With a slip that could scarcely pass unnoticed, McClaren even said yesterday that the door would never be "open" to Beckham, before correcting that to "closed".
Impressively embodied by Miranda Richardson in an underwritten role, Castle is attended by a pair of lickspittle officials who would scarcely pass muster in a Carry On version of Yes, Minister, and seems in this context to foreshadow Margaret Thatcher.
Crusaders against widespread alcoholism (as acute a problem in 1910 as the opioid epidemic is today) advanced to the folly of Prohibition, which created a set of organized-crime institutions whose effects have scarcely just passed.
In the light of the UK's consistent, material backing for some of western Asia's worst tyrants over many decades, up to and including the present day, the idea that the British state's involvement in Afghanistan was due to some principled commitment to democracy and human rights is one that scarcely passes the laugh test.
Sumatriptan and naratriptan especially are scarcely passing through BBB and showing a thin distribution in the central nervous system[20, 29].
Smatriptan and naratriptan especially are scarcely passed through the blood brain barrier (BBB) and were weakly distributed in the central nervous system [15, 16].
Yet when it comes to Iran some Indian politicians scarcely let pass an opportunity to tom-tom an "independent foreign policy" and "deep civilizational ties". In fact, despite all the talk about ancient ties, Iran's ruling mullahs are completely at odds with India's proud tradition of pluralism, and aren't exactly known for their appreciation of Indic culture.
They walk around the city with scarcely a passing glance at the soldiers, only distinguishable from local police by the writing on their uniforms.
Indeed, for many of the exotic languages, scholarship barely passed beyond the most rudimentary initial collection of word lists; grammatical analysis was scarcely approached.
KARLSRUHE, GERMANY — For many music lovers, the 150th anniversary of Frederick Delius's birth will pass scarcely noticed, eclipsed by other 2012 luminaries, like Debussy (also born in 1862), Philip Glass or even John Cage.
The sexual commodification of women's and girls' bodies is so commonplace as to pass scarcely noticed, and TV or internet porn are accessible at the push of a button.
