Sentence examples for scarcely functioning from inspiring English sources

Afghanistan civil society was scarcely functioning before the west intervened, and clearly ingrained corruption will not disappear overnight when western troops leave.

We currently look at the energy market and see the Big Six in control of everything, consumers impotent in the face of price rises, competition between the companies scarcely functioning, and a market that has always sold itself on price point alone becoming ever more expensive.

These days the government scarcely functions.

Such landscapes scarcely support functioning ecosystems that would provide healthy places for both people and wildlife.

Alter's evident sympathy for Obama and his policies scarcely means that he functions as a credulous court stenographer.

This was just a few months after the rout of the Taliban, and Afghanistan scarcely had a functioning government.

In contrast, PG trees scarcely bore functionally male inflorescences, and no tree functioned as PG in one year and as male in another (Fig.  4).

His duties became mainly administrative with scarcely any judicial functions.

In the 1960s and '70s, the nuclear submarine was the single most important instrument of sea power; it was scarcely distinguishable in function from strategic air power and land-based missiles in general nuclear warfare.

While the home PC has filled a multitude of functions, recipes scarcely yielded the killer app.

However, the localization of the various NPY receptors in retinal cells has been scarcely investigated, and its function in retinal physiology remains largely unknown (Santos-Carvalho et al., 2014).