Sentence examples for was hardly expected from inspiring English sources

The contest was well fought, long and stern, and its result was hardly expected.

A proposed rule requiring more disclosure of executive perks was hardly expected to be a hit with upper management.

And if there are any examples - have any others done so while sporting ludicrous facial hair?" Well, Merv Hughes wasn't a laughing stock before the '93 Ashes but with persistent injuries he was hardly expected to bowl as well as he did.

But while the Games were in some ways a throwback to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin — a battle of propaganda as much as athletics, when African American track star Jesse Owens won four gold medals in a stadium filled with Nazi imagery and boasts of Aryan superiority — Mr. Ashenfelter's appearance was hardly expected to provide a patriotic boost, let alone a medal-winning podium appearance.

Aquino's party coalition had just weathered midterm legislative elections, so the Filipino president was hardly expected to give Taiwan quite the apology it wanted at the risk of looking weak.

It was hardly expected that lysozyme M deficiency resulted in delayed clearance of S. pneumoniae from the middle, considering lysozyme M is just one of the anitimicrobial molecules.

Ms. Hammond was hardly expecting 44 titles to emerge from her fax machine.

I was hardly expecting it to be a big warts-and-all exposé but it would have been nice to get more insight.

Average citizens are hardly expected to master particle physics or post-structuralism.

In any case, the new labeling bill is hardly expected to dispel the controversy surrounding GMOs.

But it is hardly expected to support a high quality restaurant year round.