Sentence examples for scarcely work for from inspiring English sources

It was built, in large part, by slaves: "For the love of God send 100 negroes," wrote a military captain to Madrid, "we can scarcely work for the great heat".

There's nothing light or breezy about it; it worked for him, but it could scarcely work for anyone else.

When last seen, eight months after the operation, he had been back at work for three months; he complained of no pain and walked with a scarcely noticeable limp.

And, walking round this show, it strikes you anew that there is scarcely a work that doesn't depend for its impact on German history, specifically Beuys's own.

There is scarcely a letter of his that doesn't include some sort of plea — for money, for work, for forgiveness.

Anger found work for idle thumbs: many tweeted their rage at Research In Motion (RIM), the Canadian company that makes BlackBerrys presumably from other devices.For RIM, the outages could scarcely have been worse timed.

Even Britain, which has seen scarcely any of his works for decades, is finally to see an all-Petit programme, presented by English National Ballet later this month at the London Coliseum – just too late, it now turns out, to welcome him back to the city where he first met international success.

As you can see, this is scarcely taxing work.

So while "Borscht Belt Buffet on Broadway" can be derided as the equivalent of vaudeville for the geriatric set, it can also be cherished as a loving memorial, though scarcely a work of art.

The literature of the concerto since 1750 is extensive in all categories, although the standard repertoire is limited to scarcely more than a few works for each main solo instrument.

We scarcely realized that we were working for the army.