Mr. Putin can hardly denounce an American defense when Russia has one of its own.
North-south divisions are hardly new in the EU. When the euro was planned in the 1990s many German politicians wanted a currency zone comprising only Germany, the Benelux countries and France.
A. When we invested in Facebook, they hardly had any revenue.
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He goes on to argue that MF Global was hardly in great shape when he came on board.
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It seems that BA's core shareholders support him: the share price hardly moved when the strike was announced.
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In the fields, undocumented workers hardly ever protest when contractors or growers abuse them.
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It would be awful to fail as an outright beginner philosopher when the course has hardly started.
But shopping around is hardly the norm when it comes to prescription drugs.
Mr Fulford, who served with 1 Rifles on two tours of Iraq and one in Afghanistan, said he could "hardly believe it" when he heard about The Retreat.
He was barely 21, and hardly a recognizable name, when it was released in 1983.
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The idea that central banks need to take account of asset prices when setting monetary policy is hardly new.
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Real interest rates are only slightly below their long-term average, which hardly seems appropriate when growth is so far below trend.
The counter-argument, that cuts remove an important discipline on managers, hardly holds true today, when all firms are counting the pennies.
If 2012 resembles 1986 as a banner year for capital gains, then 2013 will look a lot like 1987, when there were hardly any to be had.
Jo is so tough, in fact, that when she does cry, we can hardly watch.
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Andreu and Gabriel hardly grasped all this when they launched into the cognac business in 1989.
But it struggles to run Civ V at over 25 fps, even when there's hardly anything on the map.
State Enterprises Minister Laksamana Sukardi, in charge of reforming the state-owned sector, is a former banker who joined Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri's Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) in the early 1990s, when it was hardly politically expedient to do so.
That however can hardly be a source of surprise when we increasingly ignore the true meaning of Christmas.
This compares to thirty years ago when their parents lived in slums and could hardly afford bicycles.
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The City fans in the stadium were out of their seats as soon as he struck it, but could hardly believe it when Joel Robles denied him with a full-stretch dive.
But Bush is hardly alone when it comes to a president going back on his tax promise.
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The start-up's 27-year-old co-founder, Mike Boxleiter, said he was "devastated" when it became clear that the app was making hardly any money.
Investors, on the other hand, should well recall similar predictions of flattish budgets ten years ago, when hardly anyone saw the tidal wave of change then to come.
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This is hardly an idle concern when one thinks of data protected by HIPAA or FINRA, for example.
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Besides, when we do account for defense, the rankings change hardly at all.
Only this was in the 1880s, when women were hardly educated or allowed to prove themselves outside the home.
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