Sentence examples for scarcely match from inspiring English sources

"Existing interventions to help people buy their own home have been welcome but scarcely match the scale of the problem," Ms Dugdale will say.

Ray Harryhausen's cinematic masterpiece Jason and the Argonauts is so deeply written in my childhood memories that when I watch it as an adult (and I do, regularly) I can scarcely match it to the images I recall seeing on a black-and-white television when I was little.

He was formerly a cameraman for Quentin Tarantino, on "Pulp Fiction" (1994) and "Jackie Brown" (1997), and the cinematographer on "The Insult," Tommaso Fiorilli, keeps poking his lens into people's business, ducking and dodging like someone unable to stay away from a fight, and displaying a nimbleness that the script, by Doueiri and Joelle Touma, can scarcely match.

This tale scarcely matches the evidence.

Yet this scarcely matches the evidence of such men's brutality towards women, often their own partners - hardly a trait that could have been sexually selected.

Enough Gaelic poetry survives to show that there were many poets of great talent, and the diffusion of artistic talent is scarcely matched in any other period in Scottish Gaelic history.

Moreover, with money from ticket sales, merchandising and broadcast rights flat or falling at many of Japan's 12 baseball franchises, the teams can scarcely afford to match the high salaries that their top players can make in the major leagues.

On its shimmering surface, "The Matrix" pits man against machine, the flesh-and-blood heroes scarcely a match for a race of sentient robots.

But the 70,000-man army, which is wary of being infected itself by sectarianism, is scarcely a match for Hizbollah's trained and hardened guerrillas.Government leaders have declared they will not be cowed by force of arms.

The second volume of Lewis's distinguished biography picks up Du Bois's life after World War I and pursues it through a series of trials and disappointments scarcely to be matched in the life of any scholar of any race.

It constitutes a huge learning task, yet is achieved so swiftly and automatically that its enormous complexity is scarcely realized (though it is an achievement the largest supercomputers cannot begin to match).