

This is a country of houses that scarcely anyone can afford.

He is launching his nominees into an atmosphere that is so poisoned that scarcely anyone can get confirmed.

But barely two weeks into his job, the new lawmaker can scarcely contain his enthusiasm.

I can scarcely remember a time before I decided to just humor my father.

We can scarcely know.