Historian Ernest Cruikshank wrote in 1895 that "Scarcely had Mrs Secord concluded her narrative, when [Ducharme's] scouts came in... they had encountered the advance guard of the enemy".
An opinion piece in the Boston Globe by Edward Glaeser, an economics professor at Harvard, was scarcely more muted, concluding bluntly: "Dumping stoves into the developing world isn't going to alter the long-standing advantages of traditional methods".
After three hits to his hand from jockey Jim Crowley – "the third time 'as hard as I'd ever hit a horse'" – Wood concluded that he "scarcely felt a thing", all "thanks to the design of his lightweight, foam-cushioned whip".
Scarcely had "An Age of Kings" concluded than Newton Minnow, chairman of the Federal Communications commission, delivered his famous excoriation of broadcast television as a "vast wasteland".
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".
They concluded that the average sample size scarcely affected the performance of the different methods, but this was based on the combined results of 5 100 studies and they presented no results of particular trial size mixtures.
By analyzing experimental results and SEM micrographs, it was concluded that the experimental hardness of composite ceramic materials was scarcely influenced by the grain size of the matrix.
The mean Summated Xerostomia Inventory-Dutch version (16.5) is a scarcely relevant outcome because of the restricted diagnostic suitability of the Xerostomia Inventory-Dutch version, as concluded in the present study.
It concluded that the two major parties were "probably the most archaic institutions in the United States" — scarcely more than "loose associations of state and local organizations, with very little national machinery and very little national cohesion".
When exhausted trade ministers concluded the talks in Marrakesh 10 years ago last week which set up the World Trade Organisation, they can scarcely have imagined that their successors would be facing a new set of negotiations poised to run for even longer than the seven-and-a-half years it took to conclude the Uruguay round.
He also concluded a treaty with the Byzantines in 605 that established permanent borders with the exarchate, which scarcely changed over the next century (the only major exception being the Lombard conquest of the Ligurian coast in the early 640s).
