Sentence examples for scarcely ended from inspiring English sources

The fighting had scarcely ended when Mr. Bush came under criticism for not pushing on to Baghdad and deposing Hussein.

Indeed, in National Geographic's issue of issues, December , 1969 the "First Explorers on the Moon" package (adventure, exploration, Americans) has scarcely ended when we are thrust "Inside a Hornbill's Walled-Up Nest," the magazine hurtling, as if by some internal imperative, from highest outer astronaut space to ultimate inner nesting space.

This year has been such a miserable and violent one in so many parts of the world that it can scarcely end too soon.

Throughout the country, across regions of vast social and ethnic disparity, including Azeri areas that had indicated strong support for Moussavi (himself an Azeri), Ahmadinejad's margin scarcely wavered, ending at an official 62.63 percent.

Scarcely moving – and ending the performance as he begins it, in shocked paralysis – he treats the verse like a Beckett monologue, full of wonder and terror with occasional outbursts of exasperation at the folly of it all.

In the Tucson sector, just 15 such persons had been picked up by Sept. 10 in the fiscal year that was about to end — scarcely one a month, a total that could easily be exceeded in an afternoon at a busy airport receiving flights from those same places.

Though Armstrong's loss to Contador was scarcely the Hollywood ending Gibney, Tolmach and Marshall wished for, "The Road Back" had bigger problems. .

Indeed, it can scarcely be said to have ended at all.

Scarcely five months after hostilities ended, the riders were required to negotiate 323km of this brutalised land in temperatures barely above freezing.

Alas for Irish hope Dan Martin, like the famous ocean liner, his journey from Belfast proved brief as a tumble on the Newtownards Road ended his Giro scarcely before it had begun as he was left with a broken collarbone after sliding on a manhole in the wet conditions.

Scarcely had the clash of arms ended in this last great battle, before Granger with two divisions was dispatched to the relief of Burnside, beleaguered in Knoxville.