That urgency, it seemed to many of us, was scarcely reflected in the tortuous arrangements that the international community sought to devise to end the violence.
The bilingual education which indigenous people seek is scarcely offered and generally receives only limited budgets by governments.
Money shouts, and love – so yearningly sought after by her ever-romantic heroines, and so elusive – can scarcely make itself heard above its din.
Pakistan has sought to convey an image of moderation for several days now, scarcely reacting, for example, to the expulsion of its ambassador in New Delhi on Saturday.
Though some have sought to capture a younger readership, offering a smattering of cover subjects scarcely out of their teens, such efforts have gone largely ignored.
Both sought to chill our blood, but since they were entirely tepid moviegoing experiences they scarcely succeeded in bringing it down to room temperature.
They sought a return not to mere sanity, but to a state of being that had scarcely yet existed.
Jean-Marc Barr is a surprising choice to play Kerouac's scarcely disguised alter ego Jack Duluoz, seeking shelter from his own past successes in the eponymous region of wild California, but captures something of the author's blunted romantic spirit.
Even though the differently worded Washington Constitution draws a more stringent line than that drawn by the United States Constitution, the interest it seeks to further is scarcely novel.
These people are the creators of wealth in western economies today, yet scarcely anybody is measuring their output and seeking ways to improve it.
