Sentence examples for scarcely counts from inspiring English sources

The resemblance scarcely counts in Fidel's favor.

Equating money with human life, they conclude that a life saved today should count twice as much, in dollar terms, as a life saved 10 years from now; a life saved a century from now scarcely counts at all.

When a man does it – like Daniel Craig, say, emerging from the turquoise waves like an irritable tendon in tiny pants, or David Beckham – who scarcely counts as naked because he's got drawings all over him – there's a brief outburst of comedic, hen-party lusting, then the pouting pin-up in question is allowed to return to pontificating about cinéma vérité, or representing the UN on a global stage.

You can scarcely count the losses suffered in Afghanistan or guess at the new losses being planned by some.

They scarcely count as "Europe", though a hefty Britain-sized tenth of Kazakhstani territory (some 200,000 square kilometres) lies unambiguously in Europe.

At the end of his life, in the autobiographical "Sketch for a Self-Portrait," Berenson wrote that his trade meant that "my reputation and the rest of me scarcely counted.

Again, it's a test of one's tolerance for watching predominantly empty frames – the anonymous performers scarcely count – in the hope something will jolt us from mounting tedium.

Ward himself, meanwhile, can scarcely be counted one of the big names in the American sport.

In life, a one-night stand can scarcely be counted a success if it doesn't end in consummation.

It scarcely seems to matter.

Do you flinch at the battering rams of Stoke, or the financial muscle of Manchester City, which must be counted scarcely less coarse?