Mr. Barak left for Camp David as the head of a minority government, having barely survived a no-confidence vote in parliament.
Michael Owen made an appearance as substitute midway through the second half, but he made no impact and barely touched the ball.
Her election platform promised transparency and rigour, but gave few details of her views (she barely campaigned, and faced no serious challenger).
Peasants fled from soldiers and vagabonds foraging for food, the urban middle classes floundered, and the surviving towns and cities, barely hanging on, could no longer protect the countryside and its farms.
No wonder, barely five years ago, that the city was on the verge of insolvency, rescued only by bonds issued by the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Co-operation Authority, a state agency set up to supervise the city's finances.
And if the economy grows vigorously from now through the rest of the 1980s -- a fiscal event every few economists are predicting -- the funds will barely squeeze by, with no margin to guard against a temporary downturn.
It was a private company, barely three years old, with no steady revenue stream.
For instance, money created by the Fed or total reserves held by banks at the Fed represent a mere 8% of the broader money supply in the U.S. economy, so it is no wonder that the economy barely responded to monetary policy actions over the last few years.
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Toyota still has much to learn from GM, a company that was already No. 1 when Toyota was barely born, he said.
They sat, quietly, in family groups, surrounded by their empty water cans and barely any belongings - tough people, with no sense of entitlement or outrage.
Then she barely missed a 25-foot birdie putt on No. 14 and started laughing.
The mob offers no 401K plan, and Social Security barely covers the basics.
Pampers now ranks No. 1 in a product category that barely existed just a few years ago.
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He saw none, and no window lights in the nearest house, barely visible through the woods whose leaves in summer hid it entirely.
This year has been no exception, with the dollar-yen rate barely moving.
It says much for the tenor of Russian politics that this and other confusions of the moment were swallowed with barely a murmur of disquiet by the financial markets and with no more than a few uneasy gulps by international opinion.
It is no surprise that Mr Gyurcsany's approval rating is barely 18%.
With no upward pressure on wages, and real estate prices barely stabilizing, it's hard to say that consumer and producer prices are going higher imminently.
Receiving pay increases that match or barely beat inflation is better than nothing, but there should be no pride in comparing a pay raise with the rate of inflation.
The central motif of this Autumn Statement is that "there will be no Plan B" - whereas Mr Balls can barely draw breathe these days without begging the government to re-think.
The value of all stocks is still almost double the 2009 lows, yet today incomes are barely growing and realistically with all the headwinds we face there is no hope for rapid growth anytime soon.
When we look beyond the issue of accessibility to the quality of education our children receive -- after all it should be fit for purpose -- the region has among the lowest education requirements for teachers, with 50% of countries requiring lower secondary school teachers to have completed no higher than a secondary education (so teachers have barely more education that their students).
That's no mean feat for any entrepreneur, let alone one who can barely buy a drink legally in the States.
We barely agree on what we should remember rather than forget, and we share no common understanding of what form our memories should take.
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Barely 24 hours after shutting out the New York Rangers 3-0 behind No. 1 goalie Marc-Andre Fleury, Vokoun showcased why the Penguins traded for him during the offseason to give Fleury an experienced backup.
No one could see 5-0 was about to happen, especially after the Rangers barely stayed alive at home on Sunday with a 1-0 victory.
These poor folks simply have no time to do much fact-checking or first-hand reporting, and they barely know what questions to ask in the first place.
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She has no idea what the KGB is, what I just called that airport (I can barely say it myself) or where Siberia is for that matter.
Shakespeare (referring to the actor from Stratford) left no letters or other writing in his own name, except for six crude signatures that are barely legible.
Over considerable resistance, Clinton barely talked NATO into approving plans for a naval embargo to cut off oil supplies to Serbia, and no one wants to hurt Western-leaning Montenegro, where the main Yugoslav port is, in the process.
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